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 Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 4:14 pm
Last evening had started as any other would. Scyeth was wallowing in his memories, staring blankly at a wall while his roommate went about his own business. RuiZhi left to do something, and Scyeth was gone when he returned. It had become the natural cycle of things; one had to wonder if Scyeth was going nocturnal. Incidentally, Scyeth didn't return, as he spent the night in the infirmary getting put back together. Micajah faired much worse, and Scyeth wasn't actually sure what happened to his book. He'd have to go ask Gideon about it.
But the youth hobbled back to his room all the same, a wild smile stuck to his face. The was spring in his step (with the aid of a crutch) and a catchy tune in his voice as he burst into the shared dorm, looking around for RuiZhi. He tipped his head to the side and smiled. It was a real smile, this time. His lips hardly curled, but his eye sparkled bluer than the sky itself.
"Hey."
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Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 4:36 pm
The Chinese youth was in the room for a change, riffing through a book opened in the palm of his hand. In addition to his uniform and jacket, the teen was wearing a scarf, half his face buried in the fabric; he was a warm-blooded creature, in that the colder weather made him move slower. As such, he was appropriately bundled as though he was going to the moon, and not much warmer for it.
RuiZhi still couldn't find his glasses, so his eyes were still unnaturally blue with contacts - they weren't the same from Halloween, of course, but it was easy to reorder what was already done until he could find his spectacles. He'd left his hair loosely in a ponytail, trying to keep his warmth trapped around his neck and head.
So, when the young man glanced up, it was understandable how he looked disgruntled and minutely displeased. The expression quickly froze, slacking in surprise before settling on something between outrage, disbelief, worry and relief. Anger at the condition the blonde was suddenly in; disbelief that he managed to get in said condition; worry for the extremes of his condition; and last, perhaps most surprising, relief to see him in the condition. It was more Scyeth than RuiZhi had seen since they first started dating.
"What," he started, dropping the book to the floor and walking towards the bright-eyed and bushy tailed Aussie, "the heck did you do? Waitwait." His fingers lifted to touch the teen's unharmed skin, making sure he was really there. "Good, you're alive. Not for long if you don't start talking."
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Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 4:52 pm
"I BLEW UP," Scyeth announced, entirely too proud. He shuffled in further, leaning on his crutch as he reached over to shut the door behind him. "It was awesome," he elaborated, waving his bandaged hand around frantically. "I'm not totally sure what happened, actually, me and Mica were trying this spell, okay, and then it just BLEW UP. That actually hurt a lot. BUT IT WAS COOL. And then the new teachers came and this guy I don't know PICKED ME UP (Scyeth was going to have to murder that professor, later) and knocked me out, I think, and then I got patched up, and here I am!"
Scyeth inhaled deeply and smirked at RuiZhi, tipping his head to the side and brushing blond bangs from his face. Oh sure, he couldn't actually feel them through the eye patch, but it was the whole concept.
"Oh. They said I was half-blind now, or something."
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Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 6:14 pm
The teen sighed, turning back to his book and slowly shuffling through his library as Scyeth talked, not in the least bit happy. Each word that fell from the Aussie's lips did nothing to abate any of his reactions to the predicament, in fact making him feel quite grim for a moment. RuiZhi pushed the book he was looking through back into place, counting backwards from three before forcing a smile on his face and turning around again. "Sounds like you've been having fun."
There were unhappy words that wanted to tack onto the end of the statement, but he swatted them away, instead going about collecting random papers and generally trying to keep the place tidy. It was something of a nervous habit he had picked up; if he couldn't meditate to clear his mind, he had too much nervous energy to expend.
"Great." He sighed at the last part, smile still intact as though simply humoring his boyfriend. "So it takes a near death experience to save you." No, RuiZhi didn't like that one bit, especially if said experience was not with him. He could have gotten angry that Scyeth was spending evenings with someone else, but they really were just like room mates anymore.
Putting the papers down on a near by desk, he turned his attention back onto the blonde, shaking his head. "At least you're smiling." RuiZhi really wasn't sure if he could say anymore without some of his ire cracking through.
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Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 6:48 pm
It didn't really occur to the Australian that RuiZhi might not want to hear the way he almost died in excruciating detail. (Though, he'd have to scoff HE didn't almost die. The same couldn't be said for Micajah, the other youth was probably going to be in the hospital for a few weeks.) His smiled faltered a little and he blinked, once, twice, and chewed on his lower lip.
"Hey, it's not that bad," he offered. "I can still see. I haven't walked into anything yet."
What had he done now?
It wasn't the injuries. There had been something else going on, something else Scyeth had been blind to until he was blasted out of his pitiful state. It couldn't be a disapproval of magic; RuiZhi didn't even know what went on behind those closed doors. Oh, maybe that was bothering him. The closed doors? But surely he didn't think Scy and Mica...
"What's wrong, sunshine?"
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Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 6:59 pm
It was strange to the Chinese youth that the next he'd hear of Micajah after his black eye was an explosion. A magical one at that. He made a mental note to visit the teen at his dorm...or the hospital ward, failing that.
"Hmm?" RuiZhi looked to Scyeth, blinking as he came out of his thoughts, shaking his head with a shy bit of a smile. "Nothing. I'm glad to see you're okay, even if you look like last year's Halloween costume." He chuckled softly, stretching his arms over his head. "I'm just tired." Between the teachers, his boyfriend, his brother...he was not in a good place. He was, at the very least, relieved to see Scyeth was more himself, more the feisty blonde he'd met so long ago.
Instead, he meandered back to the Aussie and peered up at his face, blue eyes trying to pry around the bandages and patch with curious disdain. "Good thing you have me here. I'll help you change the bandages." He paused, looking into Scyeth's good eye for a moment before asking what he wasn't sure he wanted to know, "What...possibly made you think trying magic was a good idea?" RuiZhi smiled a bit as he said it, knowing Micajah's reasoning, but Scyeth? His soldier in training? Something seemed to be missing in that puzzle.
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Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 7:07 pm
He wasn't really sure if prying at the bandages was the best choice, but Scyeth trusted RuiZhi not to do any further damage. If the fact they were dating wasn't enough, the fact that the Chinese youth was training in the medical field was. (Besides, how much worse did it get after losing vision completely?) He tilted his head to the side and considered for a minute. "Well, whether it was a 'good' idea or not never really occurred to me," he admitted.
"But Dante's gone. And there was no one else to teach me. I mean, I met Gideon. He's nice enough. But." Who was to say he wouldn't leave me stranded somewhere, either? Scyeth shrugged and tossed his head to the side. "I mean, I certainly didn't expect to blow up. I don't- I mean. I just-"
What was he thinking, anyways?
"I didn't even think it would work. I'm a demon, and I don't know anything about my people, or my culture, or what I should and shouldn't do." Scyeth smiled sheepishly. It wasn't an excuse, it just was. "I didn't even think it would work. But I still had to try."
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Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 7:28 pm
Some of his good humor faded at the mention of the elf's name, nodding. "I know. He, and...and Greg, and...Irame." RuiZhi sighed to himself, using his hand to motion that Scyeth should sit rather than stand around on crutches all day. "So you...you did because you could?" The teen took a seat on the edge of the bed, shaking his head to himself, brushing some of his long bangs from his eyes. "How very Scyeth." He smiled as he said it, chuckling; it was like a state of mind, to say something was of that calibur.
"Luna is definitely strong, if She does rule your people," he offered, his voice suddenly soft at the shift in subject. Strength, yes, but not without innate magic. He'd seen it drive others mad, kill a person by breathing the very air it existed in. It was, in hindsight, a terrible thing to let the demon near such powerful stuff. Didn't the school keep better tabs on important things like that? What the heck were the magical wards for then?
Another light smile, another shake of his head. "You look great. I'm sad to say that, seeing as you're bandaged so much, but you...your eyes." He paused, ammending, "Eye." A nod, and he continued, "You look...found."
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Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 7:38 pm
"Hey, I still have the other eye under here," Scyeth pointed out, lips twisting back into a smirk. "I just thought I'd don the eye patch for a while. I've heard it's sexy." The youth wiggled his eyebrows as he hobbled over to the bed and flopped down unceremoniously, not used to the walking aids enough to make the transition with any grace at all. He pushed himself up with the not-broken had and wriggled over to RuiZhi, grunting softly every time he disturbed a bruise.
He draped an arm around RuiZhi's shoulder and chuckled, pleased to just be there, even if they were just sitting. "Yeah. Maybe that's a good word for it. I've kinda been absent from the realm of the living for a while." Scyeth felt like he had even ceased to exist for a while, and the world just kept spinning regardless. "But I'm here, now."
A pause.
"I'm sorry I kept you waiting."
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Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 7:49 pm
RuiZhi smiled at the mention of the patch, nestling into his scarf rather than shake his head again, amused. "I kind of liked looking into both of your eyes, but I'll take the one I can get." He chuckled softly as Scyeth all but stork-walked to the bed, as uncoordinated as a new born foal. How the Aussie made that look easy, he may never know.
He lisened quietly to the next few words, averting his blue-hued eyes. "I know," he said at first. He wanted to joke, Took you long enough!, or Did you get lost?, but he just didn't have the heart for it. After all that had gone so wrong in the year, it was so, so nice to have something finally work out and be right. RuiZhi lifted one of his hands, warm fingers gently touching Scyeth's own uninjured ones, his voice genuinely relieved.
"Welcome back. I missed you."
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Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 8:01 pm
It broke Scyeth's heart, to hear that.
The youth grunted quietly, shifting a little further before wrapping both arms around his boyfriend, pulling the other student into a bear hug before pulling backwards. Scyeth hadn't really thought far enough ahead to avoid the burst of pain that followed, but the Australian did little more than grunt as the bruises and cuts screamed. He was a big boy now. He could take a little pain.
"It's good to be back," he finally replied, shifting to his side, trying to reduce the stabbing pain. Oh sure, he'd been patched up quick, but exploding was pretty hard work, as it turned out. "It's good to be back."
He laced a finger into black hair and gazed into RuiZhi's eyes, his own twinkling again. Scyeth leaned forward, kissing RuiZhi softly, blue eye still watching RuiZhi carefully. It'd been quite some time, since he'd done that. Since he'd done anything for RuiZhi, to even just let him know he still cared.
"I missed you too."
He had to start somewhere.
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Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 8:19 pm
"H-hey--!" The protest was soft, half-hearted; even though he was deeply concerned for Scyeth's well-being, he could not refuse the other's embrace, extending his arms around the soldier's torso to return the hug sweetly. His hands returned to his lap as the Aussie tried to pretend he wasn't hurt, smiling a little to himself, already making a mental check list of items to use to ease his boyfriend's suffering and where they were located in the dorm, except that his memory failed him as fingers wrapped into his hair, and downright forgot every name in existance as his Scyeth kissed him.
Blue eyes lidded at the gentle intimacy, touched by the simple gesture. It reminded him of the last time they'd talked, the last time he had addressed the problems...or rather, when he himself had nearly flipped his lid. RuiZhi sighed softly, lifting his chin to press a shy kiss to Scyeth's jaw. "Good," he huffed pointedly, fixing his faux-blue eyes on the Aussie's brilliant one, "or I might have been hurt."
It didn't matter much of the time that had passed, because it was okay now; that was how he was raised, and he was fine not to address what had happened. What had passed was the past, and he was just as well leaving it there. Pressing on with the future, now, that was something he could do. "I'll fix you some bath salts," he remarked lightly, "and some salve to numb the smaller cuts."
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Posted: Mon Nov 17, 2008 8:37 pm
Scyeth snorted, tugging on RuiZhi's hair gently. "I can soak like a prune later," he muttered, leaning in for another a kiss. "I'm busy right now." The concern was endearing, it really was, but sometimes a boy's gotta do what a boy's gotta do. He had to make this right. Even if the other student wanted to be okay with it now, Scyeth still felt burdened to make it better, really, truly, better.
He'd been away for so long; was it wrong to want more time with RuiZhi?
"Hey. C'mere." Scyeth attempted to tug the Chinese teenager closer. "Just, c'mere for a little while. Let's bond, or something. I almost died...or something. You're supposed to be grateful for what you have when you almost lose it." Of course, Scyeth was acutely aware the magic incident was probably his saving grace; he had already dug himself a grave. But the heavens (Luna?) had given him a second chance.
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Posted: Tue Nov 18, 2008 4:31 pm
The teen listened to his boyfriend with amusement, scooting near to Scyeth and resting his hand gingerly upon the Aussie's back; he really didn't know the extent of damage the blonde had inflicted upon himself, and was ultimately unsure of where he could safely touch the other. "You can spend time with me in the bath," he replied with good humor, "because you're sure as heck not standing on your own, or washing yourself." He indicated the wrapped appendages with a pointed stare, small brows raising as if daring a protest.
RuiZhi didn't think much of the offer (demand?), because he didn't have a nurse to adminster such a thing (nor would he let any NEAR Scyeth), and because it was natural to want to take care of his boyfriend. He had such little opportunity to do such a thing to begin with, from the loss of the Aussie's father to all that had happened inbetween.
He wanted to make it better, too; they had to start making their efforts a two way street, and he wasn't about to let Scyeth start on his own.
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Posted: Sun Nov 23, 2008 6:03 am
Scyeth quirked a smile, raising an eyebrow as he listened to the smaller student's demand. Oh, that was how it was going to be, was it? The blond didn't argue, simply rumbled his amusement. He had the distinct feeling he'd be killed if he even thought about protesting; it was rather endearing. (And, if Scyeth were actually gay, he might even consider it adorable, but he wasn't, so that peculiar thought would just stay tucked in the very depths of his mind.)
"Alright," he smiled, stifling the yawn as he closed his shining blue eye. He was obviously not moving for a little while, not unless RuiZhi really insisted. "Just be gentle." Scyeth smirked, unable to resist the tease. "S'all pretty sore, you know. But good practice." He was going to be a soldier, after all, there was no doubt in the Aussie's mind he was going to find himself in plenty of sticky situations when he first embarked on that journey. Apparently, he was also going to have to get used to being coddled in the aftermath. But, he was okay with that. Scyeth started to purr loudly. Yes, he was definitely okay with.
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