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うちは サスケ ([personal profile] saucey) wrote2011-03-15 02:17 am

百三十二; 「accidental voice 」

[It's frantic — panicked and soft, and quick and in denial. A little crazed, and breathless. Exhausted.

It's something you'd never expect to hear out of Sasuke, really. But maybe so, considering how much he hung around a certain group of people.

It might as well be a little disturbing nonetheless.]


I'msorryi'msorryi'msorryi'msorryi'msorryi'msorryi'msorryi'msorryi'msorryi'msorryi'msorry—

[A choked sob, a forced intake of air—]

I'mnotanakumai'mnotanakumai'mnotanakumai'mnotanakumai'mnotanakumai'mnotanakumai'mnotanakumai'mnotanakumai'mnotanakumai'mnotanaku—

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[identity profile] innerfirewithin.livejournal.com 2011-03-15 07:25 am (UTC)(link)
Sasuke.

[It's a little hoarser, a little more desperate, than Zuko normally sounds.]

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[identity profile] innerfirewithin.livejournal.com 2011-03-15 07:39 am (UTC)(link)
Sasuke, it was a dream.

[No. This is exactly what Zuko does not need. He needed Sasuke to be fine. Relatively fine. Okay.

Every single little block he has put in front of the trauma he has experienced over the week is crumbling.]


-- stop apologizing for something that isn't real!

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[identity profile] innerfirewithin.livejournal.com 2011-03-15 07:57 am (UTC)(link)
[Fuck. Fuck. Fuck fuck fuck fuckfuckfuckfuck.

A deep, rattling breath.]


-- you're alive. Everyone is alive.

What are you apologizing for?

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[identity profile] innerfirewithin.livejournal.com 2011-03-15 08:10 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh, but Zuko caught it.]

Hitsugaya is fine, Sasuke.

I talked to him yesterday.

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[identity profile] innerfirewithin.livejournal.com 2011-03-15 08:30 am (UTC)(link)
Sasuke.

[Stop doing that. Stop doing that.]

Tell me what happened.

[Voice // Private // Hackable]

[identity profile] innerfirewithin.livejournal.com 2011-03-15 02:32 pm (UTC)(link)
[Okay, yeah, fuck this, he's coming over there, paranoia be damned.]

I'll be there in five minutes.

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[identity profile] innerfirewithin.livejournal.com 2011-03-15 06:17 pm (UTC)(link)
[He better or Zuko is punching out a chibigami.

Zuko himself is pale, paler than he normally is, and he is shaking, ever so slightly, before he stoops silently in front of Sasuke, fingertips pressed into the floor to balance himself.]


Sasuke.

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[identity profile] innerfirewithin.livejournal.com 2011-03-15 06:44 pm (UTC)(link)
Sasuke, it's me.

[A bit urgently before he reaches out to touch Sasuke's shoulder, gently, almost gingerly, as if he might break.]

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[identity profile] innerfirewithin.livejournal.com 2011-03-15 07:04 pm (UTC)(link)
Sasuke, it's Zuko.

[He recoils his hand as soon as Sasuke jumps, though.]

Do you know who I am?

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[identity profile] innerfirewithin.livejournal.com 2011-03-15 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
... Sasuke.

[Almost pleadingly -- he takes his arm gently.]

Come on.

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[identity profile] innerfirewithin.livejournal.com 2011-03-16 01:49 am (UTC)(link)
[He's silent, for a long time, before he pushes himself forward, to sit next to Sasuke, shoulder to shoulder.]

... I saw my mom.

[It's quiet, hoarse.]

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[identity profile] innerfirewithin.livejournal.com 2011-03-16 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
She was just like I remembered her.

[Just... talking to talk, at this point, anyway. He leans into Sasuke, ever so slightly.]

Everybody used to tell me that I looked just like her and Azula looked like my dad. I guess I used to -- I don't anymore, after --

[He falls silent for a moment.]

He was keeping her in this... cell. In the caves. And she wanted to grab my hand so badly and I wanted to break her out, but I couldn't.

[The teeniest hitch of breath:]

She was just lost.

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[identity profile] innerfirewithin.livejournal.com 2011-03-16 02:43 am (UTC)(link)
[He shifts slightly, so that Sasuke is leaning a little more on him. He pushes himself backward, inches, to rest himself against the wall, so both of them are more comfortable.

Zuko then lifts a trembling hand to rest it on Sasuke's head, very gently, for a moment or two.]


You're going to be okay.

[It's almost inaudible.]