deadly_legacy | ✜053 [voice]

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✜053 [voice]

[Her voice is a little flatter than usual and she doesn't turn on the video like she normally does.]

Please be careful in the cold. Hopefully tomorrow will be better, but the welcome center does have extra coats and blankets to lend or give if anyone is without.

[Private to Yuri]
Yuri...

Suzaku [Voice falters a little.] is gone.
[End private]

(OOC: Suzaku went home for a canon update. Of course she doesn't know he'll be back soon!)

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It's like I said, isn't it?

[A light squeeze]

No matter how many people you lose, I won't leave until you do.

[He'll be right here for you every time.]

[She holds him a little tighter as a few tears escape to roll down her cheeks.] I love you, Yuri. [Even if it's a promise she knows he can't keep. It feels good to hear it.]

[He doesn't hear those words very often - if ever, not in this context. He'd long discarded the note Ino left him that read the very same words. I love you. He could sometimes hear her whispering it to him much like Euphie whispers it now. But it's different. He knows his boundaries. He knows how much this precious woman means to Suzaku, his friend. But still he rests his head on hers, still he feels this overwhelming need to protect her from a loneliness she'll probably never escape. Even now she's cold against him.

Everything clicks.]

You must have the wrong guy.

[She shakes her head against him lightly, tears still coming.] No.

[She's sure about this.] You're my best friend. [And she's never had one of those before. It's okay that Flynn is his and not hers. She doesn't mind sharing.]

[HE DOESN'T THINK HE DESERVES ANY OF THOSE RIGHT NOW. A sort of wry chuckle.]

You might regret that some day.

[Softly.] Why would you say that?

[He doesn't answer, just settling into silence]

Did something happen? [To him. She's only been thinking of herself since she realized Suzaku was gone.]

I hurt him.

[A wry smile. More than just a punch this time.]

Him? ...Do you mean Flynn?

I mean Flynn.

[His hands feel heavy, suddenly.]

What happened? [A gentle worried tone.]

I shot him.

[He pointed his index finger and thumb in the shape of a gun, aimed at the door and pretended to shoot.]

Don't know where it hit- but I intended to kill.

...You were cursed. [It's not really a question. She doesn't believe Yuri could have shot Flynn to kill him.]

What do you mean you don't know where it hit?

He fell through a glass wall as soon as I shot him. Left the City then, too.

[…no.]

Yuri…

[She pushes her own fears down and reaches up to brush his hair back, so she can see his eyes.] Flynn will will be all right. He will! [He has to be.]

[He hugs her close shamelessly. He didn't really need the comfort, but-- there's something in honesty that actually lifts the burden of guilt, soothes the wrinkles in his brow just a little.]

See, what would I do without you?

I don't want to find out. [As unfair as it is, she doesn't want either of them to leave. She didn't want Suzaku or Flynn to go either. She can't control it. Her selfishness is hers alone to bear. She just holds him tighter and hopes for things she can't and shouldn't have.]

[Even if she's not his best friend-- she holds a different but equally as close and important position to him. He's not quite sure what it is, not quite sure how to express it, but without Euphie...]

Let's keep it that way, then.

[...he'd have no foundation, no stability in this crazy place.]

[She nods.] I'd like that. [She touches his cheek and then brushes back his hair.] When... When did that happen with Flynn?

The-- weird gambling curse or whatever. I was a mercenary then.

[See, she knew he was cursed.] You've been holding on to this since then?

You could say that.

I'm always here for you, Yuri. No matter what's happening. Always.

[He just. Laughs. Not out of mockery, but--]

We really make quite a team.

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