theairlock | week 6

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!round 2,
!week 6

week 6

[Even with three deaths two weeks in a row, life in the Fantasy Sweet returns to some semblance of normalcy come Sunday morning. The messes are cleaned up, the bodies are safe in the morgue (or in Kip's case, still in a liquor bottle in the garden) and with this new week comes a fresh crop of returning memories.

There is no new floor this week.

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[ooc: Don't forget to to turn in your activity for week 5, submit your memory regains and put in your threads for the Benefactors!]

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Hey, I bet our parties are fun to watch. And I bet they edit our interpersonal dramas to make them even more dramatic.

I. have never been so itchy. in my entire life. It will not stop itching no matter how much I scratch. I will gnaw off my skin to make it stop at this point. So, ointments. Then I definitely won't gnaw my skin off. Maybe it'll help. Antihistamines and shit.

...What'd you get?

... I'd offer to swap, if you'd like, but I don't think I could handle itching.

[ And to demonstrate her own, Yuuri lifts her hand. Gives it a jaunty wave. Or at least she tries anyway -- every single movement is like a video on slow-motion, apart from the look of "can you believe this shit" on her face. ]

At least this is sort of manageable. Everything's just... slow.

Wow. That's fucking bullshit. Have you eaten anything today? Is your boyfriend taking care of you?

I'm fine. I've had some breakfast and Junpei helped me over here when I asked and... it's just annoying, really.

[ ... she's a little red in the face though. this is the first time someone has actually called Junpei that right to her face and she's a little caught off guard. even though, well, that's exactly what he is. ]

[And she didn't deny it, so score one for the Blue Team!

He's busy groaning while rubbing more gunk on his shoulders and up his neck and into his hairline.] At least someone can help you with that. What do you think, should I ask Nishi to lotion up my back? I'm sure he'd be all for it. Queenie, too. Junpei'd just make fun of me, and Ardyn would probably just roll his eyes, and Nari will get all medical at me and say I shouldn't put a whole tube of this gunk on me, much less three.

[ She's all but moved into his room at this point, even Yuuri knows she doesn't have a leg to stand on. ]

Well, it wasn't like I was going to be able to get out of bed any other way... not in any kind of timely fashion, anyway.

[ It took her ten minutes to get changed, Church. Ten minutes. ]

But. Are you sure Queenie-san's such a bad idea?

[ said in a nudge-and-wink sort of way. c'mon church, go get the pretty lady's hands all over you. ]

Oh, never said she was a bad idea. I got a list of people who should totally want to get their hands on me in a cliched suntan lotion sort of way. But it won't be nearly as sexy as I want it to be. Given that I want to kill people to make this stop. [church, phrasing]

Maybe you and he shoulda just stayed in bed. Had a little fun. Since we're on the topic.

... and on that note, I want you to know that I'm sincerely regretting offering sympathy.

[ If she could move at anything resembling a normal speed, she would be Gone. ]

Do we really have to stay on this topic?

You don't have to share details, that's none of my business.

[Look at him he is oh so innocent. Hm. Hmmmmmmmm.]

But there is a detail I really hope he's told you. [HE'S DOING THIS FOR YOU, JUNPEI] About his arm.

[ She squints at him suspiciously. ]

... I strongly suspect I'm going to regret asking this but... what about his arm, exactly?

[ yuuri no

yuuri you don't know what you're doing ]

Oh my god. He still hasn't told you. I told him to tell you.

[That is some manly giggling as he goes about rubbing up his legs. This is de-god-damn-lightful.]

He's going to murder my ass, and no one will find me, but that's okay because you need to know.

His arm. It has a vibrate function.

...

I. You mean.

[ Just. Just give her a second. ]

You mean that kind of vibrate function.

Bow chicka bow wow~

[ There's a long, long silence as this information processes. As she thinks about that metallic thing hanging off the end of Junpei's arm, about how alien and unsettling it'd seemed for so long and then connects that uncanny valley feeling with this new piece of information.

And then, softly, but with great feeling: ]

Oh my god.

[ He can probably see the way her face is contorting as she desperately, desperately tries to hold in a laugh. ]

[The real test is going to be if she asks him how he found out.]

The possibilities, Yuuri.

[ She's shaking. Actually, physically shaking with the effort of not losing her shit long enough to ask. ]

How-- how did you even find out?!

[ She has to know. Junpei hasn't told her so she can only assume it must have been mortally embarrassing. ]

[there it is]

Okay. Okay, don't let him know I told you this part. He's already gonna strangle me for telling you that much, which, I don't know why, if he cares about you he should've let you know like day one. Day two, maybe.

But we're hanging out in the hot tub, right? Bros bein bros. And we're being shitheads, and we start wrestling, I don't even remember what about, but in all the grappling and shit, his arm starts buzzing against my chest. [Laughter does not make the itching go away but god damn is it a good distraction as he already starts doubling over.] He just--he--and I'm standing there thinking I fucking broke it, like it's gonna electrocute us, until I realize that's just all it's doing, just...just vibrating, and he couldn't make it stop and-- [Nope he's done he can't stop laughing now.]

[ Yuuri doesn't even manage a proper word this time. She just sucks in a breath because the image he's painting is so vivid. A pair of idiot boys tussling like, well, idiots, and then the slowly dawning expression of horror and mortification of Junpei's face as he realizes just what his arm is doing and that's the point at which Yuuri breaks.

She doubles up where she's sat and laughs until she's wheezing. Laughs until she's crying. She laughs until she's sure there can't be a single solitary scrap of laughter left inside her and then laughs some more.

By the time she's done, she feels quite shaken and empty. She's wheezing and huffing when she looks back up at Church, her eyelashes wet with tears and her face flushed. This is officially the best news she's heard all week. ]

And-- [ oh god she's practically hiccuping out giggles as she talks ] -- and you're telling me he didn't already know? He had no idea?

I don't--I don't--[He was dying then, and he's dying now.] I dunno but he was so embarrassed I thought he was just gonna die. And I--oh my god, you know I sure didn't fuckin let him off the hook that easy.

Good.

[ these are two of your Important People, Junpei. look what you've done to yourself. ]

I just... I can't believe he didn't-- well, no, I completely understand why he didn't tell me. I just can't believe he got you to keep it quiet for so long.

Gotta--gotta make the suspense real. Let him think I wasn't actually gonna say anything. Let him get comfortable.

You do realize I'm absolutely going to tell him I know, don't you? I have to see his face when I say it.

[ your days are numbered, church ]

It's all worth it. I do this for you, my final act of charity.

I'll remember you fondly, Church-san. Your brave, brave sacrifice won't go to waste.

[ watch me regret the FUCK out of this tag in a week's time ]

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