[Tenth Stanza]: [Accidental Audio]

[eclipsedonmyoji]

-ke. ... please come out?

[silence, followed by knocking]

It's been days, Dai.

[silence]

They want to talk to you...

I know.

Then come out? When was the last time you even ate anything?

[silence]

[sound of a hand slamming in to the door]

Fine! Be stubborn then!

[click]

Comments

[lotsoftitles.livejournal.com]

I can pick the lock if you're going to force me to make you eat.

[eclipsedonmyoji.livejournal.com]

I'm not hungry, Keiji... my migraine won't go away...

[lotsoftitles.livejournal.com]

Have you been eating or drinking?

[eclipsedonmyoji.livejournal.com]

Water... I can't keep anything else down...

[lotsoftitles.livejournal.com]

Soup?

[eclipsedonmyoji.livejournal.com]

[No verbal response, just a whiny 'uhun...']

[lotsoftitles.livejournal.com]

Should I just get a doctor?

[eclipsedonmyoji.livejournal.com]

Wouldn't be able to help...

[a long silence, and the bed squeaks, followed by the door opening a crack a second later, Daisuke looking rumpled and pale]

... you can come in. Just don't turn the light on.

[lotsoftitles.livejournal.com]

[And he's kneeling on the floor, with a hair pin, a tray of soup and orange juice beside him. Puts the hair pin in his hair and grabs the tray.]

Find with darkness.

[eclipsedonmyoji.livejournal.com]

[Dai shuffles back to the bed and flops over on it]

You didn't have to pick the lock...

[lotsoftitles.livejournal.com]

You might not have opened up.

[Closes the door behind him and walks over to set the tray on the nightstand.]

This isn't normal, you know.

[eclipsedonmyoji.livejournal.com]

'shappened before...

[buries his face in the pillow]

It's a backlash. I brought it on myself by getting so upset...

[lotsoftitles.livejournal.com]

Backlash? From what? For getting mad?

[eclipsedonmyoji.livejournal.com]

[muffled]

You remember what happened with my nightmare, right? I'm always on the edge of losing control, even with my training. When I get emotional it's hard to keep control, so I force it, which usually results in my own energy lashing out against me.

It hurts like hell.

[lotsoftitles.livejournal.com]

[Frowns at that.]

That's...worrying.

[eclipsedonmyoji.livejournal.com]

Doesn't happen often...

It's not like I asked for this, you know. I was just a random dormant gene in a long dead family line... most people in the Omni don't even know what an Onmyoji is...

[lotsoftitles.livejournal.com]

I know you didn't. People rarely do, but that doesn't mean you don't deal with it either...

I mean, getting mad is part of being human.

[eclipsedonmyoji.livejournal.com]

Yeah, well, this doesn't exactly allow for an overabundance of negative emotions...

[lotsoftitles.livejournal.com]

Now it doesn't.

But maybe with some training?

[eclipsedonmyoji.livejournal.com]

I was training.

[lotsoftitles.livejournal.com]

I mean with a teacher. A real teacher.

[eclipsedonmyoji.livejournal.com]

What do you mean? There's no onmyoji here.

[lotsoftitles.livejournal.com]

No, but there's plenty of people with similar powers.

[eclipsedonmyoji.livejournal.com]

Maybe... I don't know. I'm not even sure why it does this to me...

[lotsoftitles.livejournal.com]

Well, we could see if someone could tell us.

[eclipsedonmyoji.livejournal.com]

Mm... maybe later... [buries his face in the pillow] I just wanna sleep right now...

[lotsoftitles.livejournal.com]

You sure you can't eat anything?

[eclipsedonmyoji.livejournal.com]

Yeah. I'd just throw it back up again...

[mumbles, quieter now] I'll try again when I wake up...

[lotsoftitles.livejournal.com]

...okay. I'll leave the tray here for now, okay?

[eclipsedonmyoji.livejournal.com]

Mhm... [already half asleep again]

[lotsoftitles.livejournal.com]

[Leans over and kisses his cheek.]

Hope you feel better soon.

[And goes to leave. Though still worried, but no reason to make Dai feel bad too.]

[fedorafan.livejournal.com]

Sounds like you're pretty sick bud...anything I can do to help?

[eclipsedonmyoji.livejournal.com]

It's just a migraine... a really bad one...