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

[kyotoprincess]

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.]

[hellpyre]

[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.]

[kyotoprincess]

[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.]

[hellpyre]

[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.]

[kyotoprincess]

[On the one hand, it's good that the monsters are gone, and Bon finds himself grinning despite how serious the situation is.

On the other, a pukey Rin is never good.

Bon is at least enough of a gentleman to hold her hair for her while she throws up again. Then he'll slip an arm around her waist to hold her up. If they lean on each other, maybe they'll be able to make it back.]

C'mon, let's go before they come back.

[When they get back, he's just going to sleep for a long time. He is so done with today.]

[hellpyre]

[There wasn't much else for her to throw up at least, so it didn't last long, and she mumbled a 'thanks' for holding her hair back as well as pulling her back up again.

She nodded quietly, once more forcing one foot in front of the other so they could get back.

Bon's plan worked, though, and while a few creatures still milled about, they were wary of those flames and let them pass.

Returning to the Bastion had them both collapsing from sheer exhaustion and, given being poisoned, dehydration. While Rin didn't remember much, she did remember being tended to by a few of their fellow residents, and put in bed to rest, same with Bon.

Sleeping was an on and off thing, but any waking was followed closely by dozing off again, until about five hours later. She was groggy, but that was better than being nauseous and dehydrated. She slipped out of bed, tugged her blanket around her shoulders and shuffled out of her apartment down the hall.

This time there was no knocking on the door, no asking if he was awake or if it was even ok to come in. She just entered, and found a spot on the bed next to him to curl up on.]

[kyotoprincess]

[And, like before, Bon moves over to give her room and then throws his blanket over the two of them. He's kind of half-awake, though he's conscious enough to say something, at least.]

We keep getting into messes, don't we?

[hellpyre]

[Rin instinctively curls up closer to him when the blanket goes over, snuggling in to his side.]

Don't think we'd be us if we didn't get in to trouble all the time...

[She mumbles it sleepily, and it almost seems like she's going to fall asleep again, but she asks something instead.]

What did you see... ?

[kyotoprincess]

[Bon is quiet for a moment. He's not sure what to say to her, because he doesn't want to tell her everything he saw.]

It was dark, so dark I could barely see.

...

Satan was there.

[hellpyre]

[She doesn't really want to talk about hers either, but she'd been hoping to get more out of him so she wouldn't have to.]

... figures. Can't get away from him, even here, huh?

[Bad joke, but she was trying to find some humor in it.]

... you were screamin'... when I tried to wake you up.

[kyotoprincess]

I was screaming in my dream too.

[He thinks it was a dream, it really felt like one. A drug-induced dream.]

He...he was burning me from the inside out.

[hellpyre]

[Rin wishes she could see hers the same way. If she had been any more awake when she had gone in to his room, there might have been a moment when she actually feared him, if only because her hallucination gave her a reason to.

But she was groggy enough that the nightmare of it was still too hazy to really recall, even if she swore at the time she had felt the pressure on her throat...

Hearing what Bon said, she found herself clinging to him a little tighter.]

I'm sorry... even if he was still here some how, I'd never let him do that to you, though..

[kyotoprincess]

[...oh Rin.

Bon flinches at that, because he knows that it should help make him feel better, but it really doesn't.

He doesn't have the heart to tell her that Satan has possessed her, though. He's going to deal with this nightmare on his own.]

I don't think he's gonna show up here, we'll be alright.

[And he slips an arm around Rin's shoulder to pull her into a kinda-sorta hug.]

[hellpyre]

[If she knew, though, she would have told him that she would fight it, like Shiro did. She had to be strong enough for that, right? To protect him...

She fidgets a little, getting comfortable in his arms, mumbling sleepily as tiredness finally started to take her again.]

I'd still protect you... 'cause... that's why I wanted to be an exorcist. So I could be strong enough... no one else would have to die...

[kyotoprincess]

...mmn.

[He doesn't really know what else to say to that right now. He always knew Rin had a thing with protecting people, but it took him until now to realize that he really did count in that 'protect everyone' thing.

But he doesn't want to be protected by Rin, he wants to protect her.]

Don't try to do everything yourself.

[If he protects her and she protects him, then they'll both be safe right?]

[hellpyre]

I know... it's dumb, innit? Tryin' to do it all myself. But it's all I know how to do... even with Yuki and Dad around, I was alone. You... an' everyone else at the school... you were my first friends.

[Tired as she was, rambling away under a half-asleep state, she felt a pang in her chest at admitting that.]

An' I was scared every day I was gonna lose you...

[She meant 'you' in the sense of all of them, of course, but speaking to him directly made the implication of the statement far more personal to Bon than she meant it to.]

[kyotoprincess]

Shhhh.

[Bon will just shoosh Rin while petting the back of her head. She's just making herself upset with this talk, and getting upset right now won't help. She's still weak from the gas attack and needs rest (and he does too, technically).]

You're not gonna lose me, I'm not going anywhere. You're not alone anymore.

[hellpyre]

[Lucky for him, she was already half asleep as it was, and his calming voice and the equally soothing pets gets her to quiet down. She knows he's there, that they survived together for whatever reason, and it wasn't really him that hurt her in her nightmare.

She mumbles something else, but it's an incoherent jumble of nonsense words that don't actually mean anything, and soon enough her breathing evens out - a sign that she's finally fallen back asleep.]

[kyotoprincess]

[FAST FORWARDING AGAIN it's a few days later and Bon has a thing.

Two things, in fact.

Spoilers: they're spirits from the distillery, and they have an interesting effect, though Bon doesn't know what it is. He's unsure of if he even wants to drink one or not.]

[hellpyre]

Boooon~

[And now he has a third thing - a Rin latched on to his back.]

Whatcha got?

[kyotoprincess]

[Oh whoops suddenly there's a Rin on his back. Surprisingly, he doesn't mind much.]

They're called 'spirits.' Apparently you drink 'em and then things happen.

[hellpyre]

[It's not like she weighs very much, even if she punches like a semi truck.]

Ooh... what kinda things?

[kyotoprincess]

No idea.

[A pause.]

I'll drink one if you drink one.

[hellpyre]

[This sounds like a horrible idea.]

... okay.

[kyotoprincess]

[He hands one to her, and then he holds up the second one.]

Well, bottoms up.

[And then he drinks it.]