catching up with the sad posts i have to make in three parts

[forceless]

Characters: Ven, Aqua, [OU] Sora, Roxas, [OU] Xion, and Open on the parts that are
Setting: Floor Two Infirmary, backdated to before the Labyrinth [CLOSED-ish]
Room 1-16, backdated before the Labyrinth
Floor Three Library during the Labyrinth Event
Format: Starting prose 'cause ~DRAMA~, but I can do whatever.
Summary: Ven deals with the aftermath of Vanitas' impromptu heart surgery not as well as he did the first time. And watching the events of the labyrinth on the monitors doesn't help much at all.
Warnings: Tower of Sadimus, sad blonde lump being sad.

[Floor Two Infirmary - CLOSED sort of to [OU] Sora and/or those involved in the Heart Catastrophe & BACKDATED]

Ven was laying on an infirmary bed. He'd been doing so for some time. He didn't feel strong enough to move. He didn't particularly want to. His chest didn't particularly hurt anymore. But he felt the same feeling of slipping away. Again.

His eyes were dull and glazed over in blue, half-lidded. He stared at the ceiling. He didn't feel up to moving much.

[Room 1-16 - BACKDATED & OPEN]

He hadn't left his room in awhile now. Sometimes he went on the elevator to go down to the Cafeteria to get something to eat, but sometimes he just didn't want to. Ven hated himself for being so down about this-- he wasn't slipping away anymore and he wouldn't, he wouldn't, but-- well. If he understood everything he was feeling, he wouldn't be as depressed. So for now he was simply sitting on his bed, staring at some book that was openo n his bed, but not really reading it or paying attention. He hadn't bothered to shut the door entirely, so if someone were curious or peaking in, he sure wasn't going to stop them.

[Floor Three Library - ACTUALLY PRESENT-DATED OH SNAP & OPEN]

So his spirits still weren't totally up to snuff, but Roxas had at least convinced (see: forced) him to get his butt out of his room, and so here he was, sitting at the computer terminal with a few companions, clicking and watching some of the video from the labyrinth.

And resting his head on the desk in front of him as if he were a mopey, tired, computer student. Man he hated this Tower so much.

Comments

[forceless]

I don't know how to confirm it... If I had to guess, I don't think even my old Master knew what happened.

[His memories of that time were... still hazy, even after he had remembered the rest of it. But he felt like he was right, in that weird, spiritual sense.

Actually it didn't make very much sense, but nevertheless Ven was smiling warmly.]

Thank you for that. I think that's long overdue.

[derping]

[To be honest, Sora was glad that this had happened; glad that he knew who Ventus was, and why he was so important. Sad, maybe, that he didn't have any way of knowing about such an important connection before now, but that was okay. If this was true, than he had done something good for someone, and he hadn't needed magic or a Keyblade or anything else. Just his heart. It's hard to understand the power of something like that unless you see it in action, and now, in a way, he has.

So Sora returns the smile, feeling a certain lightness to his mood that he didn't get as often anymore.]

Anytime.

[It may seem like too casual a response for something like this, but what just happened proves that it's exactly the opposite.]