21; video - december 9, early morning

[hatedriven]

[the image clicks on to Sasuke looking a little annoyed, but this isn't unusual. neither, really, are the shadows of dark circles under his eyes. he hasn't had a good few nights rest, and today is no different. he's shirtless, but his left shoulder is wrapped in a bandage that is purely superficial

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[Text] 1/2 good thing I saw this while updating the calendar. ;;;

[ih8spiders]

Yes? What is it?

[The fact that it's Sasuke pinging him is enough to rouse him out of his cold-induced lethargy.]

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[hatedriven]

I'm not going anywhere anytime soon. It's just if I'm not here and something happens |

[he just- doesn't want an accident to happen in the event that he does. and Sara's a decent fighter now, but he'd said it himself: he couldn't take on a witch without Sasuke. he couldn't fight half as well on his own.

laksjdl agh he doesn't know how to do this anymore. his methods for keeping people safe have always been 'remove self from equation']

Just forget it.

[ooc; nope, this is all Sasuke awkwardly trying to look out for Sara after he told him, essentially, he doesn't feel safe when Sasuke isn't around. xD;]

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[ih8spiders]

["Oh," he says to himself when he realizes what's happening. Now Kurapika wants to switch to video, but he doesn't want to push too far. But video would make it so much easier for him to figure out what Sasuke's thinking...]

I can't just forget about it after you've talked about it, though. And you shouldn't think like that. You'll be here and you'll make sure nothing bad happens, and if you're not here and something does happen and he gets saved because you asked people to watch out for him, it will be like you're indirectly protecting him, right?

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[hatedriven]

[Sasuke sighs, frustrated and embarrassed, on the other side of the feed.]

Yes.

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[ih8spiders]

[Then there's not much else to say, he thinks.]

I'll keep an eye out for him whenever I can.

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[hatedriven]

Okay.

[he is so glad this isn't video.]

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[ih8spiders]

May I ask what brought this on?

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[hatedriven]

[he almost types 'no']

I've just been thinking.

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[ih8spiders]

[He'll accept the reason as it is. It should be a good thing, right, if Sasuke can start worrying about Saralegui after mere thinking.]

He'll be fine. He has too much--[Asshole? Bitch? Obnoxious king-iness?]--stubbornness in him to get hurt that easily.

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[hatedriven]

That's exactly what's going to get him killed.

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[ih8spiders]

No, hurt, maybe, but not killed. He just needs someone to stop him from running headlong off a cliff somewhere. You, maybe?

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[ih8spiders]

But you're pretty stubborn yourself...

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[hatedriven]

[there's a long pause, wherein Sasuke stares, unsure, at his communicator. he's brought it up to one other person, that he won't always be around to make sure the king doesn't get hurt.

after tense deliberation, he decides against it.]

I'm a soldier. He isn't.

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[ih8spiders]

Maybe you'll rub off on him.

If you keep resonating, I mean, and rooming together. He's not stupid (even though he can be annoyingly obtuse sometimes); he'll know what he needs to pick up to survive here.

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[hatedriven]

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No, I don't think so.

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[ih8spiders]

You don't think it's possible? You don't seem to have that much faith in his survival instincts...