Aftermath

[notagiraffe]

Characters: Taiki and anyone
Setting: meadow floor, morning after Hitori Kakurenbo.
Format: I'll follow you
Summary: Taiki revives, is miraculously not ill, seeks the most open bright space he can and cries.
Warnings: mentions of death and events of Hitori Kaakurenbo

Sleep paralysis was terrifying, it was longer this time and Taiki felt like he was trapped in darkness forever. Unable to move, unable to breathe, it was like he was drowning again. Maybe he was.

The first thing he saw when it faded and he could open his eyes was a teddy bear. On his bedside stand. Taiki's eyes widened and he screamed. He scrambled out of bed, the events of the night and day before him crashing down on him. Strangely he wasn't feverish, it was a strange thought, he remembered his cupboard filling with blood and yet...

He felt better than he had in months. But he wanted to be outside, he had been in a cupboard for hours and hours. He ran out of the room and down the stairs into the meadow. Transforming he flew around, a blur in the sky. Finally he landed; managing to pull on his tunic before curling into a ball and sobbing.

Comments

[wwaterboy]

Eridan nodded and sighed, stroking Taiki's hair and falling silent. It seemed to him that Taiki just needed some time to get over it. This place had power over them he couldn't understand, but not having supernatural powers himself, it affected him less. He was used to feeling helpless. Though he was learning to become a witch like Willow, it was slow going.

[notagiraffe]

Taiki was silent as well, he was slowly feeling better now that the memory of the darkness and the rising blood had faded a little. He was safe now, though he didn't know how long that would last.

He didn't let go of Eridan just yet though.