idolpro | HEART GAME: REQUIEM (run 2)

They're both quiet again, but after a moment, they each give your hands a squeeze, gazes lowered. Hurricane says, murmuring, "What about all the bad stuff we do here?"

Edited 2019-02-19 05:04 (UTC)

[Looks down as well, pursing her lips]

Just...gotta take it as you can, right? Some of it can't be avoided. But some of it can, right? So...so long as you got some standards, like...harm reduction or whatever...it's okay...right?

Nemesis says, softly, "... is it okay? If I do something. Awful? If I hurt people?"

"I don't like it," Hurricane says. "I don't... want to, but if it's... FOR someone-- is it okay?"

[Slower, weighing her words much more than usual. Her grip on their hands goes a little tighter, though from her body language she'd probably have her arms folded if their hands weren't already joined.]

It's...hard to say that something like this's always okay or not okay... But sometimes you gotta protect someone. And sometimes that means people gotta get hurt. So even when it's wrong...it's understandable at least...right?

Hurricane stays quiet, this time.

Nemesis speaks, after an uneasy moment of thought. "Would you... still like me? If I did become like them? Like the other vampires."

How so? Weak to pine cones?

[If she does not at least get a smile--

...okay she'll 100 percent understand but still]

They both seem a little too uneasy for smiles.

Nemesis hesitates a moment, before loosening her grip on your hand, closing her eyes.

"Shouldn't ask questions you don't want the answers to," Hurricane finally says-- to Nemesis this time, and she shakes her head.

[grabs after her, or at least attempts to]

Wait-- Wait, geez, that wasn't even an answer and you know it. Just 'cause I had a dumb joke question doesn't mean it wasn't a valid one. D'you mean a vampire that only drinks blood? A vampire that goes around killing people for sport? A vampire that's a cat or has a really unnerving voice? If this's gonna be one of those talks then come at me, spit it out.

She lets you grab her, only a little startled-- Hurricane frowns, and is the one to speak up again. "Any of those. All of those. Would you be able to still like me after all that?"

But he doesn't wait for her to answer before saying, more gently, "You shouldn't, you know? ... if I ever get like that, you should take me out. Cuz if I can't even control myself, what good am I?"

[Frowns; she's not always the smartest person to begin with, and this isn't the greatest conversation topic. But still, she can understand this sort of feeling, a little, and it is deserving of a fully considered answer]

...

Would it make you feel better if I said I would? Take you out, I mean. Is that what you want, someone just in case you lose yourself...?

"No," Nemesis says immediately, squeezing your hand. "No, it sucks! It sucks and I don't ever want to be something like that, and I don't want you to do that, because I like you! And I want you to-- to keep liking me, too.

...

But I don't... know what to do. If that happens."

Well... Maybe you should talk it over. Maybe we should talk it over. Don’t gotta worry if you got a plan...right?

[Gives the both of them crooked smiles]

...C’mon.

[And unless some new gateway has opened up, she turns to lead them back towards home]

Hurricane looks unsure, but nods. Nemesis nods too, head bowed a little and glasses pushed up to rub at her eyes, but her grip is tight.

Roll INT before you leave the City Remains, please.

Edited 2019-02-19 19:02 (UTC)

[Well that's a botch so hopefully the other two know what they are doing; with INT -3 it's possible Nemesis has forgotten who exactly she is much less the way back to the house]

You make it back to the house quickly enough, and nothing catches your eye on the way.

[This time she wants to look more around the house, and check out the house itself--last time she got distracted by herself, which happens, but she's wondering if this whole thing was simpler than she'd led herself to believe (INT unsurprisingly a 4, like it is never not going to be 4, let's be real)]

You search around. Nemesis finally lets go of your hand to search too, and Hurricane separates to do the same.

Roll AGI. Y'know, for reasons.

[10, is it a raptor I hope it's a raptor]

Not a raptor.

It IS a very large (and perhaps frighteningly familiar) bat-monster, swooping down at you. Unfortunately you're a bit too slow to dodge it tackling you to the ground.

Nemesis immediately draws her sword, panicked, and Hurricane holds his staff at the ready. "--Nem!"

[The monstrous bat's the same as her memory, just as massive and menacing as her nightmares. It looms over her, holding her down, eyes luminous blue slits and mouth a jagged forest of razor-sharp teeth and it's going to rip her limb from limb and tear out her throat like always and she can't fight can't run can't move like always can't scream can't breathe can't look away can't can't can't]

There's a long moment of stillness, as its clawed hand reaches for you--

And stops. And it stares at you, then recoils, making a wounded, frightened noise as it scrambles back and away, flying back into the darkness of the cave.

Nemesis and Hurricane finally move to join you, as if they'd been paralyzed, their faces worried and frightened.

[She--

--can't do this here. She has to get up.

A beat and she forces in a breath; another and she shakily pushes herself upright, barely--immediately shoves up her glasses to bury her face in her hands, letting them sag into her drawn-up knees.

(Fuck.)]

It's a long, quiet moment.

But Hurricane lowers down to sit next to you, leaning, and Nemesis gently curls an arm around your back, hugging, petting your hair.

Her voice is a little shaky when she says, "I'm sorry-- I'm sorry."

[Another breath.]

It's--

["fine" doesn't exactly make it out, even if the contact is nice--warm--but she scrubs at her face and starts over]

...Guess we found your shadow. Now what?

[She has a feeling--she has a couple feelings--but will buy herself time to avoid digging into them anyway]

"... don't know," Nemesis says, at a loss. "What do you WANT to do? Did it hurt you?"

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