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[sandrock_qrw]

Who: Quatre, Suoh, Allen, Duo, and ???
What: Some information is better left unfound.
When: Monday, June 6th; Early afternoon
Where: Quatre and Suoh's apartment in Neon; ???

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[clampninja]

Suoh shuffled sleepily out of the bathroom, rubbing a towel over his damp hair after having gotten out of the shower. He'd stayed up just a little bit too late, and gotten up earlier than he would have liked, and he could tell this was going to be a day for multiple coffees.

Seeing Quatre in the kitchen, he promptly hugged him from behind and slumped against him, yawning.

"Can we just go back to bed for the next week? Please?"

[sandrock_qrw]

Leaning his head back, Quatre smiled at him. "Sorry hun, there's coffee in the pot, and the kettle is on the stove." He stretched his fingers, then looked back his laptop. He'd managed to piece together a program to slowly try and work though the security walls while he wasn't actively working on it. And also to give his stiff fingers a break.

"I finally managed to work through some of this encoding. I think I know where they were sent from..."

[clampninja]

Suoh had straightened with a tired grumble and was heading to the counter when Quatre mentioned the encoded message. He stopped, but didn't look back at him.

"Oh. You did?"

[sandrock_qrw]

"...yea. Its not exact by any means but I have a general area." Watching Suoh closely, he closed his laptop and stood up, walking over to him.

[clampninja]

It was not a short or pleasant walk back to Neon, even by lightpost, but Suoh was determined to get them back in order to have Haku see to Quatre's damaged hands and to alert DATS to what was going on. They didn't talk much, mostly because the depressing question on both their minds was a huge 'what if' that neither wanted to contemplate any further.

Eventually they did reach the Neon branch, though, and after speaking to the person at the front desk, they were instructed to wait while Haku was called to them.

The Vocaloid came running up, still in her work clothes, looking worried and a tad frantic. It took one look at Quatre's hands to know something had gone horribly wrong very quickly.

"What happened?!" she demanded, kneeling down in front of where they were sitting to carefully take one of his hands in to her own. "Are you injured anywhere else? Do you need a doctor?"

"I think we're fine, Haku... Quatre just... over did it a little."

"Are you sure? What caused this?"

[sandrock_qrw]

Quatre winced when Haku began looking at his hands. It didn't hurt exactly, rather it felt like he imagined a bruise might feel like. "I don't need a doctor, I just have some cuts and bruises...nothing a few bandages won't fix." To be honest he wasn't exactly sure if that were true, considering how he felt, and the fact that he was still on pain medication. But Haku was clearly already worried.

"...a little bit of a fire fight...caused it..."

[drunkkareoke]

Haku's worried frown only deepened, her hand coming up to gently cup his cheek.

"Quatre. Are you completely sure? If I work on your hands its only going to add to whatever pain you're in right now, and I need to make sure you're not going to go in to shock or anything like that..."

[sandrock_qrw]

He nodded, "Yes, I'm fine Haku. Don't worry about it..."

[batmanmecha]

When Duo woke finally, everything was hurting. From his pounding head all the way down to his aching feet. He started with a long, rumbling groan, attempting to roll his head and pop his neck as he usually did when he woke up from sleep or a short nap, but found that his movements were almost painfully restricted

[no_dogs_allowed]

The screech of a PA system coming to life rang out from somewhere inside the room. Once the interference died out a low chuckle could be heard.

"Good. You are awake. And so the other one will be awake soon too. Then the true entertainment can begin." The voice was obviously being altered with a voice changer of some sort.

[forgedpapers]

Allen could hear the washed out sound of voices, somewhere. He was decently sure that one of the voices was Duo, at least if the swearing was any indication. After a few more minutes had gone by he managed to force his eyes open and shift around so that whatever was digging into his back wasn't anymore. That was when he realized that he was chained inside a large glass box. Or rather a series of glass boxes. They looked like something used in Victorian style magic tricks, and that did not reassure him in the least.

He could see Duo across the room from him, and while he was also tied up, he looked relatively safe. He couldn't make out what Duo was saying, or the other voice for that matter. It looked like Duo was calling his name, if he was reading his lips correctly. Maneuvering against his restraints, he managed to pull himself up into a kneeling position, and then a standing one.

[batmanmecha]

Though Duo saw Allen wake from where he was, he was far more concerned about the voice speaking to him from a PA system somewhere in the room. He looked around with a scowl, unable to locate the source, not that it seemed to matter. Whoever was speaking could obviously see them just fine.

"So... you're the one fucking with Suoh, huh? What kind of 'entertainment' you got in mind for this?"