tea party

[suddenlybees]

WHO: Toki, Kano, Peter, Gon, Maya, Yuya, Ekkehardt, Imelda
WHERE: Lumière dorms
WHEN: early during the first week of school
WHAT: screaming and dying and tea parties
WARNINGS: screaming and dying and tea parties... broken arms, bears, Lumière deserves a warning in general
NOTES: a continuation of this thread

[Toki doesn't know what happened, but there's a weird guy in a red costume, and a talking bear. He doesn't recognize Gongenzaka's voice, because he doesn't pick on those things.]

Am I dead?

[Because that would make this make sense.]

Comments

[hippocarnival]

Okay. [Yuya turns the disinfectant over a wadded up issue, squeezing out some excess before handing it to Toki.] Here, you should wipe your hand down first.

[yokeye]

[He cleans the dried blood off and can't help staring at the bite a little too long. Toki really hadn't meant to do that, and it was disturbing.]

I'm sorry about... I didn't...

[He can't formulate a sentence right now, that in itself also very disturbing. Best not to talk about it at all then.]

[hippocarnival]

[Yuya shakes his head.] It's okay. Something... happened to you, right? That hurt you and made you scared.

[He doesn't have any other explanation for that kind of trigger, anyway.]

[yokeye]

[He wasn't hurt. It didn't touch him. Fangs and claws dripping with blood and none of it was his... He's crying again and breathing too shallowly.]

I-it was... I... I couldn't...

[He covers his mouth with both hands because he's going to start screaming again any second, he can feel it.]

[hippocarnival]

You don't have to tell me. [Yuya hurries, hands outstretched with the box of bandaids in case he needs to comfort Toki again. Frankly, he's not even sure he can tell him right now.]

[yokeye]

[Toki's managed not to scream, so that's progress. But he can't talk about this, not tonight... or today, whatever it is. He needs more time. He nods to at least acknowledge that he's heard what Yuya said, and he's not going to freak out again.]

[hippocarnival]

[Yuya waits, lets Toki get a hold of himself first. It's a few minutes of silence, and Yuya barely holding back his concern.]

... You know. It's--pretty common for people to come where with something like that happening to them. I mean, it's just how a lot of people find out.

[They get hurt, suffer, traumatized. Yuya's seen it enough times.] There's counselors at the school who can help you with it.

[yokeye]

I don't want to talk about it!

[He doesn't want to yell at Yuya either, but it's better than screaming.]

[hippocarnival]

[Yuya jerks back, immediately shutting up and staring back at Toki with wide eyes. There's something really wrong with him trying to bury it further, that Yuya can't quite phrase but knows... but he doesn't say it.

Instead he just hold out the box of bandages for him.]

[yokeye]

[Shit. That didn't go well. Yuya looks almost frightened.]

I'm sorry! I just, I don't... I can't talk about it.

[Not without completely breaking down the wall. He takes the box and goes to sit at his desk, hoping Yuya will ignore him for the rest of the night/day/whatever.]

[hippocarnival]

... Okay. [With the box of bandages gone, Yuya turns to crawl back into bed and grab his abandoned phone. He wonders if it's really right for the school to put Toki through preparing to fight when he's still struggling with whatever happened to him.

Yuya spares Toki one last look before rolling over, throwing the covers over himself.]

[yokeye]

[After Yuya goes to bed, Toki waits a few minutes before leaving his desk; just to make sure Yuya isn't going to start asking questions again. It appears that's not the case, so he's going to attempt to sleep. The loft beds are annoying and too close to the ceiling. He crawls into it like it's a cave and burrows under the covers. He has no intention of going to classes tomorrow/today.]