[Final Day] Endgame

[arsgoetia]

And just as suddenly as everything had began, the demons are gone—all of them. Not a single crow feather remains. As if being sucked backwards out of a vacuum, sound and light flood into the room and the hallway, crashing down on you. You are back in the real world, with noise and physics and sunlight streaming in through the window.

You are also left with two bereft Bellcourt children, the older of which is suddenly doubling over in his wheelchair and shouting in anguish.

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[criticalbit.livejournal.com]

[This is a lot of information and FEELINGS to process at once. Stepping back leaning heavily against the nearest wall.]

. . . you weren't . . . pretending. I'm an idiot.

[arterialmotive.livejournal.com]

[PROCESS AWAY]

He had the nerve to tell me you were looking for me, after.

[criticalbit.livejournal.com]

. . . I told him to give you that message if he saw you. I thought . . . that he was doing me a favor.

You bit him.

[arterialmotive.livejournal.com]

[stands here without moving and continues]

He agreed to it. In a way, it may have been like a trade. It was quite different from any other, filled with a power... [actually, it tasted pretty damn good]

Through it, I gained some information.

[criticalbit.livejournal.com]

[SUPER NOT INTERESTED IN HEARING HOW ANOTHER PERSON'S BLOOD TASTED TO YOU :(]

Information?

[arterialmotive.livejournal.com]

[That was rather... tasteless of me, wasn't it? (YEEEEEAAAAAHHHHHH~)]

There is something going on in this world's Hell. Something he can see very well, but I've only a glimpse of it all. If Sidney is somehow summoned once again and bound by the whims of a human here then he isn't there. It's politics and demons vying for power, and we're all pieces in this game. I sense this is moving beyond coming here to simply save one person or someone's soul and then leave—what we do here will have many unseen repercussions.

[criticalbit.livejournal.com]

. . . getting mixed up in Hell . . . I couldn't have even imagined this. It looks like hoping that things might settle down and become simpler for everyone is going to stay just a dream.

[arterialmotive.livejournal.com]

[he gives her a long look]

Yes.

[criticalbit.livejournal.com]

. . .

That's everything?

[arterialmotive.livejournal.com]

Everything involving Tristan. But... you're not satisfied.

[criticalbit.livejournal.com]

It--it's not that I'm not satisfied! It's just . . .

[arterialmotive.livejournal.com]

[tilts her chin]

[criticalbit.livejournal.com]

I don't understand what you're thinking. I don't--know where I stand.

[arterialmotive.livejournal.com]

You stand in a place I do not care to lose.

[criticalbit.livejournal.com]

[pulling back against the wall, flushing hard]

You won't lose me. I already decided I would stay by your side . . . as long as you wanted me there.

[arterialmotive.livejournal.com]

I do want you there. Here.

[rests his arm on the wall above her and leans over Yuuki, his breath against her hair. his voice, however, is hollow... dark.]

A beast in me longs to cage you and rend your wings to pieces.

[criticalbit.livejournal.com]

[breath catches]

Brother . . .

[arterialmotive.livejournal.com]

[She asked for everything, and at that moment he was inclined to give it to her.]

To keep you always. Because my fear... is that you will one day choose to do something that will take you from here.

[criticalbit.livejournal.com]

I told you, I'm not going anywhere . . . so why . . . why are you saying such sad things now?

[arterialmotive.livejournal.com]

[deep in thought]

. . . Yuuki. There is something else you should know.

[criticalbit.livejournal.com]

[tenses, giving him a searching look]

Yes?

[arterialmotive.livejournal.com]

Yuuki... In actuality...

I am not your brother.

[criticalbit.livejournal.com]

W-what . . . ?

[criticalbit.livejournal.com]

[Slowly reaches up to lightly touch his face with her fingertips. This scent, this voice, this heartbeat . . . there was no doubt he was her Kaname.]

I--I don't understand.

[arterialmotive.livejournal.com]

You wish to know everything.

...Come. [he takes her hand to start down the hall]