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Post by titan on Aug 19, 2008 18:31:01 GMT -8
He just looked at her with a raised eyebrow of distain. It was a hair comb for crying out loud! Granted, it was the comb that Maelstrom wove for her out of silver and air. Still. He could probably fix it. Damn female.
"Right, well, lets get moving. I could hold him for a while, but I'd rather not. male skin on male skin and all that..."
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Post by lily tomlinson on Aug 19, 2008 18:36:56 GMT -8
Lily nodded slowly and quickly caught up to his side. There she proceeded to lead him out of the desert to her small apartment, just on the other side of the train tracks.
She quickly and quietly unlocked the door, making a quieting motion with her hand and creeped inside. She really didn't want to wake her aunt up at this hour. She had a real talent of nagging and dragging on.... and on.... and on.... The woman drove her insane.
"You can set him on my bed," Lily whispered, after leading him into her room. She quickly ran into the bathroom in the hallway, and dampened a washcloth with some warm water. "The shower's the first door on the right. Take all the time you need."
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Post by titan on Aug 19, 2008 18:43:33 GMT -8
He nodded. Obviously there was a crazy woman somewhere in the house that should not be awakened. That was fine. He had a hunting knife the size of his forearm in an ultra light sheath on his back. The sheath was made out of a liquidy light chain mail of sorts. Not something you'd ever find around here. It was very dirty at the moment. Looked like Leather. The knife was actually incredibly silvery, but it was sheathed at the moment.
Into the bathroom, and back out.
'I don't have any clothes,' he mouthed, gesturing. Yes, it was one thing to walk around mostly naked when you were covered in dirt, but to be clean...meh. Not something he wanted to deal with at the present moment.
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Post by lily tomlinson on Aug 19, 2008 18:56:50 GMT -8
Lily grimaced, realizing clothing was probably something she should have thought about before sending him to the shower. She quickly opened up the bottom drawer of her dresser and passed him some of Rui's clothes that had been left there.... just in case.
"Heh. Sorry," she mumbled, handing them over.
She then pulled out another outfit and set it to the side for when Rui woke, and then knelt at the side of the bed, staring at Rui with concern as she gently pressed the warm washcloth to his forehead. Her free hand wrapped around his, she used the cloth to smooth away the hair that had gotten onto his forehead, trace his cheeks, remove smudges. She was worried of his reaction when she woke, yes, but she was more protective than anything. Wanted to help, even if he would be angry with her.
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Post by titan on Aug 19, 2008 19:11:17 GMT -8
Beautiful. It took about an hour to scrub himself clean, and cut through his hair. The clothes were a little big, but he thought he pulled it off quite well. He finally left the bathroom to sit down next to Lily, not looking at her - most likely startled - expression. No, he looked at Rui. If Rui didn't wake up soon, he was going to have to wake him up. Sigh.  |
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Post by lily tomlinson on Aug 19, 2008 19:14:20 GMT -8
Lily glanced over at him, and blushed. Yes, she blushed. She couldn't help it. It was a difference! And then she quickly looked down at the bed where her hand was clutched over Rui's.
"Um, so, if you needed so rest or anything," she said, "There's a guest room across from the bathroom. There's also food in the kitchen. Mostly top ramen and stuff like that, but it's mostly edible. Um... yes...."
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Post by titan on Aug 19, 2008 19:32:14 GMT -8
"I don't sleep. But thanks. I might eat something..might not. Either way-" and here he paused to slap Rui much the same way that he had slapped Lily.
"Wake up you lazy ass. We're not going to carry you everywhere."
Rui stirred, looking around. Yes, he recognized the place, no he didn't know why he was there.
"Who is this..." he asked faintly, "Another lost child?"
To this the mystery guy smacked him again, "Show her some respect, bitch, she just had be drag your sorry self back here."
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Post by lily tomlinson on Aug 19, 2008 19:35:40 GMT -8
Lily reached over and instinctively slapped the fellow across the back of the head. "Don't hit him! Once was enough... though it was nice somebody here defends me... er.... Um..."
She quickly turned back, her face turned downward. "Sorry. This is... this is... uh... Well, I don't know his name, actually. Whoops. I destroyed his home with me.... temper tantrum. So I was trying to help."
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Post by titan on Aug 19, 2008 19:44:14 GMT -8
Rui looked at Lily with an expression that clearly said he thought she was nuts. Leave it to her to bring some strange man home and not even know his name. Some strange man with a VERY LARGE KNIFE.
"Ughnn" he said, letting his head fall back to the pillow.
"Name's Rhys, nice to meet you. I'd go home and leave you two alone, but um. I don't have one. I mean, granted, I have enough money to buy Marquis Tech at this point, but it's the principle of the thing." Marquis Tech, yes. Buying it from Seth, probably not, no.
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Post by lily tomlinson on Aug 19, 2008 19:49:13 GMT -8
"Oh, hi!" Lily waved with a bit of humor, realizing how ridiculous she was. Oh well. "I'm Lily. Er, I already told you about the guest room. Feel free to make yourself comfortable until I can fix everything. Well, as comfortable as you can. It's cramped, and not the greatest of apartments, but it's all I can offer right now."
She smiled slightly, though it was a pained one, as she got up and grabbed a light blanket off the desk chair. Then she draped it over Rui, tucking him in gently. She made a motion by his face, as if she was about to brush her hand there, and hesitated before dropping her hand back to her side. She didn't think she was allowed to touch him now that he was awake.
"And you," she said to him, "should get some rest. I won't bother you."
She backed away a few steps and grabbed her jacket, standing unsurely, as if waiting for someone to say something.
"Is there... is there anything else I can get any of you?"
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Post by titan on Aug 20, 2008 17:13:53 GMT -8
Rhys shook his head. In all these years, nothing had changed except hair color and nationality. How lovely for him. He just sighed and shook his head, still not moving cause he was an irritating bastard and he liked it.
"Where's your comb?" Rui asked, noticing her strange behavior but ignoring it. He still wore his necklace. It was the only thing that was undamaged on him.
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Post by lily tomlinson on Aug 20, 2008 17:21:55 GMT -8
"Itfellanditbrokeandidin'tknowi'msorry," Lily mumbled quickly, clutching her jacket to her chest briefly. And then she pulled out two halves of the comb and showed him, her fingers clenched around the pieces like a vise. Like she wasn't gonna let go of it even if it was broken.
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Post by titan on Aug 21, 2008 15:46:33 GMT -8
Rui sighed. A long suffering completely exasperated please-just-let-me-die sigh. WHY? Was he such an awful person that these things just happened to hit him all at once? That must be it. He knew he wasn't really a bad guy in the last life, but maybe the life before that? Was there a life before that? Oh, god this was too much to think about at the present moment.
"Give me the comb please, now." he said, holding out his hand. He wanted to just forgive her and have everything be all better, but he had some things to take care of first. He supposed that he should fix the damn comb while he talked so that if she hit him, he had a shield.
"So..I may have...Possibly.." he began, starting to mend the comb using small intricate threads of power to weave the particles back together, "Maybe been set up with some priestess that I didn't love and had a child with her too. So I suppose I can't stay mad at you." he said all this very fast, holding the fixed comb in front of himself as a peace offering.
"I also found out something very interesting from my mother recently. Before all of this. I apparently have a twin brother..from a different father.. Named Minami." he waited for her to process this: her son was also his nephew and his brother...and also kinda his step-son.. He wondered if she would demand that they bond. If she did, he knew one Old Power who was going to get it. Shimmery little bastard.
Where was this anger from? Who knew. Felt like Maelstrom, but also his own. He wasn't an angry person but this was apparently his breaking point.
"Oh wow. You people have a very screwed up family. At least I never had children. They might have turned out like you." Rhys shuddered, barely noticing the two others looking at him.
Rui gave him a look, eyes narrowed, "Where exactly are you from...that you know so much?"
"I don't want to talk about it." Rhys said. Instead of leaving when he decided not to talk more, he decided to stay and invade their personal moment a while longer. Was the least he could do.
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Post by lily tomlinson on Aug 21, 2008 15:54:57 GMT -8
To say that Lily was shocked would be an understatement. To say that she was angry, would be a lie. She could not blame him for what their parents no doubt forced him into, nor what had become a product of that. She knew all too well what their mother had been capable of.
So, instead of anger, or freaking out, she was sympathetic. And while she wasn't sure if touching him would be welcome, she still wound up wrapping her hands around his, holding the comb between them.
"How does everything fall apart this way?" she said softly, "I'm sorry."
She wanted to explain everything that had happened, tell him just what she'd been feeling, how much she missed him, but she couldn't bring herself to open her mouth again and utter the words. There was too much to take in, and he had enough to deal with. For now, all she could do was apologize. She could only be there.
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Post by titan on Aug 21, 2008 16:17:31 GMT -8
Rui nodded, thinking to himself. Yep, it was definitely time to rectify this whole thing. He was gonna have to go kill that philter Light. Shimmery bastard. Throwing aside the covers, he rose from his place on the bed and stalked out of the room.
Rhys heard the door slam, and sat back in his seat, smiling a huge satisfied smile.
"Bout time one of you had some common sense. It was too much to ask of that from both of you but there it is. Common sense on both sides. Almost enough for a heart attack. Now, there's not need to look at me like that. Stop pointing at the door, I'm not lea-OW! No, No, put down the phone. I am NOT trying to kill you, liar. Hey hey. Call whoever that was back and tell them-"
The last bit was cut off as the door burst open, shaking the house. He distantly recognized the sounds of an irritated, "Lilaaaay" from the other room before a dangerous looking brunette came into the room.
"Listen, Fucker, get out of the house or I'll kill you with my ax here," she said, brandishing a huge ax.
"Ha. You can't kill me, female." Rhys said contemptuously.
"No? Well then I can cut you into little pieces and you can life your life cubed in an ice box." she said, eyes narrowing in a way that told him she was serious.
"You're creepy. Let's go have dinner somewhere."
"Ok," she said, letting the ax drop down, and shrugging her shoulders at Lily's shocked expression, "My bar's not too far from here."
Ah, the beginnings of beautiful friendship.
-fin-
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