[log | Week 18, day 5]

[mightstealyrcar]

Who: Currently open to: Matt (mightstealyrcar), Mello (searedsuccessor), Jessica (in_starvation), Ax (bunzuh), Marco (guerrilla_morph)
When: Week 18, day 5
Where: Yomisato, the House o' DN, Aliens, and Vampire
What: The household deals with the loss of one of its own.
Style: Prose, present tense
Status: Closed-ish. If you think your character might swing by, let us know! It's almost certainly fine. <3
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[guerrilla_morph]

The thing is, Marco knows a emergency is in the works, and this is just the beginning. People are going to get suspicious, and in this town, people getting suspicious means people getting antsy. And with people getting antsy, they are going to do something about it. For everyone's sake, the situation needs to be controlled and if Matt is too out of it and Mello wants to spend time comforting him, that's fine. Marco can handle it, he knows exactly what to do.

All he needs is a name.

So Marco ignores Mello. He doesn't like to think that day very often himself, since it's not the proudest - or smartest - thing he has down. But he doesn't regret it.

"Only in the original broadcast." Marco wonders if he should have waited and look at the responding messages and other "accidental" posts, but at the rush of absolute rage, Marco took off without a second thought.

[searedsuccessor]

"You don't have to explain shit to him."

Matt shouldn't have to. And Mello's tone is a little clipped, arms dropping down from their position over his chest to fall to his sides. If Matt wants to talk, he can talk, but if he's doing it out of some fucked up perceived sense of obligation, it's unnecessary.

And now, he addresses Marco.

"He's already thinkin' about it too much. If you need to know, find out on your own. I'm not gonna stand here and explain to you why it's a dumbshit move to get it out of him. He's biased, is gonna add personal details that cloud facts over." And maybe that's a little bit of his education speaking, but Mello doesn't see it as anything more than common sense.

He doesn't mean to be protective, and maybe he doesn't even realize it's coming off that way. He just remembers hearing Roger's words, muffled under the pounding of his own heart, Near's offhanded comment that made Mello want to slam his head into the floor, and then he just wanted to be left aloneMaybe he's the biased one, in this situation

[mightstealyrcar]

"That murdering bastard's dead," Matt says, quietly, flatly. "I killed him."

And he moves back down, under the blankets again, pulls his knees to his chest. He's not proud, or sad, or even satisfied. He had to do it, and he did. He'd do it again, and the same way, though it did nothing to fill the aching void that seems centered in his chest. Matt knew it wouldn't, of course he did. Knew revenge wouldn't bring Elfangor back, or back faster, or erase any of what he suffered. Matt simply hadn't been able to bear the thought that Fukui was in this world, alive, after what he did.

"Don't talk about me like I'm not here." Still soft, still all but uninflected. Matt's not annoyed by it; he knows Mello's trying to make it easier on him.

Mello probably knows nothing can make it easier, and that the only thing Matt can do right now is wait, and try to breathe with a hole blown in him. And hope. I didn't tell him. He knows, but I should've said the words. Now I might not get to.

If I can, I will. I promise.

[guerrilla_morph]

Marco is now only giving Mello a sideways look - a deliberate snub, not worthy of talking to him face to face. He never really cared about him, even after that episode of him getting all mellow and shit - clearly a personality change created by the gods, and too bad it wasn't temporarily. When Marco replies, it's in a flat tone, but even he can't stop it from being slightly acidic.

"Matt isn't the only one grieving here. Elfangor has a little brother out there, and I need to go and meet up with him and try to convince him that avenging Elfangor is only going to make things worse even though he is required by Andalite law to do just that. I don't want anyone else to die tonight." Which is some ways true: Ax may not be able to avenge his brother's real death back home, but he will jump at any chance to avenge his brother in any fashion.

Marco turns back to Matt, having the unusual feeling of being surprised-yet-not-surprised. It reminds Marco the very first week, no, days when they first got their power and with in a few short days,

[searedsuccessor]

Now loyalty and duty, Mello understands. It isn't something he would frown upon, not something he would deny anyone, under any circumstance. Vengeance is underrated, he thinks. It's necessary, it's a brand of justice that very few people will ever admit is right.

"Guy's dead. His brother was avenged. Tell the kid to relax."

He should scroll through the network, give Marco what he needs to see, but there's no way in fuck he's doing that with Matt around. Besides, the Marco is capable of working it out on his own.

"No one else is dying tonight. It's over, yeah? Go home, let Matt relax, do what you can with E's brother." Because Marco is obviously here for damage control, and there is none needed, as far as Mello is concerned.