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Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2017 11:21 pm
Zaku felt hurt when the question was left unanswered. Leaned against the wall, he was lightly hitting the back of his head against the wall, cursing under his breath "...stupid stupid stupid..." he muttered to himself until Tri opened the door.
Finally making it inside, the concerned look only hurt him more. He probably messed this up too, asking stupid personal questions that were none of his damn business. There he went prying and meddling again. And all out of his own selfish jealousy.
I married yes
Zaku sat on the edge of the bed and looked completely crestfallen... he had found someone. And knowing that hurt more than anything. He hadn't even taken the time to analyze the room even now as his thoughts were consumed by his own heartbreak.
But all of that came to a screeching halt when Tri kissed him. His eyes wide in disbelief and confusion for several moments as he processed his words. It took him a bit to put two and two together, staring at him. "......you mean.... it's me?...." he muttered quietly, absolutely taken back by the revelation.
"...i.... gaia..." he forced out breathlessly. He almost couldn't believe it. "....when did we-...... i.... i can't...remember.." Despite how ecstatic he was to know it was him, he was also devastated he had no memory of it. To the point that he had because jealous of... well, himself. ".....so we... got married...." he reiterated mostly for his own sake while he processed this. There was a growing smile accompanied by tears he could no longer hold back as he covered his face a little. "....here I had been consumed by it... the idea of you being with someone else eating at me this whole time..." he mumbled.
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Posted: Mon Sep 25, 2017 11:43 pm
Tri quietly moved to sit down by him, reaching up to dry his tears with his sleeve. "I guess you didn't...the stares, what you muttered when you were on me and the sad looks, but I couldn't say anything " he explained with a faint sad smile. "(date) a few days after the eve of Hexxis death " he said softly with a sigh. "A few years after you remade the Renegades and changed their name" he explained quietly.
"It isn't the first time you've forgotten after an episode but eventually you start to remember everything again...but during those times ..." he shook his head. "You've been our best ally and our worst enemy ...as for knowing you married me it has been a fifty fifty deal, to the point that it isn't mentioned " he continued seriously. "... though I can't say it isn't comforting that the thought of me being with someone else ate at you...." he said quietly as the smirk faded and he brushed his cheek lightly before pulling his hand back again.
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Midnightspirit Vice Captain
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Broken_Illumination Captain
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Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2017 12:07 am
Zaku was trying to collect himself but it was far more difficult with the alcohol in his system. He nodded at the information, he remembered the time that Hexxis died. It added up even if he didn't remember what came afterwards the same.
It pained him to hear this wasn't the first time. "....andy mentioned i killed people during my last episode.." he mumbled. A pause came before he frowned deeper even when it wasn't as sad now. "....if it's any consolation, I knew my feelings for you since I came to..." he confessed before sighing.
He leaned on Tri for comfort. It felt almost too good to be true but he didn't have any reason to doubt it. "....i told you that i'd tell you everything about... what I think happened..." he started, trying to think back. "I mean, if Hexxis' death was the start of where I remember differently... then that is a long while back. Since then... to me... we found Ree and Cordelia. Ree was starving himself and then Andy was found.... with that mask... she kept trying to eat people... from there we found Hexxis again... but she was a kid again. After that they were both sick... Hexxis and Ree. We were almost captured by Haven... Ree and I. You and Hexxis came for us. Cordelia teleported you Hexxis and Ree to SIU and..... I don't really know what happened. I went after you to make sure you were okay... I impersonated a vampire.... with Silver..." he paused and frowned. "...my mother. And Silence... In the end, I blew my cover trying to make sure you were okay. Captured. You.... kissed me.... after I confessed how I felt about you......... from there Haven took me....." he seemed distressed, leaning to just lay his head in his lap in hopes it would make the headache go away. "....they kept hurting you and making me watch... and I couldn't save you... they killed Hexxis.... and... Sol was there... I... I shot the lead scientist and killed him... then they started killing everyone. I...turned into a tree and told Sol to burn everything down..............I passed out...... and woke up in this room...." he explained, still trying his best to remember through the haze. ".......i shouldn't have drank......" he mumbled to himself.
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Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2017 12:43 am
Tri nodded quietly in confirmation and looked faintly surprised but nodded again as he spoke of his feelings even if it sounded so ironic to him.
Quietly Tri lifted and covered him with the wings of one side as he closed his eyes listening, just comforted with him being near. At the mention of Ree he tensed and opened his eyes glancing toward the door but not daring to get up just now to check if Andy found him. As Zaku continued his frowned deepened and he sighed softly. "Ree... Ree never joined with Cordelia or Andy ..not until recently at least" he said quietly. "Hexxis never returned...she's dead" he said firmly with a look that it may have taken time but he had moved on. "SIU ...it's been a long time since I heard that name..it was disbanded shortly after Parley ...Mara was killed a few months later" he said with a faint pain in his voice. "I joined Norcrest to fight against you..." he didn't expand on that.
"A vampire...out of all the races you could have imitated you went for vampire?" he looked amused. "I never heard of Silver before but you told me she was dead and I never heard of Silence....and Sol..I already told you about" he sighed softly. "It is always like this... you gain a different history. Prior to the last time you were looking for Hexxis and had no idea who I was" he went silent. "Not drinking would have helped" he smirks faintlyas he started stroking his hair gently, nudge off the glowing band and handing it to him. "Do you want me to leave so you can sleep? " he asked softly ,his eyes on the band.
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Midnightspirit Vice Captain
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Broken_Illumination Captain
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Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2017 7:08 am
Zaku closed his eyes when Tri covered him with a wing. Listening to his voice, taking in his words. Everything was far different than he remembered. Trying to keep a mental tab on things, doing his best to commit them as memory. Hexxis and Mara were dead.... There was an uncomfortable shift in his body. "...haven tried to get me to kill mara to save you and I couldn't do it..... You would have never wanted me to do such a thing, to make that bet with your life for hers." he recalled.
"Vampire was the easiest for us to pull off since Silence was a vampire herself..... " he explained softly. "We were in SIU a week before I stupidly tried to protect you from a fake of myself."
Silver was....dead. And Sol too, and Silence didn't exist. ".....Silver is......was.. my mother... She died a very long time ago, before the renegades..... But we found her with child Hexxis in a Haven facility. They had resurrected her to experiment on her." He was treating it like a bad nightmare now. Reminding himself over and over that all that hadn't been real.
He nodded as Tri explained this was just a thing that happened, with a varying degree of results. "....I didn't mean to drink.... you know I don't... Because I can't handle it...." he mumbled on the verge of falling asleep.
His offer to leave caused him to stir, sitting up and hugging him. ".....this time....I lost you... You died and i-...... please don't leave..." he begged softly, pain in his voice. He took a deep shaky breath. "...I don't want to ever forget you....you mean far too much to me..." he mumbled, his fear of losing him was very clear. But this was real. Tri was real. And eventually he could remember him again the way it really happened. He just now feared having another episode and forgetting him again. Because even if he swore he could never forget Tri and how he felt about him... they had told him it happened before...and it could happen again. And that terrified him.
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Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2017 8:10 am
Tri looked intrigued, he always was really when he spoke of things so similar to what really happened. "What Haven facility?" He asked quietly, not hoping on much but it was to good to pass up on. He also wanted to ask about why he had to protect him from a fake Zaku, what happened to Mara and what happened to him but it was already obvious Zaku was pushing himself to even say this much.
"I know. I should have been more alert to that " he muttered, as he continued to stoke his hair, having been mentally kicking himself through the last part of the mission for failing to do so. It had hurt when Zaku was more willing to listen to the women he just meet than to him, but it made sense after what happened to Zaku earlier.
He was waiting when Zaku stirred, sat up and hugged him. He quietly returned the hug, moving slightly so he could rest his forehead against Zaku's. "and you me... but I will be here. We are safe here " he spoke quietly. "You won't forget ..you might even remember " he continued softly as he started to tilt trying to get them both to fall on the bed before pulling one arm back. "Sleep, I'll be here " he promised.
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Midnightspirit Vice Captain
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Broken_Illumination Captain
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Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2017 3:44 pm
Zaku was trying to figure out which one he was talking about. "Uhm.. We found them in Simco Research... I think... that's where I went to too. It was Norcrest for sure. That why I felt so strongly about continuing even if I didn't know what was going on..." he spoke tiredly.
He just nodded, sighing a little as they established that him drinking was a bad idea and was always a bad idea.
His chest still ached at Tri's words, but more out of guilt than from heartbreak. He closed his eyes as he rested his forehead against his and gave a small nod. The warmth of this feeling, knowing he was here, and loved him without condition. And even if there was a faint tug of doubt, he ignored it. This was everything he wanted, and to think this wasn't real was to accept that he had killed Tri and he couldn't cope with that. Considering that alternative, he hoped this was the reality and that it was over, all the bad things he thought he had experienced. "I didn't forget you this time... I just... it was from a time when we were still barely allies with conditions..." he admitted, his eyes unable to open now from being too tired and dizzy. He felt them tilt and easily succumbed to laying down with him. The request to sleep was easily met, nodding only very little before he finally did fall asleep right there next to him.
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Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2017 4:03 pm
"Hm... the not so good old times...I am glad you didn't forget me this time though." he huffed softly in amusement and raised his wing over him again closing his eyes and just holding him gently as Zaku fell asleep. Zaku completely missed the look of concern on his face as he sighed softly. It was midday when the sound of muffled arguing could barely be heard outside the door as two people shouted at each other before it abruptly stopped then started up again a few minutes later. Tri was no where to be seen but Zaku would see that had covered him with one of the blankets in the room. He wasn't alone in the room either, pale blue glowing cat eyes were watching him with a look of contemplation as their owner lounged in the chair wearing a white shirt and black pants all sprinkled or drenched in dried blood. Black cat ears flicked toward the sound of shouting as his tail twitched but other wise he didn't seem to care.
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Midnightspirit Vice Captain
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Broken_Illumination rolled 2 20-sided dice:
9, 6
Total: 15 (2-40)
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Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2017 4:50 pm
Zaku stirred at the sound of constant yelling, it brought back up memories of his time in the renegades when EE and Murder Squad stayed in the same house. It was always a constant ruckus. Taking a breath, he wished he had his mp3 player so he could keep sleeping but eventually opened his eyes. Pale blue eyes staring back at him as he kept the gaze for some time then slowly sat up and put a hand against his head, the worst headache coming in now only exacerbated by the yelling in the hall.
He seemed to ignore the person on the other end of the room as he got up and moved to the door without a word.
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Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2017 5:13 pm
Ree blinked slowly and just watched him lazily with a faint flicker of amusement on his face but made no attempt to stop him or even talk.
Outside Andy and Tri were yelling as Baelen watched silently from the shadows, arms crossed.
"You know I won't do that, yet you still sent them?! " Andy yelled looking ready to knock Tri out in anger. "You sent them without me... while we're over here looking for Ree...which was your responsibility!"
"We have the intel, I confirmed it with Cordelia as well." he said waving at Baelen quickly with a wing. "They were fit for the job, it will be fine... it isn't about destroy everything in sight either so ..a little out of your league" he said holding his ground but hints of glass were starting to surround him as if he expected Andy to hit him anyways.
She glared at him.
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Midnightspirit Vice Captain
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Broken_Illumination Captain
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Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2017 5:23 pm
With a hand against his head, he opened the door, staring at the scene for some time before he decided to do anything. ".....uhm..." he made the noise to announce himself, but said nothing as he stared at them with tired eyes. He looked between them all then frowned, "...is something wrong?..." he asked softly, his head pounding as he tried to even fathom why they were yelling and what they were even angry about.
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Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2017 5:45 pm
Andy glared at him pointed to Tri and just left.
Tri was frowning "I sent some people to look into Simco ....Andy thinks I should have passed it by her since she's running around trying to find Ree. He was seen killing a few mafia members in Norcrest ... likely the ones that had been after us. " he looked worried and shook his head. "We have to find him before the body count starts going up again " he took a breath and fully looked at him. "It was worth it ... definitely worth it " as if he was trying to convince him. "How are you feeling? You look ... horrid. Hangover? "
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Midnightspirit Vice Captain
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Broken_Illumination Captain
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Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2017 6:06 pm
Zaku stared after Andy then looked at Tri. He paused then frowned. ".....wasn't that just part of an episode?.... why did you send people to look?" he asked, a little confused why he was giving any merit to a supposed false memory. "....do some of my episodes come true?..." he seemed unsure before sighing. At the mention of Ree, Zaku glanced back. "....he was sitting in the room when I woke up..." he informed, "...covered in blood... but there." he insisted. He took a breath and nodded, "Better than being drunk." he retorted softly. At least, despite the headache, he could think more clearly about what was going on.
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Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2017 6:30 pm
Tri looked hesitant but then nodded "Yes... a few things have panned out others haven't. It's a 50/50 chance" he said carefully. "We are not sure why " he added and sighed, at the mention of Ree his eyes widen and he looked him over before rushing toward the room. "He's gone, playing with us" he said a moment's later looking angry then running his hand through his hair as he looked at Baelen. " Check for bodies" he took a deep breath then focused on Zaku. " Are you okay? ... check with your powers " he asked with concern. A dark green haired meta headed toward them."H ey .. we finished data pulling everything from their base ...few interesting tidbits we recognized right awa-. er what's wrong?" " Nothing... did you inform Cordellia? " " Yea she's already on it..." he said looking to Zaku now as if expecting him to add something more.
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Midnightspirit Vice Captain
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Broken_Illumination rolled 2 20-sided dice:
14, 12
Total: 26 (2-40)
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Posted: Tue Sep 26, 2017 6:37 pm
Zaku slowly nodded in understanding. He didn't know why either but if it was a chance to be true, then it made sense to check. Upon finding that Ree was gone, he frowned. "....he's... hurting others.. because he's not on medication?" he asked, clarifying it from what he heard between him and Andy. "I should be okay... just a headache..." he answered then paused, "...check what?.." he blinked, then came to the conclusion of what he meant, checking himself with healing to see if he was okay.
He looked up as someone else spoke and listened to the conversation before looking at Tri but still saying nothing.
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