warriorscribe: (Too much to bear)
Enoch ([personal profile] warriorscribe) wrote in [community profile] towerofanimus2013-02-14 09:12 pm

Against the brain's better judgment...

Characters: Enoch and anyone (except for one where it's closed to Lucifel and maybe his roommates too)
Setting: Outside room 1-12(closed to Lucifel and maybe his roommates), Floor 2, various
Format: I'm starting in prose but I'll match!
Summary: Enoch has something to give his guardian, and then it's time for his collar checkup. And he'd been promised to have memories returned to him re: his little hiatus trip.
Warnings: Repressed memories are repressed for a reason. Maybe mentions of death, trauma, mention of suicide attempt

Dorm Floor 1

Enoch had returned here after a visit to the mail room, where he'd found two boxes of chocolate, one of them for Lucifel. Tohko sure did take easily to people...he supposed he should be glad for that much, the last thing he wanted was tension between his friends. He stopped outside the room with Lucifel's name on its plate and knocked on the door, hoping Lucifel had slept late too. He'd been either nearly missing or completely missing breakfast, himself, ever since going to Meridian...

...oh, that reminded him, he'd have to go to the infirmary for his collar checkup after this.


Infirmary

The drones had to push him out of the room. Enoch wandered back out into the waiting room, his arms folded tightly. He shook as he picked through the now perfectly clear memories. Of waking beside a corpse. Of wandering under a vileness-red sky, and burying Asato, burying Sissel, burying Ashraf and Michael, and his collapse thereafter, his empty plea to the second level, burying Armaros in the sea(and trying and failing to join him), and the moment it really dawned on him - he was utterly alone. Isolated.

He made his shaky way back to the stairs, nearly running into things and people on his way there. He didn't know where he was going, but he couldn't stand still.

Anywhere else

The tower was much larger now, but Enoch was making his aimless way up the stairs anyway. Not even his usual resting floors, the eleventh and twenty fifth, were stops. He kept his head down, his face tear-stained.

He had forgotten them for a reason. It was intensely painful, recalling those moments of discovering corpses that should not be, interring an immortal's corpse in the sea. They, especially Armaros, they were never meant to leave him, Meridian was supposed to be safe, he had been trying to keep it so. And that soul-rending pain of being utterly isolated, having no one, mortal or otherwise...

...But he had wanted to remember for a reason, hadn't he? He paused where he was on the stairs to the eighteenth floor and looked out at the tables as if he'd never seen them before. So what was important about it that he'd forgotten?

He continued to climb and reflect. And, naturally, not watch where he was going.
godheals: Archangel, Neutral, Listening (thinking)

Outside the Infirmary

[personal profile] godheals 2013-02-15 03:28 am (UTC)(link)
Raphael was curious about a few words and their definitions, so he had slipped out of the infirmary for a moment to look them up in the libraries. It took a little while, but eventually, he found what he needed and headed back..only to find Enoch being pushed out of the infirmary. He didn't quite know what was going on..but being in the infirmary usually meant that someone wasn't well, unless they were getting collar check-ups.

"Enoch, are you alright?"
Edited 2013-02-15 03:39 (UTC)
godheals: Archangel, Neutral, Listening (What?!)

[personal profile] godheals 2013-02-15 05:23 am (UTC)(link)
He may have noticed, but collar check-ups did not leave one in such a state..at least, in Raphael's experience. However..that expression did not look good, even if Raphael did not know why Enoch was wearing it or where it had come from.

"I was not. What happened there?"
godheals: Archangel, Neutral, Listening (thinking)

[personal profile] godheals 2013-02-15 06:04 am (UTC)(link)
...Oh dear. While Raphael hadn't seen Meridian, he remembered what he felt when he looked into those viewfinders. While his empathy was still growing, he could understand what Enoch was feeling here.

At least, so he thought.

"Enoch..I am sorry that you saw that..but..what do you remember of your return?"
godheals: Archangel, Neutral, Listening (annoyed swan)

[personal profile] godheals 2013-02-15 06:48 am (UTC)(link)
Raphael nodded and started to move forward with Enoch. He wasn't quite sure how to help in a situation like this..but he had failed his role, failed his duties, and failed Enoch before when he hadn't spoke up or managed to help when he was suffering.

Even though God was destroyed, he would not allow himself to fail again. He would do all he could.

"..What specifically, then?"
godheals: Archangel, Neutral, Listening (serious)

[personal profile] godheals 2013-02-15 07:26 am (UTC)(link)
"Except the people that had been in that world were dead."

..Sadly, Raphael didn't know that Armaros and Enoch had shared a house together. If he had, then he might have tried to use a bit more tack with that statement.
godheals: Archangel, Neutral, Listening (thinking)

Gah..thanks for catching that. ><; This is more evidence that I shouldn't tag on little sleep.

[personal profile] godheals 2013-02-15 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
"Are you alright?"

..Raphael meant physically, obviously. He tried to help Enoch right himself as he replied.

"..Armaros's skeleton?"
godheals: Archangel, Neutral, Listening (thinking)

[personal profile] godheals 2013-02-16 04:24 am (UTC)(link)
Not that Raphael would mind. It wasn't like he was weak physically, and if Enoch could be helped and healed by leaning, then he would allow it. Rapahel patted Enoch on the back before speaking again.

"I see...I am so sorry to hear that, Enoch. Losing a good friend again like that must have been horrible."
godheals: Archangel, Neutral, Listening (serious)

[personal profile] godheals 2013-02-16 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
"Enoch..if we come from different points on the timeline, then perhaps there are also other copies of our world. It is possible..that a different Armaros might come here."
brbtalkingtogod: (Black wet Velvet)

Dorm Floor 1

[personal profile] brbtalkingtogod 2013-02-17 09:30 am (UTC)(link)
For those who haven't seen Lucifel in the morning before, the Archangel spent most of his mornings in his room to get clean and do his hair. The whole procedure took the time most would use to have breakfast. Ever since he had to eat, he got his own... scent. And he knows better than to run around without showering every few days at least. Archangel or not, he had made enough trips through time and the earth to know that much.

Enoch is lucky to find him at his room right after he had showered. However, his hair was still damp and not in its usual spiky form yet. "Ah, morning Enoch. What brings you here?"
godheals: Archangel, Neutral, Listening (annoyed swan)

[personal profile] godheals 2013-02-17 08:03 pm (UTC)(link)
...It could have been a small comfort!

While Raphael couldn't quite read what Enoch held in his eyes, he did get the feeling that what he had said hadn't been particularly comforting.

So he thought it out..realized something..and tried again.

"..Of course..it will not be the Armaros you knew and loved. I am sorry, Enoch."
brbtalkingtogod: (After shower)

[personal profile] brbtalkingtogod 2013-02-17 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
He would prefer not being seen like this by others. Or at least that Enoch would keep to himself how he has seen the Archangel just now. He's a bit vain when it comes to his appearance. Even if such a thing actually shouldn't matter to him.

Lucifel tilted his head and took the box and note from Enoch. "Yeah, I met her just recently..." His eyes quickly scanned the note. "Huh."
brbtalkingtogod: (An archangel's musings.)

[personal profile] brbtalkingtogod 2013-02-17 11:59 pm (UTC)(link)
"And a bit too curious as it seems." Lucifel got a taste of what Tohko is like. But he hadn't expected that she would be calling him a 'friend' after meeting her just once.
brbtalkingtogod: (To me it only seems like yesterday.)

[personal profile] brbtalkingtogod 2013-02-18 12:31 am (UTC)(link)
"It's close to being nosy." Curiosity isn't a bad thing, but too much could be dangerous, for humans and angels all the same. Both of them had seen that in the past.

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