realityshifted | 060: Mood to Burn Bridges

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darker than black (d1) hei/li shengshun

060: Mood to Burn Bridges

[Hei appears on the Plane sitting on a low wall surrounded in a blue glow. The glow cuts off almost instantly after he appears, and he promptly slumps forward on the wall, gripping the concrete edge to keep from falling off. He's pale and shaking a little, and black blood is flowing rather steadily from his nose. It's clear that he's exhausted, but he looks more surprised than anything.]

[He sits there panting and dripping blood onto the floor before he raises a hand to wipe it away.]

...That wasn't supposed to happen.

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[A familiar little green shape stops a few feet away]

What, you bleeding like that? One might call it a cause for concern if it was supposed to happen.

[He manages to raise an eyebrow at the little snake, holding the back of his hand against his nose as he tries to stem the flow.] Do you really think I'm that much of a masochist?

[a pause]

If I were to say something excessively witty regarding Misaki, would I get beaten for it?

[=_=] You are a snake, Crowley, and I'm a lot bigger than you. [Not that he has the energy to even try to step on him right now.]

Right.

[slithering a bit closer] What happened to you, then?

[He takes his hand away to check the blood. His hand is rather covered in sparkleblood at this point, but the bleeding is slowing.]

I was trying to sever our realities and I... [He sighs.] I don't know. I triggered my ability instead.

[...there are so many things wrong with this, Hei...he doesn't even know where to begin.]

I thought I'd said it wouldn't be necessary to sever them?

...

...You said there was no hurry.

Nooo, you had offered at one point, and when you offered again I sssaid I hadn't been hinting at it. That was sssupposed to be your cue to drop the issue.

...Crowley...that doesn't count as a cue. That doesn't even count as a hint. [Resists the urge to facepalm since he doesn't want to let go of his nose.]

Or perhaps you simply weren't lissstening.

Edited 2009-03-06 02:48 (UTC)

Or perhaps you simply fail at getting the point across. Like always.

Well what was I supposed to sssay, then? 'Oh no, Hei, don't bother! I've really come to ressspect you as a perssson these last few months—wait no, scratch that. Er...how about since the last time you nearly killed me, how's that? Anyway, I really kind of don't hate you anymore, ssso you don't have to bother getting rid of all that bloody snow you've mucked into my reality—even though I am a bit cold-blooded and really sssort of dislike the sssnow, and— [you just know if he could do it he'd be pacing by this point] —anyway yeah. You're a great guy, really. Couldn't've asked for a better mate, so long as you're not tryin' to kill me at the moment.'

Look, I'm a great liar, yeah? But that'sss just a bit much.

[Hei stares at him through the whole speech, rather dumbfounded, because where in the world did that come from? He's silent for quite awhile. Then he sighs, because he's really rather tired and he hadn't meant to start a fight.]

A simple "don't bother" would have been sufficient. But whatever. It doesn't matter. I won't bother with it anymore.

...right. Don't bother.

[he slithers a bit closer and nudges Hei's ankle]

Look, ssstop bleeding all over the place, will you? [Hei may find that his nosebleed has stopped] Difficult enough talking to you when you aren't haemorrhaging from the face.

[Hei blinks and takes his hand away. He chuckles a little.] I could say the same about you when you aren't a snake.

Yeah, but it's not as clever when you say it.

What's all this, then? What happened? I mean, after you mucked up the reality severing.

[Can't help chuckling a little at that.]

It's...well. You remember the time I showed up here with Diva, after we'd been in PANDORA? [Remember the time you decided to torment me while Diva and I were practically dying? :|]

Er. Sort of vaguely, yeah. [Guilty look? What guilty look? Snakes can't look guilty! :D]

[Good thing, too!] It's this...new ability of mine. Or not really new. I guess it's always been there, but... [He shakes his head.] I can't control it. I guess when I'm concentrating like that, it triggers. But it's too much. [He looks at the blood on his fingers.] And I can never predict what it will do. I melted a telephone pole this time.

You...melted a telephone pole.

[instinctively recoils a bit]

Is it fire?

Fire? No. It's--I can manipulate molecules.

Oh, right. [muttering to himself:] That's so much better.

It isn't the sssort of thing likely to go rogue on you, is it? Start melting things willy-nilly?

I doubt it. I need to actually trigger it, and I can turn it off just fine.

There's a relief, at least. Just don't go severing any more realities.

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