[continue + 2] week 1 || act: investigate

[foundationmods]

[Everything is still, silent, and dark - just like it should be.

Friday comes, and there is no angry captain waking you up, no crowd of people.

But there is still, undeniably...

a feeling of foreboding.

You know what this is.

One of your own...has perished.

At the hands of one of you.]

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[accessorytomurder]

Don't look first. Don't look if you think it will set you off, or, um, or get a description from somebody before you do, if you can't stand not looking.

[And her voice is firm.]

And absolutely, no matter what, you aren't allowed to blame yourself for a single thing.

[cw_suicide]

[well, of course just hearing about it would set him off...

but, really, it's the second thing that's much harder.]

Even if I'm the possessed one, huh...

[lbr, they both have thought of the possibility of that scenario happening every which way.]

[accessorytomurder]

Osamu. Look at me.

[She squeezes his cheek, gaze serious.]

I promised you in the house, and I'll promise you here, too: you and Xian-kun will never kill me. ...I'll make sure of that.

[cw_suicide]

[except that just makes him flinch because of course that only means two ways that scenario could turn out and neither one of them are actually that appealing???]

Don't say it unless I'm allowed to say the same.

belated cw: suicide allusions

[accessorytomurder]

I'm...

[She shrugs.]

Even if I'm not me, I, uh... well. I don't know that I could hurt you, or overpower you. So... I-I'll trust your judgment. But I know for a fact that somebody using you and driving me to, to, um, to that, than having your hands used to do it, instead of mine. Instead of... of me, making a choice.

Re: belated cw: suicide allusions

[cw_suicide]

[... his takeaway from all this: if he doesn't want it to happen, he needs to figure out who the fuck is doing all the possessing and, more importantly, how and put a stop to it before it can happen like that.

but he's letting up a bit, tension bleeding out a bit.]

I really have been a bad influence like this, haven't I... ha... you know I won't take your choices from you.

[accessorytomurder]

You weren't the bad influence.

[She hakes his face from side to side, making use of that hard-won looseness.]

You're what makes me so happy to live in this world, you know that. Right?

[cw_suicide]

[listen.

sometimes.

you don't ever really expect to hear the thing that has been implied and maybe even stated a few times before. so mostly he's just kind of letting her do that while blinking in stunned surprise yet again.]

[accessorytomurder]

[She kisses him, soft and light and lingering.]

...Osamu. Know that.

[cw_suicide]

[this is the feels, ftr...





it's time for more clings, actually.]

[accessorytomurder]

[She moves her hand from his cheek to the back of his head, stroking gently through his hair.]

...ah, I really need to be more blatant, it looks like.