Dance All Night And Party a lot less than a day because we're all exhausted

[stitch_in_time]

[So, first things first, the Doctor is taking a nice long shower.]

[After that though, later in the day, everyone will find a note shoved under their door, and few others posted around the station in places people might visit:]

I don't think any of us should be alone tonight. Meet in the cafeteria. Bring blankets and pillows.

[Thomasin's copy is written in handwriting he's made an effort to make simple and blocky, and also includes a helpful little doodle pointing to the cafeteria along with some blobby things that are probably meant to be a blanket and pillow.]

[Once they arrive, they'll find that the Doctor has brought down a selection of foods and snacks from the Cat Cafe and Diner, and managed to haul the popcorn machine from the media room.]

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[ratherdoweddings]

[Yurika's showered and has left both the uniform from before and the bunny suit to wash later, so she's in her pink dress again, still wearing that gold key around her neck. She has the Gekiganger plush in her arms and is carefully opening the back with a seam ripper from the sewing room, with a piece of paper sticking out with the stuffing once she does so.]

I'm so glad. Thank you, everyone.

[curdle]

We found another way.

[ Wow, this girl looks like a fuckin mess. But she's smiling, so?? ]

If but this once. Yurika...

[stitch_in_time]

[The Doctor himself can be found adding Bolton's name, in English and Gallifreyan, to his painting on the wall. He's also added another large block of letters to the wall-]

EVERYONE LIVES

[ratherdoweddings]

I can't believe this! Isn't it great, Doctor?

[curdle]

Doctor. I am...

[ Sorry for her previous conduct, is what she intended to say, referring to the way she latched onto and proceeded to sob into him. But Thomasin is too tired, too happy and too sad, to put a cap on even that weak attempt at propriety. She just kind of peers at what he's painting in companionable silence. ]

I'm so glad.

[imnotfat]

This is the first time I see something like this happening, Doctor. In the other three games I remember what happened today wouldn't have worked.

[Yeah, three games. He's remembering one more. Togami seems to be in decent mood. He's not smiling or showing a lot of joy, but there's this air of satisfaction around him he doesn't have very often]

[refusedtoleave]

Thank you... I seem to be saying that a lot to you don't I?

[He's getting the smallest, sleepiest smile.]

[refusedtoleave]

[Natsuhi turns up wearing her bed cape once more, Stabby at her feet and pillow in her arms. She doesn't have much else of comfort. Her glasses are in her pocket, just in case.

She's just going to settle into one of the chairs, silent. For what seems like the first time in ages.]

[ratherdoweddings]

Ushiromiya-san, thank you. You really did unite us in the end. I knew we could do it!

[imnotfat]

I never thought you'd be the kind of person to defy the trial like that.

[Yeah, he's...actually surprised about that]

[cyan_maid]

[Jane has, for now, ceased to properly function. She'll have showered and changed and washed the clothes she's been wearing for three days straight, so for now she's in one of the Champion unitards while her skirt and shirt dry. She brings a lot more than just her own blankets and pillows, sets a specific bundle of them to the side, and says to anyone around,]

These are for Xander. They're Light's. If I'm not up, bundle that man in them or so help me.

[Then, she takes her own blankets and pillows, the oily rabbit, Chocolina the Chocobo, the plastic survival knife, and a book pilfered from Lightning's room - those of you who know Japanese will recognize the characters for "Hyouka" on the cover, but she'd seen the picture of the rabbit being attacked inside and known what it was - and finds a corner and makes her own little Jane cocoon. She can't quite fall asleep, still buzzed and rattled by absolutely everything that's happened, but it's likely her conversation won't be very coherent. Still...check up on this child, make her eat a thing maybe. Get her to stop doze-snoring.]

[ratherdoweddings]

Thank you so much, Jane-chan. We all owe you.

[refusedtoleave]

[Natsuhi stifles a yawn, and brings a packet of something over. It's something the Doctor brought from the cat cafe that she can't identify. But the packaging is colourful.

So she's going to guess Jane will like whatever it is.]

Have you eaten yet?

[stitch_in_time]

So.

[The Doctor's a little cocooned himself; his new blanket again wrapped around him like a cloak as he settles in near Jane.]

Three days alone with Togami and Bolton. That must've been something.

[curdle]

[ Thomasin shows up with a cat pillow under each arm, the beartaur plush tucked under her chin, and her big fluffy blanket over her shoulders. She clearly hasn't bothered to clean herself up any further since the trial ended -- her hair is still loose and her entire face is pink and white from weeping -- but she also looks happy in an almost manic way.

That said, she is absolutely going to start crying again no less than three times before she finally goes to sleep, so like, again, have fun with that. ]

[imnotfat]

Why are you so distraught?

[Because crying means being distraught, right?]

[refusedtoleave]

[Despite everything, Natsuhi still isn't sure what to do with tears. So Thomasin is given a load of napkins to wipe her face with.

That is helping right?]

[imnotfat]

[For the first time since this all started, Togami is at the afterparty. Hey, everyone. What do you do for fun here?

There he is, examining the food with the usual expression that says he doesn't like what he sees, until he picks the cherry pie. It's still damn fine]

...what a week this was.

[He's not approaching anyone, though. He'll just...hang around, okay?]

[ratherdoweddings]

Thank you for coming, Togami-san! I was starting to worry, since you're never around at these.

[cyan_maid]

[One of these days, you'll see how much more fine someone else's cherry pie can be. But for now, Jane has emerged from her cocoon, oily rabbit in the crook of one arm as she blearily examines the food and happens to be in Togami's vicinity.

...Nah, she doesn't have the strength to appreciate what his expression would be if she pie'd him. That, and he's right. It's been a Week.]

...You not usually around at these things.

[kingshaming]

[In the short time before the note appears he showers (gods, that feels so good. He's been spoiled by showers), changes his clothing (into the shirt and breeches that came with his pirate costume. The shirt shows a bit more man cleavage then he's used to, but what can you do?), and takes care of his wounds.

That done he comes to the 'party', bundled up in the blankets Jane gave him. He can't fully sleep at first, but he doesn't last long. He snores slightly, sitting up in his bundle.

Any time it gets too quiet he jerks awake, looking around with glassy eyes that are still too asleep to really be SEEING much- doing an instinctual headcount, before dozing back off.]

[ratherdoweddings]

[At a point where Xander's dozed off again, Yurika sneaks over with the Gekiganger plush, which she's sewn back up after taking out the notes she was hiding inside it. She crouches down and slips it into his arms. Have something to hug, beef leader.]

[refusedtoleave]

[At a point when he's looking vaguely awake, Natsuhi moves over bowing her head to him.]

I apologize for my behavior during the trial...

[cyan_maid]

[In one of Jane's more lucid moments, she notices the Xander bundle and gets up as a whole cocoon to shuffle over and sit down next to him.

And lay against him. Like a small teenage girl lump.

She's still got to punch you, Xander, but let her rest for a little bit knowing you're safe.]

[theoverseers]

[Jamie doesn't arrive at the sleepover pile until much later in the day after everyone else has already arrived. He stumbles out of Xander's room, bleary-eyed and unsteady on his feet. The words on the note barely register in his brain outside of the words "cafeteria", "blankets" and "pillows" so when he zombies into the cafeteria he's dragging Xander's pillow and blankets with him. There's a moment where he stands in the doorway, looking at the blanket piles and all these survivors and doing a quick mental headcount just to make sure they're all really there, that he wasn't a massive failure and lost more people.

After a long few moments he finds the nearest empty spot, drops his pile and collapses into it, cocooning himself into a sad little ball of Jamie.

He jerks awake slightly a few times and, if anyone comes to him, might be lucid enough for a brief conversation but for the most part he's going to sleep as long as his mentally and emotionally exhausted body will permit.]

[ratherdoweddings]

[Yurika wakes up again in the night, counts the survivors, and smiles.]

More people.

[She makes her way over to Jamie and sits there.]

How are you making out, Jamie-san?