thebastion | [Day 205] [CLOSED] When days seem meaningless don't go and lie

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[Day 205] [CLOSED] When days seem meaningless don't go and lie

WHO: Rin and Bon
OPEN: Closed
WHEN: Day 205
WHAT: It's finally time to go home.
WHERE: Tower Apartments
FORMAT: Prose
WARNINGS: Rin being herself, couple talking about being a couple (Don't look, Yukio)

"I didn't think it was possible to miss this place as much as I did..."

It was hard to think of any place in the Bastion as strictly "home". The word may have been used, but for most it was with a tinge of something missing, something distant and long since destroyed. Right now, though? After spending as long as she did in the hospital, Rin was more than happy to consider this place as something closer to that.

She walked in with Bon (Yukio still at the hospital caring for those who were on the road to recovery) and haphazardly tossed her bag of belongings to the side in the living room, walking over to the couch and promptly faceplanting in to it.

"Mnnn couch..."

Yup. It was good to be back.

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"... that's true. I think the last thing I yelled at you about was the whole 'act like a couple' thing."

Which he's clearly gotten better about as well.

Speaking of, she's just going to casually roll over on her side again in his lap because this is comfortable and very pleasant.

"I'm really happy about that..."

"...yeah. I like this better than us screaming at each other all the time."

Not that they don't have their arguments. And he's sure yelling will happen again sometime. They're both pig-headed and don't back down easily, they're bound to butt heads every now and then. But for the most part, getting along works for him.

She expects it to happen again, too. Really, if they wind up working together at all outside the confines of the Bastion chances are high that they'll disagree on how to go about things. Or he'll get angry at her for taking unneeded risks. Or she'll get irritated at him for not pushing forward enough. Or... something like that.

But yes, for now, this is good.

She makes a hum of agreement and goes quiet for a time, almost dozing off until something gets her attention.

"... did you move some books from the shelf while I was gone?"

"Hmm?"

He almost misses her question at first, because he had started to drift off too.

"I grabbed one of the medicine books for Okumura-sensei, but otherwise no. Why?"

"There's like... three of my cookbooks missin'."

"Why would your cookbooks be missing? Nobody else around here but you cooks."

That is weird, to say the least. He doesn't suspect a thief right away, though.

"Maybe you misplaced them?"

"That's just it, they should be there..."

Rin wasn't the most organized person ever, but two things were always taken care of - the kitchen, and the bookshelves. There was a lot that went over Rin's head because she simply didn't care, and it wasn't like she read a whole lot, but she did take care of the few books she had because Yuki would always throw a fit if she didn't.

Sitting up with a tired groan, she slipped off the couch and shuffled across the room, staring at the hole where the books had been. A bit of searching, and she realized they had been placed on the small end table between the two sofa chairs near the window.

"... that's... really weird."

And now that Rin is up and looking, Bon goes over to inspect the bookshelf as well. He also notices that some things are out of place; namely, that one of the series of books they own is out of order. Which is weird, because between him and Yukio they're usually pretty meticulous about this kind of thing.

"Who put these back all wrong? Some of Sensei's books are on my shelf, too."

"Yuki wouldn't have moved anythin' unless he was gettin' it for you, but you said you only grabbed somethin' for him."

Something settled ill in her gut then, reminiscent of the sickness when she was in the hospital. Her mind was further back, though, when she had been in possession of something potentially dangerous.

Wordlessly, she moved past Bon and in Yukio's room, only to leave again about a minute later and go in to their room.

"... Ryuuji!"

He has no idea what she's doing- probably looking for something, but he's not exactly sure what- but when she yells for him, he hurries down to their bedroom.

"What's wrong?"

Remember how pale she looked when she was sick? Yeah, she's looking like that again, only far more stricken and actually scared. By the time Bon gets to the room she's already backed up to the doorway. She bumps in to him, but any attention that should have been given to that is strictly on the room.

Bon probably hadn't noticed in his tired state when he dropped the clothes off that their end table drawers were slightly ajar, their closet door was somewhat pushed open, and the third drawer of their dresser was more than halfway open with several items haphazardly shoved back in.

"Some one's been in our apartment..."

Bon doesn't even need to hear Rin's words. Just the sight of their room, gone through like that, is enough to make him feel like there's a heavy weight in his stomach.

Some of this could be explained by Bon hurriedly grabbing clothes for Rin while she was at the hospital, but he didn't do all of this. He never would have left it this messy.

"But...why? We don't even have anything worth stealing! And we can make anything we need at the monument, there's no reason for anyone to come snooping in here!"

"Nathaniel's apartment... remember what happened there?!"

Rin wheeled around, blue eyes huge and hands shaking. She wasn't completely recovered and this kind of shock couldn't have been good for her current condition.

"S-some one must still be lookin' for that journal--! They thought we had it, because I was supposed to be the last person to have it! No one besides Colin and you knew that I'd given to to Zia, and Colin wouldn't do this!"

The journal. Of course, why didn't he think of it? Obviously the only thing worth stealing was something that couldn't be replicated by the monument.

Bon couldn't panic, though. He had to keep a cool head, and bring Rin around.

"Who knew that you had it?"

Obviously whoever had gone looking for it didn't know that it wasn't here, which ruled out...a handful of people. Plus the people who had just arrived, they couldn't have possibly done this, they wouldn't have had a reason to. That would narrow it down a little bit, at least.

"Just... just you, and Colin... Zia... Nathaniel gave it to me, obviously... I-I think Zulf might've-- but he wouldn't--!"

"Zulf could just get it from Zia if he wanted it. You and I have no reason to go after it, and Nathaniel made it pretty clear that he didn't want it used for anything, which is why he hid it in the first place."

Bon didn't know Colin as well as Rin did, but if she's sure he wouldn't be after the journal, he'll trust her.

"Someone else has to know about it. That's the only explanation. Someone knows about the journal, and they found out that you had it somehow."

"Christ..."

Some one had gotten information out of one of them and used the plague as an excuse to violate her personal space when she couldn't do shit about it.

As if she didn't already feel ill enough, this only served to make her stomach twist more, and she stumbled back a step from Bon with her arms around her middle, visibly shaking.

"What the hell is happenin' to this place...? If some one is goin' to that much trouble to get that journal..."

What did they want with it, and what did they intend to do with it?

"S... some one-- we need to warn Zia--... !"

"No, that's the last thing we should do right now."

Bon holds Rin up, not letting her fall to the floor. He sounds serious when he speaks, though.

"Whoever did this, they'll be watching us. They'll be expecting us to run right to whoever actually has the journal, and then they'll know just who to go after next. If we run to warn Zia, that'll just be painting a huge target on her back."

No, what they need is a plan, some way of misdirecting whoever was after the journal.

"What are we supposed to do then? I can't just stand by and do nothin'! There's only so many of us here and one person is tryin' to make hell for the rest of us!"

"We wait. If we act like we didn't notice anything was wrong, then we'll be able to move about freely without arousing suspicion. Spend a few days recovering, acting like nothing's wrong, and then we can go talk to Zia. That way we don't draw attention to her."

And from now on, they'll have to be extra-careful about letting anyone know about that journal, until they root out who the person is that's been looking for it.

"... what about Yukio? What do we tell him when he comes home tonight?"

Now that everyone was recovering, he didn't have to be at the hospital 24/7, and he would be coming home eventually. He would be able to see things out of place faster than the two of them had noticed.

Yukio couldn't be the thief. He hadn't even been in the Bastion when Nathaniel's apartment had been torn apart, and he would have known to straighten things out if he had been looking this time.

"We can talk to him privately. He's smart, smarter than even me, maybe he can think of something we can do."

"Okay..."

That she could agree with. Yukio was always the level headed one, and could handle this a lot better than she was right now, stuck somewhere between wanting to hide in her room forever with everything bolted down and wanting to find whoever this person was and punch them until they stopped moving.

"... I feel sick again. Damn it."

"You need rest. You're still recovering from being sick."

This probably isn't helping, either.

But Bon will move to scoot her towards the bed, so she can lay down and sleep for a bit.

"Mn... right..."

She doesn't argue or resist getting moved to the bed, and Tepig (who had been exploring his new home quietly) padded up behind the two, hopping up on the bed so he could be with Rin while she rested.

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