towerofanimus | (slightly backdated) To be human. [Open]

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(slightly backdated) To be human. [Open]

Characters: Romeo, his roomates if they want to and anyone!
Setting: Beginning in room 1-02 moving to everywhere else in the tower (pick a floor and he will be there)
Format: Take your pick I'll match!
Summary: Romeo wakes up after being killed by Molly.
Warnings: Mentions of death.

In room: Romeo couldn't move, was this what death was like? But the ceiling looked just the same as in the tower. He had been killed... by Molly...

The bad people must have made her do it, because they were best friends. They had sworn eternal friendship to each other and she would never ever hurt him on purpose. He wondered if he was in heaven now, if he would see Alfredo but if so why couldn't he move...

He got more and more scared as time went on, death couldn't be like this forever could it.

When he finally could move he shot upright into sitting position and blinked. He was still in the tower, this was his room... but he remembered dying. He remembered some of the adults talking about how you couldn't die here... was this what they had meant?

He curled up on his side and stared at his hands. Wait... his hands? He sat up again and pressed his hands to his face, and then his head. He had no antlers anymore, his face was normal! He looked down and saw his legs and feet. He had feet! And hands! He jumped up onto the bed. "I'm a human again!" He gave the biggest grin and then remembered mister America attacking him.

What if he still wanted to kill him... what if the bad people still wanted to hurt him! He jumped down and hid behind his bed peeking out with wide eyes.

Out in coridoors: A little while later, dressed in his normal clothes Romeo ventured out. He was a little nervous and scared in case some people still wanted to hurt him but he was happy enough at having hands and feet again. He ran and skipped instead of walked, stopped to touch things or pick them up just because he could.

He went to the fish room to run his fingers through the water, read a book in the library so he could turn the pages, went to the eating hall so he could eat something that wasn't salad. Though if any one came near him he flinched, unless he knew them very well, and he couldn't quite look people in the eye.

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Milagro was just happy to be able to eat on her own again. A month without the use of them had driven her nearly insane, stuck at every other person in the tower's mercy. She had resisted the temptation to pile her tray full of every kind of food in the kitchen- her mothers stern 'never waste food' idea firmly embedded in her head- and it was a good thing too. Because when she saw Romeo, she dropped her tray.

Then she threw her arms around the little boy, and wrapped him in the biggest Milagro hug ever.

At the loud noise Romeo jumped and he flinched at the hug, but then he realised who it was and smiled brightly. "Miss Milagro! You're back to normal as well!" He wrapped his arms around her and hugged tightly glad that she was better.

For goodness' sake...

Who's making all that noise?

Ienzo's mentality had definitely been changing over the course of the past few weeks, and it wasn't for the happier -- so it was with hardly-concealed annoyance that he grudgingly walked over to the door and stuck his head out. He had every intention of giving the person a stern lecture on the importance of shutting the hell up. Or at least, he did until he saw who it actually was.

"Romeo? You're..."

"Ienzo!" Romeo grinned, he had worried about his friend like he had worried about everyone. The tower had got a lot more scarier than usual over the last few weeks and he hadn't seen Ienzo whilst people were roaming around killing each other. Romeo bounced over the bed and flung himself at Ienzo in a hug with such force that he would probably knock the other boy down.

"I'm a person again!"

"Of course I am! It's like I told you before, nothing beats me!" She let out the first laugh she's had in a while, and gave Romeo a good squeeze before she let him go. Then she clasped both hands on his shoulder and gave him a serious look.

"No one's going to hurt you again. I'll break anyone's nose if they mess with you."

Romeo hugged back tightly and grinned up at the older girl. It felt strange that adults were promising to protect him but really some of the adults here felt more like his friends then they did adults.

Romeo raised his fist to his heart and grinned, "I promise to look after you as well miss Milagro, no one will hurt you ever again!"

You haven't seen Ienzo around anywhere, Romeo, because while you were busy riding around on a flying skateboard, he was being a social recluse and basically contemplating about how bad everyone had it. But luckily, Romeo is now back to scare him straight through the virtues of compassion and love! When the boy tackled him -- because there was no part of Ienzo's mind that comprehended it as any sort of affectionate gesture at all -- he pretty much did fall over, mostly because he's the shortest, most twig-like eight year old on the planet Earth.

So yes, when Romeo bowled him over, Ienzo wasn't able to react in time, helpless to resist Romeo's excitable violence. Also, he screamed, very loudly. It would probably be amusing if he wasn't under the impression that Romeo had gone insane and was now trying to kill him.

At another bed in the room - the one formerly inhabited by Lloyd - what appeared to be an adult man stood, dressed in in greys and reds, with a tattered yellow scarf hanging down his back. He was looking at a helmet before he heard Romeo's outburst. He turned a cold expression toward the boy, not sure what to think.

Looking around his room in fear in case mister America got mad at him Romeo realised that there was someone in their room who wasn't there before. Romeo stood up and smiled. "Hello sir!" He came round his bed and edged a little closer, "Did you just wake up?"

The scream frightened Romeo and he scrambled backwards. "I'm sorry Ienzo, did I hurt you?" His voice was filled with concern and he crawled closer to check that he hadn't hurt his friend.

He grabbed the boys hand in apology, "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to!" He jumped up and attempted to drag the younger boy to his feet.

Oh god. Oh man. Oh god.

"Ah. No..." His speaking volume is fluctuating wildly now, hand to his heart. God. Romeo scared him.

"H-here. No..." Awkwardly, he got to his own feet, pulling awkwardly at his clothes. "No... I'm not injured... it's fine."

"I'm sorry Ienzo, I didn't realise you'd fall down!" He grinned and then Romeo gave Ienzo another hug, a gentler one this time, wrapping his arms round him briefly before letting go.

"I was worried about you!"

That...is an odd reaction. Usually, citizens were not that forward with him, often giving more meek responses, if any.

"...I recently awoke, yes. Where is this place?" He spies the collar on the boy's neck, one hand reaching under the scarf on his own neck, feeling the similar device. "What are these collars?"

Romeo smiled though really it was not a good thing to be brought here. "It's a tower sir," he told him and pointed to the bedside table where he knew the notes would be. "They, that's the bad people sir, say that the world ended but it's a lie. Oh," he touched his collar, he had been wearing it so long he mostly forgot it was there, "There just things we have to wear, you can't take them off and you need to get them checked sometimes."

Yeah, that note...

Protoman had read it, and crumpled it up before he'd gotten dressed. He made a noise akin to scoffing. "The place is probably better off destroyed," he comments in an icy, mechanical tone.

Romeo blinked at the tone and the words. "Well we are still trying to stop the baddies, but I don't think we can destroy the whole tower, it's too big and people might get hurt!" He's used to answering questions from new people though, he was in the first group of people to wake up here.

Oh for the love of please stop hugging.

Ienzo seemed to have gotten used to it by now, key word being 'seemed'; he merely cringed, but that was just because he had tightened his muscles, since he couldn't exactly curl into a "get-away-from-me ball" while standing up.

"...About me... why?"

One would think that Romeo would be more concerned with himself, being a genetic monstrosity and all.

This would be a sensible thought, if it was anybody but Romeo he was thinking of. Friends always came first, and Ienzo was his friend. Even if he was scared of what the bad people had done to Romeo, and Romeo had let him avoid him then because he didn't want to scare him more, it never meant Romeo had stopped being Ienzo's friend.

And he never would. Romeo blinked and then smiled sadly at him, "Because bad bad things happened and lots of people got hurt," not just the ones who had been attacked either. Romeo didn't understand but he knew the bad people had managed to hurt almost everybody. "And because you're my friend and I don't like my friends getting hurt."

"Not this tower. My world." He pauses, considering things for a moment. "Though the tower may be as well. It remains to be seen." His voice is pretty bitter as he says this.

Though he's curious about what Romeo said. "Stop the 'baddies'?"

If only they knew how fantastically backward this relationship was.

Romeo's explanation might have made sense to him, if he was talking about someone else. There's the thing with Ienzo; he has trouble comprehending that he has, le gasp, friends. (And he technically doesn't, since he feels this way, so, welp.) So Romeo's dedication to his friends would normally seem like a perfectly normal character trait.

But since Ienzo has now apparently been clumped under the list of 'his friends', he can't do much but sit there and stare for a moment before saying rather dumbly, "...Oh."

Romeo blinked, unsure again if Ienzo maybe didn't want to be his friend. Or maybe he thought Romeo hadn't been a good enough friend to him, after all he hadn't managed to look after him in the last few weeks and that wasn't being a good friend at all.

He stepped closer and took Ienzo's hand. "I'm sorry I couldn't protect you Ienzo, but I'm better now and I wont let the bad people hurt you ever again." He wouldn't let the bad people hurt anybody again though he wasn't sure how he was going to suceed in that.

He brought his spare hand up to his chest in a fist. "I promise okay, I'll be a better friend and look after you."

"Your world?" Why would he want his world to be destroyed, was it not a very nice place?

He nodded at the question, "They keep stealing people from different worlds and then they did experiments..." He looked downcast a moment as he remembered that Molly had killed him. "They are really bad and like hurting people."

Determination. Willpower. Milagro's favorite emotion out of them all. She went ahead and sat down at the seat next to him, because she knew she could really like this kid. Not just because of what they had been through together, but because of his attitude.

"Alright! We're allies then!"

Romeo nodded and grinned widely, allies were good things to have! "We will make sure no one else gets hurt!" He told her with a smile and then pushed his plate of eggs towards her, because she had dropped her tray and it was always good to share. "Do you want some?"

"...I'm fine," he said, once again removing his hand from Romeo's grip and cramming it in his pocket. "They haven't hurt me..." Mentally, he added 'yet' to that sentence. As always, Ienzo couldn't quite comprehend what Romeo was going on about, but there was still a glaring issue in his deep and heart-felt declaration of protection.

"...Romeo. Stop." His expression was firm. "Before you start concerning yourself about the protection of other people, please take a moment to protect yourself."

Pause.

"...I... appreciate the thought... but distraction is a weakness..."

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