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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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"I've been alright. Can't complain anyway. Yourself?"
She's going to put together a plate of scones with jam anyway. Just in case. And if he doesn't want any, she'll eat them.
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"Well... Could definitely be better." He paused and looked at the scones and jam. "But... Things could be a lot worse, too."
He still had a place to live. Vincent and Yuffie were still willing to let him stay there. Rufus had been a remarkably good roommate, considering all. And here was Alice, making him coffee and offering scones, to essentially a complete stranger for all he'd actually been here.
"Y'know, I guess it's just a matter of perspective," he said at last, deciding to take a scone after all. Alice hadn't made them for him, or on the spot -- and there were plenty for her, too -- so it felt more justified than actually asking her to fully prepare him anything.
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Things could always be better, and they could just as easily be worse.
"I think life is a matter of perspective."
She spreads jam on one of the scones, and takes a little nibble.
"But sometimes it helps to get more than one perspective on a problem. I wouldn't mind listening, if you wanted to talk about anything."
Because she knows that sometimes it's easier to talk about your problems to someone who doesn't know you than it is to talk to your friends.
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After a moment of silence spent staring at his scone, Reno said, "Just feels like things from my past keep following me. An' the people that I'd really rely on are stuck in the hospital, and I can't do a damn thing about it."
Vague enough to be comfortable while still being true. Reno was frustrated with feeling so powerless. But again... things could definitely be worse. He had to think of that.
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"The past does have a way of sticking to us."
But he's right in that there's nothing much they can do about the people in crystal stasis. In a way, Alice feels lucky that no one she knows, from either home or the Country of Hearts, has shown up in Crystallis. She doesn't know how she'd handle them winding up in that hospital.
"But I suppose one of the few good things about being stuck here is that even if our pasts still haunt us, a new world gives a person the chance to try a new path."
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"Mn. I guess I have to." Reno finished spreading jelly on his scone and took a bite. There was no sense in fighting it, he supposed. There was no way to do that anyway, that he could tell. And maybe he'd still be lucky -- if he wound up here, then maybe Kyo still might arrive one day. His Kyo, the Kyo he knew and would know him. The only thing he could do was wait.
"I'm assuming you're trying a new path, too?"