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noctis "cover yourself in sombreros" lucis caelum ([personal profile] elemancy) wrote2017-02-03 09:14 pm

week 3; bros who suffer together, survive together (maybe)

[most of the afternoon was spent outside the reaches of the main town, out on the homestead. it was... not easy. nor was it fun. really? noct could use probably about.

oh, who knows?

84 naps? 84 naps sounds good.

either way, before he does that—there's someone else he sorely needs to check on. but when noctis doesn't see percy anywhere in sight, his first thought is to see if he's in his room. he... understands this well. too well, given what had happened in altissia.

(though perhaps worse in some ways, if only because noctis saw it and was helpless, but this isn't a competition for worst way for your girl to die and be dead, so he's sure as hell not considering it that way.)

he'll knock softly at the door.]


Hey... it's me. [noct is so good at greetings, right?] Got a sec?
hydrokinetics: (C’mon c’mon)

[personal profile] hydrokinetics 2017-02-04 06:43 am (UTC)(link)
[The scary part is he doesn't answer. He doesn't answer right away because he's thinking about it now. Would he kill to get Annabeth back? Of course not. But there are other options. There's always another way. Annabeth and Percy had just been talking about this earlier in the week and it's almost laughable now.]

I'm willing to do whatever it takes to end this. Even if I don't know what that is yet.
hydrokinetics: (Hailing from rock bottom)

[personal profile] hydrokinetics 2017-02-04 07:38 am (UTC)(link)
What's in front of us is tomorrow's trial and finding who killed her and the others. [His fists ball up in his lap but he's doing what he can to keep his anger in check. Noctis, you might have your work cut out for you.] We're gonna be locked in a room with someone who willingly destroyed her and those other people and who's going to lie to our faces to get away with murder. I'm not letting that happen. I can't.

[There's a pause.] Noctis I don't want to be wrong this week. I don't know if I could handle that.
hydrokinetics: (Hailing from rock bottom)

[personal profile] hydrokinetics 2017-02-04 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
We can't do anything about anything right now. [Again, it's fair. His mind's racing and he's still amped up a little, unsure of what to do without Annabeth anymore.] If we get a head start on thinking about tomorrow's trial, the better our chances will be of executing whoever's responsible.
hydrokinetics: (That's what they'll say to me say to me)

[personal profile] hydrokinetics 2017-02-05 05:17 am (UTC)(link)
I'm okay, Noctis. [Other than he's shaking and a little distracted, already letting his thoughts wander again.] I need to be ready for tomorrow and that means knowing what I'm up against. I can handle this.

If Annabeth and I were in opposite positions, she'd do the same.
hydrokinetics: (Well I don't wanna be the blame)

[personal profile] hydrokinetics 2017-02-05 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
Noctis I have to be. At least until I find her killer. I can't take time not to be when she's counting on me to figure this out and when other people are counting on me to help piece together what happened to Riku and Nui, too. It makes sense, doesn't it?

[He may have had a few people already tell him and question his ability to hold it together tomorrow.]
hydrokinetics: (Cannot seem to find my way home tonight)

[personal profile] hydrokinetics 2017-02-06 01:09 am (UTC)(link)
[It jars him out of whatever he was thinking, but only just long enough to give Noctis a very, very curious look. He knows it's important to grieve but at the same time it's important to help and discuss and carry on.]

...experience like this? Or something else?
hydrokinetics: (There's no reason)

[personal profile] hydrokinetics 2017-02-06 06:04 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh...he suddenly looks horrified that he asked and he shakes his head.]

Dude, it's fine, you don't...I'm sorry. I didn't know. [Like. Obviously. It's because of that though that he says...] ...I want to marry her. [Not wanted. Want. He believes he'll find a way to save her even in all of this.] We talked about going to college together and staying together...starting a family. All of that was planned.

I didn't think most people would really get it, or they'd think it's crazy.
hydrokinetics: (Not anymore)

[personal profile] hydrokinetics 2017-02-07 07:52 am (UTC)(link)
I think you and I have that in common, too. ["Percy, you're not normal." How many times did he hear that growing up even before understanding what that meant? It made things harder, and yet when he found his way to Camp and met people like Annabeth for the first time, it helped him feel a little more normal. He wonders if Noctis's fiancee made him feel that way, too.]

...what did you do after it happened? I mean...what can we do from here? [That is to say he's willing to listen to Noctis and actually let his guard down a bit, knowing it's a little safer to do so.]
hydrokinetics: (And why do we like to hurt so much?)

[personal profile] hydrokinetics 2017-02-08 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
[That. Suddenly makes a lot more sense, and he exhales softly upon realizing it. It's another moment before he drops his head in his hands and closes his eyes to focus on just breathing and not completely losing his shit.]

I don't have another choice. [He doesn't. With Annabeth gone, the path has been laid clear. He knows that and he's silent again.] I have to find who's responsible, and I have to keep playing to stop the game all together.

[There's a lingering pause.] ...where Annabeth and I are from, there's always been a good chance of one of us dying young. That's just how it is for demigods. I just always thought I'd at least be there to stop it and let it be me instead. I have to keep living to bring her back, I know that.

[Doesn't make this any better, of course.] You had other people then, didn't you?
hydrokinetics: (That's what they'll say to me say to me)

[personal profile] hydrokinetics 2017-02-09 05:22 pm (UTC)(link)
Did it help to have them? [He wonders how people even process grief. He's never really had time to think it over, personally, but it doesn't seem to hurt to ask Noctis.]
hydrokinetics: (Cannot seem to find my way home tonight)

[personal profile] hydrokinetics 2017-02-11 03:04 am (UTC)(link)
I think I get that, too. [He frowns lightly.] There's never enough time to react to stuff back home. It almost feels the same in this place, too. We know the same thing's going to come week after week but somehow we never know how to deal with it because something else happens.

I wish I knew of a way to make things less complicated, you know? Wouldn't that be something?
hydrokinetics: (C’mon c’mon)

[personal profile] hydrokinetics 2017-02-12 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
And we're getting no closer to ending it than we were at the start of the week. Annabeth was always the one to come up with ideas, I don't know what I'm supposed to do without her now. [He's running a hand over his face.]

...what's the likelihood we could at least get rid of the stocks so nobody else experiences that?

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