[012//Audio & Commentlog?]
Oct. 21st, 2010 11:10 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
oathbreakers[Well! Riku sounds rather flustered for once!]
Just whose great idea was this?
Oh, what, you can't deal with the truth for a change? Can't deal with someone who won't lie to make you feel like a better person?
Stop it!
Or what? Are you gonna--
[The rest of that threat doesn't make it to the network--Riku's muted the comm. He turns it back on a moment later, sounding both irritated and resigned.]
Is anybody else noticing something strange going on?
[Well, that's -one- way to put it.]
Just whose great idea was this?
Oh, what, you can't deal with the truth for a change? Can't deal with someone who won't lie to make you feel like a better person?
Stop it!
Or what? Are you gonna--
[The rest of that threat doesn't make it to the network--Riku's muted the comm. He turns it back on a moment later, sounding both irritated and resigned.]
Is anybody else noticing something strange going on?
[Well, that's -one- way to put it.]
[Commentlog]
Date: 2010-10-26 04:56 pm (UTC)[Riku is quiet for a moment, weighing his words. He knows that he ought to tell Kairi to go back to her room, that he'll wait it out on his own... but he doesn't -want- to. He likes her being there; even just her presence in the room makes things a little bit easier to deal with.
He doesn't -want- to, but what else is there to say? He certainly can't -ask- her to stay.]
You know... you don't have to stay. I'll be all right on my own.
[But he can't deny that there's some part--a tiny part of him--that hopes.]
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Date: 2010-10-26 07:30 pm (UTC)Oh, no, it's okay. I'll stay for a little while...
[But how long was a little while? As soon as she opened the door to leave, Riku's shadow would appear. And then - even for only a minute or two - he would be left alone with it. She didn't really want to do that to him.
"A little while," soon became a lot longer; As her thoughts swam lazily, Kairi started to doze.]
[Commentlog]
Date: 2010-10-31 03:41 am (UTC)It was something for him.
He realizes when Kairi falls asleep; he almost -senses- it, really. But he's loathe to wake her, to send her back to her room, and so he carefully feels his way across the room and back, turning down the covers first and then picking Kairi up and tucking her into the bed. Lifting her is a touch more difficult than he remembers, she's much taller than her younger self is, but Riku is strong and so he manages fine, putting her into bed and tugging the covers up around her.
For himself, he grabs one of the extra pillows and stretches out on the floor.]
[Commentlog]
Date: 2010-10-31 06:41 am (UTC)For a couple of minutes, she's disoriented. There's a wall where the edge of her bed should be and empty space where - This isn't her room.
As soon as that though percolates to the surface of her mind, Kairi's eyes snap open.
She hadn't meant to fall asleep.
And then she catches sight of Riku asleep on the floor.
Riku, his hair silvered in the faint light from the covered window.
Riku and his shadow.]
[Commentlog] wait what am i doing DIDN'T I SAY I WAS GOING TO BE NICE? XD;;;
Date: 2010-10-31 09:22 pm (UTC)[If it was possible for a shadow to leer, Riku's would be doing so right now.]
What do you think you've accomplished now? All you're doing is giving him false hope, you know, making him think that maybe he isn't just playing second fiddle to Sora--when everybody knows that he is. He even knows it, even if he doesn't want to admit it, and you just play like maybe things are different, you make him think that maybe something changes in the year he hasn't lived yet.
How's it going to feel later on, when you shatter that hope of his right under that pretty little heel of yours?
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Date: 2010-11-01 05:57 pm (UTC)[Kairi freezes, her feet half-way to the floor.]
What do you mean?
[And then, as her mind begins to wake up properly and she thinks better of asking;]
You don't know what's going to happen.
[Commentlog]
Date: 2010-11-02 11:14 am (UTC)What do I mean? Come now, princess, surely you've figured that out for yourself already--you're just as bad as he is, hoping that if you don't acknowledge it it'll go away on its own. I know what's going to happen.
And more importantly, so do you. Things are going to go the same way they always do, and then you're going to break him and he's going to fall into darkness.
Just. Like. The last time.
[Commentlog]
Date: 2010-11-02 11:59 am (UTC)[She's on her feet now.]
That wasn't my fault!
[Her heart was racing and suddenly, with the dim light suffusing the room and towels under door and over windows, it felt like there was too little air. Riku was her friend. He was one of her best friends. They'd grown up together. He'd protected her and laughed with her and taken her and Sora on all kinds of adventures without ever leaving their islands.
She had known things had started to change between them before they left, but not like that. And it had been alright in the end. She had known, somehow. even as she tried to regain her memories and tired of waiting, she had known that Riku was alright, that they would be okay.
Had things changed?]
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Date: 2010-11-02 02:15 pm (UTC)[Commentlog]
Date: 2010-11-02 05:12 pm (UTC)[She had been careful to stay quiet to begin with, but as she gets more agitated, her voice grows louder; this shadow doesn't know anything.]
It wasn't my fault.
[Commentlog]
Date: 2010-11-02 06:04 pm (UTC)[But Kairi's been a little bit too loud, and the discussion has woken Riku up. He pulls the pillow he'd been using over his head with a groan, which muffles the shadow to some extent. It also muffles -him- as he speaks, not fully awake yet.]
What's it saying now...?
[Commentlog]
Date: 2010-11-04 01:54 am (UTC)[Kairi hovers in indecision. She could leave now, get away from the horrible thing. But that would leave it to torment Riku and she didn't want to that to him now any more than she had last night.
But she really doesn't want to continue this conversations.
So she does what comes first to her; Kairi sticks out her tongue in silent rebuke.]