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.]

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[yokeye]

[Toki disentangles himself from Yuya. He's still crying a little, but he's pretty much done with this.]

I'm okay now~!

[He gets off the couch, and he's going to go back to their room and compartmentalize this whole thing, never to be resurrected again.]

[hippocarnival]

[Yuya stumbles back as he's pushed back and has to back up to his feet.]

Are you sure--wait, your hand. It's bleeding!

[yokeye]

[Yes, yes it is.]

It's fine!

[There's not a lot, but it's there and now he's on the verge of freaking out again. Blood is not good. He can't stop looking at it.]

It's fine!

[hippocarnival]

[Ooh no he doesn't want this to go to freak out round two. Yuya holds his hands up in a placating gesture.] It is going to be fine. So let's get your hand bandaged, okay?

[yokeye]

[That's a terrible suggestion, Yuya. There will be questions.]

It's just a little blood~!

[He wipes his hand on his pants.]

See? It's gone~!

[hippocarnival]

[There are questions right now.

Yuya pauses, before sucking in a sharp breath and straightening his back with a sterner expression.]

Toki. You bit your hand, you need to at least clean it off and put a bandage on it.

[yokeye]

[He's giving in, because he doesn't want Yuya to be mad. He sits back down on the couch.]

Yes. Okay.

[It is bleeding again after all. But it will be fine.]

[hippocarnival]

[He'd just bother Ekke, but... he thinks he should give him space to focus on Kano. And this is pretty minor.

Yuya gesture Toki to follow.] There's stuff in our bathroom to clean and cover it. Let's go do that now.

[Maybe it'd do Toki good after all this to calm down in the comfort of his room, anyway.]

[yokeye]

[Perfect. Yes. Don't tell anyone else about this.]

Yes~! That's a good idea~!

[He follows Yuya back to their room, hopefully without incident.]

[hippocarnival]

[Thankfully the hour is late enough to not run into anyone else. Yuya will wave off everyone else as they exit, up the stairs to the second floor. He isn't very talkative the trip up, not sure what to say...

He tests the door when they reach their room. The knob doesn't turn.] Uh... did you bring your key when you left to meet Kano?

[yokeye]

We have keys!?

[He never locks the door.]

[hippocarnival]

[Shit.] Yes? But I left out the window so I don't have mine!

[At least their window is... still open...] Wait here, I'll get back in that way.

[yokeye]

I wanna go~! Are you going to use Odd-Eyes!?

[He totally wants to ride a dragon, even for the few seconds it would take to get to a second floor window.]

[hippocarnival]

Uh, yeah. [He could theoretically climb it, but Odd-Eyes will be faster.] I guess you can come in with me that way, but we have to go around.

[yokeye]

That's okay~!

[Because dragon.]

[hippocarnival]

Okay, okay. Let's go back down.

[Toki's injury isn't an emergency at least, to afford to go back down the stairs and circle around the building to meet Odd-Eyes.

Yuya's less quiet along the trip, though.] So... uh, what happened just then--was that really because Gongenzaka is a lycan?

cw: gore, blood, ptsd, panic attack, more screaming, omg i'm sorry

[yokeye]

[Toki stops in the middle of the hallway at Yuya's question. He backs against the wall and slides down to sit on the floor. It's hard to breathe and he's shaking. He's watching it again and again...

...Ginshu's dead eyes looking up at him. The lower half of her face is almost gone entirely, the jaw hanging off one side, blood dripping onto the grass from what's left of her tongue. Her neck is torn open, ragged claw marks visible along the edges of the flesh that remains. Her left arm has been severed near the elbow, the limb landing near his feet. Half of her fingers were missing, bitten off. There's blood everywhere. Pieces of her and the others, bodies torn to shreds...

... He's screaming again, fingers yanking at his hair unconsciously. Nothing exists but the attack at the shrine.]

[hippocarnival]

[Yuya isn't new to talking to people who've had bad experiences with lycans. When his best friend is one, it's a topic that comes up. But he's never dealt with a situation where talking about someone being one incites a screaming fit every time.

Yuya's on his knees by Toki with his eyes wide in alarm as he moves to grab his shoulders to try and hold him firm.] Toki?! Breathe, you're safe right now!

[yokeye]

[It's not Yuya that approaches him, it's the werewolf creature, done with his sister and looking for fresh prey. When Yuya touches him, he just screams louder, trying to curl up and hide.]

[hippocarnival]

[Yuya tries to shush him, not leaning any closer but not letting go, either. After biting himself Yuya doesn't want him to hurt himself further.]

Toki it's me, it's Yuya! You're okay, you don't have to be afraid.

[yokeye]

[He's barely registering Yuya's words beyond the fact that he's speaking. The screaming turns to crying, but he sees the hallway again. He's still terrified and expecting to the corpses and the blood and the lycan to appear again at any moment.]

[hippocarnival]

Toki, focus on me okay? Look, me, you're safe now. Nothing's hurting you. [Is talking him through this even working? Yuya's not sure but it's all he has.]

[yokeye]

[He tries to focus on Yuya, but it's taking a minute and he only picks up the last sentence. He's still panicking a little and he can't stop crying.]

I'm... okay n-now.

[He is not even close to okay.]

[hippocarnival]

Yeah. So just stay sitting and breathe, okay? Nothing's going to come for you here.

[yokeye]

Okay.

[He will stay here and breathe, and cry, and try not to feel like he's dying.]