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melodiesoflife2016-01-18 09:02 pm
shinra_dog) wrote in melodiesoflife2016-01-18 09:02 pm
[Open] But you won't see me fall apart
WHO: Reno and YOU!
WHEN: Throughout the month of January, excepting the Enemy Within event
WHERE: Throughout Aqures Ixen; prompts below
The Hospital
"Wh... what do you mean, he's gone?"
"Well, he crystallized, kupo. He was taken to the hospital yesterday. But if you're Reno -- well, he had a letter for you -- "
Reno stood numb as the moogle explained and fetched the envelope for him. He remained numb throughout the day. At some point he must have left the house, though he didn't remember exactly how he got from there to anywhere. Grit was gone. First Kyo, and now... And Rufus had just arrived, too. Reno didn't know how he felt, except very confused and very, very lost. The time he spent at the hospital doubled as he watched over the two men, hoping someday he'd get to talk to them again. The boy he'd loved a world away, and the man who'd loved him without any hope of mutual affection. Reno felt as though he'd been robbed. So he did the only thing he could: remain in patient vigil, over them and over Yuki, waiting.
Palitutu's Lab
Reno continued to try his damnedest to crack Palitutu's passwords and finally get at what she'd hidden on her computer. He was making progress, he knew, slowly but surely. Still, it frustrated him that he hadn't broken it yet. He wanted to know what Palitutu was working on, what she knew, why she'd done what she had -- and he wanted to know now. Her knowledge about the crystals and the heroes could prove invaluable to everyone here; and, perhaps for selfish reasons, Reno hoped what he found could help reverse the crystallization process for heroes already trapped.
He sighed and rubbed his eyes, the burning sensation telling him he was long due for a break away from this screen.
The Pub...s...
If it wasn't one place, it was another. Old habits died hard, especially when circumstances acted as a catalyst. Whatever progress Reno had made against drinking as coping, it was slowly eroding -- as others guilty of the same probably noticed. Not that they'd likely stop each other. Things were easier to handle, or avoid, with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
B-04
Eventually, Reno would make his way "home." He had to. With Rufus in the city, he couldn't very well continue to stay with Yuffie and Vincent, leaving Rufus potentially vulnerable. He especially couldn't leave Rufus alone with Tifa. It just seemed to be asking for trouble. People would be able to find him more frequently at his home assignment, either in his room or around the premises. Tifa would be nearly impossible to avoid; Alice probably had forgotten everything about the strange redhead now slipping about the place. The women were hardly the most awkward of circumstances, though, as Reno attempted to make sharing a bedroom with Rufus as comfortable as humanly possible for them both.
WHEN: Throughout the month of January, excepting the Enemy Within event
WHERE: Throughout Aqures Ixen; prompts below
The Hospital
"Wh... what do you mean, he's gone?"
"Well, he crystallized, kupo. He was taken to the hospital yesterday. But if you're Reno -- well, he had a letter for you -- "
Reno stood numb as the moogle explained and fetched the envelope for him. He remained numb throughout the day. At some point he must have left the house, though he didn't remember exactly how he got from there to anywhere. Grit was gone. First Kyo, and now... And Rufus had just arrived, too. Reno didn't know how he felt, except very confused and very, very lost. The time he spent at the hospital doubled as he watched over the two men, hoping someday he'd get to talk to them again. The boy he'd loved a world away, and the man who'd loved him without any hope of mutual affection. Reno felt as though he'd been robbed. So he did the only thing he could: remain in patient vigil, over them and over Yuki, waiting.
Palitutu's Lab
Reno continued to try his damnedest to crack Palitutu's passwords and finally get at what she'd hidden on her computer. He was making progress, he knew, slowly but surely. Still, it frustrated him that he hadn't broken it yet. He wanted to know what Palitutu was working on, what she knew, why she'd done what she had -- and he wanted to know now. Her knowledge about the crystals and the heroes could prove invaluable to everyone here; and, perhaps for selfish reasons, Reno hoped what he found could help reverse the crystallization process for heroes already trapped.
He sighed and rubbed his eyes, the burning sensation telling him he was long due for a break away from this screen.
The Pub...s...
If it wasn't one place, it was another. Old habits died hard, especially when circumstances acted as a catalyst. Whatever progress Reno had made against drinking as coping, it was slowly eroding -- as others guilty of the same probably noticed. Not that they'd likely stop each other. Things were easier to handle, or avoid, with a cigarette in one hand and a drink in the other.
B-04
Eventually, Reno would make his way "home." He had to. With Rufus in the city, he couldn't very well continue to stay with Yuffie and Vincent, leaving Rufus potentially vulnerable. He especially couldn't leave Rufus alone with Tifa. It just seemed to be asking for trouble. People would be able to find him more frequently at his home assignment, either in his room or around the premises. Tifa would be nearly impossible to avoid; Alice probably had forgotten everything about the strange redhead now slipping about the place. The women were hardly the most awkward of circumstances, though, as Reno attempted to make sharing a bedroom with Rufus as comfortable as humanly possible for them both.
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"You must be pretty new, then -- just arrived with the last group?" he guessed. "Coming here to check if you knew anyone, that sort of thing."
Had circumstances been different, or Reno been more recently off the island, he probably would have gone with a knee-jerk pick-up line. Probably a quip about how he knew she was new here because he knew all the pretty women and hadn't met her yet. Something like that. Thankfully, he was getting used to normal life again, where every day life did not center on finding someone to screw. He at least now had more of a filter.
"Did you have any other questions or need anything else? I don't mind helping."
Excellent -- filter in ideal working condition. He'd already stripped out all the potential pet names that could have otherwise been in those sentences.
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Aya nods. "It couldn't hurt just to be sure."
Since finding out that time works differently from here compared to home, it seemed fair to make sure that no familiar faces were inside one of these crystals. It almost comes as both a relief as well as a disappointment that she's unable to find at least one person she knows, but oh well. Life goes on.
"Thanks. Unless you know a quick and easy way of getting whatever's broken here fixed so we can all go home, I think I'm getting an information overload." Sarcasm drips into her tones, of course. Aya's undoubtedly aware that things are rarely that easy.
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He looked around the hospital room contemplatively one more time. "If I knew how t' fix any a' this, I woulda' done it by now. Trust me -- no one's here 'cause they wanna be."
Honestly, if anyone had told him they'd managed to come here of their own will, he would have demanded they tell him how to travel cross-world. Not that he didn't feel for Crystallis' plight, and he had made friends here, but... well, his heart was still elsewhere, after all.
"There's a couple decent bars, though, for fighting information overload," he suggested.
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"On the plus side, it looks like there are worse places one could end up." Hell, Aya's been to those worse places. Compared to the things she's been through, this is a cakewalk.
Reno is hardly the first person to suggest something like that.
Aya shrugs. "Sadly, I don't drink. But I don't mind the bar scene that much, if any of them have good food."
Bar food isn't that bad, in her experience.
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Then again, for those places, the food is hardly the priority. The alcohol was where the money was.
"There's a couple real good places, though. Not even all that expensive." He paused and ventured, "Maybe I could take you out sometime?"