Zero Heart: The Sequel

[hunting]

[Ace is probably experiencing a very violent and jarring drop that will deposit him (none too gently) right in the center of that familiar river of blood. Which means that, yep, that nagging sensation at the back of Ace's throat is back.

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[deadofknight]

[gently~ setting Ichiru down.]

What's the matter, Yuuki?

[hunting]

"I... I didn't expect you to bring him back here..."

[deadofknight]

Oh, you didn't? That's too bad.

[hunting]

[Just keeps glancing at Ichiru, unsuuuure.]

"What... what were you going to do with him?"

[deadofknight]

Drop him off somewhere out of the way. He--[nods back at the door to True Heart]--suggested I try this place. Any ideas?

[hunting]

"I... I'm not sure..."

[deadofknight]

This building...it's the past, isn't it? That's what it's supposed to represent.

[hunting]

[Looks a little more somber, as she drops her gaze.]

"Yes. That's what it is. It still influences the presence, but more like whispers."

[deadofknight]

And where in the past do you think something like this--[nudging Ichiru with a foot, not hard, but not gently, either]--should be stored?

[hunting]

"Don't call him that! Whatever he's done to Zero... he's still a person and Zero's brother. You can't mock him like that!"

[deadofknight]

Missing the point, Yuuki.

[hunting]

[Expression scrunching up in frustration and conflict. Though Ichiru is really showing almost no reaction to Yuuki beyond more of that bemusement.]

"... If you're really going to leave him here, the Sun Dorm would be the only place. The other is too close to... the most dangerous part."

[deadofknight]

Any place in the Sun Dorm in particular?

[hunting]

"It probably doesn't matter..."

[deadofknight]

Alright, then.

[picking Ichiru up again, and heading for the Sun Dorm.]

[hunting]

[Yuuki looks less than comfortable, as she watches them go...]

[deadofknight]

[whatever, true heart already ok'd everything. to the Sun Dorm!]

[hunting]

[You are indeed back in the Sun Dorm. It is as it always is, with apparitions of the past meandering by, photographs strewn across the table and the closet with the closed box in the back. As with before, it is slightly better lit during Ace's last heart visit.]

[deadofknight]

[don't want to leave Ichiru out where he can roll around causing trouble :|b or in the closet where the box is...

maybe I leash him to something that'll keep him in one place? are there sturdy things Ichiru could be leashed to?]

[hunting]

[Not really sure Ichiru is going to poke around with his brother's suicidal feelings... Or roll around for that matter...

But hey, there's a couch?]

[deadofknight]

[let's see...he stuffed his hammerspace with spare clothes. pulling out some strips of cloth now and looping a rough leash+collar around Ichiru's neck]

[hunting]

[Except that said leash-collar is now around Ichiru's wrist instead. Oh, and Ace probably feels some frigid wind (the same coldness as he felt while restraining Ichiru back with True Heart) from out of nowhere slash across his cheek. Ichiru is regarding him with total disdain, although it's pretty damn clear he can't do much about the restraints.]

[deadofknight]

[SIGHS. you're lucky you're cute, Zero. scooting the sofa away from the wall a bit and then carrying Ichiru over to dump on it unceremoniously.

[hunting]

[That is a thing that happens. Ichiru is just going to continue to look as bored as possible. Because.]

[deadofknight]

[looping a length of knotted cloth--adding on more strips of cloth as needed--over the back of the sofa, angled towards the edge where he can more easily tuck the end of the cloth-strip-rope under the sofa and out the front]