swordofzero: (staring)
Suzaku Kururugi ([personal profile] swordofzero) wrote in [community profile] towerofanimus2012-09-24 12:02 pm

Aftermath [open]

Characters: Suzaku and anyone
Setting: Floor 26; the morgue, forward dated to the 26th
Format: Anything
Summary: General aftermath of the body swap event, Suzaku finally emerges because his Geass forces him to find food and then he cooks food, come and join him!
Warnings: Angst, themes of death and deaths seeking. Also various people punching Suzaku in the face

The moment Suzaku had been forcibly returned to his own body he had fled the library, fled those who had dragged him here, fled the frightened faces of those returning to normal and went and hid. The tower was a good place to hide, floors where no one wanted to go, floors with lots of places to go.

Floors that filled both criteria, like the one Suzaku had been hiding out in. It was ridiculously morbid he thought hiding in a graveyard but he didn't think it was a real one. After all it had just appeared and it wasn't like anyone died here...

But he had hid, stewing in his own thoughts sorting out what had happened. He still remembered what he had learned from Jin, but he knew they were his memories now. Separate from Suzaku's own. This probably meant Jin had his own memories as well, knew everything that Suzaku hadn't been telling people for the year he had been there.

And he had hurt them, Jin, Minato, Yu... They had tried to help him and he had lashed out. Tried to die... tried to kill Jin...

Minato had told him he wouldn't forgive him and Suzaku believed him. Part of him was relieved that Minato's constant forgiving him for every wrong Suzaku did him would be over. The only times he had left this floor was to check that Lelouch and Nunnally were alright. He hadn't spoken to them though, just saw from a distance. He knew he should speak to them, they would have had their own issues, especially Nunnally. It was the first time such a thing had happened while she had been here.

But he couldn't bring himself to face them and solitude was easy. He knew it was cowardly but in a lot of ways things were harder here than they had been at home. He had no goal, for the first time since he was ten.

So he had stayed and let the exhaustion that struck whenever he slept out of his own bed and the hunger get to him. Finally though the Geass took over, because it could not let him get too week, would not let him die.

And so anyone passing through floor twenty six would see tendrils of smoke away from the stairs, Suzaku cooking a rabbit he had caught in the forest, now he was actually cooking the food the Geass flare had faded from his eyes, hunger doing the rest to make sure he ate..
tempus_scorpius: (oh really now?)

[personal profile] tempus_scorpius 2012-09-24 05:10 pm (UTC)(link)
[Rolo will just be leaning against the door, after having followed the smoke.]

So there you are.
tempus_scorpius: (oh really now?)

[personal profile] tempus_scorpius 2012-09-25 06:57 am (UTC)(link)
Nothing. [He looks around.] I just the smoke. [And he's been watching you check on Lelouch and Nunnally.] Interesting place for having a meal.
morituramfides: (We go Underneath the Arches)

[personal profile] morituramfides 2012-09-27 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
Frankly, when Suzaku had run off, Jin was glad to see that dumbass' face finally out of his sight. He'd had his own face back and his own voice back, and he had to take some time to get over ow he somehow felt even worse than when he first left that body thanks a lot you asshole. Part of it was no duobt the fact that he had grown a bit accustomed to at least no more aches in his joints (though the chest pains from the coughing fits weren't very pleasant either), and had been forced back into his broken-down shit hole of a body suddenly, but there was also the fact that he, Minato and Yu had to fight this dumbass to get his stupid body back.

Like most of their meetings though, it was entirely a coincidence that Jin was passing through, sporting a nice, big ol' bruise on his face under his eye from when he...punched...himself. Body swaps were complicated. Along with a nice crack in the lense of his glasses, but it was small enough and in the corner that he didn't care much.

The smoke idly catches his attention, and when he decides on a whim to investigate it...he really wish he hadn't. Augh.

"Up so early, Lancelot?"

It's amazing he hasn't punched you again already because he was still pretty pissed.
tempus_scorpius: (neutral)

[personal profile] tempus_scorpius 2012-09-27 02:48 pm (UTC)(link)
I've already eaten.

How long do you plan on hiding up here?
pitiedthefool: (curious ⚡ crack open my secret)

[personal profile] pitiedthefool 2012-09-27 03:37 pm (UTC)(link)
[Yeah, it was rather hard to miss the scent of smoke as he walked up the stairs. Normally, he stayed away from the morgue for obvious reasons. Today was apparently the exception since... Suzaku, what the hell were you doing cooking a rabbit over a fire while surrounded by dead bodies that made zero sense.

The part of him that remembered well what happened back home for the guy made him want to say something, but his having messed up while stuck in his friend's body made him pause first.

...Fine, Izanagi. He'll say something.]


I wondered when you'd surface again. [Oddly enough, he doesn't sound too bitter.]
pitiedthefool: (concerned ⚡ are you scared)

[personal profile] pitiedthefool 2012-09-27 07:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Yeah... these 'orders' can be a real pain in the ass, huh.

[Yu shakes his head, trying to stop that, really. It was bad enough that he had his own masks to deal with, so he thought he could just push that particular one back and dismiss it like the others. Guess he wasn't so lucky this time.]

...Sorry about last week. It was out of line.

[It's really all he can say, along with just dropping a small plate of food from the party last night that he'd been carrying. Really, he was going to just leave it at Suzaku's dorm room, but hey. Found him, instead.]
morituramfides: (To the ground)

[personal profile] morituramfides 2012-09-28 01:05 am (UTC)(link)
If it's any consolation, Jin still hates your guts for reasons that have nothing to do with you killing other people. It's mostly just the give-me-back-my-body-you-dumbass thing. Although even that fury has quelled quite a lot, with how things had actually turned out well for him.

"Good job, you can detect sarcasm." He shrugged. "Let's just say I'm amazed with your life decisions."

Because one of them was going to have to acknowledge that they both could write the other's full biography at some point.
pitiedthefool: ❝Transformation❞ by SAWA (neutral ⚡ now open your eyes)

[personal profile] pitiedthefool 2012-09-28 03:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[Darn you, Reversed social links. He was really going to have a handful in kicking Lelouch into shape again after seeing and experiencing what a great number of them had the last week. Meaning no, he wasn't going to abandon that Hanged Man. Already gave him two black eyes indirectly, anyway and beat him at Halo.

Also it's totally a peace offering.]


Leftovers from last night. [He vaguely shrugs it off. Hey, if he could forgive Izanami and somehow manage to not slice Adachi in half...] You missed Nunnally beating Lelouch at Halo. Also throwing darts at Jason's face.

[Noooope, totally not his doing. What are you talking about? The latter was all Jin's doing.]
Edited 2012-09-28 15:38 (UTC)
tempus_scorpius: (expressionless dark)

[personal profile] tempus_scorpius 2012-09-28 06:12 pm (UTC)(link)
... forced to?

You really wish for death that badly?
tempus_scorpius: (there's nothing left)

[personal profile] tempus_scorpius 2012-09-29 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
If it didn't matter, you wouldn't be hiding here.

Anyway, no one is able to really die here or so I've heard.
morituramfides: (And as the clock Tick-Tocked)

[personal profile] morituramfides 2012-09-30 06:35 am (UTC)(link)
"I'd rather live on the streets as a murderer than let myself be willingly used by some jackasses that don't like me."

His tone was lest sarcastic and more directed, but his stature was still pretty flippant and dismissive. "Or did you not get that?"
tempus_scorpius: (vs Suzaku)

[personal profile] tempus_scorpius 2012-09-30 04:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Should I kill you then?
tempus_scorpius: (brb stalking)

[personal profile] tempus_scorpius 2012-09-30 07:12 pm (UTC)(link)
... ... that's nii-san's...

I see. So that's why you can't die.

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