016. ☆ video/action ; day

[scorchingheaven]

[Madsen is sitting at a chair, boots kicked up on her desk as she's playing with a bar of soap. She grins as she sees the feed recording, setting the soap down for the moment.]

Okay, even though the involuntary visit to our childhoods are over, I got one last little teeth-rottingly cute thing I have to show you. [She grabs the PORTAL and exits her

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[savior_n_black]

[ Ichigo is...pretty pissed off actually. It's one thing to remember your childhood, and another thing to relive it. Especially since now, he's wondering how much are his memories, and how much got messed with thanks to Promenade's shenanigans. ]

....Should we just call your building Paper Street Soap Company, now?

[ He knows the details, but would deliver some of those bars of soap if necessary. ]

private / voice;

[scorchingheaven]

[Madsen's irked by what happened, yes, but there's no point agonizing over it now, besides, they had this to worry about. Yay for straightening priorities.]

Hey, it took a lot of effort to dream these things up, don't mock my hard work.

[B)]

But nah, too obvious. Nice try, though.

private / voice;

[savior_n_black]

[ Speak for yourself, there, Madsen. The fallout of this thing is only just beginning. ]

Who's mocking? I'm not mocking.

[ Sigh. Back to serious brooding, though. ]

...Anyway, I'll come by and pick some up for distribution.

private / voice;

[scorchingheaven]

[It's how she's been operating now - keep moving forward because there's no point in looking back. Though if she were regressed to her time when she was unstable during the events of the ZERO incident, well ... she wouldn't be anywhere near as chipper.]

I'm not the one being a smartass about piling references on top of references here.

.......

Okay, I know that look. Something's bugging you.

private / voice;

[savior_n_black]

[ He rolls his eyes. What look, this is why he kept it to voice-only as though that would somehow make ANY DIFFERENCE WHATSOEVER. The drawbacks of having friends who know you too well. ]

A lot of things are bugging me. Mostly about this place screwing with our memories.

[ And they still don't have much solid proof of what's going on inside the Unnatural, or the palace, or any place that's relevant to escaping. ]

...Turning a whole bunch of us into little kids for laughs is not my idea of fun.

private / voice;

[scorchingheaven]

[Look, tone, whatever. Dude, you're forgetting who has been through similar hells to you and some worse. ]

All the more reason to be careful, keep a journal of what's happened. I'm not letting this place make me forget where I came from and what I've been through to get this far.

[Sigh.]

I'm not saying it was fun. I guess it's just kinda ... sweet to see some of us as kids. Besides, it could've gone a lot worse. Remember that.

private / voice;

[savior_n_black]

[ Ichigo isn't the journal type, though he has kept momentos, and some photographs of various important moments. ]

...Not everyone got turned into kids.

[ Shiro was a miniature hollow....who thought HIS name was Kurosaki Ichigo, because at nine years old, Ichigo didn't even know what a hollow was. Plus there's a lot of sadness, and worry that's been going around. ]

I can't help wondering if this was another trick to screw with us. The timing is way too convenient.

[ They did just have a Resistance meeting, and being reverted to little kids put a hold, if not a screeching halt on several things. ]

private / voice;

[scorchingheaven]

... Maybe it was. But it's not stopping me, and I know something like that shouldn't stop you.

We're moving forward one way or another.

private / voice;

[savior_n_black]

I'm not fucking stopping--

You know what? Nevermind. I'll be there in a minute.

[ And be gone again just as quickly. He's too broody to be good company for anyone right now. ]

action;

[scorchingheaven]

Yeah, yeah.

[She sighs, sitting back down, tipping the chair so the back two legs are the only ones on the ground currently, arms folded behind her head.]

Goddammit, you guys.

action;

[savior_n_black]

[ Hi, Madsen. Remember that whole "I know that expression" thing? Well, you know this expression, and the general hostility is indicative of something being not just wrong, but probably really wrong. ]

Oi. I can pick up Shiro's if you want.

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[scorchingheaven]

If you think it's fine -

[She lets out a huff of air as she lets the chair fall back on all four legs, leaning forward.]

You can't let it get to you, Ichigo. I get that it might've brought up something you didn't want it to, hell, I got lucky in the fact that it didn't reduce me to the wreck I was during the whole ZERO incident.

Talk to me. What's going on?

action;

[savior_n_black]

[ Ichigo pointedly glared at Madsen, and started stuffing the soap into a messenger bag slung across his shoulders. ]

Look, bad shit happened in the past. Bad shit happened to most of the people I know, and getting yanked back and forth through those memories isn't really pleasant, now is it?

[ Someone is speaking from experience, and being purposefully vague on the rest. ]

It affects you. This fucking place affects you. And I'm tired of being some little kid's plaything! So just let it fucking go, Madsen. You don't know what's been going on the past few days!

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[scorchingheaven]

Don't talk like you're the only one, Kurosaki.

[She stands, eyes narrowing.]

You don't think I noticed that...?

[Her voice is raising, and though she doesn't move from her spot, the room starts getting a little warmer.]

You don't think, for even a fucking second, that I haven't had my own things to worry about, that I'm getting sick of being jerked around?!!

GET A FUCKING CLUE.

Maybe I haven't had the exact same experiences you've had, but I've had my own share of shit to worry about, or have you forgotten that my brother could be fucking murdered any day now, while I'm stuck here powerless to do anything but watch as some body-double is living my life and oblivious to what's going to happen?!

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[savior_n_black]

[ Well, this got ugly fast. Where Madsen's temper displays in her fiery aura increasing the heat, Ichigo's displays in his reiatsu starting to churn like a black, and crimson thunderhead. Not dangerous, not yet, but well on it's way. ]

Oi, I'm fucking sorry I can't choke it down every single day, Madsen! After having the clock turned back on me - and seeing Shiro think he was me, not to mention all the other bullshit of Rukia, Byakuya, Fenrir-san, AND Rin-Tron on top of it - I think I'm a little fucking entitled to be having a bad day!

[ Turning side on to snarl at her, Ichigo shook his head tersely. ]

I wasn't looking for a goddamn fight, and I told you to let it go the first time!

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[scorchingheaven]

I'm not asking you to choke it down, I'm asking you to actually talk to someone about what's happening instead of holding it in, moron!

And I will turn it into a goddamn fight if you keep acting all "oh, woe is me, shit happened and now I'm going to get pissy when someone offers to help." I distinctly remember you bitching me out when that happened before.

Way to be a fucking hypocrite, Ichigo.