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 Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 4:15 pm
Bix just frowned he was playing with the bottom of his braid when she began to rock in distress. "That's messed up. I guess it doesn't matter who did it but.. the methods around here aren't always the best."
Bix wondered if she'd done something and not known or if that's what happened to some of the others he hadn't seen in a while, like Tika. Did they just throw you back in a pod? How many times could you be revived? Did hunters have more than just the obvious shelf-life?
"I'm sorry that happened." He looked at Ceres face, her distress. He could feel her need to do well. He understood feeling like you had to prove yourself. "You need a hug?" He actually seemed legit this time, his arm extending, and there was no sign of a setup to something pervy.
A friend needed comfort and he was willing to give it.
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 4:55 pm
"It doesn't surprise me that they did it... more that it was for so long you know?" She too had heard of the punishment before, it would scare anyone to work but... she guessed she must have done something really wrong.
Or someone had a sick sense of humor.
"Maybe they just forgot i was in there." It was enough to scare the huntress out of her whits. What if they put her back and forgot about her for forever? Would she never wake up? Or wake up in a different time? It was enough to drive her mad, she needed to improve to not have that ever happen ever again. "Sometimes i have to sleep with the light on, or i forget where i am if i wake up and its dark." She hoped that little blurb did not sound stupid, to those whom didn't understand she probably thought she was afraid of the monsters under the bed.
Only they FOUGHT the monsters under the bed.
At the question she turned and gave a small smile, rubbing at her eye with a free hand. "You know, any other time i might have said yes, but under the circumstances," She eyed the wound she had just patched up. "Rain check?" She really needed a hug at that moment, but the thought was enough to make her feel better.
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 5:01 pm
It wasn't the first time Bix heard about trouble sleeping. This was an organization filled with people who'd been terrorized by shadows their whole life. In time, those that survived, probably had a better time. As young trainees they weren't quite immune. The things they'd seen just fighting for Deus were nightmare inducing.
"Well if you can't sleep and you want to hang out... I am always around." Yes he'd wake up and sacrifice sleep. "So many people lost their rooms I kind of got used to talking to someone.." Anyone who needed a floor. "But everythings getting fixed now." And he was alone and now laid up. "You're hardly the only one with sleeping problems. I mean.. look at these people." Half of them were certifiable sometimes.
When she declined the hug he smiled and nodded. The albino hunter just shrugged. "S'just a flesh wound.." he quipped in a horrible fake british accent.
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 5:53 pm
"Hmmm you best be careful from now on or i just might bite your 'bloomin legs off." She added with a smirk, giving a equally bad accent back as she got the reference to monty python.
"Really though, you are a great friend but trust me when i say i will not wake you up if i can help it. You need your rest too, Archer." She smiled mischievously, suddenly deciding at that moment that is what she was going to nickname him. Iy was fitting, she thought.
"Though i must ask... i was, well. No ones really told me what happened to this place while i was asleep, and i have yet to ask so its my fault too."
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 6:11 pm
"Oh ho ho a biter, huh? I can dig it." He laughed again and winced but eventually just leaned his head back against the wall.
"Honestly I've been missing company." He rolled his head against the wall to look at her again. "I was in my last year of school when I came here and I had roomies. When I came here I was so jazzed for privacy. But.. after all the Insanity things.." The bunks, the destruction of the dorms, the nightmares and the internal thoughts. "I've sort of started wanting company more. Not saying.. you need to come baby sit me. But people stayed here some nights and now things are getting fixed. Nightmares sometimes." He frowned. "I guess it's just nice not to be with your own thoughts sometimes, you know?"
She asked what happened and he simply sighed. His honest expression seemed to darken a bit. "You're lucky you missed it. Do you know about the Horsemen?"
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 6:31 pm
"The day you lose your sense of humor will be the day i actually worry about you." She shook her head and stretched her legs out, they were starting to become stiff from curling up. All the same, it meant that her dark stocking covered feet were now closer to Bix's head now.
She really could understand wanting company, but she personally was so used to being alone. You would think being in Deus would have changed that, but... before now she really kept to herself, even before the pod incident. It was no wonder Bix acted like he had never seen her before they met, he probably hadn't.
"Well don't worry, i'm certain with your friends, myself included... you'll get more attention than you'll ever know what to do with." It was true, she had a sinking suspicion that he would never be lonely here. "Besides would you prefer me or someone else to change those bandages?"
"No... not really. Ive heard them mentioned but not why? If its something you'd rather not speak of i understand." It would mean she would go and find someone else to ask.
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 6:46 pm
Bix grinned devilishly, pausing in his discussion to wiggle his fingers against the soles of her feet. HE WAS TESTING. But he pulled back after a moment and chuckled. "Just testing." For what? Oh yes.. he was a tickler. She wouldn't be the first to receive his tickling wrath. JUST YOU WAIT, CERES.
"I would definitely prefer it be you. It hurts when I do it and everyone else is kinda sloppy." Bix pinked in the cheeks. "They are good for the company but not the medical needs." And Before really was just bringing baked goods. Of course Bix devoured them but... still.
On came the explanation and he took a breath of preparation. "So you know the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse? Well they are actually tribes of horsemen and yeah.. trying to bring on the apocalypse and destroy humans. Very weird and mystical and artifacts and..." Bix waved his hands a bit. "Much more serious s**t than the Halloweeners. Well in 1999 they wiped out like MOST of the hunters on New Years. That's all I have put together on that from people talking."
Bix had not been one of the people to pursue that mystery but now that he talked about it, perhaps his mysterious relative died then? He did actually pause in talking to ponder this. "Umm so yeah anyway.. we decided to hit back recently and we wiped out all 4 of their islands."
Bix scratched his head, his snowy lashes falling closed, becoming much more obvious when he closed his eyes. "We seriously wiped them out. Like.. a whole race of people." It was the job, he told himself. They KILLED people.
"Well their dead races souls like.. I dunno mixed with FEAR and I can't explain it but we've seen it before.. When the monsters are grey and cracked looking? with blue glowy eyes? It's Insanity. It can infect you. And it invaded the island."
He let her absorb that much.
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 8:50 pm
"HEY!" Should have been his answer enough, backed up only by the fact that she pulled her feet back towards her body a second later. Oh yeah, she was totally ticklish. "Paybacks a b***h you know, but don't worry even i wont tickle temporary cripples." Ceres fired back, teasing.
"Though until your fully healed i say we call a truce or... would you rather not see my pretty mug twice a day? Im guessing you need to change the gauze twice a day, i bet it used to be more than that." Ceres had a hunch in the beginning he had to change bandaging at least four times a day, and now it was probably down to two... maybe still at three. Medical degree was kicking in yeaaahh.
Though as he spoke of the events next, she shushed down and listened intently. "..We seriously committed genocide?" The question was fired off before she realized it, and backed her own question with knowledge. They killed people, it's what they did. Why should it be a shock at what they did? I mean they had nearly killed all the hunters on that new years day, why not return the favor?
Still, it left a bad taste in her mouth.
The horsemen, huh?
Do you remember something about them, Takeru?
Only that they were a extremist group, not much. He hummed a little to himself though, giving Ceres the idea that he knew a lot more than what he spoke of.
"....Insanity invaded the Island?" She said, returning back to the conversation with the fellow hunter. "Like, a Physical form of Insanity? Is that what destroyed the Island then?"
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 9:07 pm
Bix decided seeing her twice a day wouldn't be awful. Did he just recruit his own private nurse? "As long as you keep wearing those thigh highs I will not complain.." There was a teasing tone and he didn flinch as usual, expecting to be wacked. Even if he was crippled!
The Horsemen line of questioning also left a bad taste in Bix's mouth. He looked down at his hands. "The horsemen killed Julie. Famine.. the.. bugs." His chin screwed up in disgust and behind his eyelids he saw her again, turning and dripping with blood, staring. The hairclip he got her was still in her hair... Bix sighed, shudderingly.
"This huge.. phoenix formed. It was.. it was just made up of them. Of all of them. These writhing, screaming faces. Like you see in comics but the feeling in the air? People were fighting each other, halloweeners vs. halloweeners, hunters vs. hunters, people hurting themselves... " Bix clenched his fists. "Some of it got through our portal home. We were living in a bunker, taking shifts to clean out the buildings."
His red eyes opened and pinned her gaze seriously. "We all suffered from it. It infected us. Voices in our heads, saying things, whispering things. Nightmares. Things playing over and over in your head while you try to sleep. Things in the corner of your eyes.. Moving and watching and laughing at you..."
Ceres, worried about this scratch on him, would have not liked to see the baggy eyed, white stubbled Bix that had lived in those bunkers with his mind tormented.
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 9:28 pm
About to quip back on the short stockings, she soon found herself growing silent as the look in the other mans eyes struck her. She listened intently, even as the facts he spoke of grew gruesome she never let her gaze wander. She owed him that much as least, for she would have a image within her mind as well. It might not be as true as his were, having witnessed it, but she will form her own mental demons from the descriptions.
She honestly had issues with julie, wincing as he described the way she died. Bix had told her previously it was from bugs, but the added information made it too much. Julie was so fully of life, so full of fun that it was honestly sickening to hear what happened to her. No one deserved what happened to her.
As he continued the description she saw it all, step by step.
Ceres had never to this point appreciated that she had missed part of her life, but in a sick twisted way the pods had somehow saved some of her sanity. By the end of his speech she found herself dumbstruck, really too horrified to speak. Before she could even think otherwise, before her brain even remembered 'hey dumbass he is injured stopthat', the raven haired woman scooted forward towards him. Raising a arm she leaned down and gave him a awkward sort of hug. She squeezed firmly. Granted it was high up on his chest as she instinctively avoided the wound, so he probably had a face full of boobs from it. She just HAD to give him a hug right then, even if she refused his earlier one. It was Bix who needed the hug right now. Even if these events were something in the past he had gotten over, just a horrible memory, she knew that there would be mental scars. For that she had no medical remedy, but a hug might be a start. "I'm sorry you went through that."
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 9:52 pm
Bix did need a hug. He didn't even notice the boobs partially in his face. He wrapped one arm around her and hugged a moment. The, realizing he'd offered her a hug earlier, shifted to wrap his other arm around her too.
"Hug for you too.." He said softly, amused but sad. "And thanks. Uhh.. I guess it can't be helped but at least you are warned, hm?" Because they'd seen Insanity before and they were likely to see it again.
"At least you woke up after. You get all the fun broken people to fix." He laugh was a little sad when he pulled out of the hug.
"Nice shirt by the way.." Since it was bosomly pressed into his face. Yes he finally noticed.
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 10:17 pm
"Oh joy, best get out my medical tape and stapler then, i have a feeling i might need them." She laughed back with him, trying to add a little humor in to their current conversation. It had taken a really deep turn towards things that haunt them, a little humor couldn't hurt.
"Hmm seems my rain check was paid in full then too, a little earlier than expected but none the less pleasant." Ceres scooted back away to give him more room to situate himself. Healing people sometimes need to sprawl. "Sorry if i made you hurt worse, you just looked like you needed it."
"And oh-....OH." She said a moment later, red tinge fluttering across her face. She might not show color on her skin as well as he did, but she could look flustered. "I- uh. Whoops, sorry for smothering you there. Apparently Iron man wanted to send his love too."
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 10:23 pm
"It actually only hurts if I stretch or tighten my stomach in some way." The press of the hug had been nothing. "Besides I'll take a little stabbing pain if I get more boob smothers. Totally fine with that." Her blush couldn't be ignored. The albino wouldn't let such a ripe chance escape him.
"They are fine specimens though. You don't need to look so shy about it." Bix laughed and finally WINCED. "Oh ow.. jeez.. ha.. c'mere only more hugs will make this pain better."
Hit him. Go ahead.
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 10:35 pm
If her face could have turned any redder, one would say that she was currently fire-engine red. Her ears even gained a slightly red hue, and that was saying something.
"I come any closer and i might literally smother you with these 'fine specimens.'" She growled under her breath. Instead of punching him though, because damnit if he needed more wounds for him to blackmail her with later, she reached a arm out as IF to sucker punch him... only to flick him, hard, on the forehead.
She heaved a huge sigh. "If your this flattering with all the woman in your life, no wonder that female reaper stabbed you." Did not make Ceres any less irritated about it though, but it WAS true.
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Posted: Wed Jul 04, 2012 10:43 pm
"OW s**t!" His hands flew to his face and of course then his wound stretched and made him wince. Already a huge red mark was showing up on his pale skin, but thats what he gets!
"Don't be mad.." He whined. "I'm pretty hopeless with chicks okay. This is my uh.. defense mechanism." That was his excuse anyway. Just like his bad humor, he couldn't help it!
"I totally have a mark now don't I?" Yep. Huge red dot on his forehead. "It still hurts.." Rubbing it was, of course, making it worse.
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