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Thirtieth Rebirth [video]

Aug 31, 2010 15:25

[The camera flickers on and finds Yuca, once again, sitting peacefully in his garden, an arm wrapped around his knees. He's got cuts and bruises here and there from his fight with Merlin, but for the most part, he still looks pretty okay. The flowers are just starting to bloom, and his fingers barely brush against one, as if he isn't sure of the ( Read more... )

here comes the crazy train, ~retsu unohana, idkmybff rain, , ~finnian, ~jr/albedo, falling in love with flowers, ~ciel phantomhive, so out of it i don't even, ~kurotsuchi mayuri, ~sasuke uchiha, rain rain go away, ~merlin, ~zuko, post-event shenanigans, stop being nice to me, ~tyki mikk

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[Voice // Private // Unhackable] innerfirewithin August 31 2010, 23:34:23 UTC

[It takes a good twenty minutes before Zuko works up the nerve to even turn on his PCD's response function, let alone talk to the priest. The mental breakdown had been too much. Too much. And apparently, with Yuca talking to himself about Rain and flowers and death, it had been too much for him too.

A quiet inhale of breath before he speaks.]

Yuca.

[Voice // Private // Unhackable] neverquitedies August 31 2010, 23:35:51 UTC

Zuko.

[He addresses him back, nothing more. At least he's still there enough to remember his name.]

[Voice // Private // Unhackable] innerfirewithin August 31 2010, 23:36:41 UTC

... Fletcher Tringham had a greenhouse, before the Animus sent him home.

Use it.

[Voice // Private // Unhackable] neverquitedies August 31 2010, 23:38:10 UTC

I'll have to find a way to transport them.

[A quiet pause- his tone sounds... far away, at best.]

Thank you.

[Voice // Private // Unhackable] innerfirewithin August 31 2010, 23:40:43 UTC

[The fact that Yuca is talking to himself and obsessing over flowers is only slightly worrying to Zuko, seeing as the last time Yuca had a slip of sanity, his arms almost got torn off.]

Focus.

[His tone is a bit harsh, if not sharp.]

Plants can't be that hard to move.

[Voice // Private // Unhackable] neverquitedies August 31 2010, 23:42:36 UTC

Well...

[He clears his throat, tries to sound a little more- there. It only partially works.]

...I do have to dig them up. Carefully. And replant them into temporary pots, and replant them again in the greenhouse. But- I do have a few months.

[Voice // Private // Unhackable] innerfirewithin August 31 2010, 23:47:16 UTC

If you start now, they'll be fine.

[Voice // Private // Unhackable] neverquitedies August 31 2010, 23:48:51 UTC

[A pathetic laugh.]

Ha ha, I don't have any pots!

[Voice // Private // Unhackable] innerfirewithin August 31 2010, 23:52:08 UTC

[An uncomfortable silence as Zuko contemplates just turning off the PCD... but the event, and the enormity of everything inside the boy's head... it's too much and Zuko's rigid sense of what's right simply will not allow him to walk away.

He's frustrated, though, and it shows when he speaks.]

What happened?

[Voice // Private // Unhackable] neverquitedies August 31 2010, 23:53:41 UTC

Well, I've never had them.

[Ho hum.]

I brought the pollinated seeds back in a foodbowl. I guess I could replant them in those, but I only have two bowls, so-

[Voice // Private // Unhackable] innerfirewithin August 31 2010, 23:55:03 UTC

That's not what I'm talking about, Yuca.

[Voice // Private // Unhackable] neverquitedies August 31 2010, 23:57:16 UTC

I'm not feeling very well right now, I'm sorry.

[He almost shuts off the feed- almost. But something about Zuko's- concern? Was that it?- something made him hesitate.]

It's- it'll pass.

[Voice // Private // Unhackable] innerfirewithin September 1 2010, 00:00:06 UTC

[Was concern the right word for it? Zuko has plenty of concern... mostly for the people in Adstringendum he cares about should Yuca snap again, but for Yuca? Possibly. Maybe. It's difficult not to sympathize when you know what he's carrying around constantly.]

Don't bother lying to me, Yuca, I hate it when people lie to me.

It was an event. It was the Animus' fault.

[But it WAS Yuca's fault that Zuko wanted to kill himself, wanted to die. His cheek muscle twitches at the thought, bile rising in his throat at how close he was to seriously contemplating death, but his voice remains steady.]

[Voice // Private // Unhackable] neverquitedies September 1 2010, 00:02:40 UTC

[He sighs, curling up again and scrunching up his shoulders- not that Zuko can see, but the rustle of clothing, the heavy exhale, that was the only thing that transmitted in the quiet silence that followed.

Before, finally-]

I saw Alphonse. Twice. [It's quiet, almost barely a whisper.]

[Voice // Private // Unhackable] innerfirewithin September 1 2010, 00:07:17 UTC

[Zuko is silent for a long moment. His first instinct is to go find Al and demand what in the flying fuck was he thinking. His second instinct is to demand whether or not Yuca hurt Alphonse... but neither makes much sense to him. Of course Yuca wouldn't harm Alphonse. Al was on some sort of pedestal to Yuca that not even Yuca understood.]

Yeah?

[God, talking to Sasuke is so much easier than this shit.]

[Voice // Private // Unhackable] neverquitedies September 1 2010, 00:09:55 UTC

I didn't want to- I thought-

[He huffs, frustrated.]

He came across me during the event and realized I was lonely. [He has no qualms about telling Zuko this, as he knew the other had felt the same thing and there was no sense keeping something he already knew from him.] And he thought that he could keep me company- like that would make it better.

[He sounds, bitter, angry, confused, like he's been wanting to vent about this but not knowing exactly how.]

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