towerofanimus | A few days after the event [Open]

Characters: Taiki and all that stumble across him.
Setting: Room 2-18, corridors and finally the meadow on floor 25.
Format: i'll follow you
Summary: There is far too much blood in this Tower and the latest fight has made Taiki even more sick than before. But he is attempting to act normal ~~and failing~~
Warnings: Angsty self hating Kirin, mentions of blood and violence

Taiki had woken up with the others after the tower was put back together. Unlike the others though he promptly fell unconscious and remained that way for two days. When he finally woke up he felt awful. His clothes were still covered in blood and he felt nauseous.

He slowly pieced together what had happening, they had been attacked and mister Kirkland and Eridan had been protecting him. He hoped they were alright, he hadn't been much use.

Tears filled his eyes as he remembered. He had been so useless. He tried to sit up but a wave of dizziness hit him and he lay back down and cried. Everything had gone wrong, just as it had been going right when he had found his King and had done something right for once.

Now he was stuck in this tower, Gyousou was dead, Tai was being destroyed... he couldn't even help his friends that were here with him never mind the people of Tai who he couldn't even get to.

He felt a soft hand on his face and buried his head in the pillow, "Go... away... Sanshi," he sobbed and instantly felt bad. He sat up to apologies but the nyokai was silent. Taiki's tears came stronger and he got out of bed, barely able to walk without holding something. He wanted to be helpful though, he couldn't do anything lying in bed.

He stumbled his way to the bathroom to wash the blood off himself. He realized he was cut; as much as the infirmary made him fell even more ill he would have to go there to find some bandages.

He made it half way down the first flight of stairs before he remembered the rooms of blood and that he should use the elevator. He turned round but the movement made him dizy and he stumbled. He fell not onto the stone of the open floor like he expected, the one he and Eridan had flew from; but onto grass.

Tears streamed down his face as he realized he was too dizzy to sit up. He just wanted to go back home...

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Taiki blinked at the voice. "Ma...Marceline?" He tried to sit up but couldn't quite hold his weight. "I... erm... I'm all right... sorry..." He didn't sound fully focused and if Marceline touched him at all she would feel that he was hot, as if he had a fever.

If she hadn't been convinced before that something wasn't quite right, the tone in his voice did it. She still remembered his sensitivity to blood and violence, and she'd recently fought those monsters (she wouldn't think of it, she refused to think of it), but she hadn't had blood in a long while. She floated over and tried to pull him to his feet.

"...no way you're okay, you're burning hot." Marceline frowned, landing. "Come on, we oughta get you some medicine, something..."

Taiki blinked as she flew closer and shook his head, "Sorry... I'm fine it's just... the fight... the blood..." He felt himself falling and grabbed hold of her. "Sorry..."

He wondered if everyone else was alright, had they managed to fight the monsters off?

Marceline's eyes widened and she hurried to hold him up. This really wasn't good, and she was starting to panic, not just for Taiki but for the fact that she had no idea what to do. "It's okay, kiddo, just focus on putting one foot in front of the other. Probably oughta get you to bed or something..."

She cringed, remembering the fight against the monsters. "After that mess it makes sense you aren't doing good. But come on. If you rest and get some medicine, you should be okay, right?"

Taiki nodded slowly, he probably should go back to bed. He couldn't even walk more than a few steps and was just having to rely on others to help him. Again. Tears filled his eyes as he silently berated himself for being so useless.

He didn't need medicine, there was no medicine that could help with this, it wasn't an illness it was just the way he had been made. "Blood," he whispered again, rolling up his sleeves to show where he himself was bleeding.

"Hey, come on, no crying." Marceline was using her best 'I'm the boss' voice, but even she could hear that thread of worry behind it. She didn't deal well with tears (not even her own), and she certainly couldn't deal with kids crying. "We're going to get you better, you--"

Her sentence cut off as he showed her the blood. It wasn't something she needed, wasn't even something she usually wanted, but the sight and smell of it reminded her that she was indeed a vampire, and it was something she was made to take. And it reminded her that she had hardly eaten breakfast. Marceline gritted her teeth and reached over to try and wipe the blood off, and push his sleeves back down. "We'll patch that up too," she said, trying to smile.

At the order to stop crying he did so, wiping his eyes and trying his best not to make her more annoyed than he thought she was at him.

Taiki blinked as she gritted her teeth, did blood make her feel strange as well? "Sorry," he whispered and nodded. "Thank you." He held on to her tightly as he continued walking. Determined not to fall again.

"It's okay," Marceline said, trying to ignore the smell of blood lingering, focusing instead on helping him back to his room. How was she supposed to help, she wondered. She hadn't been ill in years, and definitely not to this point. Blood had never bothered her. How was she supposed to do anything?

She tried to push those thoughts out of her head, it wasn't the time to think of that.

Taiki leaned on her as they moved back to the room. He was starting to feel bad about leaving it at all, all he had managed to do was become a nuisance.

""Thank you..."

Marceline felt a smile on her mouth- numb, out of focus, but she could feel it. She reached up to ruffle at his hair. "No, really, it's okay. You don't have to thank me."

She sighed quietly and focused back ahead. "In fact, you probably shouldn't. I might not be the best person to take care of you." It took a lot for her to admit she might not be up to a task, but it would be better to now than to regret it later, she supposed.

Taiki gave a small smile at the hair ruffling, feeling a bit better now he was back in bed. "Sorry..." he said looking downwards, misinterpreting her words, "If it is a problem... I will be fine alone... Sanshi will help me..."

Marceline shook her head, she hadn't quite meant it like that, and to know that Taiki would be alone twisted something in her chest.

"Aw, man, breaking my heartgut..." she sighed, and hovered by him. "Nah, I just haven't had to take care of anyone in a long time so I don't... really know how good a job I'll do." She decided she'd leave the weird sensitivity to blood she was finding lately out of this. Besides, it wasn't that bad. "So, I guess... if ya need anything just send me for it."

"I... I am sure you will go a good job, you are really kind," he gave her a shy smile, and closed his eyes, exhausted now that he was in bed. "Thank you," he whispered again.

'Kind' was not an assessment usually attached to the vampire queen. So it was hardly a shock that a blush rose to her face- after all, her reputation was staked on appearing big and bad and tough. But maybe in this case she could make an exception. She reached up to smooth his hair down (a faint memory of her own past, her mother or father or someone comforting her), pretending to be interested in something off to the side to try and hide her embarrassment.

"It's no big. Really, just get some rest." she advised, quietly.

Taiki managed a small smile and curled onto his side, he still felt embarrassed and useless but he felt safer now, Marceline might think it was nothing big she had done but Taiki did not have many friends, he didn't even have a king anymore and so those people that he did have were very important to him. Sleep came easily.

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