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Aug 18, 2009 18:58

[Baiken's health has gone downhill pretty rapidly in the past couple days. She's dangerously pale, her eye bloodshot and tired. Strong shivers are running throughout her body.

Overall, she looks annoyed about it. Those who know her well enough would be able to spot her usual cover-up act, though her weak voice is a dead giveaway anyway.]Oi, d-d- ( Read more... )

chip is out, not feeling too great

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fuuga_chou August 19 2009, 12:41:41 UTC
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It's been 24 hours...

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tetsuzansen August 19 2009, 15:13:54 UTC
...hn.

[cough] F-f-figures I'd... c-catch what you g-got.

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1/2 fuuga_chou August 19 2009, 15:51:04 UTC
....k-kuso...

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fuuga_chou August 19 2009, 15:52:04 UTC


...Zan..nen desu..

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tetsuzansen August 19 2009, 15:58:41 UTC
[Small, mirthless smile.] S-sou da na...

Anj-ji... you b-better not... be th-thinking this's... your f-f-fault.

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fuuga_chou August 19 2009, 16:20:56 UTC
[His stare is almost transparent. There was noting he could do. Nothing could be helped. And now she was going to face what he had already accepted for himself.

DAMNIT!

He sunk his head into his hands.]

...Iie.. No.

No I can't.. I.. shouldn't.

Yagokoro-sensei.. she said it.. was an infection.

Caused by the incision..

But I...

[She would not have asked for it to be taken out so soon.. had he not been so foolish as to go and die the way he did. To feed into her lust for revenge, and then do nothing to stop her.]

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tetsuzansen August 19 2009, 16:41:24 UTC
[Her shivers seem to grow stronger as she gives him an annoyed look.]

"But" n-n-nothing, Mito! I d-d-decided to get the thing t-taken out on my own, I c-c-can deal with the c-consequences!

[Agitation has lead to another coughing fit. Scowling, she forces herself to calm back down.]

It's a g-g-goddamn infection... n-not like we c-can do anything about it.

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fuuga_chou August 19 2009, 17:08:15 UTC
[To hear her say it like that, so easily without any qualms, he knew indeed why she was so much stronger than he was. A hiss of chagrin left him as he brought his knees up towards his chest, clasping his quivering hands around his brow that pressed against his knee-caps.

There was nothing they could do. But there should have been.. there could have been.. Something.. anything..! It had been too easy for him to accept it for himself.

But not for her!]

I should have stopped you.

[He rested his chin between his clasped hands, slightly covering his mouth that was already so quiet as he spoke. He couldn't raise it any higher if he tried. Strength was fading and grating at his will.]

I've placed myself between yourself and the grave so many times.

And the one time I do not... Heh.

[He blinked back the glassiness in his eyes, a weak and pained laugh leaving him in half a breath.]

It cost you to follow in my foolishness.

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tetsuzansen August 19 2009, 17:34:57 UTC
[Shifting to free her arm from the blankets, she reached out to smack him upside the head. The usual power behind it was nearly gone, amounting to little more than an irritated swat. Cursing, both over the failure of a slap and the cold that bit in now, she huddled herself back underneath the blanket and frowned out at him.]

L-like I w-w-would've... let you st-stop me. I b-b-beat your damn earth-bind sp-spell before... like hell I'd've let you s-slow me d-d-down this time.

[She sighs, followed by a cough. It's probably pointless to sit here and yell at him. She knows full well the toll the infection will take on her, and being angry at the one person she gets along best with during what time she has left is probably not the best way to spend that time. Shaking her head, she continues, avoiding his eyes.]

F-foolish or not... I'd d-d-do it again. N-nobody fucks with you and g-gets away with it... on m-m-my watch.

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fuuga_chou August 19 2009, 17:59:26 UTC
[Unlike most of the knocks he took to his rock-hard head, her bat had snapped a bit of revelation into him. Raising his head to look to her he caught only the back of her head. As numb as his body was becoming, losing feeling in his toes, the tips of his fingers, lips, and spreading further about him, he could feel a phantom-like sensation of warmth in his breast from her words.]

...So that's how it is..

[The sound of sheets shifting and the bed creaking followed two shaken footsteps. It was agony to move. It was agony to breathe.

Life... was agony.

Yet he bid his body to drop to her side. A hand rested upon her knee, giving it an affectionate pat as he laid his head down near the side of her hip. The place where he felt he belonged.]

I would.. have preferred it.. but..

Perhaps it's best..

[The both of them had spent so much time living only for themselves. Facing the world, life and death on their own. They were two brazenly independent individuals, who relied on no one. The change. It seemed almost pleasant to him. Just this ( ... )

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tetsuzansen August 19 2009, 18:30:51 UTC
[As he settled down beside her, Baiken was a little surprised with herself just how comfortable she was with the action. For as much as she'd been telling herself over the years that she couldn't allow such shows of affection, it really did feel good to just let him close for once. When everything else hurt so much, every breath like fire, she figured it would be fine to allow just this one thing. With a low sigh, she dropped her hand down to rest across his shoulders, simple acknowledgment that she was fine with this situation.

Besides, he was the only person she had ever trusted with her life. Somehow, it seemed appropriate to trust him with her death as well.]

Oi... you'd b-better be there... when I w-w-wake up.

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