towerofanimus | Collapsing [Taiki, Eridan and open]

Characters: Taiki, Eridan anyone who wants to come visit Eridan or sick Taiki. (Willow, Sollux, Dualscars since you all said you wanted to meet the two of them together!)
Setting: Room 2-18, after Eridan is released from the infirmary
Format: You pick!
Summary: All this blood finally gets to Taiki, he gets sick.
Warnings: mentions of blood

Taiki was relieved when Eridan could leave the infirmary, the place smelt of blood and pain even worse than the rest of the tower. They went down to get the lift up to the dormitory floors, Taiki managed to last long enough to arrive in the coridoor before he collapsed.

It was all too much, all the blood, he had gotten blood on him, blood had been all around them. He had continued going because he had to save Eridan, because he didn't want to leave Eridan but his body couldn't cope any longer and he fell to the ground trembling, his eyes rolling back as he lost conciousness.

If Eridan touched him up he would be burning to the touch.

[A day or two later] Taiki finally started to recover, though he had no strength at all he was able to stay awake for a few hours at a time, and was well enough to recieve visitors, if anyone cared to come and see him.

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Eridan was sitting on his own bed, watching Taiki with a scowl. He knew the kid was sick because of him, and it just made no sense, but he felt a bit responsible, anyway.

He lifted his head and looked at the stranger. "He's sick," he said, as if that wasn't already obvious. "But he's on the mend, so I figure he probably wwon't die."

"Well, duh, I figured that," Marceline muttered, hardly above a whisper. If the kid wasn't awake she didn't want to be the one to change that. The weird guy sitting on another bed gave her reason to stay where she was, leaning against the door frame; she wasn't about to risk starting something, those horns had to have a use, right?

"At least he's getting better though. Any idea what happened?" It wouldn't hurt to be on top of what other insanity could happen here, and if it was contagious she wanted to at least know.

"He can't be around pain an death," Eridan said slowly, eyeing her sidelong. "It fucks up his physiology, apparently. And he wwas in those fakey fake nightmare wworlds wwhere there wwas all kinds a pain, an' blood, an then spent a night in the infirmary."

Marceline did her best not to show it, but even after years of being more or less useless her heartguts decided now was a fine time to pretend to work and clench. Pain and death, regardless of how she preferred not to be the cause of them, were a part of life for her, and this kid had only been nice the one time she'd met him. And the worlds...

"I... didn't know," she admitted, crossing her arms over her chest. "I didn't even notice there were people gone, I just..." stayed in the areas I didn't have to see people in, she thought, but left it unsaid. "What the glob is this place anyway, nightmare worlds and junk. Kid shouldn't have to deal with this."

Eridan shrugged. He probably wouldn't have noticed that there were people gone if he hadn't been one of the people. So long as one of the few he interacted with regularly hadn't been one of the missing, anyway.

"I don't knoww wwhat this place is," he said. "Other than the obvvious. It's clearly some kind a fuckin' experimental laboratory or torture chamber constructed for the sadistic pleasure a some kind a alien scientists."

Taiki had been asleep and as he woke he awoke to voices, he recognised Eridan's though so he didn't worry, just blinked a few times and tried to move. He was still really week and even small movements made him tired.

He heard the last words of Eridan and tried to sit up to see who he was speaking to, "Eridan?" He whispered and then gave a small smile, "Hello Marceline."

"I wouldn't doubt either of those explanations at this point." Marceline sighed, before Taiki woke up. So this guy was Eridan, huh? Well, at least now she had a name to put with the face, other than 'odd accent guy'.

"Hey, kiddo," she grinned, quieter than she normally would be, and hanging back by the door. If he wasn't feeling well, and couldn't be around death and pain, it might be better for her to keep her distance, she reasoned. "Don't worry about sitting up for me," she said quickly, shaking her head. "You keep resting, I was just popping by to see what I could see."

It wasn't quite a lie, at least. She'd have felt bad about telling him a complete fib; that was the weird thing about getting used to people.

"So you're a friend a Taiki's?" Eridan sounded a little surprised. So far as he knew, Taiki had no friends other than Eridan and his monsters. But who knew? He didn't keep track of everything.

"Anywway, I'm Eridan Ampora, and you're Marceline, then?" He gives her a nod. "As you can see, Taiki's restin' and he's doin' all right. But if you wwant to talk to him, that's okay."

Taiki smiled, he was surprised that anyone even knew he was ill never mind that they would want to come and visit him. "Erm...How are you Marceline?" He asked, giving up on the sitting up endevour, it was too tiring.

"Eridan has been looking after me," he said, he was surprised at that also, but it was nice, very nice to have someone apart from Sanshi who cared enough to help him when he was sick.

"Well, kinda," Marceline admitted with a grin. "Kiddo was one of the first to come say hey to me after I got to this messed-up place. Guess that kinda qualifies us to be friends, then?" She was still unclear on the whole 'having friends' deal as it stood, but if this was all it took, she wouldn't complain. She shot a quick fanged grin at Eridan, but kept her place by the door.

"Not too bad." She replied to Taiki's question, shrugging. "Been playing and working on new songs here and there, just chillin'. So this guy's been taking care of you, that's good. Sucks to be sick and alone." Marceline nodded, trying to keep her tone light, but clenching her fingers tighter into her grey shirt. She didn't want to think about how she hadn't even noticed any of the stuff happening. Some kinda friend she was.

Oh, she had fangs, too. He smiled back a little less certainly, but with even more pointed teeth.

"You wwrite songs?" he asked, curious.

Taiki smiled at Marceline again, a little overwhelmed that on top of visiting him she was calling him her friend. "I... yes I guess... we are friends?" His smile got a bit brighter.

"Yes, she's really good," Taiki smiled at Eridan happily.

Whoa, that was a lot of fangs. The vampire was distracted momentarily- what in the world was that, sure didn't look like anything she'd ever seen in Ooo, but she didn't worry about it. If Taiki was hanging around him, then he couldn't be too bad, right?

A faint blush rose to her face, and she tried to laugh it off. "Yeah, I write songs, I guess if you're into the kind of stuff I write about they're good. Most of what I've played here has just been jamming though," Marceline admitted. She'd have to fix that soon...

He assumed she was a human, but hadn't seen a human with fangs like a troll before. Eridan's own teeth didn't have longer canines, but most trolls did. He wondered if she was a human variant or something else. But he supposed it didn't really matter right now.

"So you're good?" he asked, vaguely curious.

All the pointy teeth were making Taiki feel a little frightened, but it was Eridan and Marceline and neither of them would hurt him. He smiled, "She is really good.... do you like music Eridan?" He couldn't imagine the troll playing music but that was just because he seemed angry a lot and music was calming.

Collapsing [Taiki, Eridan and open]

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