voice 001 || Eugene Fitzherbert / AU event || [private]

[foundaprincess]

[ooc: backdated to May 2, Monday Evening!]

[Eugene is trying to contact a certain boss of his but the call is accidentally filtered to Rapunzel instead. His voice sounds strained against the speaker, and his speech is punctuated by badly-stifled gasps:]

Hey... Got myself in... a bit of a jam here... [his attempted chuckle turns into a hacking

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[flowergleam]

[Rapunzel's been having a distressingly strange week. She's in the cottage she shares with Aurora (not that Aurora even remembers Rapunzel's not just visiting when she gets the message, and she immediately jumps to her feet, holding the Dreamberry close to her face]

Eugene-- Eugene???

[she hasn't heard from him all this time, either; and needless to say, this isn't the most reassuring of calls. Maybe he hasn't become her new dream yet, but she does care enough about him for this to scare her.]

Eugene, hold on, all right? I'm going to find you! Just-- I know, Pascal, I know--

[she gathers up her hair, racing for the door. She remembers passing some sort of police sign when in Somni a few days earlier; whatever it is, she's pretty sure she can still find it.

With a bit of Pascal's help, she does so eventually; like Flynn said, once she sees blood it's not hard to track him down. suppressing the urge to be sick, she runs and drops to her knees next to him, not minding the state of her own dress as she gathers her hair]Oh-- no no no

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[hearing him stop, she glances over, worried. and seeing the look on his face doesn't help, either. she remembers how he reacted to her healing just a cut on his hand.]

...Please don't freak out?

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[he looks from her to his bloody hands and then back to her. Did she inject some kind of drug into his system to kill off the pain? Because he was feeling extraordinarily good right now, which should have been impossible.

Okay. Only one way to figure this out.]

H-hold that thought, Blondie.

[Must have left his jacket somewhere. Well, at least he only has the shirt to deal with. He works those buttons open with a desperate speed. Now what could he be planning to do?]

hi verb tense.

[flowergleam]

[though it isn't the best time for it, Rapunzel feels a sense of reassurance that he's called her Blondie-- it means that there's still the Flynn she knows in there somewhere. there has to be.

however, noticing his frantic unbuttoning, she inwardly "eep"s and moves backwards.]

Um... Eugene? What are you doing, exactly?

[there's a chameleon on her shoulder covering his eyes]

...If you're freaking out, please don't do that!!

I saw nothing ♥

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I am not freaking out!

[He staggers to his feet, shirt hanging open, as he makes his way towards the light. The blood is not too obvious on his dark-colored clothes, but it stands out bright red against his skin. And there is a lot of it. With a swallow, he angles himself against the lamplight and lifts away a corner of his shirt.

There. He is pretty sure he got shot under his right arm (damn EX-partner was a pretty good shot) but it's gone. The bullet hole.]

Holy shit.

[he looks more amazed than freaked-out, really.]

/innocent!

[flowergleam]

Are you sure?

[she clambers to her own feet, following him. he's not the only one with blood on him; though there's much less on her, her complexion and clothes are both much lighter colours, and it stands out on her hands. she doesn't seem to notice, however-- she's more concerned with his state of mind now.]

Are you... feeling all right now, then?

<_< /whistles~

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Yeah...

[He turns those wide eyes on her and just. Takes her all in. Takes it all in, in fact. Forget the disappearing bullet hole, he is alive, and despite everything, he is actually glad about it.

So you can probably chalk it up to an excess of emotion when he decides to hug her tightly against him and smear s'more of his blood all over her nice dress]

Whatever you did. It's. Well. Thank you.

[for once he is at a loss for words]

[flowergleam]

[ignore that croaking chameleon you've almost just squished. Rapunzel feels the breath whoosh out of her in surprise at the hug; Mother's hugged her before, but never so tightly or emotionally, and, well, this hug feels very different and was completely unexpected.]

I couldn't let you die. It's just all I could do.

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[A moment passes and Eugene realizes that he has just hugged a stranger in a rather intimate way. Uh, oops? He backs off now, chuckling a little to cover his surprise.]

That's really nice, considering I'm just a stranger to you.

[flowergleam]

[ouch. that really does hurt, even though she knew it was coming.]

You're not a stranger to me, Eugene.

[pause, then a shake of her head]

But I would have done the same anyway.

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[he looks a little guilty]

Now you're making me feel bad. I can't seem to remember you at all.

[flowergleam]

Oh! It's nothing. [nervous laugh] You wouldn't believe me if I told you.

[foundaprincess]

[a chuckle right back] Oh yeah? Try me. I act a little crazy when I get plastered.

...

Wait, we definitely didn't meet in a bar, right?

[flowergleam]

How about in another world?

[foundaprincess]

Another wo-- Oh, that place? But I don't remember meeting any blondes there.

[yeah. definitely not thinking what you're probably thinking, Rapunzel.]

[flowergleam]

Huh?

Oh, I... don't think we're talking about the same place. When I met you, things were... different. I haven't seen you since they changed.