you were a flicker of light

[coagmentatio]

Who: Aiden and YOU (closed first prompt!)
What: He was CRAU updated to his very last week in Fayflower U.
When: 06/22 - 06/25 (OOCly, 07/11 - 07/14)
Where: Beach and then Medical Bay.
Warnings: Gunshot wound, death, blood, attempted murder, strangulation, suicidal ideation, etc... Murdergame shit, basically.


closed to Akana

[ The first thought is the memory of the gunshot.

The second thought is of the searing-hot pain that had taken his breath away, even then. Now? It's no different. He can't properly breathe, he can't think - not about anything other than: Get up...

And it's hell, but he forces himself to stand. He forces himself to begin looking around, to try and figure out where the fuck he even is. Fortunately, even in his current state, he's able to figure that one out fairly quick; he's... back? When did he actually leave, really...? Of course, thinking is not going so well... at all. Even with how quickly his body is fighting to try healing. The problem there? It honestly needs blood, and not just in the sense of his usual cravings. His hand feels damp...

That's the last thought he manages before dropping to the ground is that the world is tilting uncomfortably.

Which is how he can be found on the ground, maybe ten feet from where he started out. ]



medical bay

[ Well... this sucks?

But, while he feels like crap, he's doing much better than he was. He's able to try sitting up - try being the key word, whether it's because someone is fighting him on that, or because he's still feeling kind of drained. And... not just physically.

Anyway, if anyone winds up in the area? They might get greeted. People are welcome to ask what the hell happened to get him shot, because that sure will be a fun story, right? Haha... right. ]

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[hairpincurves]

[Well, it was a nice night for a walk.

She actually sees a figure in the distance trying to walk--?! But it's after she's sprinted halfway there that she sees who it is.

Holy fuck, that's Aiden and HOLY FUCK HE IS BLEEDING.

She's still running when her mask forms on her face and she just about skids to a stop when she gets over to Aiden, very nearly tripping.]

Aiden-- you-- Oh, god, never mind that-- Isis! [Before she can find herself rambling again, she summons the Persona, and it's not even a split second later that a Diarama spell's light settles on Aiden.]

[coagmentatio]

[ The voice is familiar, and it's enough to snap his attention right on over to Akira's face. ]

Akira... Fancy meeting you here...

[ Yeah, that voice is pretty weak, but maybe it'll still serve as a sign that he's still got quite a bit of fight in him. And, right in that same moment, he's being... healed? Right... she is a Persona-user, after all. Just like her male counterparts. And as the light settles on him, warm and gentle, he reaches up.

There's a faint, grateful smile on his lips as he brushes her upper arm. ]

Thanks... but...

[ ... Yeah, he's not finishing that sentence. He tries to move, but- ]

Nng-... shit...

[ N o p e . . . ]

[hairpincurves]

Just-- Just hold on, okay?

[Isis almost looks as fretful as Akira does, waving a hand as another Diarama is cast.

... The medical lab. She needs to get him to the medical lab. But... there's no way she can carry-- she might not be able to, but there are people in this station who can. It's with that thought that she pulls out her phone before... shakily tapping out a quick message to Shido.]

please come to the beach NOW aiden-san needs help and i can't carry him to the medlab PLEASE HURRY

[... Now, nothing to do but wait.]

after utter chaos

[makejapangreat]

[Shido has had some time to calm down. He knows Aiden... well enough, at this point, to know that he has some problems when it comes to... older men, perhaps? Older people in general? Certainly, he seemed to take better to Akechi helping him when he first arrived than to Shido. Not to mention... the times he saw him flinch, the way he jolted when he got angry...

It's like some part of him instinctively fears the worst...

...truly, though, it's hard to even muster up a smile, given what Aiden had implied, what had happened to him, what he'd gotten himself into... he's... deeply troubled, for sure. So when he comes in he quietly walks over to Aiden, looking over the state of him with a deep breath, before he finally looks to him.]

How are you feeling?

what do you mean? everything's been perfectly calm :)

[coagmentatio]

[ He's quiet at first.

For a long while, he stares down at his lap, his expression sort of just... empty, really. ]

Do you remember when your son asked me if the people of that school expected us to kill each other?

hmmm

[makejapangreat]

[...ah. That's one way to start off the conversation.

He doesn't say anything, but merely takes a nearby chair and sits down into it to listen to Aiden.]

sometime

[biddentodance]

[Hey

Hey Aiden

Hey Aiden hey

Guess who's still asleep]

[coagmentatio]

[ Annnd this is why Aiden does really badly at staying put! He's constantly trying to get up and check on Minato and constantly doing things to make sure he's comfortable... ]

sometime later!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[biddentodance]

[Sleeping is all well and good, but even Minato can't sleep forever, much as he'd like to sometimes. Once he's awake, he's getting back to his day to day life as quickly as he can. ...Mostly.

There's something he has to address, someone he can't ignore, which is why at some point not long after he's on his feet again, he's going to find Aiden.

.....

He....will just kind of. Steel himself before approaching. This suddenly doesn't strike him as a good idea.]

Medbay

[fistsofchange]

Hey.

[Lin pokes her head in with that special smile that very concerned people who don't want to SEEM concerned use plastered on her face.]

Heard you were feeling poorly...

[coagmentatio]

[ The smile is noted, though it's not one he's ever... seen before? Not directed at him, anyway. So there's a moment of confusion that he tries to mask with a calm expression and nod. ]

Yeah... just a little.

[ """a little""" ]

Is that... why you're here?

[ Spoken like someone who's never been visited while ill before. Complete with a tiny bit of shyness leaking through. ]

[fistsofchange]

Of course it is! I wanted to see how you were doing.

[I hope you like sympathy and concern because a sense of it is pouring off Lin hard enough to choke an empath.]

What happened? Do you want me to get you anything while you're recovering?

medbay, 06/24

[anarchia]

[It's not long after catching wind of Aiden ending up in here that Carnivac makes his way in. He's trying to maintain some calmness but, the last time he was at someone's side in this kind of situation wasn't one that he liked being reminded of.]

What did you do.

[He's not outright yelling at him, trying to keep some restraint in his voice, but it comes out a considerably heavy growl.]

[coagmentatio]

[ That's a brief, slightly startled expression, completely with a blink. Afterwards, his gaze is shifting to the side. ]

I guess I fell into a rift, at some point... For a few more days, I was back at that school I originally arrived here from.

[ ... ]

I was weak... and stupid, so they shot me. When I returned here, I was in the same state I left the school in. Luckily, Akira found me.

[anarchia]

[He narrows his gaze.]

Was that the exact reason?

[Or is that just what Aiden thinks he was being? He'd have some words, in either case.]

6/23

[hairpincurves]

[She's actually decided to stick as close as possible after... everything.

She's been quiet, in order to let Aiden get some rest (provided he's been cooperative), or at least quietly fretful (more likely), fiddling with her phone, a book, her hair, her glasses... she's got a lot of nervous energy that she hasn't been sure what to do with.

She's been here a while, nerves and worry doing wonders to keep her awake even if she hasn't slept yet.]

[coagmentatio]

[ She might have noticed him trying constantly to get up and check on Minato? Sorry, Akana.

Fortunately, it doesn't take much to keep him in bed. He's surprisingly cooperative, given how stubborn he can be. ]

Akira...

[ It's said out of nowhere, during a time when there's been total silence for a while. ]

Thank you for being here.

[hairpincurves]

[The words apparently catch her a little off-guard, given her stunned silence for a few moments. Afterwards, she glances off to one side.]

Well... you're my friend. Of course I'm gonna stick with you. But... you're welcome.

6/23

[dubiouslychthonic]

[The night after Aiden is brought in, during a quiet moment when no one else is fussing over him, Jetshard comes over and unceremoniously takes a seat at his bedside. Her voice, when she speaks, is pitched low - clear at this range, but not intended to carry through the rest of the makeshift hospital space.]

So. Vampirism, huh?

[coagmentatio]

[ He doesn't even look over at her, at first. Maybe it'll seem he didn't hear her, though the way his breathing pattern shifts might make it clear he did. ]

... That's what I've seen it called in books, and apparently what people on Earth understand it better as. There's no term for it, back on Daeseon. I would just be considered a freak, a monster... Possibly demonic, if we had anything like demons on that planet.

[ Very slowly, he shifts - just enough that he can properly look at her. ]

I never meant to attack him. [ Minato ] I never felt the desire for blood increase to anything beyond what I feel on a normal day... But...

[ Looking down now, he gives a wry smile. ]

... then he cut himself. I don't want anything like that to happen, ever again.

[dubiouslychthonic]

It's a somewhat obscure term among trolls, but it seems to be the one that translates best to what most humans recognize around here. We'd mostly say "rainbow drinking," though. Or "acquired obligate hemophagy" in a medical context.

[Jetshard sighs, and absently runs her fingers along the inside of her own forearm. Any scars that might have marked her once are long since faded. She's not really even consciously aware of the gesture, and when she realizes she's doing it, she quickly folds her hands in her lap instead.]

I take it you haven't been feeding during your time here?

medical bay

[nojohnyouare]

[Mai hesitates in front of the door, but she steps in and gives a small bow in greeting.]

Injured?

[coagmentatio]

[ He blinks at the bow, but it shifts into something almost a smile as he nods his head. ]

Hey... [ one hand moving to his chest, just below where his heart is ] ... More like punished.

[ She already knows about the school, right? He'd mentioned that he'd been in that place, but was only there for a week... but he never fully went into details on it, did he? Still... he's hesitant, but he lifts his head enough, for the first time, that the bruises on his neck can be easily seen. ]

I wound up back in the school...

[Medbay, 6/25]

[founderinglight]

[And in the process of trying to distract himself with Anything and Everything, Izunia winds up here sometime in the evening. He's actually come to keep company with Jetshard during her usual shift - her company eases the absence of a certain someone around the Station - but he sees Aiden's bed and pauses at the foot of it.]

Ah, so this is where you've been. Recovering well enough, I hope?

[coagmentatio]

[ He sets the water bottle down on the table, nodding. ]

I should be able to leave soon. [ a wry smirk ] I guess I got lucky, in the end. It was better to return here, than to return to Daeseon.