Finally, another party

[puppy_lancer]

Characters: ProtoLancer puppy_lancer, Zero Lancer oathshackledbird and anyone interested in attending a birthday party. Details here.
Setting: Meadow
Format: Anything goes
Summary: Lancer throws his brother a party. Everyone can come except for the Archer (meaning they can come crash the party anyways)! Feel free to tag into any of the threads set up or invent your own scenario.
Warnings: None yet!

[It had taken some preparing, but the party was finally set up in a satisfactory way. There was a table for food and drink dragged in from the cafeteria, a wooden bucket filled with water with fruit floating in it, a strange paper mache Jason head pinata stacked on a scarecrow body, and a board with a pig with a Ganon head scribbled on it along with several spiraling paper "tails" attached to thumbtacks. There are no party decorations, but Lancer figures the flowers and sunshine should be decoration enough.]

[Now it's just a matter of waiting for people to show up.]

Comments

[vermicompost]

[He half-smiles, appreciating Lancer's kindness.]

I wish you could make me forget, but you can't. I wish I could forget any of this happened. Things could be like they were before.

[puppy_lancer]

[He gives Kariya a bitter smile.]

You're right. I can't. I can't even make myself forget.

[vermicompost]

Then there's nothing anyone can do. I have to keep feeling this way.

[Because it hasn't stopped yet.]

I shouldn't have come. I don't want to detract from the party.

[puppy_lancer]

...I wanted you to come. I thought you'd be able to talk to some people and...cut loose.

Sorry.

[vermicompost]

You don't have to apologize. It's Lancelot's fault. He brought me here.

I'm a very foolish man, that's all. And unlucky.

[puppy_lancer]

You're not foolish at all.

[No comment on the "unlucky" part.]

[vermicompost]

Thank you, but that isn't true. I make a lot of mistakes. I made another one with Diarmuid.

[puppy_lancer]

So? I make a lot more with him. And he always forgives him. I think he can forgive this one too.

...Unless it's up to you to forgive him.

[vermicompost]

I know he forgives me, but I don't know how I feel about it.

[He sighs. He's already forgiven Diarmuid, really, but that doesn't help him feel much better.]

I should stay away. It would be easier. But I don't want to.

[puppy_lancer]

Would you like me to be there with the two of you when you see each other? Would that make it...better?

[vermicompost]

I don't know...

[Kariya sighs.]

I should probably talk to him on my own. I should be able to face people without help. But it's--difficult.

[He looks down.]

Maybe I'm afraid.

[puppy_lancer]

...

[Lancer's voice drops to a whisper.]

Don't tell this to anyone, but I was afraid too, the first time I talked to him after my latest mistake. But it wasn't that bad. So these things always go better than you expect.

[vermicompost]

Were you?

[It's hard to think of Lancer being afraid of anything, but Kariya believes him.]

I'm glad things went well, but I don't know if it'll be the same for me. It's different. Things are different.

I'm different.

[puppy_lancer]

Yeah, as much as I could be, at least.

I'd say we're not that different. Not when it comes to him.

[vermicompost]

No, it is different. I don't think we feel the same way.

[He knows Lancer and Diarmuid are like brothers.]

[puppy_lancer]

Hm?

[Lancer gets a confused look on his face.]

Don't we...both love and care for him as his friend?

[vermicompost]

[And Kariya looks almost as confused.]

I--I don't know what I feel anymore.

[puppy_lancer]

...You know what, maybe you should just...go talk to him. And he can help you figure it out.