WHO:
fated_end and
messiah_maybeWHERE: A random abandoned building in the slums.
WHEN: Sometime after
Takaya's rescue.WARNINGS: UHH NONE? References to violence, I guess.
SUMMARY: Takaya tells Jin about his experiences in the City, Jin (understandably) freaks out. Also evil will likely be plotted somewhere along the line.
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"Well enough," he answered simply, opening one lazy yellow eye. "Far more so than before you had arrived, at the very least." He sat up, hand instinctively falling where his revolver should be. It was still in asylum custody, most likely - a shame. He really did like that gun. Probably get it back later, when he wasn't in such bad shape. "And you, Jin? From what point in time did you arrive here?" He'd forgotten that Jin might not know that people could come from far separate points in time.
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He shook his head. "It--doesn't seem to make sense." He'd thought about it a little bit, at least, though not in-depth. "You've been here for a while, you said, without me. But when I got here, the last time I'd seen you was in Tartarus -- January 31st." Which was the last time he'd thought he was ever going to see him, but anyway.
"I guess if that Porter or whatever can..." He made a vague gesture with one hand, "-drag people here from different dimensions, then it can manipulate time, too?" A question, because he wasn't quite sure. It seemed as good an explanation as any, though. He'd accepted stranger things before.
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"I will return to the point in which I died. I assume it is a similar position for you?"
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"It -- would be, yeah." It didn't seem like the best time to launch into an account of his last moments; Takaya could likely make a good enough guess. He wasn't sure how his partner would feel about a suicide, anyway. Probably wouldn't blame him, but still.
"So what do we do? If we're just waiting to die again..." Then was it really any different from home?
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"We cannot die. But the remainder of the population is not quite so unfortunate." It's really all he could think of, now that he had to come up with plans again. There hadn't been a point when he was living day to day, alone. "Our goals remain mostly unchanged. We liberate those who may permanently experience death from the grasp of their miserable existences. Free them of their fear and pain and the delusions of having any semblance of happiness as a powerless citizen in the midst of inhuman beings."
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"It'll be -- difficult, without the Dark Hour," he said, deciphering what he assumed was the real intention behind Takaya's word. The idea wasn't too far from what Takaya had always preached at home, so he could safely guess that their methods would be similar, too.
"We'll have to get a lot of stuff in order before we can start anything." It was hardly a question of if they would do it, only how, and how soon. And Jin was already working on that. "What've you done so far?" First he needed an idea of where they were at to begin with. And, though he would never admit it, he was honestly curious as to what Takaya had been up to without him. It had been a long, long time since they'd acted separately, at least for any extended amount of time.
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"Sounds like you've been busy." He paused. Jin was blunt by nature, but around Takaya he tried to use at least a little tact. "Obviously you weren't just making friends, though." Time to get at the things he really wanted to know. Like why he'd needed to beat the shit out of a seemingly random stranger in the first place. "...What happened between you and that Katurian guy?"
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He waved his hand idly, as if to elaborate somehow. "In truth, however, he is of no danger himself. He merely took advantage of my highly prone state after a confrontation that left me incapacitated at best."
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"Are you sure we should've let him off the hook so easily, then? He's gonna keep harassing you. When I fought him, he was determined not to cooperate with me. He said he'd rather die." Jin had gotten around that anyway, but that was mostly by luck.
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"He torments himself in every way possible. What he attempts to do to me is little more than a brief annoyance - he is as lethal as a fly or an earthworm, as just as far below us." A pause. Better now than never, right? No secrets. "The more pressing concern is a man by the name of Tyki Mikk - he is the reason Katurian had any opportunity to capture me. After a particularly...brutal round of torture, he left me for dead."
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"...That's where your wounds came from?" And though they had healed somewhat, Jin could still tell that they'd been particularly nasty injuries.
"What happened?" ...Tread carefully, Takaya.
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Quick, clean, and ignoring the fact that he passed out in a gutter right before Katurian found him.
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"You should've been more cautious," he said, although the warning was basically irrelevant now that Jin was here. Jin was Takaya's missing sense of self-preservation. He wasn't really angry at Takaya at all, just at this Tyki guy, at Katurian. Takaya had very effectively skewed it as a random attack, rather than something that he'd had a hand in provoking.
"Things'll be different now. No one'll get the best of us again." That was a promise.
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