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[toplay_thefool]

Characters: Souji, and OPEN!
Location: The Infirmary
Time: Saturday (the 25th), evening
Brief Summary: Souji wakes up after all the shenanigans.
Rating: Uhhh. idk. Yosuke might swear. :D There might be mentions of violence and suchlike.

Comments

Somewhere in the middle, I don't know.

[notmycreampuffs]

[It's a little while before Saki can make herself go in there. Hovering outside, tucked in a shadow, unseen and twisting her hands in a pique. Souji has had a constant stream of visitors but she eventually slips in when the room is empty - or as near to empty as can be.

She forces herself to look at his face.]

How are you feeling?

/o/

[toplay_thefool]

[He's surprised to see her here. Of course, she knows what happened, but -

He remembers all the things Adachi said, his voice full of a delighted sort of malice, and feels sick. But he looks up at her, at her face.

I'm sorry.]

I'm alright. [As ever.] What about you? Yosuke... last night, he said you were outside?

[notmycreampuffs]

Yeah. I'm fine, [said a bit quickly, a bit curtly.]

You - I'll take over at the inn, you don't need to worry about that. [Her hands find a chair and grip the top of it, not just partly for support.]

Look, for what it's worth - [she pauses, setting her expression to near steeliness] - I'm glad. You made the right choice.

[toplay_thefool]

[His initial response would have him arguing, he can do it, it's alright - but he knows that's just stupid of him, and nods.] I appreciate it, Konishi-san.

[At her next words, he turns silent. His gaze drops to the sheets, but then he makes himself look up again. His voice is even, earnest.]

I should have acted sooner. But I didn't. And for that... I'm sorry.

[notmycreampuffs]

We can't really... change what already happened.

[Her fingers curl, almost clawed, gripping the chair's back with new emotion and her head bowing, a struggle for composure.

She's cried so often lately. She's sick of it.]

Don't tell Hana-chan.

[toplay_thefool]

[No. They couldn't. They had to move on, however they could.

Why didn't that logic make it easier?]

I won't. [He won't tell anyone. He wants to stand, to offer some kind of comfort - even just a hand on the shoulder. But what good would that do? And besides, he can't reach her from here.]

If you... need to talk.

[notmycreampuffs]

Just worry about you for once.

[toplay_thefool]

[He smiles, almost entirely mirthless.] Enough people are worrying about me.

[notmycreampuffs]

Yeah, I wonder why.

[Her smile, though still put on, looks more real than he's ever seen it.]

[toplay_thefool]

[He knows it's put on. But it's somehow more earnest than others he's seen. He feels almost grateful, but the shame, the anger is still there, burning in the back of his head.]

Still. It's a two-way street.

[notmycreampuffs]

Only when we're both on it.

[A brief pause, her expression sobering, then:]

What was that thing?

[toplay_thefool]

The thing he had with him?

[notmycreampuffs]

Yeah.

[toplay_thefool]

Magatsu Izanagi. His persona.

It's... a representation of him, in some ways.

[notmycreampuffs]

[Saki coils into herself a little with the new knowledge.]

You have one too, right?

[toplay_thefool]

Mm. [More than one, but that's more explanation than is needed right now.] That was... how we fought him, before.