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ris bancroft ✽ ([personal profile] higanbana) wrote2019-08-16 09:57 pm

final week, mid-escape sequence because damn it mithos

[The minute Mithos skulks off down the trap door, Ris is quick to go after him.

It's been an awkward and painful week, but if she has herself at least kind of pulled together, there is no point at all in pretending he's not her top priority, among everyone here. She's glad to see him finally agree to move forward and quit pulling a Minato, but...

Once she's followed him down the trap door, she reaches out to grasp at a sleeve, or his wrist, or whatever she can reach before he manages to slip too far away.]


Mithos.

[It's pretty clear from her tone of voice that she's not taking no for an answer, here. Talk to her.]
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[personal profile] eternaldivide 2019-08-17 02:12 am (UTC)(link)
[ Mithos doesn't turn immediately when he feels Ris' hand grab his sleeve, though he doesn't pull away. Ris had also shown how much she didn't like the idea of him being the rear so he could only imagine that it had something to do with that.

But he can see that there's no way he's going to be able to take no for an answer. Even if he's not big about the idea of talking of what happened up there. ]


... What is it.

[ He still doesn't turn, though. He'll wait for an answer first. ]
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[personal profile] eternaldivide 2019-08-17 02:39 am (UTC)(link)
[ Mithos is quiet for a moment after Ris finishing speaking. Eventually he does turn to her, though he doesn't look her in the eye. ]

... It really wasn't my intention to stay behind. Staying behind where I'll lose myself is a fate worse than dying.

[ Though ... saying that would imply that he would simply stay back and die, huh. Not that ...it would be much different than if they escaped and he went back to his world but ...

He'll lift his head and look at her before speaking again. ]


Don't get me wrong. I wasn't planning on dying either. Not ... here. Not ... when I still have something here.

[ Even learning that he's lost everything back home to realize that ... someone depends on his survival here ... ]

... If you had done the same and something has happened I ... I also wouldn't know what to do.

[ Probably ... give up on everything given his situation. Honestly she's one of the reasons why he's trying to keep going and co-operate and yet, ironically, didn't consider her feelings.

Right intentions but bad way to go about it if you asked everyone else. Apparently the story of his life, including now. ]
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[personal profile] eternaldivide 2019-08-17 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
Yes... that's .... our promise...

[ He's silent for a moment. He hears the emphasis and it isn't lost on him. It really cements everything that they're saying here. But that does leave one matter if they truly want to stay together ... ]

... We can't go back to my world. And I refuse to go to yours.

[ Not after everything he's learned about him. So it's definitely not an option. ]

So ... if ... when, we escape together where do we go?

[ They have options. It's just... which option do they go with? ]
Edited 2019-08-17 03:08 (UTC)
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[personal profile] eternaldivide 2019-08-18 12:27 am (UTC)(link)
[ Yeah it's ... definitely something that he's going to have to explain. Later. ]

You're right. First we need to focus on getting out of this and surviving. Then once we have the time we can sit and look at those options. For now the answer doesn't matter.

[ He squeezes Ris' hands gently. ]

But it will. Once we find it. Together.
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[personal profile] eternaldivide 2019-08-18 03:58 am (UTC)(link)
[ Mithos finds himself tilting his head a little when Ris furrows her brow. She seems to be thinking about something, but nothing would have told him that instead of saying something she was...

going to do that instead.

His eyes widen when he feels the kiss on the cheek. This ... this is something he hasn't felt in so many years. And never like this.

He brings his hand up the cheek once she pulls away and blinks. His mind continues to try to process it until she let's go and turns to run off.

When she does he comes back and-- ]


W-Wait! Ris!

[ Don't leave him after something like that! ]
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[personal profile] eternaldivide 2019-08-18 04:53 am (UTC)(link)
No I...

[ He stops speaking and decides to just... close the space between them again. So he walks over to her and stops when he's right next to her. It'd be awkward to try to hug when she's not completely turned so when he stops he reaches for her hand instead. ]

I... I do. Feel ... the same way.

[ A small realization when Charlotte brought them up at the trial, though like Ris tucked them away since he didn't know what to do about it. Then there was remembering all those years of loneliness and betrayal and ... having something to hold on too ...

The feelings are still there. And now knowing Ris feels the same way he couldn't let her walk away without letting her know that the feeling is mutual. ]
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[personal profile] eternaldivide 2019-08-19 01:02 am (UTC)(link)
[ He gives her a minute, if only because he finds himself awkwardly standing there quietly for a moment.

But after a minute, now that Ris is standing fully towards him, he closes whatever gap that might be between them and lifts his hand to brush her bangs away.

And gives her a quick kiss on the forehead.

He may have been able to say it, but ... actions do speak more volumes, right? So if Ris gave him one it ... felt right to return the feelings in the same matter. ]