[ hello jason has been healed but lup and cloud are still fretting. somewhere. idk this is pre-curfew, the important thing is, cloud says this and sounds like he means it, but he's looking him over concerned and also touching jason's arm lightly, so pick a mood, bitch. ]
[Maybe they are in his room so he can change his clothes. Listen here. I'm saying his shirt is off so you both get a sexy tag (no). The shirt is off so I can describe his injuwies.
He's moving around like a grandpa because the ribs are tender.] I'm-- [They're fretting. He just accepts this.
So his back is blistered from the top to the bottom; it doesn't look nearly as bad as before! but listen! Baby's first degree burn now. Also his right side has healed and hanging by a prayer crescent-shaped puncture wounds on the front and the back...? That's probably were the blood came from maybe. There's some slightly healed claw marks on his left shoulder. And two punctures on his bottom lip!
[ why does he look like such shit. i hate you so mmuch anna. lup's petting jason and cloud just hovers with a frown, pretending he is not worried when he clearly is ]
[He sort of motions with one hand like he's trying to placate them. Unfortunately likes the hand in his hair. He reaches out to yet AGAIN rest a hand on Cloud's small waist made for men to grab.]
They're just tender. [...] Got hit by a car.
[LISTEN. He furrows his brows and closes his eyes like he has a headache.]
Was... a lifeguard? [He sighs. He was going to gloss over so much, but they're two of the people he'd tell the most to.] Working with Royce? [Royce... was... a lifeguard.] Completely believed it. I had fallen asleep, so I went back out on the beach. Someone was drowning. [He opens his eyes at Lup, but looks away.] It was Lup. You tried to make me remember about the hotel. But... a shark grabbed you. [Begrudgingly:] ...I tried to beat the shit out of it, but it bit me and pulled me under until I drowned.
That's how you should've known it was a nightmare. Royce would never save lives or be in the sun. [a pause, and she rests her hand against his temple like a heating pad for his headache.
she also just looks very upset about showing up, but she doesn't say anything about that, just squirms uncomfortably.]
[ there's a million thing he has questions about, but i do need to mention jason grabs his waist meant for men to hold and cloud lets him without complaint. but also he's like why do they both know royce every day of his life. ]
You tried to fist fight a shark.
[ he sounds tired, but it does explain the? crescent bite marks? god i hope it's from the shark ]
I know. I mean... I would have, but it all seemed... legit. At the time. [He does not look at Cloud for reasons.] ...Yeah.
I would've won, but it had Lup, so... I had to risk letting it take her under, or tossing her back at the shore when it'd have the chance to snap me. [A pause. Wryly humorous:] It's alright. Maybe I died, but you were waiting back home apparently, so she still had one boy toy left.
[ he's already tugged close to jason via his tiny waist please they cant hover this close by when he has broken ribs. but lup beats him to :| about the joke, but he is also >:| ]
The thing about kicking your ass still stands, don't test me. [ :T ] How'd you go from shark fighting as a lifeguard to getting a husband?
[He doesn't look mad or upset, but exasperatedly resigned, almost rolling his eyes in a way. Okay, okay... Can't tell shitty jokes about the suffering, he gets it.
He has one arm around Cloud's waist, the other goes around Lup's shoulders. He draws them both in anyway so he can kind of give each one a nuzzle in turn. Then he leans back.]
...Woke up in a chair on a dating game. [He hates this.] Yuri was one of three contestants, but couldn't remember anything, I don't think. He thought it was real. The other two were...
[Well, anyway.]
I had three questions to figure out who was real and who was fake while the psychotic skeleton audience watched.
[the nuzzle mollifies her. for now. she shifts to make sure he's got pillows for his back and is comfortable before she settles close where he's got her pulled in.]
That sounds horrific. [she says, maybe a bit dryly.] ... Do I even want to ask who the other two were?
[ cloud's trying not to move too much so as not to jostle jason? his ribs? so lup can take care of fussing. he is also a little mollified by nuzzles. i hate this week. ]
Better question is, what was going to happen to whoever you declared fake? [ he knows how terrible game shows go!!! he doesn't, but he can guess. ]
[Please stop babying him. Not because he hates it (he does), but because he doesn't deserve it.
He actually... gets kinda sober about it. His eyes shift... to Cloud sort of pointedly, and then he quickly averts his gaze. Quietly:] ...Cloud. [There's no point in keeping things.]
And Sylvain.
[It takes him a bit to answer the last question. He won't look at either of them.]
[y'all are crazy for not liking to be babied it's great
regardless, though - she's quiet, for a moment.]
... It wasn't real. [she knows jason knows. she's reassuring all three of them, though. she rests her head on jason's shoulder and reaches to take cloud's hand.]
oh he was also there to die in jason's cyoa. he is not sure how he feels about that. mostly in the sense he does not like being used to make people feel bad? he lets lup grab his hand and squeezes it back with a frown ]
... You got Yuri out, right? [ that's really what matters, cloud thinks, because he is right here and not dead and he... places a hand over jason's on his waist as a kind of "see? totally fine" even though he knows the visual of seeing people die still sucks even when it is not real. ]
[He sort of bumps Lup's head affectionately with his chin as a way to get her to stop being sad about it even if that's very valid of her.]
Yeah. You and Sylvain... acted mostly like yourselves, but. It just felt... off. You were going along with it no matter what I said, your answers were short. I don't know.
[He shakes his head a bit.]
They weren't satisfied with the win, though. Said we could go anywhere together as our prize, but didn't like our hotel answer. So they through us in a pit below with someone Yuri knew. [Tiredly:] She was injured, but apparently every time she sighs, monsters appear. So you can guess what happened.
[ very proud of jason for identifying a fake cloud ("cloud can't even identify that he is a fake cloud" we don't talk about that), letting the two of them nuzzle ]
Hotel would've been too easy an answer. [ he agrees! and, also: ] How did you guys manage to get out?
Just one monster. [He sounds tired.] It was a big one. Looked like—a dinosaur? A giant lizard with spikes. Started charging something up while we grabbed the girl and ran.
Got to a dead end. There were two doors. The hotel, and… a mansion with Harrow and Hua Cheng. I gave the girl to Yuri and told them to go to the hotel, and I went through the other, but he followed me.
The charging thing? Beam of something got us both in the back as we went through.
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week 4, thursday
[ hello jason has been healed but lup and cloud are still fretting. somewhere. idk this is pre-curfew, the important thing is, cloud says this and sounds like he means it, but he's looking him over concerned and also touching jason's arm lightly, so pick a mood, bitch. ]
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He's moving around like a grandpa because the ribs are tender.] I'm-- [They're fretting. He just accepts this.
So his back is blistered from the top to the bottom; it doesn't look nearly as bad as before! but listen! Baby's first degree burn now. Also his right side has healed and hanging by a prayer crescent-shaped puncture wounds on the front and the back...? That's probably were the blood came from maybe. There's some slightly healed claw marks on his left shoulder. And two punctures on his bottom lip!
Hey, guess what! The shiner is gone! :)]
I'm alright.
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Yoooou are not. Lay down. [a beat.] I told you he was going to kick your ass.
[but she gently runs her fingers through his hair anyway. she looks over the wounds, frowning.]
... What happened? Are your ribs okay? I heard cracking.
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Cracking?
[ JASON YOUR RIBS? ]
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They're just tender. [...] Got hit by a car.
[LISTEN. He furrows his brows and closes his eyes like he has a headache.]
Was... a lifeguard? [He sighs. He was going to gloss over so much, but they're two of the people he'd tell the most to.] Working with Royce? [Royce... was... a lifeguard.] Completely believed it. I had fallen asleep, so I went back out on the beach. Someone was drowning. [He opens his eyes at Lup, but looks away.] It was Lup. You tried to make me remember about the hotel. But... a shark grabbed you. [Begrudgingly:] ...I tried to beat the shit out of it, but it bit me and pulled me under until I drowned.
Then I woke up somewhere else.
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That's how you should've known it was a nightmare. Royce would never save lives or be in the sun. [a pause, and she rests her hand against his temple like a heating pad for his headache.
she also just looks very upset about showing up, but she doesn't say anything about that, just squirms uncomfortably.]
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You tried to fist fight a shark.
[ he sounds tired, but it does explain the? crescent bite marks? god i hope it's from the shark ]
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I know. I mean... I would have, but it all seemed... legit. At the time. [He does not look at Cloud for reasons.] ...Yeah.
I would've won, but it had Lup, so... I had to risk letting it take her under, or tossing her back at the shore when it'd have the chance to snap me. [A pause. Wryly humorous:] It's alright. Maybe I died, but you were waiting back home apparently, so she still had one boy toy left.
[DON'T JOKE.]
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lup immediately gives jason a Look.] No. No jokes about that. Off limits.
[... she tugs cloud a little closer so they can both be annoying and hover around jason.]
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The thing about kicking your ass still stands, don't test me. [ :T ] How'd you go from shark fighting as a lifeguard to getting a husband?
[ that is the one thing he overheard ]
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He has one arm around Cloud's waist, the other goes around Lup's shoulders. He draws them both in anyway so he can kind of give each one a nuzzle in turn. Then he leans back.]
...Woke up in a chair on a dating game. [He hates this.] Yuri was one of three contestants, but couldn't remember anything, I don't think. He thought it was real. The other two were...
[Well, anyway.]
I had three questions to figure out who was real and who was fake while the psychotic skeleton audience watched.
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That sounds horrific. [she says, maybe a bit dryly.] ... Do I even want to ask who the other two were?
[sue her, she's curious.]
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Better question is, what was going to happen to whoever you declared fake? [ he knows how terrible game shows go!!! he doesn't, but he can guess. ]
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He actually... gets kinda sober about it. His eyes shift... to Cloud sort of pointedly, and then he quickly averts his gaze. Quietly:] ...Cloud. [There's no point in keeping things.]
And Sylvain.
[It takes him a bit to answer the last question. He won't look at either of them.]
They beheaded them.
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regardless, though - she's quiet, for a moment.]
... It wasn't real. [she knows jason knows. she's reassuring all three of them, though. she rests her head on jason's shoulder and reaches to take cloud's hand.]
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oh he was also there to die in jason's cyoa. he is not sure how he feels about that. mostly in the sense he does not like being used to make people feel bad? he lets lup grab his hand and squeezes it back with a frown ]
... You got Yuri out, right? [ that's really what matters, cloud thinks, because he is right here and not dead and he... places a hand over jason's on his waist as a kind of "see? totally fine" even though he knows the visual of seeing people die still sucks even when it is not real. ]
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[He sort of bumps Lup's head affectionately with his chin as a way to get her to stop being sad about it even if that's very valid of her.]
Yeah. You and Sylvain... acted mostly like yourselves, but. It just felt... off. You were going along with it no matter what I said, your answers were short. I don't know.
[He shakes his head a bit.]
They weren't satisfied with the win, though. Said we could go anywhere together as our prize, but didn't like our hotel answer. So they through us in a pit below with someone Yuri knew. [Tiredly:] She was injured, but apparently every time she sighs, monsters appear. So you can guess what happened.
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[she says, vaguely annoyed. she noses absently at jason's jaw.]
I guess monsters appeared. Did they fuck you up worse? [how did you get out of the pit...]
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Hotel would've been too easy an answer. [ he agrees! and, also: ] How did you guys manage to get out?
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Got to a dead end. There were two doors. The hotel, and… a mansion with Harrow and Hua Cheng. I gave the girl to Yuri and told them to go to the hotel, and I went through the other, but he followed me.
The charging thing? Beam of something got us both in the back as we went through.
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The car?
[ henwo? ]
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[He raises a brow. Parroting:]
The car?
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[she says this flatly.] It was the wrong color, but a guy from the first round of murdering at the station had one of those. He got killed in it.
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[ shut up cloud all your cars are made in shinra ]
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