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whoops wanted some hurt-comfort

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.

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'kay! Lemmie get dressed!

[She went bouncing off, and returning about ten minutes later, hair pulled back and dressed in the outfit she used mostly when she was going to be out on the Skyway. Not the most comfortable thing she owned but it had layers for protection, which was better than running around in a skirt and blouse.]

Ready!

[Bon nods, and off to the Skyway they goooooo!

Their explorations take them to a swamp this time, though. They must've got turned around at some point.]

If there ends up being giant killer bugs here I am going to be pissed.

[Rin has stopped to look up at the sky, but it all looks even more unfamiliar than the places they usually go.]

... I'm a little more worried about where the fuck we are.

In a swamp, from the looks of it.

[They haven't strayed too far from the usual areas yet, so he's not so concerned. They can always backtrack if it gets too difficult to move on.]

...watch out for pincushions.

[It's almost dark, though, with the canopy of the weird, thick-leaved trees above casting shadows like she hasn't seen in months. It's disorienting, to say the least.]

Yeah...

... pretty quiet for a swamp.

A little too quiet-

[He stops suddenly, both in words and in body. He also holds a hand up to stop Rin.

Up ahead, there's a strange plant. It looks kind of like a Pincushion, but it doesn't have any needles sticking out of it.]

What's that?

Eh-- ?

[Rin runs in to Bon's back when he stops, peeking around his arm to get a look at what he's staring at.]

... w... what the fuck is that? It's like... a flower with a face...

I have no clue.

[He's wondering if he should shoot it or not, though.]

...probably not a good idea to try stabbing it up close.

Stabbin' it? I don't even wanna walk near it! Damn thing looks like it's just waitin' to eat one of us.

[She's not hiding, but she's not exactly moving out from around Bon either. Gasfellas and other Windbags, Peckers and the like she's fine with because they're more about kicking the shit out of you. Things that look like they want you for dinner... no thank you, Rin is not gonna risk getting anywhere near them.]

Well then let's take care of it from over here.

[And he pulls out his gun and shoots it a couple times.

It does deflate and die, but not before releasing a huge cloud of noxious gas.]

[Rin was about to congratulate Bon on a good shot when the gas is released. It spreads fast, too fast for her to realize what's going on before it's too late.

As soon as it hits her, her stomach lurches and her vision begins to tilt and spin. For only a second she's able to stay on her feet, wobbling, but as her hand reaches out to clutch at Bon's arm she feels the ground beneath her give.

-- no, wait... that's her legs giving out from under her.

Her mouth is open, crying out his name, but no sound comes out before she collapses behind him in a heap.]

[Bon doesn't even hear Rin as she falls. His vision flips and before he knows it he's fallen to his knees, and he has to lean forward and support his weight with his hands to keep from crumpling. He has no idea what's going on (besides the obvious 'oh shit we're poisoned' thought), but it's making him want to vomit.

He tries to look over at Rin in his fog-induced stupor, but everything is spinning and he can't quite focus on her. And when he tries to reach over to her, he loses his balance and finally falls over.

Then the horrible visions begin.]

t-tick t-tick t-tick t-tick...

[A dissonant sound of an off-kilter ticking clock echoed through the endless expanse, yet not a single whole clock could be seen anywhere. It was nothing except a pile of broken pieces, loosed cogs, shattered wheels, garbage as far as the eye could see.

Yet she could hear it.]

t-tick t-tick t-tick...

[It echoed with the sound of her own aching, thudding heart in her ears as she stared upwards to the blank nothingness above, lips moving as she mumbled to herself. Mumbled about her fate, about her father, wondering why he had saved her. Why, why, why was her life spared? Why had he gone to so much trouble to not just save the life of but raise the daughter of the most hated demon in all of existence?

But no matter how many times she asked, there was no answer. There was never an answer. There couldn't be. He was gone and if anyone else knew, they certainly weren't making a big deal of it.

Not that it mattered. Her death sentence had been handed down, she was trapped in this forsaken place, waiting the inevitable end that would make everything Shiro had ever done for her completely pointless.

It wasn't like anyone was going to save her.

... wait. No. She'd been here before. Hadn't she? Was the Bastion just a dream, hallucination brought on from being trapped in this hell away from Hell, or had that really happened and this was the hallucination of a revisited nightmare?]

Shit...

[She pressed hands to her eyes, grinding her heels in, but all that did was force spots to dance in front of her vision, but at the same time the ticking stopped, and was replaced with other noises. Like a rustle of leaves that didn't exist, the sounds of animals she couldn't see.

This didn't feel right. Like she was straddling some line between reality, illusion, dream and memory. She remembered Bon being with her, and the putrid haze of a swamp as the last place she had been, as opposed to the cell she was locked up in before winding up in that odd limbo of containment so many months ago.]

God damn it... what the fuck-- Bon?! BON!

[Her voice came out shrill, and she turned around repeatedly, desperate to know that she wasn't the only one in this hell. She couldn't be, right? She wasn't alone when that... thing had spouted it's gas at them.

Finally a form appeared, distant but there, clad in that cloak they had all been wearing when they came to rescue her from this place. But it wasn't Shiemi, who had been the one to come in and force Rin to see that she was still worth something to them all, but Bon standing there. His back was turned to her. Maybe he hadn't heard her calling out... ?]

Bon! There you are! C'mon, let's get outta here!

[She scrambled over the rubble and debris to him, but just as she reached him that already precarious rubble shifted beneath her feet. A noise not unlike a burbling stomach sounded around her, and the mess that surrounded her was suddenly no longer solid. It shifted, changed, oozed in to a growing, twisting mass that latched around her legs and pulled her down before she could even scream. It swallowed her up, and for a moment she thought for sure she was going to die in that disgusting mass of slime. The last thing she saw before going under was Bon's back still to her, having never moved, not even at the sound of her screams.

Just as quickly it was over, though, and she came out on some indeterminable "other side", breaking through the bottom of the mass like it was suspended in space somewhere. It didn't fully let her go though, entangling limbs he keeping her hanging just below it. There was a possibility this wasn't real, and she wanted to tell herself that until she was convinced of it, but the oily sensation on her skin, against her face just made her nerves crawl and her stomach twist. She had to resist the urge to retch from that alone.

She struggled for a bit, twisted and turned and tried to lash out at the tendrils of ooze with her arms, legs, even her flames, but none of it worked and it only seemed to tighten around her, constricting to a point of near-suffocation.

It was only when she stopped that she realized... she wasn't alone. There were other people hanging from the ooze, some feet away from her and obscured by the lack of decent light.

No.

Not people.

Bodies. Rotten corpses hanging with tattered clothes and putrid flesh barely clinging to bones, and where it wasn't rotten it was covered in disgusting boils, oozing just as much as the slime the bodies were hanging from.

... the rot of the Impure King. They had all been taken by it, devoured and left there to dangle for eternity.

It couldn't be! She saved them! She saved them all!

Another scream this time, and her flames lashed out, finally breaking her bonds and sending her tumbling down. She landed hard on something wet, an entire flat surface covered with no more than six inches of some sort of warm liquid. Whether it was blood or something else, she couldn't tell - it was simply too dark, but it didn't matter much. She forced herself to her feet, only to be startled by Bon standing in front of her.]

--Bon!

[Startled but relieved, she moved to hug him, never seeing just how blank and emotionless his eyes were.

She was stopped, though, not by words but by his hands reaching up and grabbing at her throat. She let out a choked noise of fear and worry, her own hands clawing desperately at his. Her weak voice pleaded with him, but it was as if he couldn't hear her at all.]

Demon spawn...

[His voice was distorted, wrong, even his Kansai accent was missing, yet his words struck her harder than any physical blow.]

Wh-...a...t?

You failed everyone. Nothing but demon spawn. Satan's brat. Useless.

B... on--... Ryu--... ji... please...

[Tighter and tighter his hands squeezed until she couldn't take in air any more. Her lungs screamed for it, yet not a single breath could make it past her crushed throat. Things cracked, made sick popping noises, and her hands fell away, too weak to continue struggling.]

Just die.

[SNAP

On the Skyway, Rin's body twitched and jerked. The half-demon sat up with a start, gasping for air as if she had truly had the life choked out of her. Her chest heaved, and tears rolled down her cheeks and mixed with the sweat already dripping from her face. Her vision was still compromised, hazy over hazy in the sickly orange smog of the swamp. It tilted and dipped in and out of focus, and she was forced to turn on to her hands and knees to retch, letting out everything from her stomach and then some before it was over.

A hallucination. That's all it had been. Yet Bon's distorted words still rang in her ears.

'Useless. Just die.'

No. No that wasn't Bon. She had to keep telling herself that--

Bon! He had gotten hit, too!

Turning, forcing herself to see past compromised vision, she found him not a few feet from her, still unconscious but breathing. She grabbed clumsily for his shirt, shaking him rougher than she meant to.]

Bon! Wake up! Please!

Edited (it would be a massive post like this that I'd have to edit a million times) 2013-05-28 15:07 (UTC)

[He was falling.

For a moment, Bon thought he had stumbled off of the Skyway, or maybe some chunk of ground had opened up under his feet and let him plummet. But as he fell he realized the perpetual sunlight of the Skyway was nowhere to be found, and he was trapped in some kind of twilight hour, with the moon high in the sky but the stars strangely absent.

It was dark enough that he didn't see the end of his descent, he just went tumbling face-first into what was probably water, splashing down deep into it and lingering below as the surface became still once more.

Bon managed to look up (he assumed it was up, he could see the light from the moon), but he couldn't pull himself to the surface. Any attempts to swim up were about as effective as an ant trying to move a brick house.

Just as it felt like his lungs would burst, the water level suddenly dropped, and he broke through to the surface. He gasped for air as he tread water, trying not to slip below the surface again, and eventually he was able to push himself over to the edge of the water and climb out onto land.

But as he pulled himself out, a faint blue glow was cast over the area, sending shadows dancing this way and that. Bon looked up, and he saw Rin there (Boy Rin? Girl Rin? Every time he blinked it seemed to change), surrounded in the blue flames that usually meant a fight was going to happen. So Bon stood up, paying no mind to how damp he was from his little swim, and started over to where Rin was.]

Okumura.

[Rin glanced down at him (how was she suddenly taller than he was?), but something was wrong. Bon could see it in Rin's eyes. Those weren't Rin's eyes, those eyes struck an old fear deep within Bon. In a flash, he was forcibly reminded of where he had seen them before. The priests, Renzou's brother (he shouldn't be able to remember that, he wasn't even six months old when that happened), and now Rin...

Bon backed up a step, and the thing possessing Rin just grinned.

Then it raised a hand to point at Bon. He raised his arms reflexively, to protect himself, but no attack came. Instead he felt a burning, a painful, terrible heat.

Bon opened his eyes, and he saw that his arms were covered in blue flames. he quickly moved to pat out the flames, but nothing made it stop. The fire spread up his arms, down his body, and covered his entire being.

Then it builds deep within him, a sharp pain that felt like it would tear him apart. He could feel the tears running down his face as he crumpled, screaming in pain as he felt himself burn to a crisp from inside-out.

Outside of the hallucination, Bon suddenly curled up on himself, clutching at his head with his hands. He was still obviously trapped in his hallucination, his eyes were still closed, but he began to shake.

Then the screaming started.]

[The screaming made her jump so bad she fell backwards, which only served to intensify the nausea and dizziness that were lingering. Her heart nearly went to her throat, and it was all she could to to keep herself from covering her ears and cowering at the awful sounds coming from Bon.

She was a demon, the poison would work its way through her system a lot faster than it would through Bon's. There was no way to tell how much time had passed already, the constant sun mixed with the dank haze of the bog only made the illusion of time that much more difficult to determine. Meaning it was equally impossible for Rin to know just how long it would take Bon to snap out of it like she had.

Or if he ever would.

Just as concerning was the fact that his screams were starting to attract attention. It was just rustles of leaves right now, but in Rin's state of mild delusion it was enough to make her paranoid that they were going to be attacked any second.

Like hell she was going to leave him there, though. Swallowing back the bile rising in her throat, she crawled forward on trembling limbs and grabbed Bon's shirt again, roughly attempting to haul him to his feet.

She would put him on her back if she needed to, but one way or another she was going to get them both out of there.]

C'mon... we ain't stayin' here...

[The second time he felt Rin's hands on him, the burning pain suddenly stopped. His screaming quickly died out as the burning did, leaving behind an aching pain and sheer confusion.

Slowly, he uncurls from himself and looks up at Rin. His vision is hazy and still altered by the fog, so he can still see blue flames leaping up from Rin's body. But Rin's eyes, they've changed. They're back to normal.]

...Ah.

[He heard what Rin said, but he's still having trouble with actually moving. Any attempt to lift his head results in him falling back against the ground limply. He's too dizzy and weak to move on his own.

If Rin touches his skin, it will feel like he's running a high fever.]

[Oh, God. He was awake. She wanted to be relieved that he was coming out of it, but it was difficult to find joy in that when they were still in danger. The fever she could feel on his skin wasn't helping her panic any.

He couldn't get up on his own, so she knew walking him back to the Bastion stone was going to be out of the question.]

A-alright just... hang on, okay?

[Shifting around, she pulled an arm over her shoulder and slid herself underneath him, dropping his full dead weight on to her back. She was strong, strong enough to carry him, but he was a lot taller and bulkier than she was which made it difficult.

But she managed it, snagging his gun off the ground and slinging it over her other shoulder over her sword case. It was going to be slow going even with her strength, yet that didn't deter her any.

If she could make it back before anything attacked them, then maybe they'd survive...

If...]

[If Rin can support most of Bon's weight, then Bon can manage to push himself along with her. His mind is anywhere but there, though. Everything is dizzy and it takes most of his effort just to keep from throwing up.

The monsters are staying at bay for the time being. It looks like they're afraid of the same fog that had gotten Rin and Bon, so they are giving them a wide berth. There's no telling how long that will last, though.]

We're not gonna make it.

[A simple statement, but it's true. They can barely walk, and as soon as they're out of the swamp the monsters are going to attack them. Getting back to the Bastion is nigh on impossible right now.]

Oi...remember the Impure King?

I ain't givin' up like that...

[Even with his negative words, she kept trudging along, one foot in front of the other, right, left, right, left.

She was so focused on her steps that she nearly missed his question entirely.

Funny he should bring that up.]

'course I do? What's that... gotta do with anythin' right now?

Your fire. Burn them.

[The Rin that Bon knows can control who he burns and who he doesn't burn. Bon is trusting this Rin to be able to do the same.

At the very least, singing some of the monsters should scare them all off and give the two of them time to escape.]

Burn them...

[She was exhausted, her head was spinning and she still felt like she was going to throw up any second. Using her power just sounded like it would drain her to a point of being unable to move.]

... can you walk?

[Because if he could, then at least he could make it out...]

No.

[But he says it firmly, not as an answer to Rin's question, but to tell her that he knows what she's thinking and that he won't let her do it.]

We're in this together, I'm not leaving you here.

[But he will pull away from her to try to stand on his own. He's still dizzy but not as absolutely worn down as he was before. The weird gas is making its way out of his system now.]

[Rin scowled at him, but it lasted only a second before she realizes it's useless to argue with him. She lets out a laugh, which sputtered in to a gurgling cough. It was working out of her system, too, but she still felt physically horrible.]

Never let me have any fun...

[She moved an arm around under him, keeping him supported even as he stood.]

Better hope this works...

[She can't see where those creeping monsters are, so she's going to close her eyes and try to get her flames to cooperate while being more or less blind to her target.]

[Come on Rin you burned an entire mountain once you can handle a chunk of Skyway.

Bon braces himself for the fire, but also to catch Rin if she starts to fall. He has a feeling he will be supporting her soon enough.]

[She was also in better health at the time, too, even with the Impure King making a lot of people sick around her.

But she's going to do her best. A few deep breaths in and out, slowly, while she tries to listen past her own breathing and Bon's as well as any other noises to the ones that are around them, hidden by the swamp. Her stomach was lurching painfully, but she ignored it as much as she was physically capable of.

Her eyes opened and with it the rush of flames lashing out from her, billowing out in a circle around the two of them. They didn't burn Bon at all, focused completely on the creatures around them.

Not everything hit, but it seemed to get the point across, and there was a cacophony of shrieks and cries as things went scrambling away.

For a second, she smiled, relieved that she had succeeded but also relieved that Bon wasn unharmed. But her knees buckled a second after that smile, and she retched noisily.]

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