daybreakacademy | tea party

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tea party

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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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.]

[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.]

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

Okay.

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

[Yuya draws his hands back, sitting down beside Toki to wait until he calms down. This time, he just stays quiet.]

[Toki doesn't look at Yuya for the entire three minutes it takes him to stop crying. He is the worst roommate ever, and Yuya shouldn't have to deal with this.]

You should go get the door open. I'll stay here.

[Going back down to the first floor and running into whoever was still around was probably not a good idea right now.]

Okay... you sure you'll be okay waiting here? [He's moving to stand, but he looks worried about what state he'll find Toki in when he returns.]

[He's not sure of anything right now, but they really should fix the locked door problem.]

I'm fine~! Where would I go anyway?

... Okay. I'll be back soon.

[He hesitates only a second before he turns to run. It'll take about ten minutes, before their room unlocks from the inside and Yuya leaves the door wide open as he runs back down the hall to Toki's side.]

Toki, it's open!

[He's kind of surprised to see Yuya running back down the hall; when yelling from the doorway would have been perfectly acceptable. He stands and starts heading back to the room.]

So, we really have keys? Because I haven't seen them.

[Did he lose them the first day and completely forget?]

You should have. [The school isn't going to make them leave their rooms accessible to anyone at any time of the day.] If you don't have it, you should ask for a replacement tomorrow.

I'll do that!

[He's also going to dig through everything in the room later, to see if he'd left it somewhere.]

[Yuya nods, letting him in first before he closes their room door behind them and moves to the bathroom to dig up the first aid supply.] Is your hand still bleeding?

[He looks at his hand. The blood's dried and there's some obvious teeth marks, but otherwise totally fine.]

No, it's fine.

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.

[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.]

[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.]

[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.]

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.]

[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.]

[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.

I don't want to talk about it!

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

[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.]

[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.]

... 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.]

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