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

[hellpyre]

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.

Comments

[hellpyre]

"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--... !"

[kyotoprincess]

"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.

[hellpyre]

"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!"

[kyotoprincess]

"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.

[hellpyre]

"... 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.

[kyotoprincess]

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."

[hellpyre]

"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."

[kyotoprincess]

"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.

[hellpyre]

"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.

[kyotoprincess]

Tepig ur takin his spot

But actually, that's fine. While Rin rests, Bon takes to tidying up the house, so that it doesn't look like somebody went through their stuff.

Well, except for Yukio's room. Bon never goes in there, so he doesn't know how it's supposed to look.

[hellpyre]

Deal with it, bro.

And she's fine with that, too. She lays down quietly, curling up on her side with a yawn. She dozes off while he's out of the room, actually managing some decent rest for the first time since the hospital.