week 7

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[For the first time in several weeks there is no new memorial in the garden. No new body in the morgue, no bloody mess for the roombas to clean. Choromatsu is still in need of time to heal and constant vigilance but he's alive. They're all alive for once on a Sunday and, even with the terrible realizations their returning memories may bring, there's a sense of hope for the first time in a long time.

There is no new floor this week.

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[ooc: Don't forget to to turn in your activity for week 6, submit your memory regains and put in your threads for the Benefactors!]

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[serrata]

[ She looks up at him for a moment and then decides this is a conversation best had stood up. She steps away from the plot she's been working on as well, idly dusting off her hands. ]

Well, it's... not exactly something that's easy to just come out and say in person. But I thought, after Friday... writing it all seemed a bit easier than saying it.

[motherfucking_ghost]

I, uh, I get that. And especially since you did one for everyone. Easier to write...

It was just, uh, it was, it was really sweet. Is all. If only it was better circumstances, huh.

[serrata]

Well... once we're all out if here, it will be better circumstances. With any luck, anyway.

[ No 'if'. No 'maybe'. They're getting out of here and Yuuri won't let herself think to the contrary for even a second. ]

I'm just glad you liked it. It was hard, picking out flowers for everyone! I didn't really want to double up any more than I did for you and Ardyn-san.

[motherfucking_ghost]

Yeah I--noticed. Was that intentional? Give I'm his--? [He just jerks a thumb over his shoulder. Yeah. That he's Ardyn's whatever the hell he is. Shield. Shield+? Something extra, maybe?]

[serrata]

It was, yes! I thought it was appropriate with... everything about you two.

[ oh no

oh no here it comes, church ]

[motherfucking_ghost]

[he has no idea what is coming the poor bastard]

I really, really should not have taken the joke so far, but y'know, I'm okay being Shield of the King and shit. Gives me a cool title and a job. So at least I get to pretend to feel important.

[serrata]

It's a little more than a joke at this point though, isn't it?

[ remember the smile she had at the King's Game just before she fed Takumi a blazing inferno hellsteak?

It's back. ]

We did all see you at karaoke, after all.

[ rest in pieces Leonard Church ]

[motherfucking_ghost]

--! That was a different p--circumstance! And has nothing to do with being his shield, or, any of that, and, no? No. No, it's not like that. You are wildly off base. That is...wow, no, that is not at all what we are? No.

[serrata]

So the kissing and the lap sitting aren't part of your job description? Are they just a...

[ She can't. She can't fucking say perk in this context but you better believe she thought it. ]

... A side bonus, then?

[motherfucking_ghost]

We were drinking, and having a good time, since he was, y'know, capable of it, and-- [Listen, he is all for spreading the heavy implication of sleeping together, but he feels like she was also implying another thing. A different thing we're not talking about.]

I mean, psh, he could've gotten some from anyone he wanted when he was all nice and kingly, no skin off my nose if you're jealous.

[serrata]

Not even a little bit.

[ ew gross church that's her dad ]

I can't even overstate how much you can absolutely keep him.

[motherfucking_ghost]

And no offense, but you can keep Junpei.

...Which--doesn't mean I'm--you and Junpei have a super different relationship than me and--you know what I'm saying!

[serrata]

[ She makes a hugely exaggerated shrugging gesture, with her hands just as much as her shoulders, and rolls her eyes to the sky. There is absolutely no word for the smile on her face right now other than shit-eating. ]

Iiiii didn't imply anything of the sort. [ unspoken: that one's all on you, Church. ] But you do at least admit that it's a relationship?

[motherfucking_ghost]

A...roomie relationship! A working relationship? A friendship...relationship. Not a relationship relationship. [Church please. The garden shed doesn't have shovels big enough for the hole you're digging.]

[serrata]

I just heard "relationship" over and over and over.

[ Shove her into the mud and leave her there, Church. ]

[motherfucking_ghost]

There are different kinds of relationships that aren't what you're thinking! I refuse to be called out over something that isn't there.

[serrata]

You're very defensive over something that allegedly isn't there, you know.

[ She just plops her chin into her hand and gives him the smuggest of smiles. Suffer, Church. ]

No one's going to judge if you just follow your heart and admit it.

[motherfucking_ghost]

This did not just turn into that one song in Hercules. Nope. I'm not having this conversation because there's no conversation to have.

[serrata]

Church.

[ Yuuri steps forward and claps a hand onto his shoulder. Her face is deadly serious. So is her voice.

...

Then her mouth twitches and it becomes clear she's desperately trying to keep a straight face. ]

You can run away from this talk, but you can't run away from your feelings.

[motherfucking_ghost]

I was a fool. I was mistaken this whole time. Ardyn's not the worst. It's you! You were the worst all along!

[serrata]

You were there at the King's Game, weren't you? Are you really only realizing that now? Honestly.