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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[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.

[sharpasafawkes]

...give it a few years.

[maleborgia]

*considers this, petting still*

What do you mean?

[sharpasafawkes]

You'll think I'm pathetic in a few years.

[maleborgia]

Will you do something?

[sharpasafawkes]

...Yes.

[maleborgia]

What?

[sharpasafawkes]

I let someone I cared about be hurt, and then I couldn't end their pain when I should've.

[maleborgia]

But you were hurt.

[sharpasafawkes]

That was before he went mad...

[maleborgia]

...He went mad because you didn't kill him? But he had been mad before all of that happened.

[sharpasafawkes]

Cesare, you have to realize something here, death doesn't stick. You come back after a bit of time. I don't know how mental he was before then, but he started to go after that.

[maleborgia]

Oh.

*short glance at that letter :|a*

[sharpasafawkes]

What are you thinking about?

[maleborgia]

It's secret.

What does the writing on your back mean?

[sharpasafawkes]

...

I don't know, I can't speak latin.