Higurashi aftermath

[sharpasafawkes]

[IN OUR LAST EPISODE Shaun and Cesare had a little trip down to the labs, if by "trip" we mean "a magical adventure full of torture-filled antics". Needless to say there's one historian laid up in a hospital bed, more or less asleep and bandaged like you wouldn't believe.]

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[maleborgia]

*...tinybird what*

[sharpasafawkes]

[It looks like it's only getting worse, Shaun sounding like he's in absolute distress]

[maleborgia]

*getting up and coming over to lean on the side of the bed*

[sharpasafawkes]

[-and those are almost pleading cries, begging for mercy.]

[maleborgia]

*not sure if he should wake him up :<

debates for a few more seconds then touches his wing*

[sharpasafawkes]

[He startles awake with a sharp cry, then huddles into a little shivering mass.]

[maleborgia]

You were having a bad dream. *...petting, then climbs onto the bed to pet better*

[sharpasafawkes]

[FREAKING OUT A BIT-then no, no, it's just the tiny. He's not doing so well at keeping down the emotions though]

[maleborgia]

*more pettings. continual pettings.*

What were you dreaming about?

[sharpasafawkes]

[Just. Trying to keep everything down and slipping.]

What happened to me.

[maleborgia]

What happened?

[sharpasafawkes]

[Keep it in, keep it in...


No, he really can't.

It's a mess of hitched sobs, a tumbling rush of words, and everything, everything coming out at once, hurt and betrayal and fear and loss, and underneath it all just the tone of a man who wanted it all to go away so things would be normal again.]

[maleborgia]

*sorry, seven-year-old is only getting the gist of all of that. a good deal is going right over his head. the petting continues, though.*

I don't understand.

[sharpasafawkes]

[Managing to rein it in a bit, but it still sidetracks into how he can't even sleep right anymore and how he shouldn't have provoked him and if he'd only been more firm about stopping him when he wanted to explore...]

[maleborgia]

Did Pedro Luis do this to you?

[sharpasafawkes]

[Laughs, an almost broken sound]

Yes, yes he did, in a way...

[maleborgia]

What do you mean?

[sharpasafawkes]

He- it wasn't all his fault, but he went mad, and I should'e seen it coming. I know what he looks like when he's starting to go.

[maleborgia]

He's mad?

[sharpasafawkes]

He can be, I thought he was different but...

[maleborgia]

You saw him do this before and then he did it to you.

[sharpasafawkes]

[Not even going to describe what this noise sounds like, but that's a yes]

[maleborgia]

*petting, but not really thinking about the fact that he is doing so*

Why?

[sharpasafawkes]

He kept asking about his friends, said that I'd done something to them. I'd started to wonder if he'd done something to Malik too, but he hadn't, at least not then. I don't know what he did to anybody else.

But his firends weren't even here, and I kept trying to get through to him-

It didn't work Cesare, nothing did. He told me how much he hated me and how worthless I was. I couldn't do anything to stop it...

[maleborgia]

*yeah, not getting most of that, but...*

I don't think you're worthless.