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“Likes of me?” Rave didn’t react as the sword was down in a neutral manner but ready to come back if the demon attacked again. He gave Gambler a slight nod, however. He would behave but only for as long as Monty permitted it. The elf wasn’t going to allow the redhead to throw a temper tantrum over some mysterious fight that no one really knew much about other than whom it involved while they all got slaughtered over it. It wasn’t going to happen. “What do you mean, Monty?”

Eyes widening just slightly, it wasn’t long before Rave’s sword was gone in a mass of shadows and he was kneeling on the ground beside Gambler. He cupped her cheek as he kissed her gently, whispering, “What happened, Gambler?” Rave didn’t go after Monty or even attempt to figure him out as his eyes were solely on the woman in front of him. Before she was able to answer, he spoke to Joker without looking, “Joker, do you mind doing me a favor?” He gave the information of where Kalore was, keeping his voice quiet in case Monty decided to actually go after Kalore next, for whatever reason that there was… “Check on him and keep him from doing anything…stupid, please.”

Kalore was there but he wasn’t moving. Curled on his side in a ball, his eyes were open but he was unseeing, simply staring into a wall as his eyes were faded and dark. He couldn’t believe that he had done this… Kalore understood why Monty was upset, but why didn’t he talk to him? Why didn’t he ask him what it was that was going on? He barely heard the man’s voice as there was something nearing a whimper coming from his lips. Monty got violent when he was upset and hurt, but Kalore shut down. He was shutting down worse now than he had in a long, long time.

Stroking the woman’s hair, Rave sighed softly, nodding. “I know that I need to watch over her but… At least go somewhere where he’s not going to attack you again. You need to rest.” Kissing her again, he sighed softly. “Do what you need to do but… if you’re going to get hurt then I don’t want you hurting yourself more, Gam. You’re still weak.” Sin had taken a lot out of her and all of them knew that. What he didn’t understand, though, was what was going on with the redhead out there. How could the man do all of this? He knew that there had to be something that was causing it but… who knew what it was?

Kalore’s eyes didn’t react enough to the light to be considered responsive as he didn’t even react to the touches or words that Joker gave. He simply stared off into the wall and didn’t even blink when the man spoke about attacking him with needles. Kalore had never been phobic of them so he didn’t have the internal fear… nor did he mind the other touching him. It wasn’t like he could feel much of it, actually. He could feel something… but who knew what it was? He didn’t see the man with red hair that he wanted to see so… what did it matter? If Rave hadn’t gotten a reaction out of him, why would Joker?

Rolling his eyes, Rave leaned down and kissed her again. “You’ll miss me.” Winking, he stood up and helped her to a place where she would be more comfortable, smiling just a bit. “Call me if you need me. I need to go to Kyoshi first, then I shall return to Dusk.” Another kiss and he spoke again, “Be safe.” Shadows soon took him and Rave was gone, standing in front of Kyoshi’s apartment building, sighing. “I really don’t want to be here…” But he knocked anyway, knowing that Dusk wanted Kyoshi to hear something from her.

On normal circumstances, the man would have freaked at being lifted up by someone that he didn’t know all that well. He really did like Joker but there were just some things that people didn’t do to one another when they weren’t that close. Kalore did nothing, however, but simply stare into the wall. What all was going on with him? The blonde said nothing but his body seemed to flinch at the mention of the redheaded demon. How could he have done something like this to him? Why? Why would he hurt him like this? Couldn’t Monty just listen? He knew that the demon had a reason to be upset, but this was ridiculous! He didn’t even listen… he didn’t let Kalore say anything… he just tossed him out like some trash that had been stinking up his house. Maybe that’s what the demon thought of him, though… maybe that’s all he had really been to him.

Rave had smiled just a bit at Gambler but the smile was dropped at Kyoshi’s entrance. “I had a message from the princess but if you don’t want it then that’s fine.” He shrugged, giving a bit of a wave. “My apologies on disturbing you. Good day.” Did he seriously think that Rave was going to go out of his way to speak with Kyoshi if he didn’t have to? The man only did that for a few people… and most of the time, even then it was just for the sake of gaining information and relaying messages. The message wasn’t direly important, however, so… Kyoshi could just crawl back into his hole.

Rave didn’t chuckle but there was amusement in his eyes, “And you think that that horrible anger will go out on me? When she hears what your immediate response to me was then it won’t be me that she’ll be angry with.” The amusement only grew as he walked off, knowing that the only thing that he had to tell him was that he was allowed in Ellwood. That wasn’t huge information… of course not! Granted, he couldn’t leave the manor… but that was okay. He could take that. He could just be there for Dusk and no one else had to see him… but that had just been what everyone had agreed on.

Joker was right in thinking that Kalore was just going to ignore him, but his body curled tighter against him as he heard what had happened. The elf didn’t really listen but it was hard to fight off the instinct of wanting to protect one’s friends… but when he cared so much about the attacker, even now, it made it hard to pick which side to go against. Instead of thinking of it, he finally just closed his eyes. He didn’t want to listen to Joker, he didn’t want to see him, hear him, sense him… nothing. He just needed someone that wouldn’t pity him, wouldn’t bother him… maybe he should just go back to his old job. Kalore didn’t have near the problems. Well… when he was high or drugged or something then he didn’t have the problems.

Body curling in more, the man’s eyes were closed tighter. Kalore didn’t want to hear this. He really, really, really didn’t want to hear this. What he wanted was to be alone and when Joker went up to tuck him in more, he shook his head as he touched his hand. “Go, Joker.” His voice wasn’t hurt or insulted or emotional but was monotone… completely void of any emotion as his eyes never opened. Kalore didn’t want to deal with any of this… he was just going to rest, try Monty again, and if that didn’t work… if that didn’t work then he was gone. There just wasn’t anything else that he could imagine doing. “Please, just go.”

Rave was back in Ellwood and it only took minutes for Kyoshi’s phone to be ringing. The elf was right. He was safe but Kyoshi… not so much. Dusk was growling as she yelled into the phone before Kyoshi would even be able to speak, “What the hell was that?! Sending away Rave?! He was going to tell you that you could come here, damnitt!” She stomped her foot as there was a council member just steps away from her, watching her in shock. Maybe Dusk really was the king’s child… the temper didn’t come from her mother.

Dusk growled back into the phone as the councilman stepped back. This was a bit scary, actually… and now he was understanding why it was him that had to deal with this instead of the older, wiser men. This woman was insane. “Oh hush! He was the one that was here, Kalore’s gone somewhere, and I can’t leave this damn place! I’m getting ‘primped’ or whatever the hell they wanna call this hellish treatment.” She glared at the person that was fitting her for a dress, wanting desperately to scream loudly and freak out more. Dusk was already hating all of this but at least she had Rave to calm her down. She wanted Kyoshi, though.

“Damn it, just leave me alone!” Shouting at the other, Kalore was finally standing up as he was thankful to be able to hold onto something other than pity and despair. Anger. It had been a long a** time since he had been able to hold onto that. “What happened happened and I can’t fix it, you can’t fix it, no one can, okay?! It’s done! Just go away and leave me be!” He didn’t want to yell at Joker because the man was a good friend… really, he was, but still.

He didn’t need this. Kalore didn’t want to have all of these guys surrounding him with pity and words of comfort when he didn’t need comfort right now. He needed someone to fix this. At the moment, though, he was pretty sure that it wasn’t fixable. “Just… just go, Joker.” He shook his head as he took a step back, his eyes reddish from the tears before and his skin paler than it should have been. The elf was a mess but… he wasn’t going to do anything to help himself. Well… he could do something… he could easily do something. That one something, though, would be bad… really, really, really bad.