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Mar. 2nd, 2012 10:27 pm
duke_of_illusions: (mysterious fan)
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Barma wakes up an hour or so later, yawning.

Reaching to check on Al right away.

Date: 2012-03-14 06:26 am (UTC)
al_truism: (My steel mask)
From: [personal profile] al_truism
Al's still short of breath. If it's dangerous, if something happens-

Barma will come back for him. He wouldn't leave him here. Not unless he couldn't come back.

Date: 2012-03-14 06:29 am (UTC)
al_truism: (Say it like you love me)
From: [personal profile] al_truism
Al opens his mouth to call out for him, but thinks better of it. His mind is still a tangled mess.

But Barma wouldn't leave him here. He trusts him. Utterly.

He'll come back for him.

Date: 2012-03-14 06:37 am (UTC)
al_truism: (Say it like you love me)
From: [personal profile] al_truism
It doesn't occur to him at first. His mind is so scattered that his senses are dulled. He stays on the floor and tries to rationalize it out. Maybe there's an emergency. A fight he's breaking up.

Some urgent business he's been called away for.

Al stays where he is, until the smells starts making him cough, and his throat feels dry.

It slowly begins to dawn on him.

"Rufus?" he whispers into the silence. "Dodo-?"

Date: 2012-03-14 06:40 am (UTC)
al_truism: (Can't you see me hiding)
From: [personal profile] al_truism
Al begins to cough, tearing up and staying low.

He goes to the window, looks out-

Date: 2012-03-14 06:45 am (UTC)
al_truism: (Pants. Back on. Now.)
From: [personal profile] al_truism
Al moves to the door, sets a hand to it, feeling, and touches the knob lightly.

"Rufus-"

It's a raspy whisper at first.

Date: 2012-03-14 06:51 am (UTC)
al_truism: (Ouch.)
From: [personal profile] al_truism
Al doesn't bother transmuting it open. He coughs again, goes to the bed and pulls away the pillowcases. He dumps the contents of his water glass over them, rolls them up and shoves them into the crevices around the door.

He goes to the window again, scanning the crowd. He might have missed him, somehow-

Date: 2012-03-14 06:54 am (UTC)
al_truism: (You know you can hurt me)
From: [personal profile] al_truism
Al's heart gives a strong, unsteady flutter, and he melts back into Barma's arms.

He's shaking with the adrenaline.

Date: 2012-03-14 06:58 am (UTC)
al_truism: (Breaking Point)
From: [personal profile] al_truism
Al curls up into him and immediately has to hold back tears. Unsuccessfully.

Date: 2012-03-14 07:04 am (UTC)
al_truism: (You make breaking hearts look so easy)
From: [personal profile] al_truism
Al does, in soft, wracking sobs that sound painful with how breathless they are. Finally, when Al begins to calm down, Barma will get a fist walloping him in the ribs. Graceless and not at full power, but enough to ache and possibly make him wheeze on the next breath.

"Don't- don't ever do that to me again-"

Date: 2012-03-14 07:07 am (UTC)
al_truism: (Shut Your Eyes)
From: [personal profile] al_truism
Al pulls away from him immediately, backing away from his touch.

Date: 2012-03-14 07:11 am (UTC)
al_truism: (In a whisper; say goodbye)
From: [personal profile] al_truism
"You made me think you'd left me there."

He grips the sheets, spitting out the words. He's angry, pained, looking like he's about to cry.

"You told me we'd stopped playing and then you left me there."

Date: 2012-03-14 07:20 am (UTC)
al_truism: (Don't go)
From: [personal profile] al_truism
"You can't leave-"

He whispers, and his voice breaks.

It wasn't the fire. It wasn't the danger. It was the thought of Barma leaving him behind. Of being forgotten.

Again.

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