The Customer is Always Right... right?
Who: OPEN.
When: The day of August 31
Where: Sector 5, at the Cat's Eye Bistro
Summary: Mysterious flowering cherry trees have sprung up overnight. They're beautiful, but their petals have some strange effects...
Warnings: Eventual violence thanks to an out of control 07 Ghost. Aside from that, just mark your warnings in the subject!
The up side of ( Read more... )
When: The day of August 31
Where: Sector 5, at the Cat's Eye Bistro
Summary: Mysterious flowering cherry trees have sprung up overnight. They're beautiful, but their petals have some strange effects...
Warnings: Eventual violence thanks to an out of control 07 Ghost. Aside from that, just mark your warnings in the subject!
The up side of ( Read more... )
He'd become a threat to Sakura and such a threat had to be neutralized.
Neutralized, or eliminated.
"...Frau?"
Reply
Because the self-recrimination in his friend's eyes was too like his own, every time he looked in a mirror, just to see another's face. He just needed a breath of distance to separate himself from those memories once again.
Which is why he brought a hand up to press at the still bleeding wound and took a step back towards the door as he dropped his gaze. He nodded at the thanks, then asked quietly, "I need to go close the bistro, so we can, um, talk later. Do you need anything while I'm gone?"
Reply
"No. As long as you're sure I can't get out."
There was nothing he needed that could actually be granted. Want was a little bit different. If he could have, he would have gone somewhere high up, away from everything. He'd always been comfortable in places like that. Here it would be too dangerous. He couldn't trust himself if someone else happened to come up there too. All he could do was keep himself locked up down here. Grounded.
Reply
Fai's other hand lifted to touch the barrier at the doorway, opened a space for him to step through. Once he was on the other side, however, he hesitated before pulling his hand away. He felt as if he should really say something, anything, and blurted out softly, "You didn't hurt her, you know. Might have scared her a bit, but you didn't hurt Sakura-chan. Remember that, for now... and Frau?"
Lifting his hand off the barrier, he glanced back over his shoulder to watch the man through the rapidly narrowing opening.
"It's a sound-proof barrier as well, if you need it. But if you call for me, I'll hear you."
Reply
At least he hadn't hurt her physically. If he had, Fai wouldn't be talking to him like this. There simply wouldn't be any "him" left. That would have been destroyed on his first little taste of her soul.
Frau grit his teeth and forced himself to hold onto control. He couldn't let his zaiphon lash out in response. It wouldn't be nearly as dangerous as the scythe, but he still couldn't allow it to happen. He would just have to hold it all back, lock it as far down in his soul as he could and shove it into that box that was already overflowing with darkness and pain. Instead of showing any of that to Fai, he just sat and listened without a word.
Reply
Because now that the moment was past, he realized that the shocked that had been evident after the man had let him go had been like his own after running the Princess through: As if one waking into a nightmare.
So if he were anything like Fai, cursed or something else, then he had to of had a trigger. Fai just needed to figure out what that trigger was.
Reply
"I remember talking to her, thinking her soul was beautiful. I remember drinking the tea and..."
Frau scowled, thinking. He remembered the hunger that the pastries hadn't fixed. He shouldn't have been hungry though. It wasn't like he come to the bistro hungry. If the scythe had been pulling on him then, why hadn't he stopped it?
Reply
Reply
"You're going to end up with the whole damn mess anyway..."
He fell silent again for a moment before continuing. He still didn't really understand what had happened. Everything after when he's started drinking the tea a lot was a mixed blur. He couldn't put it all together.
"And I felt hungry. Not the usual hunger, though that's what I thought it was."
Reply
Fai blinked, startled, and leans against the doorframe, pressed a little more firmly at the wound still bleeding at his neck. The fact that he should have begun healing by now was a whole other issue entirely, but for the moment, he focused on the important one.
"That hunger is why you were looking for places full of corruption, isn't it? That's why you've been working in places like that - only, there was no corrupted souls in that part of the bistro, Frau. It was just you and Sakura."
Reply
"Go take care of that, idiot. I'll explain after. Not like I'm going anywhere."
Fai needed to know. In fact... Fai had been able to seal the scythe. Maybe, just maybe, this man would be able to stop him if things got out of hand. In the dark world he was standing in, with the light so far away, he needed some kind of back up.
Reply
For now, however, he simply pushed off the doorframe and let the barrier close, then turned to head down the hall. He made his way down to the living room, then continued right on down to the bistro.
He just needed to lock the place up before tending to the wound.
Reply
Only this one he belonged in. This time he hadn't been set up. How much longer would he last like this? If Fai hadn't been there to step in, it would have been over for Frau. One little if was the only reason he was still himself. Frau hadn't given up fighting the scythe, but even though he couldn't see it through the darkness, he knew his path was ending soon. One step, two. He wasn't sure. All he was sure of was that he would take someone down with him when he went. That was the part that ate at him.
"Dammit."
Reply
Leave a comment