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 Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 7:50 pm
Youko followed after Liraeal hanging his head still slightly, tail for once completely limp, he wasn't going to have a lot of fun explaining all of this to her. He'd would have liked to have forgotten the entire order but Joshua had been a very close friend of his to begin with and to merely forget would have been an insult to Joshua and his sister Asharadine, both of whom had been close with Liraeal. Even he knew this had to be a very unpleasant and nasty shock that would scar her badly. He himself would have been devastated.
Raco, nearly collapsed on the ground, holding himself up on his elbows, but only just, his black hair hanging over his face as he continued to gasp for breath. It had been a long time since he'd done anything like that. He'd swallowed a lot of water even though he had tried desperately not to do that. He tried to push himself but up, but only dropped back onto his elbows. He coughed and laid himself down on the beach of the lake and tried to allow his body to come out of shock...cats just were not meant for water.
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Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 8:38 pm
Ishtar broke through the trees, making out Valiant drenched and Raco sputtering, his eyes widened in shock, for he had disregarded Raina when she mentioned a naked woman… but this… “Did she try to drown herself or something?” He asked with his senses dulled, flopping down next to his adopted parents. He gingerly lifted Valiant’s head and laid it on his lap. He brushed the hair from her face and breathed calmly, forcing his calmness into her, until she had the sense enough to cough out the damned water that had stopped her breathing. His red eyes opened slowly as he looked over at Raco, as always he would have to give the diagnosis to him because Val was so self-damaging. “She’s going to be unconscious for a bit… her body needs time to recover from shock. Other then that she will be perfectly fine. A bit pissed when she wakes up though, so I would stay out of range.” The male beckoned to Raina and had her take their mother’s head onto her lap. He lightly raised an eyebrow to Raco, regarding him patently. “Do I have to help you too? And tell the truth this time.” He pulled a bottle of some vile looking liquid from his bag and thrust it at Raco. “I don’t care if you do or not actually, drink this, ALL of this, and you will feel better.” The young male sat down again cross-legged and facing Raco “and then you can tell me the story of what the hell happened.”
Raina sat obediently, brushing her mother’s hair from her face absently and humming lightly to herself. Who was that insane lady that hated mommy with such a passion? She wondered briefly while calming down the already unconscious woman. Raina learned very young not to oppose orders issued from Ishtar, the consequences weren’t worth it.
Lir stopped abruptly and spun on Youko. “I can’t take this, tell me tell me now, because guessing is driving me insane.” The Toyger female hated the idea of traveling further from where she made her camp and she truly was getting agitated in the silence. She wanted answers and she wanted them now.
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Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 8:58 pm
Raco took a deep breath and forced himself onto his elbows again and glared at the bottle. "******** you." he said defiantly and shoved the bottle away. If there was anything he needed it was just to sit back and catch his breath and wait for the shock to ease away. Taking a deep breath and forced himself again to sit up properly, but he still hung his head and he could feel the water rattling in his lungs with every breath. He'd see the medic later, he was used to 2 medics the one who had trained Ishtar and Asha, and since he didn't have Asha any longer her only would listen to one person. "You're better off asking Youko w'en 'e gets back...t'at is if Liraeal does not kill 'im first once s'e finds out about Joshua..." he sighed.
Youko raised his hand above his head bringing them down, palms raised and fingers almost grasping at something unseen, his face pathetic and frustrated at the same time. "We don't know where he is or if he's even still alive for that matter. After Asharadine died he left, said he had business to take care of and just disappeared off into the sunset basically." he said hanging his head, hair falling to cover over his face again his ears laid out to the sides and down as in defeat, tail still completely limp, so much so that his perfect white fur was getting dirty.
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Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 9:18 pm
Ishtar glared at the other “then ******** you when you need immediate medical attention.” His gaze shifted to Val and Raina and definitely stalked off. The young cat’s hands shook with rage as he disappeared into the trees, blending in with all of his black. Damn him DAMN him, see if he would care if Raco came crawling to him with his guts hanging out! That was his best elixir, the best he had made thus far, and it had merely been swatted away! He cried out in anger, desperation to be accepted and pure frustration. He promised himself all of these things, when more then likely he would simply do what he did best and heal. Goddamn it all to hell. He raised his hands and went further into the forest, further away from them and camp. See how he felt when Valiant freaked out because her son disappeared for a week. Not that Raco really cared about any of them.
Raina looked over at her father, debating asking what was going on, but holding her tongue and settling for a different question then her brother asked. “Daddy why is it that Ishtar is almost crying?” it was amazingly insightful for her, and more then likely posed quite a few questions in Raco’s mind as well as it would in Valiant’s had she been awake. All they would have been able to see was his rigid show of defiance and anger stalking away from them, as he always was.
Lir blinked a few times, simply staring at Youko. She was shaking violently and not truly understanding why. He… he abandoned her? Josh left them all? But why? HOW? Who was he to leave Raco like this, and then allow her to find out on her own?! Tears pricked at her eyes, and she tried her best to fight them defiantly, she hadn’t cried since she was 12, and that was after she killed her father. Crying after loosing ones lifetime enemy was hard… and she did not want to follow in those footsteps. She was silent, screaming in her head, trying to contain the pain that was tearing her up. Her body ached to run, to hide to sleep and never wake up, but she feared the loss of control if she moved. So she did what she could and stood there, shaking violently, silent, bearing her pain and expressing none of it but the watery eyes that she simply couldn’t get rid of.
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Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 9:39 pm
Raco cursed under his breath. He was frustrated, beyond all reasoning. If Val had been conscious he was sure she would have been quite cross with him, but he's had a trying enough day having to recollect the loss of his late mate, then the leaving of her brother who he had been friends with. The past was something that hurt and it only seemed to follow and haunt him over and over again. What the hell had he done that Karma had done this too him?
He looked up at his daughter, with the day he'd had already, little phased him by this point. "It's my fault. I lost my temper wit' 'im..." he sighed. "I 'ave to apologize to 'im later for being suc' an a**." he said heaving in a deep sigh before pushing himself to his feet and attempting to brush the dirt that clung to him. He sneered at it, he wasn't as vain as Youko was, but he still had no fancy for being disorganized or dirty.
Youko looked up at Liraeal with pathetic golden eyes and stepped over to her holding out his arms. He'd long gotten over her nudity, today was not quite the day he had expected, this was going to be the last day he didn't do a reading when he got up. Youko liked surprises, but not this kind. This wasn't a surprise, it was torture.
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Posted: Wed Sep 23, 2009 10:12 pm
Raina looked over at her father, and gently set Val’s head on the soft dirt. “Dad I’m sure Ishtar will forgive you… he always forgives me…” She stood, not really caring about the dirt and wrapped her arms around her dad’s waist hugging his hip. He hurt so much so often… and suddenly Raina felt frustrated, if not angry at the woman’s sudden appearance. Who was she to break up her family? To threaten their happiness because of something that happened forever ago? Raina buried her face into her father’s hip, not really wanting him to see how much she was fighting with her emotions and everyone else’s.
Liraeal managed to take the few steps into the others arms and nearly collapsed, just as she feared she would if she moved. Her body shook with the effort to simply stay standing. The tears prickled over, and dripped from her cheeks soaking into this shirt and neck. “Why would he do this to me… to all of us?” she asked quietly, still hiding her face, still crying, and still trying her best to remain strong and not loose it completely. Lir hated change, she couldn’t stand it… and then this happens… it felt like her heart was beating crookedly, like it was slowly dwindling and only half of it remained. Her legs gave one last effort as she collapsed in Youko’s arms like a broken toy.
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