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[flowrite]

WHO: Iwai and Fai, Noah, Sakura, Xiaolang
WHERE: CLAMP house
WHEN: Early Sunday morning, 1/21
WHAT: Fai gets yet another nasty Retrospec surprise and Iwai gets to deal with it. Thank goodness for patient boyfriends ;~;
WARNINGS: Blood, violence, vampirism, fear reactions. Probably not going to be pretty for a bit.



[It's still early in the morning, early enough that... well, the sky outside would have been dark anyway, honestly. But they've been trying to keep a pretty decent routine despite the perpetual darkness, and Fai's brain is telling him it's way too early to be up yet. It's even too early to be up early and making breakfast for the various members of the household, or for Iwai to have made his way out to the kitchen to make coffee. So Fai sighs, closes his one good eye again, and rolls over to curl up against Iwai and try to fall back asleep.

Except... darn it, maybe he should just zombie-shuffle over to the bathroom real quick first.

So that's what he does. He's gotten enough practice at this in the new house by now that he no longer bangs his shins against anything in the dark. Mission successful. Door pushed most of the way closed to keep the light off of Iwai so as not to wake him. Bathroom business accomplished. Hands washed. Fai pauses here at the sink, yawns mightily, and stares blearily at his own image in the mirror. Blond hair skewing every which way. One very droopy eye. One dark black swath where the other used to be. It's not pretty, but at oh-dark-thirty he doesn't have to be particularly pretty.

Bed. Boyfriend. Warmth. They call.

He prepares to turn back around, to snap the light back off and muddle his way back to the bed to burrow under the covers again, when something catches his eye in the mirror.

More specifically, his eye catches his eye. A flash of gold. For a minute there he could have sworn--

That's when the pain hits. Mind-numbing, nerve-searing, bone-twisting pain, everywhere. With a strangled yelp Fai loses his grip on the edge of the sink and falls to the bathroom floor, unable even to catch himself on his hands and knees. It's all he can do not to scream but the sounds coming from the bathroom are definitely unhappy.]

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[geckoman]

[He gets in the back with Fai and closes the door, wrapping an arm around him to keep him close. It pulls on the cut on his chest a bit but he doesn't care.

That's right. Iwai's letting Noah drive the car.]

Get us home, Noah. I already texted Sakura to tell her to head back since I'm sure she didn't bother to stay back.

[redarm]

[As they get into the car, Noah will glance over his shoulder to get a good look at the two. Yep, Fai sure looked like he'd seen better days. But he'll actually...refrain from making any remarks, and instead just gives a nod]

Got it. Buckle up.

[flowrite]

[Quiet and docile (and tired and cold and really, really scared), Fai just nods and does as instructed, buckling his seatbelt and leaning a little on Iwai despite the knowledge that Mune-chan is hurt and despite the temptation. He just won't cuddle as close as he normally would. Not yet.]

[geckoman]

[Iwai rubs Fai's shoulder as the car moves. He uses his other hand to push through his own short hair. It's been a tough night and he knows they're in for some more long ones.

But at least they'll be able to work together for that. Something he's grateful for.]

[redarm]

[Once they are all buckled up (and Noah makes sure the doors have child looks so Fai can't change his mind and jump out of a moving vehicle), he'll start driving the car. He's got the telltale signs of a newbie driver, but he should get them there without crashing into anything or breaking any laws]