you need a bloody shower [post-event mingle]

[bloodyashes]

Characters: Any and all!
Setting: Floor 77, sauna
Format: Action-mingle - start your own threads!
Summary: The event is over and everyone who was stuck in the dorms needs a serious bath.
Warnings: Post-event shenanigans? Also baths so p much everyone is at least partially naked.

And so now that you've made your way free of the hell that is the dorm rooms -

This floor mimics a sauna--there are three entrances: one for men, one for women, and one for mixed. Inside each room is the wooden interior one would expect. Outside each area is a small changing room with lockers--if you look, you'll find one with your name on it. The locker will only open up for you. It might be a good place to store things, actually...

- it's time for everyone to take a bath! There's both hot, steamy stalls and large hot spring pools - but you'd better hurry! It's gonna get crowded in here kind of fast.

And hey, keep that towel closed, there's children in here!

Comments

[notagiraffe]

We should get out... I think the water is making you sleepy... [He looks at her worriedly, not wanting her to hurt herself]

[chainsawn]

Being sleepy is nice though. I'd like to go sleep again.

[ But she can't. Her sleep is even more invaded now by the visions of the hospital, like those moments in the closed room still linger in the back of her mind. She has to stay awake, as much as she usually loves dreaming.

It's since this time her dreams don't give her any safe haven. ]

.. But.. not now. [ She shakes her head a little bit. ]

[notagiraffe]

No... not now... not in the water... [He blinked at her worriedly] You... you have to stay awake here...

[chainsawn]

.. Not in the water, but.. nowhere else either. I can't sleep. [ She shakes her head a little. At least now she's talking she seems a little more awake. ]

I can't even close my eyes without sleeping. I'll see it again.

[notagiraffe]

See what... did you... [No need to ask if something bad happened. Something bad is always happening. Taiki reached out to touch her hand] It's not good... um... not to sleep I mean...

[chainsawn]

I wish I could sleep. I want to sleep, sleeping is.. nice.

[ Nicer than facing reality, most of the time. She mostly got over it, or was trying to, but like this she'll slip right back into it. ]

But I can't sleep without seeing it, so I can't sleep.. it's bad no matter what now, huh.

[notagiraffe]

I'm sorry... um... when I have nightmares and can't sleep I hug Sanshi and Gohran... maybe if you weren't alone you wouldn't see it...

[chainsawn]

... [ If you..

.. weren't.. alone..

Her hands shake. The flashes of so many people who left her, both back home and in the tower, quickly shoot through her mind. She's so close to losing it, to just trying to summon her chainsaw and do whatever, to stop thinking..

But she's been taught that it's not the answer. And since, for a moment, she can't see the hospital, she manages to hold herself back. ]

I.. want to have someone to hug while I sleep..

[notagiraffe]

[That she wanted someone to hug meant she didn't have anyone to hug, and that was really sad. Taiki didn't know what he would do if he didn't have Sanshi and Gohran.] You can hug us... if you want... if it would help you...

[chainsawn]

You.. would want that..?

[ With the way she says it, it's almost like she doubts it. Or maybe that she's scared to just accept that thought and then get disappointed afterwards. ]

[notagiraffe]

[Taiki nodded wide eyed] I don't want you do be sad... and I like hugging people...

[chainsawn]

.. Me too.

It's just sad that when you need to hug someone the most.. nobody's there.

[ Just like how Kidou left, was sent away, just when she needed him the most. ]

[notagiraffe]

[He blinked sadly at that and moved closer to wrap his arms around her] I'm here... you can come and hug me whenever you want [He can't promise to always be there, because he knows how the tower works]

[chainsawn]

[ Huh. It's... warm. Really warm. Not the way that hospital was so cold and white and sterile, not a single sign of life, not a single sign of love--

It's so warm that she almost chokes for a moment, but then she just leans into the hug. Urotsuki doesn't make a sound as she does so, but there's still something desperately even about her very movement, the way she tries to bury her face against Taiki. ]

.. It's warm..

[notagiraffe]

[Taiki just held her very tightly trying to keep her safe and chase away all her bad thoughts, so she didn't have to be scared any more.] Hugs are always warm... and safe.

[chainsawn]

I.. won't have to see it anymore.. right..? The hospital's going to go away now..?

[notagiraffe]

I hope so... I hope it stays away and you won't have to see it ever again...

[chainsawn]

..

I don't want to see it anymore. Ever. [ She doesn't want to be reminded of those memories anymore. Even in her dreams they never end well, after all, unlike everything else. ]

Next time I see it, I'll.. kill it.. [ Entirely stable, clearly. ]

[notagiraffe]

No... [He spoke quietly, almost a whimper, burying his face into her shoulder] Sorry... you can't kill... please don't.

[chainsawn]

.. Why..? Why can't I kill it...

[ She doesn't shove Taiki off her or anything though, it's really just a question. She still lets him hug her as close as he wants to. ]

That way.. it'll go away forever, after all..

[notagiraffe]

Because killing is bad... you shouldn't kill anything... sorry... Even if it makes it go away...

[chainsawn]

But.. if something tries to kill you.. you got to kill it back. Or you'll die. And if you don't kill something that hurts you, then it'll hurt you..

[notagiraffe]

"But it's bad... you just shouldn't kill... or hurt anything..." His voice was soft and he was beginning to tremble with the thought of it.

[chainsawn]

You're shaking.

[ She can feel it like this, after all. Her tone is pretty dry though, like it's a simple observation more than anything else. ]

... Why..? Is it.. really that bad to you? [ Even though it's so natural to her most of the time, especially in this place. ]

[notagiraffe]

I'm sorry... um... [He doesn't stop hugging though, because he promised] I'm a kirin... violence is bad...