✿二十六

[scentofbauhinia]

[The morning after his and Charles' deaths, Hong Kong awakens in the master bedroom of 767 Bunker Street. The room is still in the same ripped apart state that the hazmats left it in and his hands tense around the torn and shredded duvet as he looks around.

After a while, he reaches out to pick up the phone on the bedside table to make a call, but

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[is_an_island]

[call

ing]

[scentofbauhinia]

[he lets it ring for a bit before answering]

...Wei?

[is_an_island]

It's me, England.

Just calling to see if everything's all right.

[filtered]

[scentofbauhinia]

[a long pause

he doesn't clarify, only asks some questions of his own]

...Did you pass it on? You didn't keep it?

[puffinparadise]

[After hearing this on the phone, he doesn't bother calling back. Instead he goes next door and knocks on the door.]

[scentofbauhinia]

[it takes him a while to get out of bed to go answer it.

and he finds himself shocked at his slightly paranoid reaction to the knock, before regaining his usual lineface composure and heads downstairs to open the door. he's inwardly pleased to see his friend standing there.]

...Ice. Hey.

[puffinparadise]

Hey. I was wondering if everything was alright.

[scentofbauhinia]

...Sort of. You shouldn't hang around on the doorstep. [he beckons him inside

erm yeah. feel free to notice that most of the house has been torn to bits as if somebody's been violently looking for something.]

[nonconsplay]

*Hey husbando. Guess who's in the same room, just kind of slumped against a wall, asleep?

She may look exhausted.*

[scentofbauhinia]

[he notices waifu and silently contemplates whether or not he should wake her.

judging by how exhausted she looks he decides against it and gets up to try and examine the state of the room as quietly as possible. a few noises are inenvitable though, what with so much broken stuff on the floor.]

[nonconsplay]

*Stirring a bit from the noises.* Hm...?

[scentofbauhinia]

[he notices and eventually moves to kneel down in front of her and gently tap her on the shoulder so she doesn't have a heart attack or something.]

You okay? [yeah ignore the fact that he was just dead]

[decadenzas]

[later in the day, Charles wakes up in the bedroom he had actually been assigned to like Hong Kong had earlier. it's the third time, counting his initial arrival.

unlike Hong Kong, he doesn't wish to think about what had happened, pushing those thoughts to a far corner of his mind after allowing himself a few moments of silent seething. once that is over, his first course of action is to seek him out and make sure nothing had gone wrong during the revival.

considering he views the master bedroom as his own to begin with, there won't be any knocking before the door is thrown open.]

[scentofbauhinia]

[it's almost inenvitable considering what has happened that HK would jump a bit at the door being thrown open. or the closest he can appear to get to it though.

he's less tense as he sees who it is though. silent relief that he's back as well]

...You're back.

[decadenzas]

Of course. That's the way things work here. [it takes a concerted amount of effort to not give in to the temptation to scream and throw things until he feels better like he wants to and his clipped tone reflects the restraint, but he is careful in selecting his words for once.]

...Now you know.

[scentofbauhinia]

[there's a pause as he considers what charles said, trying to figure out what he means and he can't help but be a little amused. vague and cryptic as usual.] ...Know what?

[pinkplumblossom]

[Taiwan knows that sigh. It's her birthday today, and she's sad, but she still cares about babby brother. So she's calling him back.]

[scentofbauhinia]

[quite some time passes before he answers]

Hello?

[pinkplumblossom]

...Is everything okay, Hong?

[scentofbauhinia]

...Depends what you mean by okay...

[he seems to think better of that statement though and seems to want to change the subject] Oi. Happy Birthday.

I'll bring over your present when this is all over.