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WHO: A WHOLE LOT OF PEOPLE, PART DEUX
WHERE: the City! Or, in Jaime's case, space.
WHEN: the morning after these shenanigans, at any time
SUMMARY: Everybody who's been hit by the aftershock from Vector and Chronos' profound failure has to come to at some point! And this is where you file those threads of heinous confusion. It's time for still wasted from the party last night; the re-re-re-re-remix.

That was quite a night, huh? But whatever you did, it's time to wake up now.

Or eventually. Either way.

The circumstances surrounding them may be radically different, but everyone who was affected by the temporal shock has two things in common: a mind that draws a complete blank when it comes to the events of the previous evening, and a killer headache. Enjoy.

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"Better. Pain killers are great things." His smile turned a little cynic as he added, "I heard I went crazy yesterday."

Alastair couldn't help but grin. "I wouldn't say crazy," he said flippantly, leaving his laptop bag behind and sashaying over. "Although I'm not too fond of random weird shit happening to important people."

Kiryu chuckled and looped his arms around Alastair's neck once he was close enough. "I'm not too fond of random shit happening to me either. It happens way too much."

Definitely much better. Alastair curled his arms around Kiryu's waist to trap him there. "Shoulda known we couldn't get through one week without anything weird happening to somebody in the house. Well, I don't know about you, but I'm pretty glad that blew over quickly." He tilted his head slightly. "Really, though. Aside from the headache, you're okay? No more not knowing who we are or how we got here?"

"I'm glad you didn't have to deal with anymore of it than you did. Though I wish I could remember what happened."

He frowned and turned his head away, leaning against Alastair's shoulder. "Yeah, I'm fine. And I know it's not my fault but I'm sorry. I wouldn't forget you."

"Nah, it's okay." Alastair's hand moved up into Kiryu's hair, combing his fingers through it. He had defintely come to like that about his friend's new hairstyle. "It's not like we haven't dealt with things like that before. Damn Porter."

He breathed a short sigh, the honesty just tumbling out of him. "I'm just bothered that nobody knows what happened, why anybody started acting weird all at once. On the one hand, I'm glad there aren't any chickens in our bathtub. On the other...I don't like anyone messing with you. And I don't like not knowing who or what it was."

Kiryu let out a faint sound and closed his eyes; he definitely liked this part of having his hair longer too. "Heh, you probably kept me from doing anything crazy like that, huh?"

He shifted to give Alastair a brief kiss. "Someone'll figure it out. They always do."

"At least you weren't off your nut or acting drunk or anything," Alastair pointed out. "I didn't have to do much besides keep you occupied so you didn't worry too much. Trust me, if you had been one of the crazy ones, I would have sat on you so you didn't run out into the street or anything."

He smiled at the kiss; it was such a relief having everything back to normal so quickly. He didn't want to take it for granted, but Kiryu was right. "Yeah. As long as it doesn't happen again." His arms tightened, holding him close. "I dunno, maybe it was the full moon. Heh."

"I didn't drink much back then," he murmured. "It was hard to get anything good."

He fell silent, just enjoying Alastair's presence for a moment. It had been a while since they'd just hung out like this. Even entertaining him during work a few days ago had been full of distractions.

"You know, we haven't done something with just us for a while. No Bakura, no work..."

Alastair breathed a quiet, content sigh. "Yeah, I know," he said ruefully. "I've been crazy busy, and all kinds of other stuff keeps coming up." He pulled back just enough in order to grin at Kiryu. "You wanna get out of here without anybody tagging along? Just us?"

"Yeah, like this whole mess." Kiryu smirked back up at him. "I would love that. I'll even let you pick where."

"Oooo~..." Alastair bent his head and pressed their foreheads together, so they could have an intimate little space for him to grin and make evil plans. "Well, I'm kinda hungry. Wanna go to Chinatown and get the real deal? And then, I don't know, maybe just ride around for a while. Tear up the city on our bikes."

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