It belongs in a GREAT BIG FIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIAAAAAAAH

[valkavian]

[ So, Akane is probably in NO condition to host the afterparty, so Val's gonna do the honors here. She leaves a note where everyone can see it once everyone's properly exited the theater: ]

Come to the tea room. I'll get y'all some fucking marshmallows.

[ She's not cooking, but she brought some skewers and the appropriate fixings for both hot dogs and smores and put them aside on a little table, as well as some soda and every possible booze this ship had.

Most of the tables and chairs have been just pushed off to the far end of the room, but some furniture has been sacrificed to start a huge fucking bonfire in the middle of the tea room. Precautions have been taken to keep this shit from spreading, but here we are.

She's content to let most people mingle amongst themselves, but she will be muttering something as y'all come in. ]

Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil-

[ A pause. ]

Where my eternal quest takes me, I shall know no fear. My heart is strong and my blood stronger.

Comments

[exequte]

[It feels....

Wrong, somehow.

Foreign.

She remembers her own glassy smile as she'd been betrayed and feels sick again.

Zack is too good for this. Kaito had been too good for this.

She hopes he won't die next.]

Do you think this is hell?

[not_a_lego_maniac]

...

I...I don't know. But I wonder if even hell is...better than this.

[exequte]

[She finally smiles, just a little, but it's a broken expression.]

I-I guess we could ask Alastor, right?

[And there's the first tear, sliding down the side of her face and into her hair.]

[not_a_lego_maniac]

...

[Well, he has the washcloth to offer. It's not much, but.

If she needs to cry. He holds it up to her.]

[exequte]

[She just looks at him, still very much a broken bird, and finally after a brief struggle manages to push herself up and then throws her arms around him as she starts to cry.]

[not_a_lego_maniac]

[He responds almost instinctively, giving her a tight, and more importantly, warm hug.


He's....really surprisingly warm. But it's something for future Akane to think about. Right now, it's time for present Akane to be hugged.]

It'll be ok somehow...I'm here....It's all right, let it out.

Don't...don't keep it in.

[exequte]

Everything was so awful. Everyone must hate me now, right? I can't believe I....

[Definitely still clinging.]

[not_a_lego_maniac]

No...I...I don't blame you.

[He hated how she killed Moriarty. But.]

You were angry and you were right to be. What he did to you, to Kaito...the way he acted towards you was wrong.

[exequte]

When he said he tortured him, I....

[She can't find the words, can't continue.]

I don't know how he could do that.

If this is hell, maybe it's where I deserve to be.

[not_a_lego_maniac]

No-don’t say that. You don’t deserve that, none of you do. Not even Alastor, yeah?

This…place and Zero just…it wants us to think that. But it’s just not true.

[exequte]

I should have... I should have done better. I should have been better.

I'm so sorry.

[not_a_lego_maniac]

...

[It's true, she shouldn't have. What she did was so...unnecessary. But. He'd been angry too. Truthfully, in her position, he's not sure how he'd handle it other than with his own anger. Hell, he had done that before, with his own father. Sure, he didn't kill the jerk, but. He sure had felt like he wanted to, that he could if he could get away with it.


So who is he to be judgmental?]

I forgive you. Even if no one else does. I understand.

[exequte]

[At that, all she can do is cling and weep.]

E-everyone here is too good to deserve this. None of us do. I hate it.

[not_a_lego_maniac]

I know. No one here...

[A sigh.]

I want to find a way to escape. Nothing I've thought of's worked. But I won't stop trying. Not until...

[Well, he won't say his last breath. It's implied. She doesn't need to hear him say it right now.]

[exequte]

Y-you're right. Not until we get out, right?

I....

I can't give up.

[Even if, perhaps, she wanted to.]

[not_a_lego_maniac]

Yeah. We...we can't give up. If we do, Zero wins, right?