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multiversallogs2012-01-15 06:23 am
boomvox) wrote in multiversallogs2012-01-15 06:23 am
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baby i have been here before
Who: Jae & Ilde.
What: Jae returns from confronting Hilmi, and has to deal with some things he didn't expect to.
Where: His apartment in Creekside.
When: Immediately following this log.
Notes: THE PARADE OF EMOTIONAL HORRORS CONTINUES.
Warnings: Discussions of rape, suicide, death, Apocalypse-verse flavored tragedy, torture, mental health issues (post-traumatic stress). LOTS OF SADNESS.
For a while, he's fine.
For a while, he isn't himself.
Indulging in this much magic is like no drug Jae's ever been on, and the adrenaline is tailored - precise, clean, detached. He hasn't accomplished what he set out to do, but he's taught someone a lesson (just like the deserved to be-), and they deeply fucking needed it. Now he knows what that thing is; he's felt its power and its magic and he can find out how to stop it. That's just how it's going to be.
Jae makes it all the way to Megan's neighborhood before his head finally comes back down to earth.
He stops short, not quite on her street yet - he looks down at his hands. There's blood on them, smeared awkwardly and mostly dried, and he's suddenly cognizant of the tightness on his face and the too-sharp stiff feeling of air hitting split skin on his face. Oh god. Oh god oh god-
What the fuck is he doing? Walking to Megan's house like he's done some great thing, where did Hilmi even go? What has he done - marching through the district, blood-covered, bruised, head held high and gaze frosted over, like some good little soldier, his school teachers would be so proud -
His school teachers. In Osaka, in the programs. He remembers it. He knows they'd be proud because he remembers this, too, every second ticking by of that magic that feels like black alien grease in his head and in his throat, that he's never, never used before - before -
He didn't remember it last time. Last time, at the facility. He used the same magic, tonight, that he used then.
And he remembers everything.
Jae throws up in a public trash can. Someone passing by takes pity on him and helps get him shuffled into a cab - one of the enchanted ones, and the little driver, delicate and glowing just faintly, asks him if he's all right and calls him sweetheart and he can't say anything besides hollowly telling her his address; he doesn't want to talk to her, even look at her, because no one should be taking pity on him or being kind to him, not after he did that. His head swims, he pays her - too much, and he ignores her to flee into his building, staggering up the stairs (doors slamming in his wake, he doesn't hear it at all) instead of waiting for the lift. His hands shake unlocking his apartment door, he locks it behind him, and it's not until he's in the bathroom doorway, staring in at the bright white tile, eyes shot, face bruised, split, bleeding, keys still in one hand, that he remembers someone else is supposed to be there.
For a while, he isn't himself.
Indulging in this much magic is like no drug Jae's ever been on, and the adrenaline is tailored - precise, clean, detached. He hasn't accomplished what he set out to do, but he's taught someone a lesson (just like the deserved to be-), and they deeply fucking needed it. Now he knows what that thing is; he's felt its power and its magic and he can find out how to stop it. That's just how it's going to be.
Jae makes it all the way to Megan's neighborhood before his head finally comes back down to earth.
He stops short, not quite on her street yet - he looks down at his hands. There's blood on them, smeared awkwardly and mostly dried, and he's suddenly cognizant of the tightness on his face and the too-sharp stiff feeling of air hitting split skin on his face. Oh god. Oh god oh god-
What the fuck is he doing? Walking to Megan's house like he's done some great thing, where did Hilmi even go? What has he done - marching through the district, blood-covered, bruised, head held high and gaze frosted over, like some good little soldier, his school teachers would be so proud -
His school teachers. In Osaka, in the programs. He remembers it. He knows they'd be proud because he remembers this, too, every second ticking by of that magic that feels like black alien grease in his head and in his throat, that he's never, never used before - before -
He didn't remember it last time. Last time, at the facility. He used the same magic, tonight, that he used then.
And he remembers everything.
Jae throws up in a public trash can. Someone passing by takes pity on him and helps get him shuffled into a cab - one of the enchanted ones, and the little driver, delicate and glowing just faintly, asks him if he's all right and calls him sweetheart and he can't say anything besides hollowly telling her his address; he doesn't want to talk to her, even look at her, because no one should be taking pity on him or being kind to him, not after he did that. His head swims, he pays her - too much, and he ignores her to flee into his building, staggering up the stairs (doors slamming in his wake, he doesn't hear it at all) instead of waiting for the lift. His hands shake unlocking his apartment door, he locks it behind him, and it's not until he's in the bathroom doorway, staring in at the bright white tile, eyes shot, face bruised, split, bleeding, keys still in one hand, that he remembers someone else is supposed to be there.
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"I should've got actual clothes," she observes, but she takes the sweater and it's not like it won't cover most of her, given how much smaller she is than he is. "I think I gave someone a turn."
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"They must have been a prude." Lightly, just barely. There are odder things in Baedal than nudity. "I have.. I mean, whatever else you'd like to put on."
That one's just really comfortable, and he didn't want to assume she'd really want to, you know, wear his knickers. (Some of them are cute, though.)
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"It's fine."
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"You're welcome to whatever," he says, and it doesn't sound like a brush-off, it sounds like he's telling her she's got carte blance in his apartment (which she does). But his eyes are rimmed in red, worn out and frayed down to the bone, so that's the last she's going to get out of him for now. The bed in his bedroom is kingsized on an antique white frame, white sheets; he lays down, still fully clothed, on the far side of it (so Ilde's near the door if she decides to sit down).
He'll be out pretty quick. (Troubled, fraught, but out.)
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--which Jae does understand, she already knows that, so she's both genuinely touched by Jae's offer and has every intention of taking him up on it at least as far as looking around. Because, from their admittedly short acquaintance, she's comfortable taking him at his word.
But she has to call Erik, eventually, and after she's decided that no, she's fine in the sweater, she pulls the door to behind her (not closed, not all the way) and curls into the corner of the chaise to get a hold of him. She doesn't have much to say - if anything - but it's one more task to tick off her list before she runs out.
After that, maybe she'll just sleep, too.