Well, it's you and me baby no one else we can trust / We'll say nothin' to no one no how or we bust

[shiromadoushi]

WHO: Bakura, Alastair, Jono and Cole
WHERE: Hell Towers, 10th floor
WHEN: Right after this
WARNINGS: IDEK.
SUMMARY: Cops are coming to look for Saitou and find he's flown the coup
FORMAT: Paragraph? Quick? SOmething? Let's just start wiht para and see what happens!



Bakura ran down the hall to his friends' apartment, banging on the door. "Alastair-oniichan! Kiryuu-kun! Saitou-san! Are you in there?!"

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[hackeralastair]

Alastair flung open the door, blank-faced. "Bakura. What the hell?"

[shiromadoushi]

Bakura holds up his com showing the post that had just been made. "Saitou-san and Kiryuu-kun, where are they? The police are coming looking for them! What's going on?!"

[hackeralastair]

"What? Wait..."

Alastair dashed down to his room to get his own comm and check - sure enough, no sign of the post. "What the crap? Did they actually block me?! I...hang on. Let me see that, Bakura. Can I?"

[shiromadoushi]

Bakura nodded, holding it out. "I don't know-- it didn't show up on yours?"

[hackeralastair]

"No, it's not on mine at all." Alastair offered him his own comm in return, while he quickly skimmed the threads. "....shit. Shit shit shit shit I knew this was going to happen..."

He took a deep breath and let it out in a short sigh. "Bakura, the cops are on their way. You and I are the only ones here, so they're gonna talk to us."

[shiromadoushi]

Bakura stared a moment. "Only--" His eyes widened. ".. superbowl. Hiruma-kun and everyone are--"

His hands started to shake slightly.

[hackeralastair]

Alastair tossed aside their comms and grabbed Bakura by the shoulders to steady him. "Now hang on. Don't freak out on me now. Just...let me handle it, all right? You don't know anything about where Saitou and Kyosuke might have gone anyway, and I'm not gonna tell you. Not right now. Besides."

He looked sideways at the comms on the couch, now. "...anything you need to know is in that police post. We'll talk about it later."

[shiromadoushi]

Bakura nodded, making a visible effort to pull himself together, reaching up to cling to Alastair's shirt slightly as he did so. "Why now..." he asked in a small voice that was still a bit shaky. "I-- if you need it, I have Aoshi-san's comm, you can have it, just in case.. just in case of something like this again."

[hackeralastair]

He had to think about that for a second. "Maybe. I don't know - I'll worry about it later. Right now, just...here, sit down before you fall down." He had to go and close the door, anyway, and make it look like they weren't in here conspiring over anything. Aome had come to investigate the door and sat at the end of the hallway, staring at them and lashing her tail a bit.

[shiromadoushi]

Bakura nodded, sitting down slowly, half hiding his face in his hands, trying to further pull himself together and stop worrying. Kiryu and Saitou could take care of themselves, after all... right?

KNOCK KNOCK BOYS

[jonocalypse.livejournal.com]

Jono had met with Cole outside of Hell Towers, and the two of them had taken the long elevator ride to the tenth floor. Saitou's apartment was just down the hallway, and Jono knocked immediately, standing back just in case. No telling what Hajime - or his friends - might do.

"Police, open up!"

OHHHH SNAP

[imonabike.livejournal.com]

Cole stood behind him a little further back, hands in his pockets.

This was gonna be an ass-ton of fun, he could just feel in his little grumpy bones. Still felt weird to do all this cop-ey things for some reason, despite him being here so long, but he was here.

"Careful." He added quietly.

XD

[hackeralastair]

Alastair took another deep breath and let it out before going to answer the door. When he opened it, his face was as blank as ever. "Yeah?" he wondered casually. "What's going on?"

POST-COPS

[hackeralastair]

After Jono and Cole left, Alastair closed the door behind them and then, out of paranoia, locked it. This was a bad situation, and now with Bakura in a catatonic state, he was left to handle it alone.

Dammit.

He drifted back into the living room and slumped onto the couch, barely raising his head when Aome slinked out of wherever she had been hiding from the big men and meowed accusingly at him. "No, cat, your buddy isn't home," he complained at her. "Go piss in his sock drawer or something."

[shiromadoushi]

Bakura didn't look up, but reached out a hand to find his brother's. "Oniichan..."

[hackeralastair]

Alastair took the hand and squeezed it. "It's okay. It's gonna be fine, we just. I don't know." He sighed heavily. "Shit. Kyosuke warned me, but I had no idea what all happened. Dammit, Saitou..."

[shiromadoushi]

"Warned you?" Bakura asked softly, slowly leaning against his brother, eyes closing. Which was an improvement over the blank staring.

[hackeralastair]

"I got a private text, in the middle of the night," Alastair explained, permitting the contact and remaining still and stable. "It was just after you and I got back, actually. He said Saitou was in trouble and they weren't coming back to the apartment for a few days. I didn't know he hurt one of the other cops or anything, though."

He breathed a short, terse sigh. "This is gonna be bad..."

[shiromadoushi]

Bakura's eyes slowly opened again, looking clearer again as he slowly returned to himself. "Everything just went to hell then, didn't it?" he asked softly. "Did-- did Saitou-san really...?"

[hackeralastair]

"What, kill Cavil?" Alastair looked down at his knees for a moment, and then the cat as she rubbed up against both their legs in search of attention. "I wasn't around when that happened, that was a while ago. I only know that he did do it - he got Cavil back, for killing Kyosuke the first time. He got himself killed trying for the second time.

"Yeah," he added after a breath's pause. "It's gone to hell."

[shiromadoushi]

Bakura gave a small nod. "I hope Saitou-san kills him again for that time too..." he said with a strange, hard tone to his voice. "What he did... the fires and everything... I hope he burns just the same someday..."

[hackeralastair]

Alastair recoiled a little bit. For a moment, Bakura was sounding almost like Kiryu. And he had stopped Kiryu from killing...

"It won't do any good," he said, frowning. "When guys like that get killed, they just come back with the need to kill you back - and they're running around out there scott-free, where they can really do it." His voice carried the same hard edge, but from determination. Alastair had been thinking about this a lot since trying to justify his instinctual actions to Kiryu. "I want Cavil to rot in jail where he is, because the minute he gets out he's coming after all of us - not just Saitou and Kyosuke this time, but me too. And I really don't want to die."

[shiromadoushi]

"It doesn't seem fair," Bakura said, voice dropping down to it's normal, softer tone, breif spike of anger already spent, but the edge was still there. Raw and hurting with echoes of the anger that came and went with no warning.

"I won't let anyone kill you or Kiryu-kun or anyone if I can do anything about it..." His hand tightened around Alastair's at that, grief growing stronger. He felt as if he had failed Blue, even though rationally, he knew there was no way he could have done anything.

[hackeralastair]

"Of course it's not fair," Alastair griped. "It's part of what makes this place suck so much sometimes. People go off and do stupid things because if they die, they assume they'll just come back. Never mind if they don't, or if they forget everything when they do. And everyone talks about their morals and their crap, but nobody ever does anything to stop it...nobody ever cares..."

He sighed and flopped back, withdrawing his hand so he could run both hands through his red hair. "I'm sorry. You don't need me making it worse. I just don't know what to do right now."

[shiromadoushi]

Bakura shook his head slightly. "It's not making it worse," he assured softly, looking down at his scarred hand. "It was a miracle when I woke up again after Monster World... I hadn't expected to, and for a little while... I wasn't sure I wanted to. But I'm glad I did... and I'm glad Kiryu-kun did, and Saitou-san. And that they both still remembered...."

He trailed off, fingers curling as he tried to fend off the swirl of doubts and fears in his mind. "It does mean something, every time anyone dies. That Blue-san might come back... doesn't make what happened to him any less horrible..."