023 || accidental video [backdated to early morning]

[skullcracking]

[ - something of a clattering noise as the feed kicks on, awkwardly angled. those who know chie might recognize the green track jacket filling the camera's field of vision; the red splatters staining parts of it should be easy to place as blood. there's labored, wheezy breathing in the background, and scattered gunfire, farther off.

chie has

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dammit ;-;

[snipers_shot]

...Chie!

you got some 'splaining to do, buddy X(

[skullcracking]

[no answer for a while. busy bleeding out kthx.]

HE SAID GET INSIDE no one uses their communicators anymore

[snipers_shot]

[PLEASE ANSWER SO HE CAN FIND YOU. SHAKING THE COMMUNICATOR.]

THREADJACK - but over Chie's communicator. Somehow.

[elects]

Hey! Excuse me! Someone there?

ACTION.

[elects]

[ So Sorata has just been going around the city, you know? Not exactly getting refamiliarized with it, but getting used to the change in weather, thinking about this and that and the girl lying on the ground over the-

Hold up.

As soon as he spots the girl, he's jogging over, already trying to dig out his communicator. ] Miss-?

[ And suddenly he recognizes her, kneeling beside her. ] Hey- Satonaka-chan?

ACTION.

[skullcracking]

[chie's sprawled out on the ground, simultaneously in shock, dizzy from the blood she's already lost, and frozen with a kind of clear terror. i've been shot. she can't even piece together how she knows this, she just ... knows.

she's in trouble.

help. need to get help. souji-kun, or ...

she stretches an arm to reach the communicator, just out of reach, biting her lip to keep from crying out with the pain of movement - almost got it - there! -

- and that voice. she remembers that voice.]

... S-Sorata-kun?

[her brain's fogged over with adrenaline and confusion. is any of this real?]

ACTION.

[elects]

... Wow. [ He says, shakily. He doesn't really swear, it's the best he can do. Sometimes he wishes he did swear. Wow isn't really enough at all. There's a lot of blood. And that it's coming from a girl-forget that he knows, or knew, or something, her-that makes it worse. He automatically reaches out his hand to stroke, clumsy, at her hair, looking for something to be used as a bandage or compression. ]

Yeah, 's me. An' everythin'... well, it's kinda messy, but it'll turn out...

[ Talking just to talk. He takes his hand away to, with misplaced self consciousness, lean back and pull off his tee-shirt, better than nothing, and clumsily folds it one-handed, pressing it over where the worst of the bloodiness is, pressing down. That's what you're supposed to do, right? Something like that? ]

ACTION.

[skullcracking]

Someone ... shot me ...

[her words slur together a little, partly as a result of being face-down on the ground, partly as a result of being shot. she makes a noise that could easily pass for either a weak laugh or a protest of pain. it's probably both.]

But ... I didn't do anything ...

[yukiko. she's going to die and never see yukiko again, that's all she can think about.]

[pursuestruth]

Chie!? [WELL SHIT.]

[elects]

[ He doesn't immediately know the voice, which isn't a concern. He's still using her communicator, so it'll show up on Chie's frequency- ] Excuse me! Satonaka-chan needs a doctor, right away!

1/3

[pursuestruth]

[Wait. That isn't Chie's voice.]

2/3

[pursuestruth]

[WAIT NO HE KNOWS THAT VOICE.] -Sorata? When did you get back?

[truthsfortune]

[DAMMIT YOU GUYS STOP GETTING HURT/KILLED.]

Chie-senpai!? Can you hear me?! Please, can you tell me where you are?

[She's off to find Chie either way. The good thing about using a gun is that you learn how to treat a wound from one as well.]

[elects]

Excuse me- she's been shot, she's badly hurt, she needs a doctor.

[truthsfortune]

[Whoa, what? Someone is with her? That's good but she doesn't know who he is.]

Of course. Please, can you take her to the hospital? In the meantime use any clean cloth material you have to put pressure on the wound.

[elects]

I can't. [ Not whining, just a statement of a fact. ] I'm blockin' the wound best I can, but someone's gotta come here.

[masukukunai]

Chie! Chie!

[Fucking bum leg can't go to help--]

Y-you're not allowed to leave either! Chie!

[truthsfortune]

[Her reply comes a while later.]

Souji-san and I are with her and she is being looked after by a doctor. She'll be all right, senpai. [She tries to sound confident.]

[masukukunai]

You guys-- You better...!

[No good. He's choking on his words.]

Don't let her die.

[truthsfortune]

[She knows she can't promise anything and that kills her.]

We will do everything we can. [She almost tells him not to worry but that would be stupid.]