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Characters: Signless & Ψiioniic, and if any of their roommates would like to be present or anyone else would like to drop in on them, feel free!
Setting: 2-8, backdated to shortly after this thread, so just after the Condesce arrives but before Dualscar does.
Format: Narrative please
Summary: After killing himself, the Signless & the Condesce, Ψiioniic wakes in their room.
Warnings: graphic imagery and slave issues, most likely



Ψiioniic woke in the grasp of the same sleep paralysis he'd experienced on first coming to the tower. He couldn't move or open his eyes, but his brain was working at full speed.

Since he'd never expected to wake again, this was disconcerting and somewhat terrifying. The last thing he remembered was sacrificing himself to try to stop the fight between Signless and the Condesce - and to prevent the Condesce from ordering him to kill Signless.

Why was he alive? Where was he? Who had won the battle?

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[benigncancer]

Signless couldn't remember what had happened yet, either. His own eyes struggled to open as he fought the paralysis. He had killed the Condesce, hadn't he? She couldn't hurt him, because he'd ripped apart her back and sliced through half her internal organs.

But then, why couldn't he move? Was this some kind of drug? Maybe the high bloods had gotten him, after all, and the only thing they were waiting for was for him to wake up again - to ensure he would feel every second as the irons burned his flesh off of his bones.

[2nd-dii2ciiple.livejournal.com]

Unaware of Signless' presence in the other bed, Ψiioniic was working himself into a total panic. If he had survived, and was drugged or somehow otherwise being held paralyzed like this, it could surely only mean that the highbloods had found the wreckage of the battle and were going to punish him. Doubtless they'd blame him for the death of the Condesce, or at least consider him an accomplice. Either way, things would not go well for him.

Worse, he knew that Signless couldn't have escaped, because if he had he'd never have left Ψiioniic behind alive. Or had he assumed Ψiioniic was dead and been in too much of a hurry to escape to double-check?

Finally he managed to wrench his eyes open, and he flailed weakly with a gasp. "No, fuck no," he moaned, power starting to build sluggishly around him.

[benigncancer]

An instant after Signless began to hear pathetic moaning and some ominous crackling, Signless sat up. He looked around wildly, sickles popping into his hands, but they were back in their room, completely unharmed and unrestrained.

"Psi!" he exclaimed, seeing Psiioniic thrashing nearby. Heedless of his own safety, he threw himself across the room and grabbed Psiioniic's head, forcing the psychic to look at him. "Shooosh...shoosh, it's okay. We're alive."

He just hoped Psiioniic didn't still want to kill him for killing the Condesce.

[2nd-dii2ciiple.livejournal.com]

For a moment Ψiioniic literally couldn't register the sight before his eyes. Signless? Was here? Alive, and... safe?

The sleep paralysis was gone, but it took him another moment to get over the shock. When he did, he threw himself right back at his friend, arms wrapped tight around his torso and clinging like his life depended on it. It felt like it did.

"SS? How... why... what happened?" he rasped, disbelieving. "I should be dead!"

[benigncancer]

Signless papped his head gently, stroking his hair and continuing to shoosh him softly. "I have no fucking clue," he said honestly. "I'm pretty sure you vapourized the room when you flipped your shit like that. But I'm hoping that my memory is faulty."

The best case scenario is that Psiioniic just knocked them all out. That would make the most sense, and would mean that the Condesce really was probably dead. But Signless couldn't imagine how he could have survived that blast.

[2nd-dii2ciiple.livejournal.com]

"Vapourized the... oh. Oh, fuck." Too late, Ψiioniic realized the potential consequences of what he'd done, and he blanched. "I didn't mean to... I only meant to... to thtop her from being able to order me to kill you," he said, realizing in the middle that 'I only meant to kill myself' would probably not go over well, and wouldn't quite convey his intentions anyway.

It wasn't that he'd been suicidal. He would just rather die than hurt Signless, or watch him be culled in front of him again.

[benigncancer]

Signless heard the unspoken words loud and clear, and groaned. He shifted up to sit on the bed, dragging Psiioniic with him. "You fucking idiot," he said, tightening his grip. "Fuck, no, it wasn't your fault. It's that god damned conditioning. We have to figure out how to fix that, before you run into her again! I am not giving you up to her."

[2nd-dii2ciiple.livejournal.com]

Ψiioniic cuddled close to his friend, feeling vaguely guilty for enjoying the contact so much, but figuring it had to be allowed just this once. "Run into her again? But she mutht be... dead. Oh. Crap. Tho were we. What is this place? Are we all dead? Is this the afterlife?"

The thought that he could run into the Condesce again was enough to make him feel sick. Fix his conditioning? It wouldn't be that easy, surely. It had taken him perigees to overcome it the first time.

[benigncancer]

"I wish I knew," Signless said unhappily, stroking Psiioniic's hair again. "I really wish I knew. I hope that bitch is dead. But I just can't say for sure, given what just happened to us."

He nuzzled Psiioniic's hair. "Hey," he said softly. "You're not mad at me for trying to kill her, are you?"

[lethechained.livejournal.com]

Naminé was unaware of the goings on that led to their deaths. Instead, her most recent knowledge was merely what Signless had told her. Since it had been a little while and she hadn't heard anything new, she'd figured that maybe she should check on the situation and see if there was anything she could do, which was why she ended up knocking on the door of room 2-8.

[benigncancer]

Signless hesitated at the knock, then disentangled himself a little before calling out. "Come in!" He didn't leave Psiioniic, but if this was the Condesce, here to take Psiioniic back, he had his hands free to use his sickles.

[2nd-dii2ciiple.livejournal.com]

Ψiioniic went rigid at the knock, of course. He could only assume that the Condesce had woken up at about the same time they had, and it had been just long enough for her to make her way from her room to theirs.

She was not going to be happy with him.

[lethechained.livejournal.com]

The pause went unnoticed; she rarely knocked on other peoples' doors, after all. Honestly, she found herself slightly uncomfortable being the one to open someone else's door, but that was what she did, just enough to carefully peek her head in as if to make sure that that was really what he'd meant by 'come in'.

[benigncancer]

Signless felt Psiioniic go rigid against him and shifted a little further as the door began to open. But as he saw the pale girl peeking in, he relaxed. "Oh hey, Namine, right? It's okay, Psi. You've met her before, right?"

[2nd-dii2ciiple.livejournal.com]

"N-namine?" Ψiioniic turned his head enough to see the little human girl, and relaxed against Signless. He even managed to smile at her. "Oh, hey. Thorry, I thought you'd be... someone else. You don't have to hide in the doorway, come in."

[lethechained.livejournal.com]

Her eyes found Signless first to nod when he asked if he'd gotten her name right, then quickly thereafter Ψiioniic when he said her name. Surprise appeared in her expression first, and it quickly proved to be the good kind of surprise as it was followed by a bright, relieved smile. "Ψiioniic...! So he did find you." As told, she stepped around the door and into the room. "I'm glad to see you're both okay." And it was obvious that she meant it. The next question was automatic but perhaps not the most pleasant one to answer. "What happened?"

[benigncancer]

Signless settled back, letting Psiioniic rest against him once more if he wanted. He didn't know this human too well, but he wasn't worried about her. She was pretty sweet, and didn't seem like the kind of person to be pretending.

"Like I expected," Signless growled. "Someone was keeping him prisoner. But we got out... even if it wasn't the best possible way."

[knightofangst.livejournal.com]

Suzaku was sat on his bed and saw his roomates wake up. He had not seen Signless since the day he had been looking for Psiioniic. He saw them struggling to move and frowned. "Are you two alright?" He asked in a somewhat concerned tone.

[benigncancer]

Signless heard the voice and managed to sit up as the paralysis finally left him. It took him a moment to catch his breath as he looked around wildly, confirming Psiioniic was alive, and that they weren't alone. "Fuck! Suzaku, did you see how the hell we got back here?"

[2nd-dii2ciiple.livejournal.com]

Still half panicked, Ψiioniic managed to turn on his side and curl up, protecting his vulnerable torso. That made him feel a little better, and the sight of Signless alive and well made him feel a lot better. "Thomebody must have carried us? But... I didn't expect to survive that."

[knightofangst.livejournal.com]

"You wern't here last night." He told them, "I didn't hear anyone come in, but someone must have brought you up here." He turned to Signless, "You found him then?" And then back to Psiioniic with a polite nod, as he had never actually spoken to him before. "What happened?"

[benigncancer]

"Yeah, I found him," Signless growled, pulling back the blankets and getting up. He crossed to Psiioniic and sat down next to him on the sleeping rectangle, reaching out to put a hand on his shoulder. "He was pretty much where I expected, only I didn't know the Condesce was here. She's the ruler of the entire troll civilization, and Psi and I happen to be revolutionaries, so it wasn't a good thing."

He hesitated, glancing at Psiioniic. "I thought I was going to die..."

[2nd-dii2ciiple.livejournal.com]

"Happen to be," Ψiioniic muttered, managing a shaky smile and a bit of humour. "You make it sound like it'th something we stumbled over and got into by accident. I'm pretty sure you killed her jutht now, but that's less reassuring than it should be since I'm altho pretty sure we both died as well."

He gave Suzaku a bit of a shy smile in response to the nod. "Thorry to worry you guys. She ordered me not to leave her side, so I couldn't come back."

Suzaku hasn't yet learnt to not judge other cultures based on his own

[knightofangst.livejournal.com]

Suzaku frowned, they had thought they had died? Also, ruler of their civilisation, revolutionaries. "So you're terrorists?" He didn't sound totally horrified, after all even if he had spent most of his life fighting terrorists he had recently turned against the emperor, joined with the leader of the terrorists and helped him to the throne, so he really can't judge.

"Ordered you?" And he was unable to resist, that sounded very much like Geass to Suzaku. "And you all died?"

Re: Suzaku hasn't yet learnt to not judge other cultures based on his own

[benigncancer]

"Terrorists?" Signless laughed. "Fuck no." He shifted up, facing Suzaku squarely. "The short version is, I'm the leader of a religious cult based on a philosophy of promoting peace and motherfucking harmony throughout the galaxy, eradicating the class system, and eliminating indiscriminate culling and slavery of the lower classes."

He jabbed a thumb at Psiioniic. "Psi here is one of my loyal followers, a member of my inner circle. He used to be a slave, too, which is why he runs into trouble when a highblood gets into hearing range."

He shrugged. "Anyway, the Condesce might call us terrorists for all I know, but we've never blown up a building. More accurately, we're heretics, and that's how the highbloods usually bill us in the propaganda."