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riku ([personal profile] shadowedheart) wrote in [community profile] empatheias2018-03-01 01:38 pm
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in this closed off world

Who: Riku and Arden
Where: KH Clubhouse
When: First couple days of the month
Format: [ like this ]
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Summary: Riku comes back around the KH Clubhouse only to find a certain someone isn't how he left them.


[ He said he wouldn't disappear again and, already, he seems to have broken that so-called promise.

To be fair, he hadn't exactly expected to be told what he had been and for emotions to so quickly push their way to the surface that he felt it best to remove himself from the moment. Thus, he's been hanging around Cloud's place for the past little while, simply needing to clear his head, let alone his emotions, and just allow himself some time to adjust since there seems to be so much he still needs to.

Being away from Sora, however, is a difficult thing even for him to do in his current mood and it's why he's finally decided to come around the place that he's to call "home" while being within this world. Well, it's what Sora considers for him, Riku doesn't exactly feel like it is, especially with those he lives with there. But, he's kept to himself while he's been there and so he figures his absence within the house won't really be noticed.

Unless your name is Sora, that is.

It's a little later in the day when Riku finally steps inside the house, wearing something that he's clearly borrowed from Cloud while still donning the blindfold as always. It's Sora that he needs to see, needs to apologize to (again), and so he makes his way throughout the house, wondering if he's even around. He better be since he has this stuffed plush to give to him as a means of saying he's sorry and Sora's always a sucker for things like this. ]


Sora?

[ But when he does find the other, it leaves Riku stunned, standing there with eyes wide not like you'd be able to see as he drops the plush to the floor. Sora is... crystallized... sleeping? and it has him feel a painful sort of deja-vu all over again that he doesn't even notice how the colour visibly bleeds away from around him, leaving everything in a wash of gray. ]

Sora!

[ If the colour draining from around him isn't enough, maybe the sudden trembling of the house might be. ]
boundbynaught: (worried)

[personal profile] boundbynaught 2018-03-03 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
[ He knows he has to tread carefully here, but if Riku's talking about it... then maybe... He purses his lips, thinking, and puts his knee down so that he's in a cross-legged position and Riku can clearly see his body language in all its complexity, if he can see through that blindfold. It sure seems like he can. Arden puts both of his hands on his ankles and forces his shoulders down, losing the tension there. ]

You may not believe me if I tell you this, but... yeah, he's happy. He's happier lately... because you're here.

[ His brows furrow, as if willing Riku to understand. ]

Get it? You have no basis for comparison. You're just going off how he's acted since you got here.
boundbynaught: (derping wha-?)

[personal profile] boundbynaught 2018-03-03 03:56 am (UTC)(link)
[ He won't say any more on that topic. He's content to be sure that Riku can breathe at all now. The rest is between Sora and Riku. He made an attempt, and it won't be settled before Sora wakes up, probably. So part of him tries to figure out how to offer soup for the chill and for the scratchy throat when Riku shifts topics again.

And Arden balks at that, chuckling a little in disbelief. ]


What? No.

[ He shakes his head for emphasis. ]

No, there's no way I want to sit here and tally who owes who what.

[ He's pretty sure he'd end up in the red regardless. Plus, rehashing all the crap he's done, accidentally or intentionally, on his road to getting knighted by Minnie? To Riku? No thanks, not today. ]

I just know what the scar on my shoulder looks like and didn't want that to be your throat next. It's one of the reasons it's better that I live around other people I trust. That and the passing out.

[ He inclines his head upstairs to Sora. ]

I don't mean the crystalizing, but that too.
boundbynaught: (huh.)

[personal profile] boundbynaught 2018-03-03 04:14 am (UTC)(link)
[ He rises after Riku does, keeping his distance, but looks curious at Riku's comment. ]

Uhm, the passing out is only something that happens to me, actually.

[ Unless Riku has a similar problem now but Arden seriously doubts that. He was just looking to clarify that. ]

Do you want any more soup?

[ One last shot for the moon as he heads towards the kitchen. But he also doesn't add anything to the question. A yes or no will suffice. On the other hand, he did say 'more', and that may get under Riku's skin too. He didn't say that part intentionally, though. ]
boundbynaught: (have a question)

[personal profile] boundbynaught 2018-03-03 04:40 am (UTC)(link)
[ He's not surprised. Maybe one day he'll get a Yes. But he nods, feeling more convinced that Riku's going to be able to reign in what's plaguing him for a few days at least.

Especially since... he's pretty sure that Riku just complimented him? Without sarcasm? If that's not progress, he's not sure what is. ]


Uh, thanks. I'll see you around then.

[ Hopefully. ]