Afterparty [closed]

[bloodyashes]

Characters: Team Nolo
Setting: Around the dorms - backdated to the day after infiltration
Format: Whatever have you - other members of Team Dead, feel free to set up your own prompts in the comments.
Summary: Wake up after falling down an elevator/getting Jason-shanked/etc, go around and make sure your buddies are okay.
Warnings: what do you think three quarters of them are waking up from dead

[He comes to in bed and it's not so bad - an ache in his neck that's probably just as much psychological as anything. It's when he goes to reach up to rub it and he can't, and he tries again and he can't, and again...

He can't move. He can't move and the pain is coming again or worse they'll take his body from him again no no no

By five minutes he's starting to hyperventilate, his body reacting to the panic and still out of his control. By ten minutes, there's tears starting to build up, the kind born of complete helplessness and fear.

And there's still twenty minutes left.]

Comments

[invisible_friendship]

Damn it! [That was frustrating to here. After all of that and this is what it comes to! Ion even died. This was not what he wanted here, but he needed to know.]

There has to be another way.

[fragileprophet]

I don't know what happened to the others. [He was worried, and wanted to make sure that there were okay now, as soon as he could. But more than that, he was feeling guilty and ashamed. He agreed with Jonouchi, that there had to have been some other way to better approach this. However...]

I'm weak. [He says it quietly, as if on accident, but firmly. It's not a statement that he intends to have argued.] I wanted to help, but in the end...I didn't. I couldn't even run.

[It was pathetic. And it only served to remind him that, even if what Jonouchi said was true and he wasn't something that could be replaced, that didn't make him any less of a burden.] And despite that, I still want to help. But maybe...I shouldn't. I want less to drag down those that are capable of making a difference.

[invisible_friendship]

[Oh goddamn it, he didn't realize how much Ion had actually been hurting inside until now. Usually he wasn't so persistent to pry from people if they didn't want to talk about, but things were different now. They had more to worry about and a lot more to lose. Maybe he should pry from Ion.]

Ion, don't be stupid! [And Jonouchi was quite stern about it.] So maybe you aren't athletic and you can't help in a way others can. It sure as hell doesn't make you a burden!

[The blonde folded his arms over his chest, reading serious vibes.] Just like you're your own person. You can help in ways other people can't. Not once have I ever considered you a burden. Your help is wanted.