neverplaysfair | Game 044 [Action] Backdated to the 17th

[Normally it's not on his way, so it's Joshua's luck, or lack thereof, that Tsuzuki comes across his lost groceries. He sees Joshua right after.]

Hey, wait!

[Thinking that Joshua has been attacked by someone, he approaches him briskly. The flash of blood red is a source of immediate alarm, though, and Tsuzuki grabs a hold of his elbow as if he's worried he'll topple.]

Edited 2011-07-22 03:31 (UTC)

[ Joshua turns and goes to say something, but all that comes out is coughing. He tries to shake of Tsuzuki's grip as he doubles over. ]

[His grip tightens as Joshua loses his balance. Tsuzuki growns even more concerned when he sees how much trouble the other man has with breathing. He looks quickly around to see if there's others out that can help them, but they're alone.]

Are you sick?

[ He shakes his head, but still can't respond over the coughing. After a few more times, he wretches twice, but manages to hold the contents of his stomach down. ]

Just... [ And then Joshua coughs a few more times. ] ... home...

I don't know where you live.

[The coughing sounds awful. Remembering how Joshua helped him when Muraki cornered him, Tsuzuki lifts him up and begins to briskly walk back to 49.]

Hang in there.

[ Oh no, that was not what you were supposed to do there. Joshua goes rigid, and it's only a second before he has a fist tight in Tsuzuki's shirt. ]

Put me down. [ He's coughing a moment later. ]

[Tsuzuki is more familiar with Hisoka's reaction to injuries - a dead faint. That usually means carrying him someplace safe. Shushing softly, he takes Joshua's anger in stride as he pushes the door open.]

Don't do that, you'll make yourself worse.

[ Joshua doesn't care about the fact that he's making himself worse, he cares about the fact that someone he really doesn't know and certainly doesn't trust is carrying him to his home while he's injured.

In which case, I hope you're ready for pain, Tsuzuki. Because the moment he takes even a single step through the doorway, Joshua's power explodes outwards in a completely uncontrolled blast. It's weaker than anything he'd be able to pull off under normal circumstances, but to someone pressed right against him, it's plenty to knock the wind out of him, if not straight-up knock him out.

Also the doorframe is probably going to get pretty damaged, sorry about that, only not. ]

[That hurts like a bitch and throws him backwards, even if it doesn't kill him. At first, Tsuzuki thinks he's been shot, because he's hurting both at the front and in the back. He wheezes as he sits up, trying to get some oxygen into his starved lungs. Not happening.]

[He flaps his wings uselessly, realizing that Joshua managed to injure one. That's the pain in his back. He can guess what that warm wetness on his back is.]

[Tsuzuki touches Joshua tentatively, to see if he got injured in the horribly surprising blast.]

A....re you... hurt?

Edited 2011-08-09 19:42 (UTC)

Don't touch me.

[ He's way too close to panicking, hell, he's panicking already, and he doesn't like panicking. Joshua is already pulling himself unsteadily to his feet. The feeling of his shirt sticking to his back tells him that that little stunt did nothing to help his withdrawal, and he just wants to be home. Hell, he'd teleport if he had any confidence of actually managing to land in the building; despite his proximity he doubts he can manage it like this.

He coughs again and blood falls to the ground, but Joshua ignores it and struggles onwards. Care to try stopping him again, Tsuzuki? ]

[He wouldn't be Tsuzuki if he wouldn't try again. However, this time he crawls closer and freezes before he takes hold of him. The first time Hisoka had tried to burn his face off, the empath had been scared out of his mind. Joshua looked like he was in a similar state. Tsuzuki can't help but feel sympathy for him.]

[He sits quietly as the blood stops running down his back, and air begins to flow into his lungs. It's not a moment too soon. He gulps it down, hoping the burning sensation will stop soon.]

[He places a hand on Joshua's shoulder, not even noticing the doorframe behind them. What matters now is Joshua, who's looking horrible. The blood is making Tsuzuki want to call out to Hisoka or Link, to hurry and help him take Joshua to a hospital.]

Don't be scared.

Edited 2011-08-09 20:23 (UTC)

I'm not scared.

[ It's a lie and he doesn't care. He tries to shrug Tsuzuki's hand off of him, holding down a cough as he does so.

He just wants to be in a place where he's willing to lie down and rest and not dealing with people he doesn't want getting close to him. ]

Just let me go home.

[It's kind of hard to blow up the front door without attracting the attention of the people in residence. Hisoka bounds downstairs now, wings puffy and bristling as he assesses the situation. Tsuzuki's bleeding, Joshua's here -- screaming.]

What the hell are you two doing?

[It's then Tsuzuki looks up to see Hisoka and - that door, oh no, he'll be so mad!- ends up gaping. When his mind finally kickstarts itself, he points to the rainbow-winged person why his side.]

Joshua's hurt!

[ The statement gets another frustrated glare from Joshua, and blasting Tsuzuki again is much more tempting than it should be, especially when he's so frazzled. ]

I was just about to go home, thank you.

[ His body shakes a couple times as he less-than-successfully holds down some coughing, and then Joshua is back to trying to stumble towards home again. ]

Bullshit. [He'll just be storming over to grab Joshua's wrist furiously. He's confident that whatever's been done to Tsuzuki will heal, and that he'll at least squeak for help if his body's not doing its job right.] You're bleeding. That means you go nowhere until you're not bleeding. Got it?

[Tsuzuki would indeed complain if he had been in too much pain. He's used to injuries like these, so he doesn't even notice when Hisoka focuses on Joshua - it's the best turn of action when an innocent is hurt. Folding his functioning wing, he relaxes visibly and places a hand on Joshua's arm, so he won't shake Hisoka off.]

Sorry about the door, Hisoka.

[ It's all too reminiscent of last time. He doesn't trust Hisoka as much as he trusted Neku, but he's not as afraid of Tsuzuki as he was of Hanekoma. All in all, he's not as terrified. But he still doesn't want to be here. ]

Hisoka, I am going home.

[ And Tsuzuki be damned he is going to try to shake Hisoka off of him. He's not in full control of himself by a long shot, so Hisoka is probably getting a nice smattering of the anger, frustration, nausea, panic, and homesickness.

His tone is a warning. ]

[It's all really rather unexpected, and Hisoka quickly finds himself swallowing back at the bile rising in his throat.]

It's for your own good you stubborn mule.

[Despite the nausea, he keeps his grip firm and steady. He assumes Tsuzuki will understand the door's a nonissue by his nonmention of it.]

You can't get to the home you want to go to. You know that, right? And it's a dumbassed idea to let you be by yourself when you've obviously just been getting worse.

[Tsuzuki shoots Hisoka a silent glance that ironically screams out what is on his mind. He doesn't want Hisoka to pass out again. Holding Joshua a bit more securely, he takes another step towards 49. If only they had a healing spell. Or even better, maybe they could find Link.]

Do you think he has blood in his lungs?

[ Oh, no. Hisoka you did not just say that. You do NOT talk about Shibuya like that when Joshua is in pain, pissed off, freaking out... fuck it.

There's only a few seconds for the indignation to build, and then the floodgates are open. More than a year and a half's worth of agony, homesickness, what it feels like to be torn from your purpose in life and trapped away from the other half of your very being, straight outwards for the unguarded empath to receive. A separation so wrong and unnatural that it manifested physically. Knowing what your role was and having that ripped away, all the rules broken, the city that Joshua nearly singlehandedly raised to the status it had achieved now possibly falling apart while he could do nothing to save it, or even touch it. Everything that Joshua had held inside him since the day he arrived, wanting nothing more than to just go back home. The homesickness that before now, only Hanekoma had known even a fraction of.

Then he turns on Tsuzuki. ]

This is your only warning. Let me go or I'll shoot you.

It's possible. He's been bleeding like this for over a week now--

[And then Joshua lets go. It's like a sudden riptide, a wave of emotion that smacks into Hisoka's bead and pulls him under. He tries to scream and block himself off, but he's not sure where his mouth's gotten buried under the despair, the anguish.

He clutches at his head, sobbing heavily and rocking back and forth on his knees.]

I just wanna go home--can't stay here--need my city--city needs me--

[Tsuzuki's face is a perfect reflection of horror. He's lucky that he can't feel what is going on, but that doesn't mean he feels fortunate. His voice sounding panicked, he clutches his partner by the wrist. It's the only thing he can get a hold of.]

HISOKA!

[It's impossible to give Joshua his whole attention while Hisoka is whimpering like that. Tsuzuki anxiously puts himself between the two, staring down at the injured man as if he had just sprouted horns.]

Shoot me, I don't care. Just stop hurting him!

[ "Stop hurting him", huh? Joshua didn't give Hisoka a taste of a single emotion more that what he himself had felt since coming to Luceti. ]

I warned him.

[ Tsuzuki being concerned with Hisoka means he's letting Joshua go now, right? Him being between Joshua and Hisoka means he's not going to stop Joshua from walking off, right? Joshua can go now, right? ]

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WHY CAN'T I HTML RIGHT

Because HTML is a poopie-head

it seriously is. Case in point. Grrr.

XD /patpat

SO. I heard you guys wanted a threadjack.

fancy seeing you here. :3

oh man it's a person!

/is indeed a person!

We found one! Quick, get the butterfly net!

Way ahead of you! /holds one up and hands over a second

... you guys are weird. o.o

muahaha

/tries to catch the person in the butterfly net!

/Caught! :O

/cheers! 1/2

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YAY! Should I give it a nickname? :|a