Accidental (?) video | O, longing of the arteries / to purify the blood | Forward-dated to day 363

[feyecandy]

[The light in the room is muted and warm, but still bright enough that you get a clear view. You can see a fair slice of the room, in fact, but the obvious focus appears to be the man kneeling in front of a woman, both seemingly unaware of the camera. The angle is such that his face is relatively visible to any viewer, while hers is somewhat hidden behind her hair, although those familiar with her might recognize Ghanima’s tanned skin and sun-bleached hair, or the crysknife in her hand.]

[Fai, his eyepatch a little bit ascew so a hint of a scar is sometimes visible when he moves, has his good eye shut as the video feed starts, but soon opens it to reveal a slit pupil, a yellow sclera. He smiles a little bit tautly, as if both amused and feeling some strain.]

At your leisure, my lady. I think I’ve got myself under reasonable control. [A hint of a joke there, but rather dark.]

[She pulls her hair around to rest over only one shoulder, revealing more of her profile and the long, graceful line of her neck to the camera. It’s most definitely an unnecessary intimacy when she places the edge of her deathly pale blade against her own throat to draw a thin red line there before kneeling down as well, tilting her head to offer Fai the wound, but she sees very little reason to resist her urge to flirt a little with danger in this situation.]

How reassuring.

[Her tone is very dry, filled with the same dark humor as Fai’s]

[His eye widens just a bit in response, and his face betrays unfeigned shock for a brief moment, before his smile widens a bit, not really in humor as to mask any other treacherous emotion. He nods gracefully before leaning in, mouth closing over the wound.]

[And with that, the feed ends.]

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[feyecandy]

[Give it a moment for Fai to experience Blue Screen Of Death(TM) at realizing that a) that was just broadcasted and b) Yuui just saw it. It takes a little while, but then he manages to at least look like he's not openly panicking, if only just.]

Ah, I- I didn't exactly mean to- Well, I'm not sure what happened, but we didn't exactly mean to broadcast it. [He looks down at his hands, having troubles even looking into the camera properly.] I'm sorry if I worried you. It's nothing serious, it's just something I... need to do.

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[the_saner_one]

Yes, she- your friend, she told me. [He does his best to smile reassuringly, even though he's still a bit too shocked by it all to make it very convincing. But he doesn't want Fai to feel guilty about this, especially since Yuui witnessing it wasn't actually his fault.] And I- well, I won't say I'm not worried, exactly, but I'm fine. It was just quite the surprise, that's all.

[A moment of hesitation.]

Will you tell me about it?

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[feyecandy]

[Yuui doesn't even ask him to tell him, not direcly, he just asks if he will. He doesn't know why, but that in itself makes his heart squeeze painfully with the knowledge that he'd kept it from the other on purpose. A part of him wants to insist that he didn't have to, that Yuui isn't his twin and he doesn't owe him anything, but he knows that's not true. No matter what world, no matter how far apart, he will still owe his twin everything.]

It's... I got very hurt a little while ago. [He lifts his hand to his eyepatch, following the edge of the fabric before letting his hand drop.] I was dying. To save my life... I was given the blood of a vampire, who heal much faster than ordinary people, but it comes with a price.

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[the_saner_one]

[A small wave of relief goes through him when Fai starts to explain, no matter if he had purposely kept it from him before he's not doing so now and that's all that matters, but he tenses up again when he hears that Fai had been dying. The fact that this Fai is not truly his twin does not change his fear or worry at him having been through so many painful and dangerous things.]

You have to drink blood to survive. [It was fantastical but what since he arrived here hasn't been, and in the face of simply meeting this Fai, a man who carries his twin's soul, the shock of him being a vampire on top of that just seems to fade in comparison.] Okay. [It's possible that he will freak out a bit about this again once they've stopped talking but right now it's pretty easy to just accept it as one more difference, that in the end don't really matter much, between this Fai and his twin.]

Why didn't you tell me? [There's no judgement in his voice, and he manages to keep the unreasonable bit of hurt he feels out of it as well. He hopes that Fai will say something of the lines of "Oh, it just slipped my mind" but he knows that isn't very likely.]

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[feyecandy]

[He winces a little bit at hearing Yuui use those words; he tries not to, but he can't help it. A creature that has to hurt others to survive. He wondered if there were Gods of Irony somewhere out there in some universe, and if he was their chosen prophet without ever knowing it.]

[He looks away, sighing.]

I- I hate it. I hate being like this. And... [He sighs, knowing that he's going to have to tell the whole truth because otherwise... well, Yuui could probably tell, and he doesn't want to hurt him more than he already has.] And you'd offer to help, and I- I can't take your blood. Not yours. Not knowing who you are. I've seen too much of- [He cuts himself short, isn't sure he can say the words without being ill.]