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Causes and Consequences; - Closed -
Topic Started: Dec 20 2011, 09:15 PM (736 Views)
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Osiris was scared. He could handle a room full of thugs. A business deal with a mafia member who had being doing his job for as many years as Osiris had been alive was barely a threat to him. He didn't fear heaven or hell, lawman or criminal...and yet the screams of the girl in front of him were ripping through him like a hot blade through ice. He grimaces as she grips his hand even more tightly, slightly hurting him.

He then heard a word, he didn't know all that much Japanese, but he understood that word at least. Mother. This fear, this tear-inducing panic, that was causing the normally stoic Tsubame to thrash was her own mother? The thought sickened him...He knew some details about her past...knew about her mother and uncle being arrested but...he could never find out why. Part of him was now dying to know, the other part wished he never found out.

He was trying to steady her and keep her down and looks up at Yuri and then yells "I need a medic in here now, she's panicking and her fever is spiking!" Footsteps came running, shortly following was a paramedic, he looked at Osiris trying to hold Tsubame as she thrashed and wailed and went over to the IV and inserted a sedative to calm her down.

Osiris thanked him and watched Tsubame, falling back in his chair he grabbed his glass and drank. Drinking laws be damned, he needed it
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The sedatives quickly take their effect, and the floramancer's movement and screams slowly subdue into quiet stirs and sobs of murmurs. It seems that she is still greatly troubled by her nightmare, but the sedatives has effectively made her less active and violent, at least, so that she doesn't tear her wound open again from all of these stirring.

The paramedic frowns a little, and double checks on the wound before he finally leaves the room, muttering something into Yuri's ears, something about the patient's fever affecting her dream, or whatever it is that Yuri didn't really understood. Something out of her realm of understanding, Yuri reckoned.

After the scene died down, and Osiris took up the glass, Yuri merely looked from her standing position down onto Osiris, and then to the girl in bed.

What is getting to Osiris?

What is the thing that Tsubame has that makes Osiris act this way?

He is acting very much unlike his character, and even a blind can tell that she is the very reason for his acting-out-of-character. Even when he is suiting up like a business person right now, and his voice much calmer than before, he is still not back to the normal convincing Osiris Solomon yet.

Just what is between them that makes him act this way?

Yuri then looks at Tsubame. She is acting in a way that Yuri has never seen, or imagined her acting, too. In this state, Tsubame is actually, somehow, fragile looking. It is as if they wake her up from this slumber right now, she will break and fall apart. She is breaking and falling apart as is, regardless of whether this be the fever or not.

And, seeing Osiris this way, and knowing that- seeing that- Tsubame is the cause, makes Yuri feel something slightly off in her. Something slightly… unpleasant. It makes her physically uncomfortable. Unease, she remembered them calling it.

The Tsubame at this stage actually brings out an urge from Yuri.

The girl walks up a step, and closes her eyes.

This is what her mother did to make her feel a little better when she was sick a long, long time ago. Will it work for Tsubame, too?

Yuri raises her hand when Osiris starts to drink from his cup, and puts her hand onto Tsubame's forehead.

"You'll be alright." The girl mutters to Tsubame. However, by the low whisper, she may as well be muttering to both herself and Osiris as well.

However, such a move from Yuri involves more than just the mere touch.

It involves…




Consequences.
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Osiris had his head in his hands, thinking. What were they going to do? Her wound would need monitored, her boyfriend would eventually want to come and see her...but He couldnt come here. Zodiac members only after all. He felt better knowing that in someway he had some advantage over-wait what? What advantage? Why what did he matter? More nonsensical things.

The doctor had said her dreams were being affected by the fever, making them worse, she was likely remembering some unpleasant things. He sighed and took another drink, finishing the glass and setting it down. Something his father had always done, take a drink of scotch, get back to businness. Life goes on.

It was then he saw Yuri and his eyes widened. For two reasons...One that she seemed to be showing concern. He knew Yuri felt things, but her active awareness of those emotions or acting on them was severely dulled. Two, he knew what happened when she touched someone. He spoke quietly but firmly "Yuri? What are you doing?"
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Yuri tightly closes her eyes as soon as she touches Tsubame, and braces for the impact.

Right, she has forgotten about her power.

But no matter how much Yuri has tried to mentally prepare for this, the invasion of memories and consciousness from the sleeping Tsubame is still too much, too grave, and too heavy for Yuri to take it all at one time. She couldn't even hear Osiris speaking to her, simply because of all of the yelling, screaming, and chatting noises that she hears echoing in her ears from Tsubame's nightmare.

As if she has received a shock from touching Tsubame, the girl quickly lifts her hand. Then, her butt drops onto the floor, as if she has received a punch in the guts, or in the head. Her eyes widens, and she covers her ears. She quickly crawls into a ball, her body shivering and trembling, despite the room being warm and comfortable. However, her face remained stoic and bland, creating a scene of absolute disharmony. Osiris can probably deduce that, while Yuri is not being affected by the emotional pain that Tsubame is going through in her nightmare, what Yuri was doing is probably what Tsubame would be doing if she was awake and conscious as she is reliving this nightmare.

"… No. Go away. I-I am sorry. P-Please. N-not the bugs. Please, O-Okaa-sama, I-I am sorry f-for the di-disgrace- I-I c-confess- I-I am a wit-witch- I-I am sorry-" Yuri begins to mutter lightly, echoing the soft murmur that Tsubame signals on her moving lips, until suddenly she looks up at Osiris, her eyes almost escaping out of her socket, and she lets out a horrifying scream. "I-I-NOOOOOO!!!!!"

What was seen by Yuri from Tsubame is rather clear now- it is highly possible that Yuri will be able to retain this information in her muse as well afterwards. However, for now, if Osiris do not do something quick, there is a possibility that Yuri may break even further before anything- it would seem that whatever Tsubame is experiencing her nightmare is probably a little too much for an girl with an ordinary origin like Yuri to handle.
Edited by Sybilus, Dec 24 2011, 02:55 AM.
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This was not what they needed right now, but sure enough it was happening. It was a nightmare to watch. Her actions were spastic, the scene before him was like a horrifying vision of possession, the way her body moved simply suggested pain and anguish. And all of this was magnified by the fact that all this was a reflection. This was also happening to Tsubame deep inside her mind.

He had to stop this, it was dangerous. A normal mental connection was stressful on Yuri, something like this...could have tragic results. He knew that there wasn't much he could do to help with this. He couldnt force her to settle down, he couldnt stop the transfer. Nor could he get close enough to her to do anything significant besides touch her. But that was all he needed.

He moved over and grabbed the sedative that had been used on Tsubame. Then he rushed at Yuri, just grabbing her bare hand with his. In the time of the shock reaching her brain as her power activated he Had injected the sedative and slowly as placing her on a chair leaning her back. He stared downward and sighed. This...was quite the exciting day.
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Osiris's quick actions has indeed helped the girl greatly. The widening eyes quickly readjusted to the injection of sedative, and the pupils of the younger girl readjusts themselves several time. However, it was not until after a few, long minutes before Yuri finally recovered to being herself again.

She looks up at Osiris, who seems to have stared at her for a little while, his face rather complicated looking. She merely tilts her head. It seems that she has done something that must have really disappointed him. Or something along those lines.

"... I merely wished to make her feel better," The girl looks down, as if she felt guilty in what she has done. While she couldn't really "feel guilty", so to speak, she does know that it is not what she wants to do right now, to look at Osiris. It stirs up something inside, something unpleasant, when she looked at him. It is similar to when she learned that Tsubame holds a great place in Osiris's heart, but it is yet another kind of unpleasant.

"... I am sorry, sir. I will not do it again." The girl mutters, looking at her palm.

That was... an interesting experience. Not in a good way, of course, but the girl can't find a better term to describe it.

Yuri closes her eyes.

The woman on the bed…. She has a very unpleasant fragment of thought and consciousness alright. Yuri doesn't even want to recall what she has received from Tsubame, because she could feel goosebumps even by just recalling fragments of it. The bad thing is, however, despite her dislike, she could hear the agonizing scream and the twisted smile in her visions just by closing her eyes right now.

This is simply… unpleasant. She can't figure out a better way to put it.

"… Are you sure this is a person, sir, that you would be willing to lose your self-control over?" The girl slowly opens her eyes. With a slight frown of the face, Yuri asks.

This is definitely something out of place for Yuri to ask, but she must ask it regardless. Because, if what the woman shoulder on her shoulder is something that even Yuri herself who doesn't understand emotion will feel extremely unpleasant towards- to the point where she refuses to recall it, even - what'd happen to Osiris if he ever learns about the woman's past?

But then again, it is not like Tsubame has been burdened by this past. Even if she did, she has done a very, very fine job in not showing it, at all. At least, as far as Yuri concerns, she has never thought that such a thing has possibly happened on Tsubame.
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Osiris looks down at Yuri as she apologizes and sits down next to her, his frown gradually becoming a smile, he took out a rubber safety glove from the dispenser on the wall and gently rubbed her head fondly. It was weird dealing with her, she was rather complex. Sometimes he felt like he was handling a child, others he felt more like he was working with a highly sophisticated machine. But at this time it was the child thing he was feeling more.

He shushed her as she apologized "I know, don't worry. I know you weren't trying to do something bad. You only are ever trying to help, so relax" He sighed as she then looked over at Tsubame, his own eyes following hers to the still form as Yuri asked her next question.

Osiris sighed again, he was doing that a lot today as his eyes burrowed deep at Tsubame's form "Yuri, I want to say yes...but I know regardless of my answer I do seem to have little say in the matter, my body just does as it wants around her and I dont quite know why..." That wasn't quite true...he thought he might, but the idea was so absurd and so...un him that he didnt like thinking about it.
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Yuri feels the warmth of a hand patting her head, as she stares up and notices the rubber safety gloves on Osiris's hand. She closes her eyes, and attempts to block out the headache that tries to invade her mind via the touch of the gloves that Osiris has given just a minute ago.

… Well, he never really understood the context of how she gets her headache, eh?

The headache, thank goodness, was faint. It also helps, of course, that she is grabbing quite tightly onto her own skirt as he pats her, and attempts to not think about anything but herself and the girl on the bed at the meantime.

While Osiris's intention may be all the kindness and appreciation he never meant, Yuri didn't, well, appreciate it as much as he'd probably want her to. Therefore, when the boy was done, she looks up, and stares at him with her cold stare.

"… Please, sir. No physical contacts." The girl says, as cold as she sounds. After all, this is not quite pleasant, to get a headache from anyone, including Osiris, just because he felt like it. To Yuri, of course, she didn't recognize it to be something that she likes, even though she knew that Osiris meant all the good intentions.

She then returns her gaze to Tsubame, when Osiris said his reply about her question. She closes her eyes.

If Osiris says so, then there is no way, or place, for her to change it. All she can do is aid Osiris in all the ways she can, and make sure that everything is going to go smoothly for Osiris, and nothing will harm him in the way.

She opens her eyes again, and turns towards Osiris.

"… I will ask the others to aid in preparing your supper. Please excuse me." The girl gives a light bow, and walks towards the exit. She opens the door, and exits into the hall way.

She closes the door behind her, and exhales.

She notices that there is a moment of stir in the girl on the bed. It is possible that the girl is going to wake up soon. It is best if she leaves Osiris and Tsubame alone, probably.

But why does it feel slightly unpleasant when she does so?




"… S-sorry…" The girl stirs a little, and the murmur continues. However, it is much less violent and unsettling in comparison to before. Instead, it is rather saddening sounding. It is as if the girl has, in her nightmare, reverted back to her child stage, and has been apologizing for something that she did wrong as a tiny child.

"H-had I known… S-sorry…" As she continues to murmur, the girl seeks for something in her hands, something for her to hold onto, someone's hand, to be specific.

"… It's my fault… My miscalculation…"

"Gomenasai…"
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Osiris withdrew his hand "I apologize, I thought the glove might keep it at bay" he took his own hand and rubbed it slightly before removing the glove and tossing it aside. He tried to be conscientious about Yuri's...condition, but it was always hard to tell what would trigger a reaction and what would not. He knew the basics of her condition but nothing in detail. That was due to the fact that as far as he knew, Yuri did not really understand her own condition.

He nodded as Yuri got up to leave and smiled lightly "Thank you Yuri, please afterwards take the night off, you deserve it for all your work today" After she left it didnt take long for Tsubame to grab his attention.

She was talking again, and reaching out. He took her hands into his and held them gently as he spoke to her. "No, it's not, it was my fault, my own miscalculation. If I didn't...you wouldn't have been hurt. You're gonna be ok though, I promise"
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As if she could hear that Osiris was speaking to her, the nervous, tensed facial expression that Tsubame has had on earlier softly relaxes, and her grips onto Osiris's hand also softens, into a squeeze that one would expect from a friend, a sibling, or even, a lover. She quietly turns her head, as if facing Osiris, and shows the man a soft, tender grin that he has probably never seen her have on her face.

"… Thanks…"

Her murmur continues, as she does all of these things unconsciously. It seems that the sedative has finally taken effect, and somehow turned the nightmare that Tsubame has been having into a better dream. From the temperature of the palm, Osiris can also deduce that maybe the fever of the girl has gone down, even if just by a little bit.

"… Daisuki da yo…" Softly, again, the girl murmurs.

It would seem that the girl is saying it to Osiris, even though her eyes are closed, and her mind is definitely not seeing what is apparent in front of her right now. Instead, the girl softly says and mutters. While most of what she was saying after "thanks" could not be made out, along with a lot of other words and phrases that seems to be a mix of British English and Japanese, at least this phrase has stood out in her senseless speeches.

"… J… "
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If the sleeping face of a serene Tsubame was enough to unnerve Osiris, then the smile was simply shocking. He had never seen her make such a face, nothing anywhere close. Even when she was enjoying herself there was always some cruelty to embarrassment hidden in her expression. This was a smile that showed...contentment, that things were right in the moment. Something Osiris was feeling strangely off-put by while simultaneously drawn in.

As she felt his hand, he gently rubbed hers with his thumb. Had her skin always been so smooth? How had he not noticed it ever before? And then the words, once again some of the only Japanese Osiris knew. This was not because of any basic language training, he knew this one because of how many cheesy scenes it had ever been in. But it didnt seem cheesy now. At the same time it was simultaneously terrifying and reassuring.

He now knew why she was driving him crazy, had an understanding of why he was doing all the things he had done. But, he had never dealt with it before. He opened his mouth and stammered a bit before getting out "Tsubame, I think I feel the same-"

And then she addressed who she was talking to.

Osiris stopped stroking her hand and leaned back hanging his head. Of course thats who she would be talking to. He rubbed his temples. Osiris Solomon, criminal mastermind, stupid idiot.
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As if she could feel that there was a sudden, even though slight, change in the way that the person who was holding her hand was, the girl's murmur stops, and her brows furrows a little. An unsettling expression appears on her face, as if something bad has taken place again in her dream. The girl's head turns slightly, as if to try and turn her head away, but was unable to turn her head far enough.

It was after a few moments and attempts before the unsettling movements finally dies, and the girl is fast asleep again. This time, in contrary to how she was earlier on, was much more comforting, and peaceful.

For a minute, ever since Osiris entered, there was silence. Dead, quiet, calming silence.

But that didn't last too long, either.

Following a soft knock on the door, the younger girl returns, opens the door, and enters after a soft knock.

"Your dinner is ready, sir." Yuri comments, stating the matter-of-fact, and looks at the girl on the bed again.

Anyone would be able to tell that the younger girl's re-entry is not quite necessary- the girl seemed to have entered only to check on the patient's status.

And the noise that she has created has triggered something in the bed, too.

As if she could hear the soft knock, the floramancer's eyelids moves a little, stresses and squeezes, then relaxes. A soft complaint of ache escapes from her lips, and she softly opens her eyes.

Noting this small change in the patient, and the reflected light from the eyes of the floramancer, Yuri closes her eyes. Well, at least she is awake now. The doctor has said that if the floramancer wakes up, then she will be completely out of the danger zone. And since she is now awake, nothing much needs to be worried about. If that's the case, then Yuri's duty here is completed, and now she shall take her leave for tonight, for real this time.

"… Please remember about your conference tomorrow," The girl drops another note about the great bank robbing plan that they have had planned for a while, before finally closing the door and exiting the room.



"Ngeh…" The floramancer complains, as she slowly opens her eyes.

That was a horrible, horrible dream. A dream that she never wanted to ever recall.

Why did she remember the very memory that she repressed so hard in her mind?

Ow…. it hurts… Her head is heavy, and her whole body aches…

Did she got hit by a car?

She closes her eyes again. The light is quite hard to adjust to.
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Osiris forgot he was holding Tsubame's hand as he was wrestled from his thoughts by Yuri entering the room. He nodded quietly his eyes drifting back to Tsubame. After all of this he wasn't all that hungry for anything, but he needed to keep up appearances. He had to look strong, like nothing was wrong. Well, he thought about it, nothing was wrong. He just had made an error a miscalculation...he would begin working on how to correct it immediately.

He made his business face and looked at Yuri "Yes, I'll be up in a minute to eat and finish preparing I just want to make sure Tsubame is filled in on everything, just because she's healthy doesn't mean she's ok" he slowly slid his hand away from hers as he looked at the Awakening Tsubame "Not this one is ever quite right"

He looked over as Tsubame awoke "You're in Zodiac headquarters, I'm sorry, you had an accident. It was my fault...I apologize"
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Tsubame closes her eyes again, and shuts all the light out. She merely wants this pain to go away, but the pain is going nowhere. Instead, it is as if they have engraved and carved themselves into her, that she is feeling the signal of pain sent to her mind from every single muscle of her body. She must have gone through quite a bit of being-a-punchbag during the time of her sleep. Well, not literarily, but that's how she felt.

But, while she can block out vision, she cannot selectively block out what she can hear. It was Osiris's voice.

Tsubame felt her eyes rolling within the darkness she created for herself. His voice has overlapped with J's voice in her dream, for some reason.

Wait a minute, does that mean whatever she was saying in the dream was said to Osiris instead? Or did she even say anything at all?

A sense of panic suddenly creeps into Tsubame's mind, as she thought of the possibility of her saying anything in her sleep, at all. What did she say? What did she not say? Did she really thought, in her sleep, that J would be the person who has been by her side for the entire time?

This is a very careless mistake.

Noticing how careless it was, and how much of her own weakness she might have given away, Tsubame almost immediately jolted up into a sitting position, her hand tightly grabbing onto Osiris, basing her direction senses off the voice that she hears from. In this case, she grabbed onto Osiris's arm.

"WHAT did you hear." The girl questions, harshly.

Her eyes also flared open at this point, partly because of the shock of herself revealing more of herself, but also partly because of all the pain that was triggered by this abrupt movement.

Her hand quickly retracts from Osiris's arm to her waist, where the wound was cut, and presses against the wound. It is then that she realizes what Osiris was saying, about his fault and an accident.

… Oh, right…

With difficulty, the girl lays back down again. Letting out a sigh from her lips, the girl turns towards Osiris, and stares at him with her usual, analytical stare.

"… I over-reacted. Let me rephrase my question, did I say anything between my fainting, and my waking up?" Tsubame asks, her voice much colder and business-like, nowhere near how she was earlier on.

She was not really expecting much answer from Osiris, given that Osiris don't owe her anything at all. At least, however, she would like to know if Osiris would even want to talk about it. If he wishes to make use of her past and her secrets, this may be the best time for him to take advantage of her with.

… Of course, given the current state of Tsubame, her mind is not turning fast enough yet to notice that Osiris has just apologized and admitted his fault. Why would a person who has just apologized to her make use of her weakness?

Definitely not right away, at least.
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In Osiris Solomon's position, there were a few reactions that one would expect. The boy had just realized he had deep feelings for the girl in front of them, the moment he also realized how entirely futile they were. This previously mentioned girl was also now yelling at him and being rather harsh. Tears would be rather typical, excusing oneself to leave the the room is another good one, or perhaps lying. But this was Osiris Solomon we're talking about here.

He didnt flinch as Tsubame grabbed his arm, his heart was pounding, but none of this was reflected on his face. It was the cold face of business he normally wore, though admittedly looking slightly fatigued and in need of rest. As Tsubame yelled at him he barely even blinked and then as she let go he slowly back in his seat, crossed his legs and looked at her.

"You did speak, quite a bit before being sedated and even a little afterwards..." He looked her in the eye, and this is where normally he would smirk, he would taunt, gloat. He didn't instead his face looked sullen "You were reliving memories of your past, some rather violent ones it seems, but they are your own..not interest to me[" He sounded oddly Yuri like as he spoke, removing emotion from the explanation was helping him deal with it... all of it.

He paused "Obviously you are excused from the meeting tonight, if you need something, all of my servants have been commanded to give you anything you desire." He also indicated her cell phone on her bedside table "Also, J has been informed of the situation, albeit by voicemail, you likely should give him a call..."
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