second trick

[crowheaded.livejournal.com]

[Ikki appears much in the same fashion as he did the first time, sailing out of midair and skidding, but it seems more on purpose.]

Ooooiii! Baby shark! Where the hell have you been?! We've got training to do!

[a pause]

And lunch~! Sumeragi-san is great. [He plops down on a random park bench to eat a well-earned bento, still decked out in Air Trecks and knee-guards.]

Comments

[bacchusprincess.livejournal.com]

Power can make people do things they've never done before~ It never changes~ [stares back at him with that smile on his face~ still~] Might want to talk about those sacrifices, Ikki-kun~?

[crowheaded.livejournal.com]

Shut up! You don't know the first thing about sacrifice! [He's pissed now, though, and no one is here to hold him back. He reaches out to grab Juliet by the collar of his vest.]

Sacrifice is having everything ripped from you, and having to go on despite that. Sacrifice is putting every ounce of your heart and soul into something you know has to succeed without absolute certainty it will. Sacrifice is both seizing and letting go. Sacrifice is watching your heroes die at your feet for your future. Sacrifice is shedding all of your old feathers you used to depend on... and painfully growing your own.

I don't know you. Maybe you're a nice guy, probably not. But I know this. I will never let some stuck-up, ignorant asshole like you think for one second that he can take the sky away from anybody else.

[bacchusprincess.livejournal.com]

[frowns at the yanking, oi oi he is a la---...]

...

[humorless laugh, as he pries Ikki's hand off of him, it's not funny that Ikki's determination reminds him of Romeo's, there must be something wrong with this.] I don't really know what have happened, Ikki-kun. But it looks like it made you powerful and strong minded... Maybe you've just gone mad.

But AT is not everything. [it shouldn't be! Still...] It is not about life and death, or heroes for that matter.

I actually envy your for thinking like that. So simply about all this.

[crowheaded.livejournal.com]

[Ikki lets out a low hiss between his teeth and steps away from Juliet.] Whether you want to acknowledge it or not, people have died for the sake of Air Treck and for the ideals you don't believe in. I won't let their dreams die with them.

[bacchusprincess.livejournal.com]

Dreams, of course. [hmph. Sets his vest, turning away.] Let me tell one thing, do and think whatever you want, but try not to talk about this to Romeo~? [BEAMS~]

[crowheaded.livejournal.com]

[Ikki's sullen glare is unflinching.] Why does it matter if I talk to him or not? Hiding secrets from your own leader? That's pretty low.

[bacchusprincess.livejournal.com]

Mmm~ [waves a finger~] Not hiding, just not telling, not the same~

[crowheaded.livejournal.com]

I don't have any reason to talk to you homos in the first place.

[bacchusprincess.livejournal.com]

Good answer~

[crowheaded.livejournal.com]

[He plops down on the bench again, taking up most of it with his feet. This is Juliet's cue to GTFO, homo.]