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[blightender]

Who: blightender & tenkai_shield
Where: starts at 111 Marshall Street Apartments
When: somewhere between late October 14 and early October 15 ♥
Rating: PG-13
Summary: With a million screaming voices in his head, and when his friend refuses to meet him out in the open, Jowy takes the only course of action he knows to take; go to him. The answer lies within Riou, within his

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[tenkai_shield]

Riou already knew that Jowy had been looking for him. He'd been told that Jowy wanted to survive, but, the one who told him wasn't acting like herself either. Jowy's own challenging words, and this crazed rant already told him what he wanted. Most everyone else in the community had lost their mind one way or another.

Knowing he was being hunted, he stayed put, rather than tried hiding elsewhere, only to be caught in transit, or putting someone close into unnecessary danger. Surely, Riou's only apartment would be the last of places Jowy would look.

And by the sound of the shouting, Jowy'd already looked everywhere else. I could see him approach the building from his window. "Give up Jowy, just give up, and go home... Wait this out..." He could only hope his friend would quit trying, or come to his sense before he had to do anything

[blightender]

"Open the door!"

Jowy beat once, twice, thrice, and when that did nothing he banged his head on the door and let out one long and frustrated scream. "Riou... Riou, open the door--" he hissed, almost in a pleading tone even as the voices his head chanted his best friend's name in almost blinding unison. "I said... I said open the door, damned runes!"

In a fit of anger, he kicked the door and then grew quiet. There was a calm, a short reprieve... the gears moved... the voices conversed, thought in unison. Doors like this... they could be broken. He had a good head, a pity to lop off... Luca had said.

There was one lock. One lock point. One one one-- he could do this. He heard footsteps; his own. He heard harsh breathing; again, his own. And then he was rushing forward, using his body as a ram against the wooden door. There was pain, but it was easy to ignore with the multitude of voices chanting and cheering for the door to break open in unison. And adrenalin.

Riou... Riou... on the other side... Riou--"Rio--u!" he gasped and

[tenkai_shield]

Riou refused to answer, or open the door, quite obviously. But the Tenkai was only on the other side. He suspected Jowy would pound on the door for some time, but completely knocking it of it's hinges wasn't expected. And there was hardly time to ponder the later consequences.

He did have a plan however. Once Jowy was in his sights, Riou delivered a blow to the side of his friend's head using the broad side of the tonfa. Leaving Jowy stunned, or even knocked out, Riou ran outside the building.

But he wouldn't keep running. Perhaps destiny caught up with him, or the regret and concern for striking his mentally-ill friend against the skull, Riou waited outside the building. Maybe Jowy would arrive in better mental health. Or, just perhaps they'd have to fight it out.

Riou would need the room just to keep his friend from doing him harm.

[blightender]

The blow to his head had certainly been hard enough to send him staggering backwards, to be momentarily stalled. But that was it, a mere setback. Cursing angrily to whatever gods the voices had offered, Jowy, using his staff and the metal fragment in his other hand, pushed himself upwards again. "Riou!" he yelled angrily at dark hallway his "friend" had disappeared too. "You pig!"

And then he was running into that same darkness Riou disappeared in, following back to where he believed Riou would be at; outside.

"Don't run away from destiny!" Don't don't don't-- you Jowston pig!