Apologies to Fnord and others mentioned; probably this scene will need to be gone over at least once by everyone concerned.
The reactions to Suzumiya's statement varied. Noah Scott looked... not terrified, but definitely disturbed. Katz leaned back in his chair with a dubious look on his face. Natalie Baker stared for a moment or two, then grinned and let her breath out in relief. Koizumi Itsuki was, for once, completely deprived of his customary aplomb, and sat there with his eyes glazed over and a dumb look on his face.
Nagato blinked.
"You're completely insane," Malcalypse Fnord told her in a voice that seemed like a great deal of emotion had been leeched from it.
"Prove it," Haruhi fired back with a grin.
"A coincidental biomod does not make yo-" he began to roar, then cut his words off with a furious glare as his opposite number talked right over him without a hitch.
"Yuki-chan, could you demonstrate?"
{SQL commands typed backwards go here, but the author doesn't know squat about it, so}
There was a collective intake of breath as the walls dissolved.
...and I didn't get as far as I meant to. Bah. Anyway, a point Natalie is going to be making when the option comes up is that the chicken-and-egg question about the SOS-dan and TMoHS is actually irrelevant. They exist, they exist in a certain way, and they have the abilities attributed to them. Whether Haruhi just made the anime to fuck with people's heads for shits and grins or molded herself into the image it presented so well that things started to get dragged in behind her doesn't matter, because yelling 'This isn't real! You're crazy!' isn't going to make Yuki, Asahina, or any of Itsumi's thousands of associates go away.
Oh, and, if someone accuses her of being a spy for the mundanes, her response will be a bright smile and the words, "Yes. And?"
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"I'm terribly sorry, but I have to kill you quite horribly now."
The reactions to Suzumiya's statement varied. Noah Scott looked... not terrified, but definitely disturbed. Katz leaned back in his chair with a dubious look on his face. Natalie Baker stared for a moment or two, then grinned and let her breath out in relief. Koizumi Itsuki was, for once, completely deprived of his customary aplomb, and sat there with his eyes glazed over and a dumb look on his face.
Nagato blinked.
"You're completely insane," Malcalypse Fnord told her in a voice that seemed like a great deal of emotion had been leeched from it.
"Prove it," Haruhi fired back with a grin.
"A coincidental biomod does not make yo-" he began to roar, then cut his words off with a furious glare as his opposite number talked right over him without a hitch.
"Yuki-chan, could you demonstrate?"
{SQL commands typed backwards go here, but the author doesn't know squat about it, so}
There was a collective intake of breath as the walls dissolved.
...and I didn't get as far as I meant to. Bah. Anyway, a point Natalie is going to be making when the option comes up is that the chicken-and-egg question about the SOS-dan and TMoHS is actually irrelevant. They exist, they exist in a certain way, and they have the abilities attributed to them. Whether Haruhi just made the anime to fuck with people's heads for shits and grins or molded herself into the image it presented so well that things started to get dragged in behind her doesn't matter, because yelling 'This isn't real! You're crazy!' isn't going to make Yuki, Asahina, or any of Itsumi's thousands of associates go away.
Oh, and, if someone accuses her of being a spy for the mundanes, her response will be a bright smile and the words, "Yes. And?"
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"I'm terribly sorry, but I have to kill you quite horribly now."