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twenty-ninth breath ✧ voice

Aug 17, 2011 03:24

[The message is short and simple. Isamu's voice, back to its normal tone, with possibly a little more of a whine to it.]

Man...

My head hurts and I'm really fucking tired of this.

+richard, another great return, everything's gonna be all right, [voice], +ange, i hate everything

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[Action] ledbythewind August 17 2011, 19:04:01 UTC

['Sup buddy, hopefully you're in their room because that's where Richard is going to look for you right now.]

[Action] ingrate August 17 2011, 21:07:37 UTC

[Yep. Just sitting here on the bed with his head in his hands.

Try not to make too much noise, if you please.]

[Action] ledbythewind August 17 2011, 21:22:33 UTC

[Nope, no noise, but he'll be sitting down on the bed next to Isamu, studying him for a long moment to make sure he's all right.]

[Action] ingrate August 18 2011, 00:35:54 UTC

[And Isamu will flop over onto him. He doesn't even care.]

Worst part is... I don't even know if Noah was actually there, or if I just thought he was and was acting accordingly.

[Action] ledbythewind August 18 2011, 01:02:03 UTC

[Richard just pulls him close, one hand shifting to run through his hair gently.]

It doesn't matter now. Whichever it was, you're you again-- and I'm glad for it.

[Action] ingrate August 18 2011, 01:13:17 UTC

It matters because those assholes can just do shit like that whenever they want and it's bullshit.

[Not squirming out of those pettings, though.]

[Action] ledbythewind August 18 2011, 01:20:57 UTC

And having someone else in control of your body... it's frightening.

[He knows all about that, oh, does he ever.]

[Action] ingrate August 18 2011, 01:25:22 UTC

Yeah. No shit, right?

[He buries his face in Richard's clothes.]

...Fuck all of this.

[Action] ledbythewind August 18 2011, 01:32:21 UTC

[Richard can't help but feel a sharp pang of sympathy at seeing his friend so upset. He's starting to have second thoughts about breaking the news about a couple of departures right now (he'd heard the announcements over the journals, though he'd said nothing), but at the same time...

The hand stroking Isamu's hair stills for a moment, then resumes its soothing motions.]

... I'm sorry I couldn't have done more.

[Action] ingrate August 18 2011, 03:09:50 UTC

Don't worry about it. Nothing's your fault, anyway.

You did the best you could.

[Action] ledbythewind August 18 2011, 03:51:37 UTC

[Somehow the best he can never seems to be enough... He makes a quiet, noncommittal sound in his throat.]

Isamu...

[Just rip off the bandaid, Richard. He knows it's best if Isamu hears it from him rather than anyone else, and there's no doubt he'll start to wonder if he doesn't hear from Raphael for a while, yet still he hesitates.]

[Action] ingrate August 18 2011, 06:00:38 UTC

[He misinterprets.]

I mean it, man. Don't fret over it.

[Action] ledbythewind August 18 2011, 14:57:55 UTC

[Deep breath. He can do this. He just really doesn't want to see how much it's going to hurt Isamu.]

... Raphael was sent home. I'm sorry.

[It sounds so horribly cold and matter-of-fact that he hates himself for having to say it at all.]

[Action] ingrate August 18 2011, 22:39:05 UTC

[The response is instantaneous.]

What??

[His head jerks up and he immediately regrets it, wincing and burying his forehead back in Richard's shirt.]

Shit. Shit. How is that... even fair...

[Action] ledbythewind August 18 2011, 22:47:58 UTC

I'm sorry.

[The words seem so hollow, so empty, and when Isamu buries his face in his shirt again, Richard can't help but tighten his arms around him in a silent reassurance that he's still here.]

[Action] ingrate August 18 2011, 23:10:30 UTC

Fuck...

[He'd just gotten all his brothers together too. It wasn't right. And it left Isamu with even less people he felt particularly close to.]

When did this happen?

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