-5- [accidental voice] backdated to the middle of the night

[adreamminealone]

[It's the middle of the night, barely a day after everyone's powers came back to normal. Everything should be okay now.

Everything...

The silence of this night has been suddenly interrupted by a soft, barely audible sound. A sound of someone crying.

Everything should be okay now, so why is he crying? What happened?]

...W-why...

[his voice is

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[alma_karma]

... Ruca?

[adreamminealone]

Huh?

[oh, that thing had to turn on again. He quickly takes it and tries to sound as if nothing is happening.

Except that never works for him, since he is so bad at both lying and acting.]

A-Alma... i-it's okay... I'm okay.

[lies.]

[alma_karma]

[Oh, Alma is well aware of your lies, sir. He may be bleary from waking up, but he knoooooows.]

Did you have another bad dream?

[adreamminealone]

Y-yeah. Just... another bad dream... [he says that as if he wished those words would be true.]

[VOICE]

[tothelastbreath]

[This response is slightly delayed because Allen was wavering between the video and audio buttons. He eventually goes for audio. While seeing a familiar face could help, he doesn't know Ruca that well, and people don't always like to be seen (even by friends) when they're in a state.]

[ tapping on his PDA to get the other boy's attention before he speaks up, so as not to startle him ] Ruca? [ He sounds oddly alert given the hour of the night. ] What's going on? Is there something I can help with?

[VOICE]

[adreamminealone]

[Ruca hesitates for a while, before he answers.]

N-no... I'm fine. [but he doesn't sound fine at all.] I-it was just another... bad dream. [It wasn't. It wasn't only a dream.] I-I'm sorry. I didn't mean to wake anyone up...

1/2 [VOICE]

[tothelastbreath]

It's alright, I was already awake. Might as well make it count, right?

[Scraping sound of a chair being drawn out. Sounds like someone's settling in for the long haul.]

2/2 [VOICE]

[tothelastbreath]

Is this the same-[ 'memory?' ]-dream that was troubling you a while ago?

[theloneheir]

Perhaps because you haven't resolved to move on.

[adreamminealone]

[well, this one hit him.]

N-no, it's not--! [wait, Ruca, just wait. think what you can say.] It's not like that... it's only a dream. [lies.] It has nothing to do with me... [oh, this one was more or less the truth.]

[theloneheir]

Then stop letting it bother you. Stop thinking about it, stop worrying senselessly over it.

[adreamminealone]

But... it's easier said than done. [he's not expecting you'll understand how it is to have a whole previous life to worry about.]

VOICE

[foundanewdream]

Ruca? Are you alright?

VOICE

[adreamminealone]

I... I'll be okay.

[no, he won't, but he doesn't want to worry anyone. though it seems it's already too late]

VOICE

[foundanewdream]

Are you sure? You sound like you could use a hug.

[Already worried, lost his shot there.]

VOICE

[adreamminealone]

Huh? N-no...

[suddenly embarrassed.]

I-I'll be fine, really!

[video]

[killedyuu]

[A bit bleary from being woken but still concerned.]

Hey. Old guy, you alright? [Allen is 'old man', Ruca can be 'old guy'. They both have old people hair anyway.]

[video]

[adreamminealone]

...Old guy?

[what

That was totally unexpected and now you have Ruca starting at you completely confused and wondering if you're referring to him or to someone else.

Because well, people called him a lot of things: demon, Fallen, bookworm, dimwit, crybaby, young master, big brother, idiot... but old guy? That's a first.]

[video]

[killedyuu]

You.

Are you alright?

[video]

[adreamminealone]

...Why are you calling me that?

[so totally avoiding to answer your question.]