the truth is, everyone wishes to be saved.

[finalring]

The execution has come and passed with the death of two more Agents. However time moves on without cease and so must the living. There are no celebrations, only the silence that grows heavier and heavier with every day and the feeling that something is pleased with what it has done.

There are two more days before the new week arrives: what will you do?

Comments

[reanimania]

Well, I helped them figure out how to use Jack's healing technology on him after the electrocution thing, so we're already even there and I don't have to give him any more credit.

[ huff ]

I think he has already lost some friends, but...

[ He doesn't hate most of Dazai's friends, and he doesn't want someone nice like Yachi who he sees every day to die unnecessarily, even if her taste clearly sucks. ]

Well, whatever. I'll tolerate him, I just won't like it.

[ At least life with Peony gave him some practice in that department... ]

[golden_dream]

...

[She looks up, eyes sad, then reaches up to pat his hand, softly.]

...

[After a moment she writes her next message:

"I know. I'm sorry. I know how terrible it is to be nice to someone who torments you...

It's not fun. It won't be fun. But if it helps us live we have to do it."]

[reanimania]

[ Looking at 'nice to someone who torments you' in writing immediately makes him think of Peony again, obviously. But staring at those written words for long enough, the scene in his memory pans over to Jade, too -- next to Peony, not him -- which he hates and doesn't want to think about, and he immediately forces himself to stop thinking about it. ]

Yes, of course. I agree.

[golden_dream]

[She goes back to patting and stroking his hand then. As much for her benefit as his, since it was stirring terrible memories in her own head.]

[reanimania]

[ ...

He really misses the professor. ]

[golden_dream]

[She'll keep that up for a while... feeling dizzy even lying down.

Before finally letting go, writing her next message:

"It'll be fine. Trust me, Dr. Everything's going to be fine, in the end."]

[reanimania]

[ He snaps himself out of it when that hand moves away, sitting up a little straighter. ]

...Yes. Right.

[ He doesn't really believe that, but he's going to do his damnedest to make it so. ]

[golden_dream]

...

[Yeah, on second thought, she doesn't believe it either. She re-writes:

"Okay, things won't be fine. But we'll be careful and we will stay alive until next week."]