[Day 1: Try Not To Wake Me]

[vacationisalie]

[The feed comes on to a blond sitting in front of an empty capsule, obviously only recently vacated. He looks tired, a little overwhelmed, a little too much like the world is being carried on his shoulders, but he's still looking into the source of the video with some determination.]

I've just had everything explained to me- re-explained to me- I

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[the_daybreak]

R--

[He's scared to contact him. Roxas doesn't remember his time here. He won't remember their friendship. At best, Roxas will remember hating him.

He doesn't really... want that. Not after... repairing so much.

But he's already started the feed, so --]

... Welcome back.

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...You.

[He's up on his feet, staring at the device in his hands with an almost horrified expression. No. Not here. Now now.]

[He just- He just got told he was going to live. Without having to be with Sora.]

I'm not going back to him. I'm not. [Half a snarl, half a desperate plea. He doesn't want to disappear.]

[the_daybreak]

[As he'd anticipated, Roxas is having none of this. Riku sighs.] ... I won't ask you to do that.

I don't think that's possible here anyway, even if I wanted that anymore.

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You don't want-

[This is...unbelievable. He's close to tears, even though, according to that man, according to Riku, he's not whole enough to feel them.]

Is this some sort of joke? 'Cause I'm not laughing.

video by the way /)_(\

[the_daybreak]

... No. I...

... shit.

Listen, it's... this place is different. I don't think you'll remember this, but we... were past this.

S'all cool I figured, babe <3

[vacationisalie]

[It's not what he's expecting to hear. None of it, not from Riku's mouth and certainly not about him. He struggles to keep his breathing even, not trusting Riku's words in the slightest.]

...Where are you?

/cling

[the_daybreak]

2A-141. The door's open, so just... come into the bedroom when you get here. I won't be able to answer it.

/clings back oh lord THE ANGST /)w(\ [Action]

[vacationisalie]

Give me a minute.

[Roxas shuts of the feed, taking a deep breath before leaving the lab behind. It takes him a while to get there. He isn't used to the place, and the only indication he has that he's even in the right area is when apartment numbers appear on the doors.]

[Eventually, he finds the right number. It takes a lot to push open the door, even more to step into the bedroom. But he does; slowly, cautiously.]

Riku?

[action] ;A; my gooood. riku misses his friend!roxas and now this, lol

[the_daybreak]

[He's in bed. He's been confined to bed for what feels like years, but it's more like a couple of months. When Roxas steps into the room, he lifts his head, and his lips tilt upwards just a little, a broken smile beneath the sheet of white shrouding his eyes.

Riku sighs to himself, and then looks properly at the boy.] Hi.

[action] duuuuude you're going to make me cry! ;A;

[vacationisalie]

Wh-

[He looks startled, then, slowly, devastated. He remembers, of course he does, the boy who had fought with and then against him in The World That Never Was. Someone who he'd resented and yet, admired, for the the strength he'd managed to find in himself for the sake of his friend.]

[And now look at him.]

Hi... [He steps closer to the bed, over to Riku's side, so he doesn't strain himself.] Looks like things are a little different here, huh?

[action] DDD: Awww! Don't cry!

[the_daybreak]

[He runs a hand through his hair, then leans a little, reaching for a bright red ribbon that's coiled around the base of the bedside lamp. He loses his grip on it, though, and it falls between the bed and the table. Sighing, he simply gives up on it, sitting back up and returning his gaze to Roxas.]

Yeah, I suppose that's one way of putting it. Are you surprised?

[action] Riiikuuuuu ;A; /bawls

[vacationisalie]

[Roxas watches this, and its- well it's horrifying, really. Seeing Riku like this has changed his mind; maybe he was better off before, about to disappear. At least then he didn't have to see this.]

A little, yeah.

[He bends down and picks up the ribbon, offering it to Riku with eyes averted.]

I wasn't exactly expecting this when I saw you.

[action] DDD:!

[the_daybreak]

[Riku blinks. Honestly, he wasn't expecting Roxas to give it back to him, and he smiles faintly, taking it and beginning to tie his hair back.] No, well... I've been here for a long time. It was inevitable that I... would end up like this.

[action] TTwTT

[vacationisalie]

[He gives his own short version back, letting Riku go at it himself but...ready to help, if need be.] I guess there's no point in being at odds while we're here, then.

Sora's here too...I spoke with him.

I don't know what to make of him.

[action] Awww! /hugs

[the_daybreak]

No. Honestly, before you went into stasis, we had most of this worked out. Not... that I expect you to believe me, really.

No? Why not?

[action] /clings ;;

[vacationisalie]

I'll take your word for it. [He can't imagine it, but this place has certainly changed Riku. How it would change him; how it had, was yet to be seen. He swallows nervously before looking away.]

I don't know if he actually wanted to speak with me. It didn't seem like it, sometimes...