[When the transmission starts, it's black. Then light is visible and starts to grow, and a floor appears, a wall, part of a doorway, going by in a sweep as the Hitomi's lifted
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[Video] [Private]mightstealyrcarSeptember 15 2010, 02:12:53 UTC
[He flushes slightly. It's one thing to have what amounts to a temper tantrum in front of strangers, and another thing entirely for the girl you have a crush on to see it.]
No. Maybe. I dunno. I just wanna put this fucking thing down somewhere, and not have it, for a little while.
[Video] [Private]in_starvationSeptember 15 2010, 02:28:15 UTC
Yeah, I understand. I don't want to hold it anymore, but it's not like it can make itself, I dunno, a Bluetooth or something like that, right?
Listen, why don't we hang out? Maybe we can test it out a bit more? I like to think I can do more than just a rock on these things.
[Even if these things can't be destroyed, maybe it'll be a stress reliever for Matt - Jessica gets the impression that's not the only thing that's eating him.]
[Video] [Private]mightstealyrcarSeptember 15 2010, 02:36:06 UTC
Hey, I bet you can, you're super-strong.
[He gives a brief, but real, smile. He honestly doesn't know what's wrong with him, he's just felt irritable and out of sorts for the last little while.]
[Video] [Private]in_starvationSeptember 15 2010, 02:51:14 UTC
Actually, I'm heading over there right now. I had to go to Hisato for something.
[For Kakashi. Who's gone. She tried calling him, but there was no answer. In the end, she had to go back. Maybe he got caught with something. Like a girlfriend or something like that. Stuff happens, right?]
[Video] [Private]in_starvationSeptember 15 2010, 03:49:21 UTC
Oh I'm fine, I'm - okay, no, actually, I got a little problem just now.
I can't find Kakashi.
He's, uh, my donor, you know? He's the guy I told you about who volunteered who give me some of his blood every night. He's not answering his Hitomi. It's just this night so I'll still be fine but . . .
[She trails off, not really wanting to explain just how bad a starved vampire can be.]
[Video] [Private]in_starvationSeptember 15 2010, 04:54:41 UTC
[Jessica is not sure about that - she only needed to do it once, rarely twice and she'll be fine for the rest of the day. She's not sure if she can call it dinner or a snack
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[Video] [Private]mightstealyrcarSeptember 16 2010, 04:15:19 UTC
[Matt thinks most of the people here aren't exactly about to launch a vampire hunt, that they come from worlds where vampires either don't exist, so are still sorta unbelievable, or from places where they'd be the least of the problems. But saying so would feel like making light of Jessica's worry, so he frowns thoughtfully, and takes another puff.
He really, really doesn't like this Kakashi, whoever he is.]
If you need to drink from me, I won't tell anyone. And I sure as hell won't try to kill you if you go after anyone else.
[Not that he'd be able to, and not that he thinks she would.]
[Video] [Private]in_starvationSeptember 16 2010, 05:11:18 UTC
[This has to be the first time when somebody just straight up offers their blood - no deals, no payments, no other reasons or ulterior motives.]
Thank you, Matt. That's . . . that means a lot.
[She doubts that M would approve that - she hates to see the expression on his face if he discovers Jessica feeding off his best friend, if him protesting of just letting Matt testing out V is any indicator.
Speaking of which:]
I feel terrible 'cause I should've asked earlier. The night after, really.
But how did you guys feel after the high? You didn't feel sick, did you?
[Video] [Private]mightstealyrcarSeptember 16 2010, 05:37:47 UTC
Um.
[Wow, he can feel himself blushing, and he ducks his head in a probably-hopeless attempt to hide it.]
It was, um. Like a pretty bad hangover? I'm better now!
[Physically, anyway. Except for the odd moments when the air around him feels so empty it almost hurts, like the pain of a phantom limb, only it's Mello who's supposed to be there and isn't. Jessica, too, sometimes. Matt understands damn well, by now, how people get hooked on the stuff. He sighs, and looks back at the screen.]
[Video] [Private]in_starvationSeptember 16 2010, 05:47:17 UTC
I thought as much.
[She pauses.]
Matt, there's something I didn't tell you about the blood.
Everything I ever told you about it . . . it's all I know. I know there's more things to know about the blood, I just know it, it's just that I'm working on what I overheard vampires talking and what the news say. Nobody bothers to tell me how to be a vampire, never mind what my own body might do. Hell, I had to find out for myself that when vampires cry, they don't cry tears but blood.
Everything we do now with my blood is going to be educated guesses and just plain guesses. We can easily fuck this up and not even know it.
[Another pause and she couldn't help herself, she's so curious - ]
[Video] [Private]mightstealyrcarSeptember 16 2010, 06:08:34 UTC
[Matt swaps out his cigarette for a fresh one.]
Hey, it's all right, J. I know you never had any first-hand experience with the stuff.
[And he feels bad for her, having to figure it all out for herself. You get to be strong as hell, yeah, but you're also tossed into a new life with a body whose limits you don't know. It had to be scary.
He draws idle patterns in the dirt with a fingertip. He'll tell her, he just needs a sec.]
Colors and lights. Like everything was... streaming with them. And all these different realities, like. I can't even explain it. Echos and mirrors of each other.
[Video] [Private]mightstealyrcarSeptember 16 2010, 06:46:21 UTC
Yeah, it. [Still blushing.]
I'd never seen anything like it.
[He's starting to feel like he might oughta tell her the rest of it, like if he wimps out now, there will be a time, someday, when she wonders why the hell he didn't tell.
...It's really more of an in-person sort of thing.]
Is there something wrong, Matt?
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No. Maybe. I dunno. I just wanna put this fucking thing down somewhere, and not have it, for a little while.
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Listen, why don't we hang out? Maybe we can test it out a bit more? I like to think I can do more than just a rock on these things.
[Even if these things can't be destroyed, maybe it'll be a stress reliever for Matt - Jessica gets the impression that's not the only thing that's eating him.]
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[He gives a brief, but real, smile. He honestly doesn't know what's wrong with him, he's just felt irritable and out of sorts for the last little while.]
You still in Yomisato?
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[For Kakashi. Who's gone. She tried calling him, but there was no answer. In the end, she had to go back. Maybe he got caught with something. Like a girlfriend or something like that. Stuff happens, right?]
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[He didn't want the locals to think he was even more weird than they already seem to.]
Are you doing okay? We haven't, like, had a chance to talk for real or anything.
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I can't find Kakashi.
He's, uh, my donor, you know? He's the guy I told you about who volunteered who give me some of his blood every night. He's not answering his Hitomi. It's just this night so I'll still be fine but . . .
[She trails off, not really wanting to explain just how bad a starved vampire can be.]
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[He actually leaves off looking at the Hitomi like it's personally wronged him. (He still feels it has, though.)]
You just need a little, I dunno, snack or something?
[Not enough to make the donor weak, is what he means.]
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He really, really doesn't like this Kakashi, whoever he is.]
If you need to drink from me, I won't tell anyone. And I sure as hell won't try to kill you if you go after anyone else.
[Not that he'd be able to, and not that he thinks she would.]
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Thank you, Matt. That's . . . that means a lot.
[She doubts that M would approve that - she hates to see the expression on his face if he discovers Jessica feeding off his best friend, if him protesting of just letting Matt testing out V is any indicator.
Speaking of which:]
I feel terrible 'cause I should've asked earlier. The night after, really.
But how did you guys feel after the high? You didn't feel sick, did you?
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[Wow, he can feel himself blushing, and he ducks his head in a probably-hopeless attempt to hide it.]
It was, um. Like a pretty bad hangover? I'm better now!
[Physically, anyway. Except for the odd moments when the air around him feels so empty it almost hurts, like the pain of a phantom limb, only it's Mello who's supposed to be there and isn't. Jessica, too, sometimes. Matt understands damn well, by now, how people get hooked on the stuff. He sighs, and looks back at the screen.]
Mostly better.
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[She pauses.]
Matt, there's something I didn't tell you about the blood.
Everything I ever told you about it . . . it's all I know. I know there's more things to know about the blood, I just know it, it's just that I'm working on what I overheard vampires talking and what the news say. Nobody bothers to tell me how to be a vampire, never mind what my own body might do. Hell, I had to find out for myself that when vampires cry, they don't cry tears but blood.
Everything we do now with my blood is going to be educated guesses and just plain guesses. We can easily fuck this up and not even know it.
[Another pause and she couldn't help herself, she's so curious - ]
What did you see after you drank the V?
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Hey, it's all right, J. I know you never had any first-hand experience with the stuff.
[And he feels bad for her, having to figure it all out for herself. You get to be strong as hell, yeah, but you're also tossed into a new life with a body whose limits you don't know. It had to be scary.
He draws idle patterns in the dirt with a fingertip. He'll tell her, he just needs a sec.]
Colors and lights. Like everything was... streaming with them. And all these different realities, like. I can't even explain it. Echos and mirrors of each other.
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[Really, what's the point of immortality without getting a chance to get high?]
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I'd never seen anything like it.
[He's starting to feel like he might oughta tell her the rest of it, like if he wimps out now, there will be a time, someday, when she wonders why the hell he didn't tell.
...It's really more of an in-person sort of thing.]
You heading this way?
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