[005] ✎ 死亡的所有谁反对我们。

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Fallen out
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ORBIT

[ooc: The handwriting isn't the same as Qĭ's standard and several seconds after this is written there is a huge tear via pen-tip through the middle of the page. There will be no replies by her as she's taken Simon's journal and run out to scream her head off until she can't breathe

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Quicklog is totally going here FYI

[man_genius]

QI?!

Quicklog of doom and tears

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[ She'd scrambled in the window and under his bed so fast it was nearly superhuman. Now she had her face pressed against the floorboard and her arms curled around herself - consequently also around the little star and Simon's now non-functioning journal.

All Genius got for a response was a harsh but still quiet sob. ]

Quicklog of pain and suffering

[man_genius]

[It was so fast that all Genius really saw was a blur that jumped from the window to the floor and then under his new bed. His room wasn't even unpacked yet--it was just a collection of boxes strewn across the floor.]

Qi! What in the world? [He got down on his knees and peered under the bed.]

Are you hurt?! Qi, Star-friend, answer me!

Quicklog of sobu

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[ Words were hard. All she could do was think feel act so Genius got a small headshake, something that might have sounded like a rather muffled 'no' and she pulled herself into a tighter ball, still crying. ]

Quicklog of BAWWW

[man_genius]

[Ok now? He was seriously freaked out. He didn't know if he should touch her or try to get her to come out somehow. It didn't look like she's gonna move anytime soon and she wasn't communicating WHY she was so freaked out.

What on earth could have happened?! He couldn't even tell if she's bleeding or hurt and how was he supposed to know what's going on--

The journals.

Genius suddenly jumped to his feet and scrambled across the room to his dark blue journal that was half buried under a bunch of junk on his desk. He was shaking as he flipped it open, looking for the most recent pages...

There. A entry from Simon. Not that many comments though. He flipped to the next page. An entry by Qi full of frantic nonsense. His stomach tightened with dread as he kept moving on, flipping to the next page. Another entry, written in an slightly familiar hand.

...WHAT? Simon was--what??

Genius had to lean against his desk in shock. No way--Simon was dead he had just written an entry

Quicklog of hiding under beds

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[ Having him read what she already knew just made Qĭ start a fresh wave of crying. She didn't hear him speak as much as she was able to simply understand the intention.

She shook her head again and stayed where she was. Everything was falling apart, her head felt like it was falling apart, and it was wrong and terrible and irreparable.

There were no words, not yet. ]

Quicklog of hot chick in Genius' new room [i gave up on the emo titles, too much fucking emo lol]

[man_genius]

[He watched her for a few minutes, completely paralyzed with indecision. He was completely and utterly out of his element. At the same time there was something, horribly familiar about watching a woman cry while he stood by helpless. He had the strangest insane urge to offer Qi something--it was on the tip of his tongue to say it. Would you like...a beer? God his past life was so useless.

Frustrated, Genius turned to the journals for help. There was Youth's advice to consider. He could give her a hug...but she was kinda curled up under his bed. That wouldn't work. He sent Lea off to find Koi and Fracta. What could he do...

After a while he put the journal aside and laid down so that his head was sticking under the bed. He slowly reached out one hand palm up.

Maybe he couldn't hug her or say anything useful but he could just...be here. That had to be something right?]

Quicklog of hot girls willing to sleep in Genius' bed

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[ Her noisy sobs had begun to give way to the silent, shaky sort. When Genius reached toward her she turned, putting her forehead against his fingertips before rolling slightly closer.

It was painful and off-balance. Qĭ was suddenly afraid of everything, afraid that she was going to fall and tumble from beneath the bed, afraid that Simon wouldn't come back, afraid that everyone was going to be taken while she felt it, while she knew. She was afraid and missing her anchor, her compass, her one great link from the half-bubble world she lived in.

He was gone and she had no idea if she would get him back. ]

Quicklog of--wait where did this puralization come from?

[man_genius]

[The problem was Genius had no memory of maternal comfort--so he had not even the slightest sense of how to comfort a hurting person. But ironically when Qi moved her forehead to touch his fingertips, they ended up brushing against her hair and that reminded Genius of...Tribbles. He remembered how comforting they were by simply sitting on his shoulders and cooing gently in his ears. So he automatically responded in the same way--he gently brushed her hair and tried to think about comforting things.

He thought about Tribbles at first. Then sound of the coffee maker and the shower going off in the morning. The way Derrick laughed. The way Simon followed his strict routine every morning, showing up exactly the same time wearing his vests and always saying hello with a nod and a distracted smile.

When that made him too depressed he began to count prime numbers mentally. His goal was to try and be a calm background noise for Qi. Like a Tribble hum.]

Quicklog of--woman I don't know I was trying to keep it positive. She speaks in 3rd person?

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[ It worked, eventually. For her it seemed to take forever before the screaming in her head calmed enough that she could actually hear what he was doing and understand what he was trying to do.

Which was immediately followed by the realization that she should probably come out because other people might come to see her. To tell her it would be okay when it really, really wasn't going to be okay.

Reaching up she stopped his hand by covering it with her own. When she spoke, her voice was quiet and hoarse. ]

What if it doesn't give him back?

Quicklog of--Hot Chicks and Cyber Pimps!

[man_genius]

[It felt forever to Genius too, counting in his head and stroking her hair. But the action of counting seemed to calm him down too, slowing the malestorm of fear and paranoid conspiracy theories die down to a mild rumble.

So she startled him when she finally took his hand.]

It--I--

[His face crumbled]

I don't know.

Quicklog of--I don't think I can top that one.

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[ Qĭ nodded. It was the truth and possibly to have him lie would have made her hurt more, somehow, so it was an answer she couldn't change and thus had to accept.

She patted his cheek and then crawled out from under the bed, still clutching the star toy she'd snatched from her brother's things. ]

Can't go back right now, he echoes in the walls.

[ Everything in the house in section three reminds her of her brother who isn't there and she can't take it. ]

Quicklog of threadjacking

[floating_bamboo]

[There's a knock on the door, combined with the voice of Koi on the other side.]

Genius, is it? I'm Koi. Is Qí with you?

Quicklog of oh thank god Daddyfish

[man_genius]

[Genius followed Qi out from under the bed slowly, still unsure of what he was supposed to do. On the plus side she was out from under the bed.]

You can stay here. If you want--we'll take care of you. I--

[He was interrupted by the knock on the front door. Maybe that was Fred?

No Koi. Genius opened the door and was surprised to see a gentle looking man with long white hair standing in front of him.]

Oh thank God! Yes I'm Genius, Qi's here come in. Do you know what's going on? Simon's ...was it just him? Is anyone else hurt?

Quicklog of Daddyfish to the rescue

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[ Qĭ climbed onto his bed and sat at the very end, knees pulled up to her chin. She didn't start when Koi knocked at the door; she'd known he was coming for a minute or so, familiar thoughts focused on their location.

She offered up a small wave at him in the doorway but didn't move or say anything. ]

Quicklog of rainbows and unicorns

[floating_bamboo]

[Koi gave the man inside a small but sad smile, before patting his shoulder reassuringly. That energy of his was flooding the room, but it was a calming wave among the sorrow.]

I do not know much, but I believe Simon was the only one. Come with me.

[Nodding to Genius, he then walked over to Qí and sat down next to her, robes billowing and settling around his knees like an odd tent. Koi liked layers. It kept the cold away.

For now, he said nothing. Koi suspected Qí already knew how they shared the pain, anyway. He would just be there for her, and he knew that nothing he said right now would make things okay.]