pygmalion_perv: (The one and lonely (shock))
Hachibe Maeda ([personal profile] pygmalion_perv) wrote2011-03-21 10:05 pm

32nd Candid Photo

[Action for 1250 Williams Road - backdated to the morning of the 21st, the day after his death on the highway.]

[Hachibe wakes up in his bed at 1250 Williams gasping for air and screaming himself awake from a fitful nightmare of being mauled to death by thousands of cats.  He clutches at his chest, trying to slow his breathing and calm his heartbeat as he gets his bearings and remembers the events of the previous day.]

Damn it!

[Crying out in frustration, he reaches for the nearest object - his alarm clock - and throws it at the opposite wall of his bedroom.  It hits the wall with a loud thud as the glass on the face shatters before falling to the floor.  He spends the next several hours just sitting in bed sulking, not even giving the first thought to bothering to attend school today.]


[Action; around town, Monday afternoon]

[Having gotten most of his anger and depression out of his system, Hachibe's out for a walk to try to calm himself down.  He's keeping his head down and staying quiet, though.  Every time he passes by a cat or hears one meow, he jumps in place nervously and gives it a wide berth as he continues his trek through town.]

Gah!  Don't scare me like that!

[Action; around town, Monday evening - outside 1245 Williams]

[Later in the night, after the sun has set, Hachibe finds himself standing in front of 1245 Williams Road - the house where Japan and Taiwan live.  He walks up to the door, reaching out to knock before sighing and turning away.  Even still, he ends up back there several times throughout the evening, looping around the block to repeat the process.]

...I hope you're okay.  I'm sorry.

[identity profile] bogusmagicker.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 03:07 am (UTC)(link)
Who were you attacked by?

[identity profile] pygmalion-perv.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 03:10 am (UTC)(link)
Yeah! Why wouldn't I be?

[identity profile] pygmalion-perv.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
Cats. Lots and lots of cats.
slave_of_suzumiya: (Why are you asking me?)

[personal profile] slave_of_suzumiya 2011-03-23 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
You tell me. I already mentioned I've been out of the loop, haven't I?

[identity profile] bogusmagicker.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
[Yuki lowers her head for a few moments, seeming to be thinking about something.]

I see.

[identity profile] pygmalion-perv.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
Did you run into them too?

[identity profile] bogusmagicker.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 03:18 am (UTC)(link)
I will.

[identity profile] pygmalion-perv.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 03:22 am (UTC)(link)
You don't have to get revenge for me or anything! I'm okay, really!

[He tries to laugh it off, but it doesn't work all that well.]

I'm really more upset with myself for failing to protect someone...

[identity profile] bogusmagicker.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 03:38 am (UTC)(link)
The matter is not about vengeance.

...That is a closer approximation of the reasoning.

[identity profile] pygmalion-perv.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 03:39 am (UTC)(link)
What, you too? Sorry to hear that.

[identity profile] bogusmagicker.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 03:46 am (UTC)(link)
Those who have chosen to aid the town have made an incorrect judgment. They cannot be allowed to continue.

[identity profile] grand-theft-moe.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
[She considers leaping out the window. Nah, that might startle him. It's just Taiwan's friend, it seems. She walks downstairs, opens the door and fixes him with a quizzical, but not unfriendly stare.]

[identity profile] pygmalion-perv.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 11:49 am (UTC)(link)
O-oh... hi.

[He looks halfway between wanting to ask something and wanting to just run away in shame.]

[identity profile] pygmalion-perv.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 11:50 am (UTC)(link)
So you're gonna go stop them?

[identity profile] pants-yourmove.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 07:21 pm (UTC)(link)
I know what you mean.

What happened?

[identity profile] pygmalion-perv.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 07:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Cats happened. Lots and lots of cats.

[identity profile] pants-yourmove.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 07:35 pm (UTC)(link)
...

Oh.

[identity profile] pygmalion-perv.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 07:39 pm (UTC)(link)
...Yeah.

[identity profile] pants-yourmove.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 08:00 pm (UTC)(link)
Sorry to hear, was anyone with you?

action 2

[identity profile] politerudeness.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 08:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[ Japan spots Hachibe as he passes by and glances into the window- he has been worried for him, in truth, all day, but couldn't bring himself to visit him directly. So at one point, when he sees him standing in front of the door- he hesitates for just a moment and then rushes to open it, his expression strangely shaken, and in a quiet voice calls out to Hachibe before he can leave. ]

M-Maeda-kun...

[identity profile] pygmalion-perv.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Japan!

[Hachibe's own expression is pretty worried at this point too - he was killed before he ever found out what happened to the others.]

Uh... c-can I come in?

[identity profile] pygmalion-perv.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 08:31 pm (UTC)(link)
Don't go out on the highway.
slave_of_suzumiya: (Why are you asking me?)

[personal profile] slave_of_suzumiya 2011-03-23 08:33 pm (UTC)(link)
I wasn't planning to. Grady has his goons out there, doesn't he?

[identity profile] politerudeness.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 08:34 pm (UTC)(link)
... Y-yes. Of course.

[ He will let him inside, but- the expression won't leave him. He quite can't control himself right now- the image Hachibe's corpse keeps pooping up in his mind, and while he certainly has witnessed worse than this... ]

[identity profile] pygmalion-perv.livejournal.com 2011-03-23 08:35 pm (UTC)(link)
There's wild animals too. They're really tough.

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