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 Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2015 1:44 pm
When Harrison let go of Lawrence he sunk to the floor in a human puddle, looking scruffy and miserable. It was not acceptable, being dragged around like this was not all right with him in the least and he intended to make the other man regret it. Biting his lip hard enough to draw blood, he set his expression in a look of complete distress and when Melvin opened the door, leaned back on his good hand and gestured in a horrified fashion with the claws on the other at Harrison, while backing up as much as he could on the floor.
"He just SHOWED UP and ATTACKED ME for NO REASON." he said anxiously, "Help me Melvin."
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Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2015 1:58 pm
Harrison rolled his eyes again.
"I did not. He's just being dramatic because he didn't want to talk. There's not a scratch- what the ******** looked at the bleeding, anguished mess he was currently holding.
"What, are you practicing for the world cup? Why don't you hold your face and roll around some, too?"
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Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2015 2:08 pm
As Jan dropped, Melvin rushed to help pick him up, sudden panic rushed into his system at seeing Jan go from being fine to such a state. Only moments ago he had left in the best condition and now -
Jan had never pleaded to him like this, looked this worried and disheveled, and the strange and rare sight of it only made him more confused and afraid for Jan. he had been hurt when out of his sight and probably could have gotten hurt worse all because he hasn't been there.
Clutching Jan, he held him. "He what?!" He said in utter disbelief before he turned to look, eyes wide at Harrison for doing something as out of the blue and horrible as to attack Jan indoors.
Rising up and trying to help Jan, he glared at the Moon. "What the ******** is wrong with you? Come here, Jan. Get away from him." He moved to get Harrison away from Jan and moved Jan to the side behind him and towards the safety of their room.
"Is Rep rubbing off on you or something?!" This was completely out of the blue and even more strange from Harrison who didn't seem to care that Jan needed medical attention.
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Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2015 2:22 pm
Lawrence did not let up on the act and as soon as Melvin came to help pick him up clung to him for dear life, desummoning his weapon only when he was in his arms. "I don't know Melvin." he said, breathless and panicked. "He asked where I was and the next thing I knew I was being shaken around by my shirt. He was so adamant that Rin was dead and wanted me to agree with him."
"Thank you Melvin." he said breathlessly as he gladly put Melvin between himself and the danger. Only from safety and holding onto him from behind did he peek around him at Harrison. While Melvin scolded him and compared him to Rep, Lawrence was busy giving Harrison the smuggest smile he could manage.
"He..he was just so angry about being wrong."
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Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2015 2:36 pm
Harrison glowered at Lawr.
It was like Lawr said. People wanted to hear what they wanted to hear, and that was all there was to it. The truth didn't matter and it didn't help anyone either. Nothing anybody showed Melvin was going to convince him that Lawr's shield was in perfect condition.
"I didn't hit him. But maybe someone else did because when I found him he seemed real <******** confused. Maybe you're right. Maybe we ought to go see Sunny in the infirmary."
He asked as sweet and soft as his normally growly voice allowed for, "Jan, you feel like we need to go to the infirmary?"
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Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2015 2:50 pm
The confusion only grew as he kept himself between Harrison and Jan as he tried to pick apart what made and didn't make sense only to find none of it made sense. If he looked at character and honesty, Harrison and Jan had always been direct and honest to him. However, despite looking up to Harrison for being a more experienced healer and a far more capable one, Jan won loyalty points from being closer to Melvin.
But his loyalty was tested when it meant that Jan was either telling the truth or that he got hurt and dish remember.
What could have done this?
To think Harrison would attack anyone didn't make sense and he never had come to Melvin about Rin in months. Why go after Jan then? It felt too out of character for the Moon and it also explained why Harrison brought bim here. But - how did he know Jan lived with him?
Lost, he turned to Jan and examined him, touching his brow and looking into his eyes. "Are you - are you sure? Harrison ... Is usually a good Moon. You said he just started attacking you? ... About Rin?"
Did he forget something? Did something - or someone take over?
He looked to Harrison, wondering and then back to Jan. "Are you sure it was him?" And to add to that, "That he attacked you?" He couldn't react until he knew what was going on. Did he take Jan to the Infrmary to help him and thank Harrison for bringing him home or did he find out why Harrison hurt Jan. Why he talked about Rin.
He stroked Jan's hair, trying to comfort him while still deeply tangled in worry for Jan's wellbeing.
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Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2015 3:08 pm
Lawr gave Melvin a nonplussed sort of look for even doubting him. "He picked me up and forcibly and with NO SMALL DEGREE OF FORCE dragged me here. You know how much I dislike summoning my weapon, do you think I would have if I wasn't in danger?" He looked absolutely upset at this betrayal. "Just because someone has a good track record doesn't mean that he isn't capable of being horrible and of having a temper."
He leaned defeatedly against Melvin, dejected and abandoned by everyone he trusted in the world.
"And no I don't want to go to the infirmary, they all buy the same lie, that he's some kind of saint. They won't believe me. Its fine. I work there, I'll take care of myself, just help me to the bed. Just leave me there since you believe him more than me."
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Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2015 3:25 pm
"I did carry him here, and he did get his claws out, trying to fight off something. Don't worry, he didn't hurt me none. I don't know. Maybe it was spirit forces. Maybe that's what's got him addled right now, making him go nuclear over s**t he hasn't even heard anybody say."
Harrison stepped in, trying to project concern instead of angry glowering, and only half succeeding.
"You got ice in the kitchen?"
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Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2015 3:39 pm
His heart dropped and he saw Jan's look at him. Angry at him. Not wanting anything to do with him, and he knew he made a mistake he couldn't take back. He doubted Jan. After all the man had done for him, done for them, and he had to wonder. Why didn't he just take his word for it.
"I'm sorry. I just - didn't want to think someone else did this." He didn't think that even Harrison could do this, but who knew? Harrison had let him die before, let Rep take care of him in that awful world. He also didn't know what Harrison was up to recently.
He gripped Jan, trying to catch his attention. "You're right. You never do summon without reason."
But what if it was spirits?
Harrison is your friend. He helps people.
We never hanged out. He never came to talk about Rin but to argue at me. He let me die before.
Do you think he did this?
I don't know, but if it means hurting Jan or Harrison, then it's easy to decide. He's the only one that matters. My life won't change if Harrison hates me.
"Stay there, Harrison. I can take care of Jan. Insint want you touching him anymore."
He set Jan down to their bed and whisoered a pained sorry to him.
He moved to the door, looking down as he decided on something before looking up at Harrison, "Why did you fight with him about Rin? Why did you hurt him? He's done nothing to you."
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Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2015 4:16 pm
Lawrence gave Harrison a snooty look, but on the whole was having as much fun as it was possible to have pretending to be upset. He was no longer trapped and in mood under the surface was back to level indifference, but it had rapidly become a game of twisting Melvin against Harrison and regaining control of the situation. "I most certainly do not want you in the fridge. I do not want you in this room." he reiterated, all the while maintaining that edgy, flighty demeanour.
Melvin he permitted to take hold of him and gave him a weak and injured look. "No one else did anything, I have told you before I am completely in control of myself, and he even admitted to you what happened, though he of course has tried to spin it that because he did not get hurt that I did not, well I am most certainly not a full hunter, I am delicate in body and when put through this sort of stress in mind."
Flopping dramatically back on the bed, he toed off his shoes and put the back of his only hand over his eyes.
"I will be sore for days."
Butch, not understanding why Lawr was saying that he hurt when he didn't, whimpered a helpless apology.
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Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2015 5:09 pm
Harrison folded his arms and leaned against the wall, definitely not leaving, and bit back the urge to threaten making Lawr actually sore for days.
"Don't put the ice on it direct. Just wrap it in a washcloth. ...I didn't hurt him," he said for the billionth time. "And if I had hurt him, I wouldn't be shy about it. Melvin, what I originally came to ask about was...uh. Are you...happy? I mean, not right now, obviously. But like. Overall."
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Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2015 5:39 pm
Melcin stood at the door, wanting nothing more to go to Jan and tend to him. He looked back to Jan, frowning deeply before snapping his agitation back at Harrison. It was so much easier to hate the man now that Melvin felt he was in trouble and made a mistake because of him.
"I know how to treat wounds, Harrison. I work in the Infirmary. I know how to do that much - though I didn't think I would need to practice it in my own room and because of a Moon."
The concern threw him off a moment. "Why?"
But he didn't want to loose focus and wanted Jan to know he was in his side. To correct his mistake.
"Am I bleeding? Am I sore? I think the person you should be concerned about is Jan. Why is he saying it was you fighting him? Why are you lying? So you just dragged Jan to my room because you wanted to know if I'm OK? From how long since we barely spoke?" Where was that concern when he had been alone? When he needed them to be there? To listen to him? To help?
Where was Harrison when Rin was taken from this world?
"Did Rep set you up to check up on me or something? Still hating me because I failed to get him supplies?"
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Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2015 6:00 pm
"I do not need ice." Lawr clarified from where he lay on the bed. He would possibly need smoothies from off island and other luxury supplies but those would be requested when Officer Ruins everything was gone.
He sighed grimly. "He never cared about you Melvin, he only cares now because he thinks he can meddle and succeed in my business, as so many people do. Any excuse to harm little old me. It is always about me."
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Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2015 6:33 pm
"What supplies? Nah, Rep's...doing good. But he didn't send me. I...just got off mission, they been keeping me busy the last couple of months."'
He looked sullenly over at Lawr.
"Yeah, everything's about you, Melvin doesn't matter, I got it. You know, you been involved with a lot of people, and I never went to call on any of them."
He turned his attention back to Melvin, more awkwardly.
"I'd heard- he was channeling Rin for you. His niece said he was. And, I talked with him about it. And he said...I mean, you seemed like you were feeling better lately. And he said you were a lot happier. So, I thought I'd ask if you was."
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Posted: Tue Jul 28, 2015 7:09 pm
He didn't like anyone talking about Rin. He learned his lesson the moment he trusted Rep only to find that Rep could leave on a dime and hadn't been there for them. For him and Rin. He learned that if he told anyone about Rin, they would throw it back into his face or leave him.
Trying to get anyone on his side was pointless and in the end, Rin only wanted his help. He admitted that he liked the idea of having a team to help her, but since he was the cause of her leaving, it was selfish of him to drag anyone else into the problem. Into their personal business.
It was probably safer that way too.
Harrison was here, but he came at a bad time in the worst way. Why did he care if he was happy? "What would change if I said I was or wasn't? What would you even do if I wasn't? I wasn't happy before and no one else cared. Rep even left. Everyone did. I went months without anyone. Jan at least has been here for me. Been more of a friend than Rep has been." He frowned, deeply pained at the memory of the red-head he wished to see more often.
"I ....I don't know what Chantelle is saying to you."
He paused, glancing at Jan, not sure what to say or was allowed to say, before looking back at Harrison. "You said you talked to Jan? I thought you said he attacked you?"
Did Jan tell him about Rin?
Why hadn't Rep told Harrison?
"I wasn't happy. How could I have been after....?" He flexed his fingers. Why was Harrison even here? He was busy and yet he felt he had to come here to check up on him like this? A name on some checklist to help the Moon sleep better at night?
"I think whatever you are doing here is a little too late. Whatever...checkup this is. You're not helping? You only hurt the only person who has given a damn about me all this time. So no, I'm not happy. I'm pissed off." He glared back at the Moon.
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