happy birthday to u

[whenyouneedme]

♥ Who: sad rawna kids, maybe less sad other people
♥ Where: rawna’s house
♥ When: 7/4-7/8
♥ What: canon update party
♥ Rating: prolly pg for intense worry


This was not how the afternoon was supposed to go.

It was really just supposed to be a little lounge in the afternoon. Kai had taken Bug out for a little romp in the sunshine, let the little guy stretch its… uh… rind? Get its roll on. Enjoy that one patch of grass for a while, a fruitbug needed some quality time outside sometimes, probably. Kai did at least. Playing with the orange eventually devolved into just sitting around for a bit as it rolled around, and that eventually led to laying back to watch the clouds roll by. Had there been any plans for dinner? Was the kind of idle thought that passed by. Maybe when all three of them were home, they could try making oyakodon or something together. That seemed like a good time.

When idle thoughts and lazy clouds became a nap, he didn’t know.

He didn’t wake up when Rawna’s priests came and picked him up. He didn’t wake up when Bug squeaked at them either, so he missed all the erratic circles it rolled around them as they went off to the temple.

It rolled all the way there, and all the way back, rolling around in obvious circles in the yard until someone it knew came home. Was it you? Yes? Well, better follow that fruit cuz there it went down the road to Rawna’s house.

The priests were kind of expecting them. Even with the mishaps that had happened, Rawna’s priests were familiar enough with this group to know that there was one pertinent reason Shinji or Kyoko would have shown up right now…. Even if they didn’t yet. Yes, their friend was this way. Yes, they could visit with him.

He didn’t wake up then, either.

Comments

[closed] Shinji and Kyoko do a worry

[whenyouneedme]

[Please respond to your resident Bug, thank you.]

[closed] wake up dumbbutt

[whenyouneedme]

It had been fairly early on that Kai had admitted that somewhere in the back of his mind, he'd been convinced that one day he was going to wake up and find himself back in his prison cell as if nothing had ever happened. As if Havenwell were just some sweet dream he created.

When he woke up to bars on his window again, he stayed there for a long, long time. That was how things went. Bars. Bars. Bars.

Bars until he finally found that purpose of his again. That single lingering regret that he'd never fully been able to reconcile with. It had been exhilarating, and Kaito hated every second of it. He'd always known he was an idiot but this--

When everything became nothing, he didn't know. It maybe shouldn't have been a surprise to wake up to nothing but an ache in his chest and... wherever the fuck he'd been, with no signs of his regrets. After all that, it really had all been for nothing, hadn't it. He wished he was surprised. It definitely wasn't a surprise that it was the bars that greeted him the next morning again. Again and again, until suddenly it wasn't them anymore.

It still wasn't what he wanted, but he had a life to live. That was something, he supposed. He'd get used to it. Days would trudge on. There was a different purpose out there, probably. He didn't want to be here. He went to bed with drab walls.

His hands were warm. He worked his eyes open slowly, looking down at the hands holding his. Something funny caught in his chest. He looked at the boy. He looked at the girl. He looked and looked until his eyes started to burn, suddenly struck by the idea that he was about to wake up somewhere else again. Not yet, please. This was it. This was where he needed to be. Right here, with those hands in his.

He gave them each a faltering squeeze.

[open] where the heck is the delivery boy anyway

[whenyouneedme]

[An open prompt for anyone? That desires such a thing? It could be at the temple to gaze upon his husk if you're into that (probably more for checking on Shinji and Kyoko!!), or possibly post-huckage if you just want to check in on him after he woke up.

Replies here will possibly be a little after things are more established in above threads!! Tyty ♥]