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[The bathroom door opens and Kano's new room awaits.]

No, just that!

[It's vague, because he's trying to imagine what "hotwiring" a car means.]

[ This new room looks exactly the same as Kano's room: empty. He immediately begins the process of shoving the two beds together, but he's weak and needs help and waves Toki over to help him. ]

[Kano's attempts to move the beds are so pathetic. Not that Toki will be any better. Instead of shoving them together, he grabs one at a corner and pulls it that way instead, for better leverage. It's slow dragging, but it's working.]

Maybe we should just wake Yuya up?

[Yuya can do the work.]

[ Yeah... Yeah, let's wake up Yuya. Kano takes a deep breath and starts shouting at the top of his lungs—- ]

YUYAAAAAAAAAA!!! HELP!!!!!!!!! IT'S AN EMERGENCY!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Whether or not that wakes Yuya up, it brings the guards down the hall and pounding on the door of 204.]

Kano!

[Toki's never that loud, well sometimes, but the guards warned him about going above a certain volume several times. They aren't happy. Stefan spilled his coffee all over his new shoes at the screaming and he is especially displeased.]

[ Oh shit.

Kano turns around and makes a break back for Toki's closet. Goodbye. ]

[Toki could run, but he won't. He's going to let Kano escape and pretend he was the one screaming. Be free, Kano.

The door bursts open to allow Stefan into the room. He has a decibel meter and a glare. Today's second guard, Helen, follows him into the room. Helen is the worst. Toki had flirted with her the first day and she's still pissed.]

I'm sorry! It really was an emergency, though! There was the huge spider and-

[He's cut off by the Helen slamming door shut. Stefan turns to her.]

"Make a requisition for one of those spear guns tomorrow."

[ Toki is the MVP and his sacrifice will not be forgotten. Kano hesitates for just the briefest of moments, but then decides he hasn't stared at enough gross creepy spiders to be able to recreate a convincing gross creepy monstrous spider to support Toki's claims, and even if he did, he's just going to end up speared by one of the guards and that's no good.

Without a pole or ladder, the hole is out of reach so all Kano can really do is hide inside the closet with his hands clamped over his mouth and hold his breath until he hears the door slam and voices disappear. Carefully, he pokes the door open and peers outside. ]

Pssst!

[ Once he gets Toki's attention, he puts a finger to his lips and beckons him over towards the closet. Team meeting. Get in here, Toki. ]

[Toki slowly walks to the closet, making the least amount of noise possible in case there's still a guard lurking around too close outside. His whispers are not very soft.]

What!?

[ Kano flicks Toki on the forehead, and his whispers are also not very soft, because he's trying to yell without yelling. ]

Why didn't you run away with me???

Because there's no one else up here but me and Yuya! They knew it wasn't him! It was pointless and if I ran, they'd be looking and they'd find the hole in the closet!

Shhh!!

[ Toki... Kano motions up at the ceiling. ]

Hey, gimme a boost.

[Toki makes a step with his hands to help Kano get through the hole.]

I don't think you should come back down here again!

[ Kano steps onto Toki's hands and hauls himself up onto the upper floor; it takes a bit, with no upper body strength, but eventually he manages and then turns around and reaches an arm down through the hole. ]

Your concern is noted and ignored~ Now, come on, take my hand. And maybe, uh... jump as high as you can and I'll do my best.

[Toki doesn't want to to risk going up to Kano's room and encountering any more guards, but it's better than Kano getting caught down on the second floor.]

Hold on!

[He leaves the closet and returns with his desk chair. He stands on it and motions for Kano to get out of the way. It will be easier without his help.]

[ He should feel a bit put off by Toki's sudden barrage of surprisingly good ideas, but as Kano sits back and makes room, he can't help but feel kind of proud about Toki using his head and not immediately going for whatever Kano suggests.

A chair. Yeah. Nothing says "Hey, look up at the secret hole in the ceiling!" like a chair in the closet. They'll find some way to get rid of the evidence. ]

[Maybe the taser made something re-route, who knows? Though he's not at all thinking of the obvious evidence of leaving a chair under the hole. After getting up into Kano's closet, Toki doesn't really know where this is going.]

So... what are we doing?

[ He hasn't thought that far yet, but he's good at thinking as he goes, pushing the cardboard boxes over the hole as best he can without it falling through after Toki's up and out of the closet. Best if they don't stay here, either. ]

We're going out the window.

Okay~!

[Maybe this is it. They'll be free. Kano said they'd run away one day. Today is the day.]

[ Today is the day!!! They're going to be hunted down tomorrow anyways, so they might as well get a head start. Kano's got a pocket full of tea bags and Toki has money, so he's not worried about this plan at all, bounding over towards the window and sliding the pane open and making sure his """fire escape""" is still there.

There it is!! He hopes it holds. He made Maverick tie the knot, so it'd better hold. ]

...You first~ I'll keep an eye out, and will be right after you!

[Toki doesn't have any money with him, and none he has access to if Kano didn't take his wallet. That's where all his identification and bank account numbers are. Toki leans out the window to look at the fire escape. It should probably hold.

He climbs out the window and starts going down. At least only Yuya occupies any of the rooms below. It's very convenient, though visions are not. Toki loses his grip before he's gone down very far. He doesn't scream as he falls, because he's unaware it's happening... The streets of Soleil are crowded with kistune; wearing traditional clothing and swishing their fox tails in unison. They all turn to look at him, tilt their heads and scream... He's looking at the sky for a second and then there's the impact and he sees nothing.]

[ Aw, fuck. How can Toki screw it up so badly?? Kano hurries out the window after him, ignoring the burn against his hand as he lets himself slide instead of climbing down hand over hand, because from all he can tell, Toki just sort of let go, like a dumbass, and the moment his feet hit the ground, Kano pushes off them and over towards Toki's side. Is he dead? Fuck. Fuck. This is prime time to use a Hieke sigil, but Kano is also a dumbass and grips Toki's shoulders and does what you're not supposed to do with somebody unconscious and that is shake their shoulders so that their head flops around a little. ]

Hey! Hey, Toki!! Wake up!!

[ Fey magic, if there is one time to work, it would be now. Work work work work work—- ]

[Toki won't wake up. He's dying. Good job, Kano. Shaking him is an absolutely bad idea, considering he has a dislocated shoulder and severe head injuries. Blood spills from the back of his head, a laceration and a cracked skull. There's subarachnoid hemorrhaging, blood seeping into the space around his brain. He's bitten his tongue nearly in half and may also be downing in his own blood. Several vertebrae are cracked and his tailbone broken. One knee is dislocated, the kneecap pulled to the side awkwardly.]

[ His vision blurs, but maybe that's for the best, so he can't see all the blood when he pulls his hands back red and hot and shaking. He can't die. He's not allowed to die. Fuck. Weren't the guards supposed to prevent this sort of thing? Keeping an eye on Kano because he's a bastard Contracted who cannot be trusted and this is the reason why.

Breathing heavily, Kano wipes the tears off his face, smearing blood across his cheek in its place, and holds Toki close, trying to hold on as much as he can. He studied for this. For this exact reason. He learned about the nervous system, tried to understand pain. Blood. Cells. Healing, health, it was supposed to help, make things easier and effortless like the illusions were to him, but maybe he's just good at pretending and is shit at making people feel better, it's all he ever wanted to do, keep the people he loves safe, and he can't--

It hurts.

It feels like dying.

He can't die. Everything hurts. Toki can't die. He has to save him. Somebody has to save him. ]

[His breath is coming in ragged slow gasps, blood splattering out of his mouth with every shudder of it. If Kano can feel his heart, it's slowing down, an occasional hitch every few beats. After a moment, he stops breathing altogether. Death is perhaps a freedom in its own way.]

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suddenlybees - 2019-05-06 03:05 (UTC) - Expand