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EVENT: The Great BREW Malfunction Pt II [OPEN]
Characters: Everyone and anyone
Location: Anywhere in Death City!
Rating: PG-13
Time: July 16 to July 18th
Description: And then it gets worse.
By now, no one is popping in and out of existence, but that's hardly any consolation when odd things keep happening.
At first it's not that bad. An innocuous item or two shows up. Something harmless wanders around that you're sure has never been in Death City before.
By the second day, bigger and more dangerous things start showing up and by the third...
Well.
As long as you don't mind the giant pieces of debris or creatures blocking the road or the sky, it's not that bad, right?
((OOC: List of canon items and creatures arriving can be found here. Remember, the list only tells you where they initially show up. They'll probably move on soon enough to a new location.
Remember to put Character | Location | OPEN/CLOSED in your subject!))
Open Threads
Sephiroth and Cloud
Amaterasu
Keroro
Edgeworth
Trucy
Aqua
Hyoubu
Eve
Hiro
Morgan
Clopin
L
Alucard
Light
Neji
Lily
Psii
Raidou
Takuto
Location: Anywhere in Death City!
Rating: PG-13
Time: July 16 to July 18th
Description: And then it gets worse.
By now, no one is popping in and out of existence, but that's hardly any consolation when odd things keep happening.
At first it's not that bad. An innocuous item or two shows up. Something harmless wanders around that you're sure has never been in Death City before.
By the second day, bigger and more dangerous things start showing up and by the third...
Well.
As long as you don't mind the giant pieces of debris or creatures blocking the road or the sky, it's not that bad, right?
((OOC: List of canon items and creatures arriving can be found here. Remember, the list only tells you where they initially show up. They'll probably move on soon enough to a new location.
Remember to put Character | Location | OPEN/CLOSED in your subject!))
Open Threads
Sephiroth and Cloud
Amaterasu
Keroro
Edgeworth
Trucy
Aqua
Hyoubu
Eve
Hiro
Morgan
Clopin
L
Alucard
Light
Neji
Lily
Psii
Raidou
Takuto
[Action]
He didn't just--
Bringing his wrist up into his field of vision confirmed quite the contrary. There they were - the same cuffs that had been the bane of his existence for months. The ones that ensured that, at no time, were he and L more than six feet apart from one another. Of all of the things that this place had regurgitated to haunt him, he had assumed these, at least, would stay gone.
"Take them off. Now." he demanded in a lethal tone.
[Action]
"In hindsight, that was not logically motivated..." He said slowly, almost dreamily. "Because, while I found our handcuffs, I haven't the key..."
[Action]
He drew a breath that shuddered with fury before abruptly continuing in the direction he'd been going, yanking L along for the ride whether he liked it or not.
[Action]
He staggered on his skinny legs to keep from toppling as Light dragged him along, wrapping the chain several times around his hand to keep from tripping over it. "Where are you going?" he demanded, not particularly relishing the idea of careening into something or someone.
[Action]
"To find something to take these off." he said, heading directly for the elevators without leaving L room to protest. As far as Light was concerned, he could either follow him inside, or take his chances out here when the cart left without him but took the chain with it.
[Action]
"That won't work, you'll lose your arm, certainly," he said, looking horrified as he misunderstood the situation fantastically.
[Action]
[Action]
"That hurt," he whined, rubbing a newly bruised elbow and looking wounded. "You're just trying to torment me, now, you know how I feel about elevators."
[Action]
[Action]
[Action]
With all of the odd requests and needs the residents had in this city, surely not many people would raise a brow about detaching two people handcuffed together. Especially if L readily admitted it had been an accident.
....which he had better.
Rather than hand L any ideas for how to complicate things if he hadn't already been considering them, Light remained tight-lipped and silent for the brief descent from the sixth floor down to the first. When the doors parted to allow them exit, he allowed a brief moment for L to stand of his own accord before stepping out.
From the security desk, the guard eyed the two strangely as he looked up from filling out his hourly log.
[Action]
He strode up to the security desk, making a point to bump into it. On the wrong side.
Poor, poor blind guy.
"Excuse me, there was some trouble we had, upstairs in our room...? You wouldn't happen to have a key for handcuffs, would you?"
[Action]
"Umm..." he began, stifling a chuff of laughter. "Not on me, no. I could probably call a locksmith maybe...?"
He was already fumbling for the phone directory as Light gave an open sigh of disgust.
[Action]
[Action]
As it was, he could do little but fume, stuffing his hands in his pockets as he turned his back both on L, and the guard, looking for something - anything, really - to focus on instead.
His eyes skated with idle interest over the slope of the staircase that led to the second floor, the pastel paintings of landscapes lining the wall, and--
He did a double-take at the nest of spanish moss that one of the lobby's potted plants was nestled in where something that didn't belong hung out in plain sight. Someone's wallet, maybe...?
[Action]
Needless to say, he was still getting the hang of many aspects of it.
Unaware for the moment of where Light's attention had strayed, L leaned over the desk, helpfully recommending Death City's best locksmiths with a disturbingly informed memorized base.
[Action]
Light inwardly cringed, deciding that leafing through a stranger's wallet to pass the time would be a suitable distraction from the trainwreck nearby after all as he leaned down to take the thin leather case between his fingers.
It would be easy enough to explain away if he were questioned, he decided. He was doing nothing more than seeing if the owner's identification and contact information was inside so that they could have what was theirs returned to the-
The thought derailed itself as he flipped it open and found himself staring at a face that was far too familiar. One that he had not seen in years. His father's features stared back at him, frozen in time, and wearing their usual look of hard-edged seriousness that Light had come to associate with the face of justice from a young age.
Why was it here...? Why had it been left somewhere so deliberate as if meant for him to find?
Why...?
The world around him began to haze into greys and feel as though it were falling out from beneath him.
[Action]
L meant that he had been a pair of handcuffs when he had arrived in Death City, but the inferences doubtless added to the guard's amusement.
Light's silence, including the lack of indignant sounds, were enough to distract him from their embarrassing business. The chain slackened slightly, and he turned his head toward his partner.
"Light?"
[Action]
As it was, this unwanted relic turning up alongside everything else he'd put up with lately, Light found it hard to wrap his head around. His chest tightened as something threatened to tear out of him...something not even Light himself particularly knew how to prepare for.
Fainting. I think I'm fainting. he thought with a detached sort of giddiness as the floor floated up to meet him.
Whump!
It was not a body that struck the floor, but a book spine-up, accompanied by the jingle of Light's half of the chain which no longer had an occupant in its cuff.
[Action]
It was true that L hadn't been letting him get much sleep lately.
His fingers met with a leather cover and smooth, dry pages rather than Light's skin, hair, or clothing.
The guard leaned over the desk to get a better look. "Your Weapon?" he asked, squinting at the book.
"Evidently..." L murmured, lifting it and leafing through its pages, finding the pen and gripping its slender body.
"It also looks like a Chief Soichirou... Yagami... dropped his badge at some point," the guard added helpfully.
"Does it?" L asked, lifting that in his other hand and accepting it as the explanation for Light's momentary lapse in control over his physical form.
[Action]
The truth was, Light had abruptly closed the book on the incident shortly after his outburst in the hospital room. Any way of explaining Soichiro's death away as a valid sacrifice, he had fed himself until the pain had ebbed and he felt that he had risen above it.
Dad... you idiot, why didn't you just let Matsuda take the damned eyes?
The brief domain he'd held over his transformation wavered, and then slipped away from him completely as he abruptly re-assumed his human form, stepping immediately away from L and the guard.
The handcuffs, the operation, none of it mattered anymore. He needed to get away.
[Action]
"Hey, Light..." he said softly, almost gently, though he had no earthly idea how to offer comfort or reassurance. "I... this is good, it means that we can still be partners," he offered, trying to focus on the positive, holding the police badge delicately between his thumb and forefinger.
[Action]
[Action]
It's so easy to say that his father's death was his fault, and that if it would make him so sad, he shouldn't have let it become possible...
Light was moving quickly, but loudly enough for L to follow at a similar speed. When he caught up, he grabbed Light's hand, pushing the badge into his palm, firmly wrapping his fingers around it, and stepping back to allow Light some space.