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notjustlockonm2

A portrait of a broken man

Apr 23, 2010 20:17

[Right after Shrike and Falcon]

[Cherudim lay in the hangar, heavily damaged and still smoking from the battle. On a normal day, Lyle would be concerned about this.

Today is not that day.]

SETSUNA!

setsuna, anew

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stupid sexy brackets! gundam_savior April 24 2010, 03:23:18 UTC

[Sorry, Lyle, but you're being ignored. 00 has already docked ahead of Cherudim, and Setsuna himself is on his way back to his quarters. He doesn't seem terribly interested in conversation at the moment.]

1/2 notjustlockonm2 April 24 2010, 03:26:35 UTC

[Lyle looks momentarily surprised as Setsuna ignores him. He grabs Setsuna by the shoulder as he walks by and...]

2/2 notjustlockonm2 April 24 2010, 03:27:07 UTC

[...and socks him right in the face as hard as he can.]

icon related gundam_savior April 24 2010, 03:44:20 UTC

[Briefly, Lyle catches a flash of those same eyes that killed Anew before his fist soundly connects with Setsuna's jaw. He doesn't even try to avoid the hit as he plummets to the ground.

Still Setsuna does not respond. He lays there, motionless, staring at the wall.]

1/? notjustlockonm2 April 24 2010, 03:49:48 UTC

[Lyle was unsatisfied with the lack of reaction. He pulled his fist back and punched Setsuna again.]

You killed her!

notjustlockonm2 April 24 2010, 03:50:45 UTC

[and again.]

She was going to come back to us!

Using the same icon a million times in a row would be weird notjustlockonm2 April 24 2010, 03:51:27 UTC

[And again.]

She was going to come back to me!

and done notjustlockonm2 April 24 2010, 03:53:52 UTC

[And one last time. He doesn't look like he's ready to stop yet but he's stopping for just a moment, if for no other reason than so that he can try to figure out what to do next.]

WE UNDERSTOOD EACH OTHER!

Lyle totally stopped for a drag in the middle of that gundam_savior April 24 2010, 04:08:28 UTC

[Setsuna takes every blow without so much as a shudder. Blood trickles from his mouth and his face swells from bruising. Weakly he raises his head to meet Lyle's gaze. Many thoughts filter through his mind.]

She betrayed us

She got what she deserved

She was lying to you from the start

You--

You understood each other...?

[All of them are left unspoken, and only the last remains. There's a flicker of some sort of emotion in Setsuna's eyes, but it soon fades, too. In the meantime, Setsuna maintains his silence.]

And he put it out on Setsuna's face. notjustlockonm2 April 24 2010, 04:29:24 UTC

[Lyle makes to punch him once more, but then the grief catches up to him. His fist lands but with no real force behind it. He kept talking, but didn't know or care who he was talking to.]

Y-You killed her. She didn't have to die. She could've come back. She was going to come back.

[Eventually his babbling degenerates into sobbing, and he falls to his knees.]

I FELL DOWN THE STAIRS AGAIN, TIERIA, REALLY gundam_savior April 24 2010, 04:41:21 UTC

[Setsuna watches the defeated man crumple into a heap. The right words to say, if any were to be had, would not come to him. He sits up, regarding Lyle with some mixture of pity and confusion. Some time passes of this; Setsuna doesn't have the will to leave quite yet, it seems. Finally, he speaks.]

Does it hurt?

[A vague question, but a question nonetheless.]

notjustlockonm2 April 24 2010, 04:50:00 UTC

[Lyle looked daggers at Setsuna. His anger that had been starting to be replaced by grief came back in full force. What kind of man could ask that question at this time?]

It hurts more than you can imagine.

gundam_savior April 24 2010, 14:54:18 UTC

[Setsuna shakes his head slowly.]

No. When Neil died, I felt the same. However, I never got the chance to tell him that I...

[He trails off, then picks up again on something else.]

It's alright if it does. Because that was the person you kept close to your heart, wasn't it? Yes, it's alright if you hate me. I'll accept that burden. I also wish that these hands were good for something other than killing. But that is how it is for me. This is all I can do, to try and change the world.

For such a world, I wish that people didn't have to fight.

notjustlockonm2 April 24 2010, 17:30:22 UTC

[Setsuna's reasonable, measured tone seems to be getting under Lyle's skin.]

Damn you Setsuna! Don't just stand there and take it! Get angry! React!

[He punches him again with the word "react".]

It'd make it easier to hate you!

gundam_savior April 24 2010, 23:44:22 UTC

[Again Lyle is refused. It's becoming visibly more difficult for Setsuna to ignore the pain, but he even stifles that to the best of his ability.]

Urgh, no... I won't. It's not what she would've wanted. And it's not what you or I want, either.

[Setsuna's hand shakily rises. Is he going to retaliate?]

If you say I can't imagine it, then help me.

[It's a false alarm. The hand instead reaches towards Lyle's and curls around it. The gesture is gentle, especially coming from Setsuna. He pulls Lyle's hand towards his own throat, as though offering it up to him. He's smiling.]

You'll do it, won't you? Help me to... understand your pain.

notjustlockonm2 April 25 2010, 00:14:04 UTC

[Lyle stares at Setsuna, and he looks more than a bit confused. He killed her, he should be some sort of monster, not this...this whatever Setsuna was. It wasn't fair.

After several seconds, Lyle ripped his hand away from Setsuna.]

I can't. Not now. Maybe not ever.

[Lyle turned away and stormed off.]

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