"HEY, WH..."

Valerie had barely had time to even stammer an exclamation when she found herself stepped out of where she was previously talking to Danny. Now she felt herself practically pulled apart from a fixed point in time and taken somewhere else. She turned her head to protest angrily until she saw the black coat.

It was the Organization. It dawned her fuzzy at first, and painfully bold. She could feel a tightness in her chest and her knees were shaking. She felt sick, but more than anything, she was just tired. All this time that she'd been running around Paixao, from fighting Larxene to facing Dan took a toll.

It isn't as if I didn't see this coming, she thought to herself, and hung her head. She would willingly go if it meant atoning just a little for not beating Dan herself. She got what she wanted, didn't she? Danny and Misha were safe, and Dan was gone. She even got to see Danny again! That had made it worth it. It wasn't anybodies fault that she couldn't tell him why she did it all, why it had mattered to her that she knew he was innocent. Sometimes...things didn't always go as planned.

Larxene had made her remember that. She was only guessing now that Larxene would get to remind her.