[OPEN!] There's romance in the air~

[fallingjunkyard]

Characters: Anyone on board the Winding Way!
Content: Joshua's left a present for Vash on the Winding Way.
Setting: The Winding Way
Time: The morning after the birthday date on the 17th.
Warnings: Chaos! Fake romances, angst and sad, oh mai. Oh, and Joshua is an ass. (note: Joshua will not be appearing in this log)

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[date_with_death]

After the announcement that Vash was taking over the ship, Ryoji had decided to walk the halls and get a taste for how people were taking it. After the hoopla on his jounral, he was intrested on how their eariler words would hold up.

So the fact that he passed Vash's door was totally on purpose. Finding the flowers were not. He blinked, leaning down to theread the card.

The grin on his face was pure evil.

So was the girlish squeal that floated down the halls.

"BABY SHOWER!!"

[stampeded]

"What?!" Vash yanked open his door, blinking in surprise at seeing the crew member on the other side of the door. That was... "Ryoji, right?" he asked, before looking both ways down the hall. He didn't see what all the yelling was about...

That was when he happened to look down. The flowers only made him look even more surprised, and he scooped them up hastily, reading the card.

His face turned redder as he continued reading, until he'd reached the end and very nearly crumpled the card in his fist.

Vash's first thought was of seeing Ness and Joshua at the hotel last night. More unfortunately, the first thing he said was, "How could he?! That cad!"

[date_with_death]

Ryoji didn't need more then that. Vash had practically confirmed everything himself! He cackled.

"Oh man, that rat. Poor Ness~" He purred, winking. "I gotta tell the crew!" He hooted, taking off at a jog.

[stampeded]

"Wait - what do you mean, you'll tell the crew?!" Vash shouted it after him, before throwing the flowers back on the floor, running after Ryoji. He hadn't even closed the door to his room.

"Hey! GET BACK HERE!"

[eighthmelody]

Perhaps, any other day, this would not have affected Ness so much as he did. But when he saw the flowers, and then the card, and then the message, he didn't say anything.

Instead, he turned around and went back to his room, and anyone passing him in the hallway would think that he was unaffected.

Or, they would think that, were it not for the tears that Ness was struggling to hold back.

He didn't even say goodbye.

[sugarforteatime]

L had heard about the flowers and note, and eventually had gone to see them for himself. It appeared that Ness and Joshua's birthday dinner had not gone particularly well for Joshua to have behaved so spitefully. Ness's look when he passed L in the hall, however, said that Ness was hurt.

L picked up a strawberry short cake he had been saving for a rainy day and headed to Ness's quarters.

First Mates were in charge of crew morale, after all.

He knocked loudly on the door.

[eighthmelody]

Ness knew that at least one person (if not half of the ship) was going to come to see if he was all right. He didn't want to see any of them. It was his standard procedure whenever he got upset: lock himself in his room for a day so no one had to see him cry.

The door was locked, and Ness had no intention of opening it whatsoever. He thought about not saying anything, but decided against it.

"...who is it?" He asked after a moment.

[sugarforteatime]

"It is Ryuzaki," he answered. This might be trickier than he thought. He was hardly emotionally adept at these sorts of things.

But he was supposed to be the First Mate now. He could handle dealing with a few adolescent issues.

[drinkitlovelife]

Milk - Kurumi, at the moment, as it was easier to carry large objects when you weren't shorter than a loaf of bread standing up - held the washbasin close to her chest as she walked in the most dignified manner she could manage. The flowers and note, however, grabbed her like a magnet, a few white rose petals fluttering out of the basin when she zipped over to Vash's door.

"Hmm... hmm." She pushed the note out of the way, not even bothering to read what it said, and inspected the flowers. "Why would he just leave these on the floor?" Kurumi thought for a second about stealing them, but no. That cutesy shade of magenta was her colour. And they weren't even roses. No self-respecting secret heroine would throw these into the wind.