what a pleasant surprise [locked - ongoing]

Aug 31, 2008 22:20

Characters: Ootori Kyouya, Eclair Tonnere, and Suoh Tamaki
Content: Kyouya and Tamaki have a hell of a lot of catching up to do, after running into one another on the streets. They also go to where Kyouya's been staying and meet up with Eclair.
Location: Somewhere near Maddison Square Garden? Considering that's where they met up...
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eclair tonnerre, ootori kyouya, suou tamaki

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latetorise September 1 2008, 03:17:31 UTC
Their friendship had been an anchor of sorts and it seemed it, Tamaki, had been running to destruction like a ship beaten into the reef by a passing storm, and at the time all he could think to do was rationalize, stay in control, search because god had that anchor been destroyed Kyouya would be lost to the currents.

"I thought you were-" His throat had gone tight and he had no will to finish his sentence, his hands still unsure of where they should lay as they ran from Tamaki's shoulders, and then finally his back where Kyouya's fingers balled into fabric. Now, he blinked back the sting in his eyes, lifting his head to the sky in hopes that the tears brewing there would work their way back.

Mentally he noted how pathetic this must look, but it had been as if Tamaki had been delivered from the dead and he was sure any man, any man having suffered from jet lag, exhaustion, and trying to cope with the fact that an entire city had been razed and here they were stranded, would have had far less control than he'd been displaying.

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quite_excitable September 1 2008, 03:38:51 UTC
"I'm still here," Tamaki reassured him, because he was, and he was sure it was a great thing to hear. He hoped so, anyway. It had to be, if Kyouya submitted himself to this for him. "I've been here."

Kyouya was going to miss school for this, Tamaki thought guiltily. It would be a bad example to set, wouldn't it? Then again, even though he had been second in class (and the superintendent's son, no less) Tamaki had been missing all this time, so he was sure he was no better of an example, then.

"I'm sorry."

To him, his voice sounded off, but he was sure it was the crying. Even when he had planned to leave with Eclair, that he was submitting himself to not see anyone again, he hadn't broken down like this. Maybe he would have, after arriving in France. It wasn't like he could wind back time and find out.

He wouldn't want to, if given the chance.

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latetorise September 1 2008, 04:11:45 UTC
Crying was such an ugly thing when it came hard and naturally. There was nothing attractive about the way anyone really, truly, sobbed. It was too raw of an emotion for it to pulled off with any sort of flair or ascetic goal in mind. Faces contorted, tears, streaks.

He tilted his head back again as another swell had risen. "I should have come sooner..."

The apology was enough to send the water held back in his eyes to finally spill over the edge, dropping here and there as the droplets from from his chin. What the hell would you have to apologize to me for? It seemed as if it was wrong for him to even utter an sorry, he was alive, and an apology would only be expected had he not been ( ... )

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quite_excitable September 1 2008, 04:39:44 UTC
Tamaki nodded mutely, agreeing that Kyouya really should have come sooner. Much, much sooner - months ago, to drag him out of New York when the going got tough, or maybe even earlier, so none of this would ever had to have happened.

There were a good handful of things Tamaki wanted to un-see or even un-live, for lack of better way to put it.

Tamaki sniffed, but the slight lightening of his mood was evident in his voice. "Kyouya, would you honestly expect any less of me?"

Ever since they had met, it was a constant cycle of Tamaki getting into trouble, and Kyouya getting him out of it. Sometimes it altered to having Tamaki get into worse trouble before Kyouya saved him, but the basic outline was all the same. Trouble was nearly his motto, by then.

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