Madness Event

[miracaretaker]

[Gakupo was no stranger to solitude. Eventually he grew not to mind it, even enjoying the quiet mornings in his house. But something was always...missing. A key component in making his home "home". He knew exactly what it was, and that he couldn't do a single thing about it, and he had accepted that.

But now...]

...Onii-sama.

Mm?

Why are you in a place like this?

...I don't know. It isn't always this way.

It isn't?

No. It's a town filled with all kinds of people.

People who look like you and me, too? I saw them. Walking by.

Right. But they have had different experiences than you and I.

Different...

[A pause.]

Do you think there's an Onii-sama and a Megumi who don't know each other?

...Possibly.

H'm...she must be very sad. Without Onii-sama...nothing is right.

[Another pause. He wraps an arm around her, pulling her close, and she wastes no time snuggling in closer.

It was strange how such a foreign place felt so much more like "home".]

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[miracaretaker.livejournal.com]

...Onii-sama.

[He doesn't look at her. She fixes this by standing right in front of him.]

Onii-sama.

...No. Not again. Not when I can do something.

[There's a pause, and she sets a hand on his head.]

I know you want to do the right thing.

[...He nods.]

You're not his father, but that child needs you, right? Don't let this guy get to you like that with such a petty argument.

[Her talking to him like this...it just made the idea of losing her again harder to swallow. He...he couldn't...]

[miraculost]

[he knows, about the hallucinations. he knows that, for Gakupo, this silence is almost certainly filled with the voice of his sister.

that doesn't stop him.]

Was that a "Yes", Kamui-san?

[miracaretaker.livejournal.com]

...Again, I have done absolutely nothing to wrong you. What your son does, and who he sees, is his choice. Not mine.

1/?

[miraculost]

...

[miraculost]

That's too bad.

[miraculost]

[grabs a handful of Gakupo's hair, and yanks upward]

Really, it's just too bad.

[miraculost]

[syringe to your neck, WHAT DO]

Say goodbye to your sister for me, won't you?

[miracaretaker.livejournal.com]

[Gonna see if a kick to the chest gets you out of my grill, that's what do.]

[miraculost]

[you: an old military veteran. him: a weedy computer programmer who's probably never had a fight in his life.

yeah he's going down, and the syringe is skittering across the floor.]

[miracaretaker.livejournal.com]

[Rad. While you're down he's gonna make a run for the door, Gumi following close behind.]

[miraculost]

[go for it. in his overconfidence, he never locked the door - and he's far too busy gasping and wheezing to get the breath back in his lungs to interfere with your escape]

[miracaretaker.livejournal.com]

[Going for it. Once that door is open and he's out, he's gone.]

[miraculost]

[you're going to have a very angry, very unstable orderly on the prowl for you for the rest of the event, so's you know.

but you can stay ahead of him, can't you?]