If I should die this very moment (Active/closed)

[slavetoyuuko]

Characters: Watanuki, Doumeki Shizuka, Xerxes Break
Setting: Shelter Room
Time: night 17, early
Summary: As night begins to fall, the monsters start to rise, and something a little bit painful comes with them.
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Break was alarmed at first. Watanuki had hardly been stable since her death, jumping at shadows, falling into long silences in the middle of conversations, living on the verge of a breakdown, but he'd never been like this. Never fallen prey to wishful thinking, never been quite so obsessed with Eva that he'd see her face in the monsters of the house. He stepped forward to stop Watanuki. He couldn't undo the damage that had been done, but he could get rid of the spectre before it did any more--

But he didn't. The shadow wasn't attacking or even trying to touch him. Even when Watanuki reached out to it, it only stood calm and still and accepted the embrace. Then it produced the note and everything fell together. It was Eva. She belonged to the house, but there was something of her left, she was still conscious enough to--

To suffer through everything the other ghosts had suffered through. To be held captive and maybe be forced to kill the people she had once called friends. To have this bitter half-life for all of eternity. Hope fell away as soon as it had come.

Still, unfair as it may be, there was nothing he could do about it right now. What he could do was help Watanuki. He hesitated a little, glancing at Doumeki-- Watanuki had a... a history with him apparently, and Break couldn't deny that the boys seemed very close. If comforting him had been awkward when they were alone, it would be ten times as awkward now; he wasn't sure what would be appropriate here.