The First Imposible Thing (Complete/closed)
Characters: Watanuki, Break, Crawling Boy.
Setting: Hospital Bedroom
Time: Day 015
Summary: Bad things happen to small children for the sake of a madman's scavenger hunt. The search for the components of the List begins.
Warnings: Squick, amputation, bad things happening to small children. R Rated thread.
There are times. Times in your life where no matter what you do, it will be the wrong choice. Watanuki had known that, rationally. That sometimes, as an adult, he would have to make a distasteful choice to protect himself or the people who were important to him.
He never thought that distasteful choice would involve cutting the finger off a kid.
hekilledsasuke. and that was almost as strong a talisman as the fact that Break was standing behind him, and to get out they needed to fill this list, and Break couldn't do this distasteful thing. And if they waited, the chance might be lose, and the child might return to the twisted ghost once more. Ghosts had no need of bones.
Oneoftheothers the squeamish part of his brain muttered.
But no, he wouldn't ask this of Miku, she'd been through enough. He just wouldn't. And Mio...Mio had had all of the focus of the Phantasms' rage focused upon her. He wouldn't ask this of her, even if she had been here.
It wasn't like he was going to kill the child, either. No, he would take less damage than any of his friends had taken in the basements. A quick trip to the room that looked like a surgeon had just left his task had even assured that he would feel no pain.
Watanuki would not be unnecessarily cruel to the child. But that didn't mean he wouldn't do it.
togohome, it is enough, it is enough. Pay the toll.
His footsteps sounded frighteningly loud in the hallway. Like the last steps of a dying man before they reached the noose.
The scalpel, rag and ether hung heavy in his pocket. Lightened only by the weight of packing and bandages in the other.
Setting: Hospital Bedroom
Time: Day 015
Summary: Bad things happen to small children for the sake of a madman's scavenger hunt. The search for the components of the List begins.
Warnings: Squick, amputation, bad things happening to small children. R Rated thread.
There are times. Times in your life where no matter what you do, it will be the wrong choice. Watanuki had known that, rationally. That sometimes, as an adult, he would have to make a distasteful choice to protect himself or the people who were important to him.
He never thought that distasteful choice would involve cutting the finger off a kid.
hekilledsasuke. and that was almost as strong a talisman as the fact that Break was standing behind him, and to get out they needed to fill this list, and Break couldn't do this distasteful thing. And if they waited, the chance might be lose, and the child might return to the twisted ghost once more. Ghosts had no need of bones.
Oneoftheothers the squeamish part of his brain muttered.
But no, he wouldn't ask this of Miku, she'd been through enough. He just wouldn't. And Mio...Mio had had all of the focus of the Phantasms' rage focused upon her. He wouldn't ask this of her, even if she had been here.
It wasn't like he was going to kill the child, either. No, he would take less damage than any of his friends had taken in the basements. A quick trip to the room that looked like a surgeon had just left his task had even assured that he would feel no pain.
Watanuki would not be unnecessarily cruel to the child. But that didn't mean he wouldn't do it.
togohome, it is enough, it is enough. Pay the toll.
His footsteps sounded frighteningly loud in the hallway. Like the last steps of a dying man before they reached the noose.
The scalpel, rag and ether hung heavy in his pocket. Lightened only by the weight of packing and bandages in the other.