whoops wanted some hurt-comfort

[paladaddy]

Just say which of mine you want in the subject header o/ If you don't want to make shit up here's the list of prompts form a random h/c meme. Dice-thingy is here.



1. INJURY. You've been injured. Broken bones or bleeding out or maybe just a tiny little papercut. The choice is yours.
2. SICKNESS. You're sick and laid up in bed, at home or in a hospital. The severity is up to you.
3. FEAR/ANXIETY. Something is happening and you're scared beyond belief.
4. LOSS OF SENSES. Sight, touch, taste, hearing, smell, etc. You've lost some important sense or ability and now you're left to deal with it.
5. DESPAIR. Nothing is good or right anymore and you can't shake the depression. Maybe that friend of yours can help though...
6. BREAKUP. You've been dumped. You need someone to comfort you, possibly by the one who dumped you.
7. MAKE UP. Fight or break up, it's time to makeup.
8. RESCUED. You've just been held captive and/or tortured for however long and finally, someone has come to the rescue.
9. BAD ROMANCE. Fight, cheated on, abused, whatever the case is, someone else can clearly see you need comfort from someone who isn't your terrible lover tonight.
10. LOSS. You've experience a loss of some kind and need help getting through it.
11. INSANITY. You're seeing things that aren't really there, hearing voices, or you're just convinced you're at your wit's end finally and you're going to crack. Maybe someone can give you a helping hand.
12. TIRED. You've had a heard life recently and you're just worn too thin to really care anymore. There's no fight left in you anymore. Can someone help change your mind?
13. ADDICTION. Drugs, alcohol, sex, gambling, or any other type of addiction has got you in its grasp. First time or relapse. Will someone be able to save you?
14. INSOMNIA. You can't sleep anymore, no matter how hard you try. Maybe someone can give you company.
15. NIGHTMARES. Or, on the other end of the spectrum, you can't sleep without gruesome, horrible nightmares. Either someone is stuck in your dream with you, witnessing it or they're just waking you up, soothing you out of it.
16. BLACKMAIL. You've been caught doing something you shouldn't and you were blackmailed because of it
17. SEPARATION. You're going to be separated for awhile or were separated for a long time. Either make up for lost time or try to spend every last moment together.
18. VIOLATED. You've been violated in some way. Can include sexual overtones or not. Can someone help you through it?
19. STRANDED. You've been stranded somewhere remote, with no help of anyone finding you for awhile. Can you survive this together?
20. SINS. You're feeling the weight of your sins and guilt clearer than ever. Can someone give you absolution or lessen the ache any?
21. SECRET. It's difficult having to keep that secret of yours, be it a relationship or something you just don't want to share with anybody else. Maybe it's okay to talk about it now though...
22. ADDITION. Babies should be joyous things unless you're in a situation where you know you won't be able to care for them. Either you've adopted or found out you're pregnant.

Comments

[circumsutus]

[He can't remember most of the week or so before he died (he remembers his death, vaguely). It's a blur of fog and static and when he tries to think on it he starts feeling sick.

He died, and he'd like to just go back to the Villa and lock himself in his room and try to pull himself back together. Though really, he's not quite sure he's sane.

Stein's keeping his soul perception off for right now. It's giving him a headache.]

[paladaddy]

[That's what Shiro wants to find out: how far back did Stein's mind get taken? He knows that, even though Stein's body is healed, it is very unlikely that his mind would be too. But he's hoping Stein is at least back to the level of sanity he had when he was brought to Vatheon in the first place. If Stein came back to life as insane as he was before he died, then this was going to be a problem.

Once he gets notice that Stein is back to life, Shiro goes up to his hospital room and carefully opens the door.]

Stein?

[circumsutus]

[Not all the way back, not quite where he was before. There are still bright/dark things shifting in the corner of his vision, the hum and spray of static in his ears.

Still, he's rational. Exhausted, despite the healing from the coral, and he could really use a shave, but he looks normal.]

... Shiro.

[paladaddy]

[Stein sounds a lot more rational, though Shiro knows now that this can't always be trusted. Insanity had kind of snuck up on him the first time, and he wasn't going to make that mistake again.

That thought just reminded Shiro of the fact that it was entirely possible he would have to kill his friend again at some point in the future.

He's stepping into the room now, though he stays by the door. He's always had trouble with intruding in Stein's places.]

How do you feel?

[circumsutus]

[A sigh, the briefest moment of exhausted silence, head bowed, eyes hidden in the shadow of his bangs. Then he puts on his glasses and manages a cheerful smile, though his eyes stay hidden in the reflection off the lenses.]

Much better. How are you doing?

[paladaddy]

[He nods in response to Stein. If Stein is feeling well enough to pretend that he's alright, then he must be doing better. Shiro won't complain about that, it's better than how Stein was just a few days ago.]

I'll be fine. I took care of everything for you.

[Not jut burning 'cleaning up' the lab, but covering for the five people who died too. He did his best to dance around the subject of Stein's death as well, but he's not so sure everyone was convinced.]

Ready to go home?

[circumsutus]

[He can't keep the smile up for very long, and he drops back into obvious exhaustion again.]

How much clean-up did you have to do? [Stein can't clearly remember what happened.

He's not sure if he's ready to go home. That all depends on Shiro's answer.]

[paladaddy]

A lot.

[Technically there was a lot of mess, and making sure the fire didn't take out the whole house was a lot of work..]

I may have used some unconventional methods.

[circumsutus]

... tell me you didn't burn the villa down.

[paladaddy]

No, the Villa is fine.

[Notice how he specified the Villa there.]

[circumsutus]

Good.

[And that's enough to get him out of the hospital bed.

He'll just start grabbing his shoes and coat and stuff.]

There are some things I needed to finish.

[paladaddy]

...in the Villa? Or in your lab?

[Plz Stein no more dissections of people.]

[circumsutus]

My lab, of course. [But Shiro, he has organs in jars they need to be experimented on.]

[paladaddy]

Yeah, about that...

[Whoops time to confess to his other crimes besides brutal murder.]

Remember how you asked if I burned down the Villa?

[circumsutus]

... what did you do to my lab?

[paladaddy]

Well, there's no mess down there anymore.

[Because there's no anything down there anymore.]

[circumsutus]

You destroyed it.

[He slumps down on the edge of the bed, hands folded in front of him so he doesn't do something he'll regret.]

I had months of research down there. All my notebooks, ongoing experiments...

You didn't have to destroy it just because I made a mess.

[paladaddy]

Technically, I destroyed it to hide six bodies and keep an angry mob from coming after you.

[See? He had only the best of intentions.]

[circumsutus]

Did you take anything out, or did you just torch the whole lab?

[paladaddy]

Your fish were moved to a smaller tank in your room.

[He doesn't even know what the fuck is up with those things, but he didn't want to kill them if they weren't dangerous.]

The journals I found I put on your bed.

[He did read some of it, to figure out just what the fuck Stein was up to. The crazier things he left to burn.]

[circumsutus]

Good. I'd hate to think of you as a cold-hearted murderer. [Killing fish would make you a cold-hearted murderer.]

And thank you for rescuing my data.

[The past few weeks he filled up more notebooks than usual. Mostly scribbles of stylized eyes and "madness" written over and over again. Occasionally completely coherent descriptions of dissections. Long rambling nonsensical pages of soul theory. A general mess.]

[paladaddy]

[Yeah no the madness journals are long gone, all that's there are the ones that at least look professional-ish.

Shiro doesn't seem at all fazed by the murderer comment. He's also closed himself off emotionally as well. These two things might be related to each other.]

I'm sure I'll ruin your opinion of me by the time we're dragged back to our worlds.

[circumsutus]

I didn't have much of an opinion to start with.

[paladaddy]

Good, then you won't be disappointed.

[If he hadn't had years upon years of practice at acting like he didn't care about anything, he might not be able to put up this front now. It's hard, to be so cold to one of his best friends, especially one he had actually murdered.]

If you're ready to go, then, I'll just let the nurses know we'll be on our way.

[circumsutus]

[In all honesty, Shiro's apparent emotional detachment is a good thing for Stein. He'd rather not have Marie's emotional outbursts right now.]

All right.

... Does anyone else know what happened?