castleinthemist | .6th Fantasy Impromptu [open]

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.6th Fantasy Impromptu [open]

[Haku had gone further than she'd ever gone in the castle.

Bit by bit, in the days following her transformation and the loss of her sister and Kadar, she'd distanced herself from the rest of the castle occupants. She quietly faded herself out of the picture in hopes that no one would notice how... different she was, and thus not ask all the questions she couldn't answer.

So she kept going further. She avoided shadows, finding places to hide rather than try and fight them off, and it seemed to be working for the time being. Which was how she found herself here, in the graveyard, staring down at the darkness beyond a gravestone that had mysteriously moved.

She stood over it, her now human heart hammering nervously in her chest. Something about it just felt... wrong. Like a sick sensation crawling up her spine. A part of her wanted to go down, to see what it was that had her so afraid, but she couldn't urge her feet to move.

So she just stood there. Watching.

Waiting.

Wondering.]

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He'd followed her. Followed her because he didn't want her going out alone and because it was the only thing he could think of to keep his mind off everything else. His scythe over his shoulder. His double's machete at his side. He followed her, slowed down by a stray shadow or two which he dispatched. He was getting much better at fighting them, and with that scythe, it was so much easier than before. Soon enough, while she was staring, he caught up with her.

He walked up around, hoping that she'd see him walking up slowly. "Haku?" There's a smile there for her when she looks at him.

"What're you doin' out here all alone?"

She did see him approach. She was grateful for the lack of getting scared half to death by a sudden approach, but she still scowled faintly at him as he neared.

She countered his question with her own.

"Why did you follow me... ?"

And she is scowling at him why? This is a totally different side of Haku right off the bat. Don't even think she's shown that side once to him.

"Because I'm your friend. Cos I've been switched off for a week or so and I haven't talked to you much. That, and you've treated me very well for a long while, and I just want to return the favor and help you out."

There were a lot of things off about her now. Scowling like that, faint as it might have been, was just the first of many things he'd probably start noticing.

"... you shouldn't. I don't want any favors returned, Maxwell-san."

That would be the second. She was back to given name honorifics, when for weeks she'd been using the much more familiar "Duo-kun".

"Haku? Have I done somethin' to upset you?" Duo said, his attention then drawn to the grave stone. What the hell was down there anyway?

He ignores the other part. He'd return favors whether she wanted them or not. Whether she noticed or not. She had no idea how discrete he could be, and it'd hit her far after the fact.

"... no. No, you haven't..."

Her shoulders slumped, hands coming up to her chest as she turned her back to him. Her heart was hammering, and she felt a twisting, sick sensation in her stomach. She had to turn him away.

"You need to leave."

Duo just shook his head. He wasn't going anywhere. She was acting funny, suspicious even. No reason to leave just yet.

"What's down there?" He changed the subject, voicing his curiosity aloud this time. He was making no signs of motion, no change to his body language and that was deliberate.

"Why are you out here? Alone? You don't even have a weapon." He's watching her carefully now, trying to figure out why such a dramatic change in her behavior.

Edited 2012-04-20 06:00 (UTC)

"Leave me alone, Duo!"

Haku's voice echoed through the graveyard, startling a flock of nearby birds in to flight. If Duo listened closely enough, and had enough attention to realize it amongst everything else that was going on, there would be a distinct lack of that tinny, mechanical tone to her voice.

There was, however, a thickness that only came with tears.

"... p-please... just leave... forget about me..."

Duo is taken aback by that, and it does strike him. That lack of mechanical voice, the tone of her skin, the change from that near perfect placement of each synthetic strand of her hair among other things. But he didn't move, he just stared at her, forced to try to comprehend his observations verses her tearful request.

"Wha... Haku. Hey!" Okay. Something was wrong, and he didn't do anything. He needs to get to the bottom of this so he takes her by both shoulders.

"No! Okay? I'm not leaving until you tell me what's going on. 'Forget me' nothing. If I did something? You tell me. If something else happened? Tell me and we'll get through it. I'm not leaving."

Haku tensed at his touch, and though she wanted to push him away she didn't She would feel warm under his fingers, and that close there were other things that would start to be noticed. Red-raw palms, scratches and abrasions on her bare shoulders and beneath the dirty, torn hem of her skirt, even a bruise here and there. The hue of her eyes were even different - closer to brown than red now.

"You... didn't do anything..." she finally answered, gaze shifting down in shame. "I did."

Duo was staring. What's more? She was breathing. H-how? He couldn't get his eyes off of her.

"Oh... you're human...! How?!"

Haku shook her head frantically, burying her face in her hands.

"I... I died... I fell and... I died..."

And just evokes more staring, and fumbling with words. "Ah. Ho- w.. Y-you died?" He stammered, his breathing near breathing as he stared at her.

After a long hesitation he just drew her into his arms to hug her. "I'm sorry, Haku." Sympathetic. He couldn't have done anything to stop it.

A pained sob escaped the now human Vocaloid. She didn't hug back, though.

Oh, she wanted to. He was warm and solid and real, a human touch on skin that had never felt one before. She wanted to cling to him and listen to his heart beat, and cry that hers sounded the same now.

But she couldn't.

"There's--... that's... not all..."

She put her hands on his chest and pushed him back.

"It was Harth... he... he did this to me. Because I agreed to it."

She knew she wasn't supposed to tell, but Duo wouldn't leave her alone until he knew everything.

Duo turned his head down, still holding her tight to him. He didn't know how to feel about this, but he felt a sense of dispair, a sense of confusion and just the fact that he barely understood. It was impossible, right? Wasn't it?

"Harth?" He asked, an eyebrow raised now, utterly confused on the name. Eh. Toph mentioned him too.

"Wait... Haku? Who's this guy? How'd he turn you human?"

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