[closed] March Catch All

[nastyboy]

Who: Team Femblemtroika (Grant, Chip, Dimitri, Sylvain, Claude, Felix, Jinx, Razor, Ashe, Annette, Lysithea - with people going in and out as they please)
What: Please let this group just fall asleep in Olivine for a while with nothing exploding, they beg you
When: March
Where: The Olivine City general area
Rating: T

Comments

[bestswordmaster]

Yes. That too, a little. But...not until Remire. And even then, I...

[Felix looks away.]

I didn't want to see you like that, you know. There was always a part of me that hoped I was wrong somehow. Maybe that was the piece of me I left with you. I kept chasing after you like some pathetic lost child because I couldn't bring myself to burn that last bridge completely. To fully believe deep down that my Dimitri was gone for good. But I wasn't strong enough to stand with you or see you clearly, either.

[He turns back to meet Dimitri's gaze and frowns.]

It's not about doing 'enough.' That's the exact opposite of what I meant by making up for it. ...do you remember the day I arrived in Violet, and I told you to live for what you believe in? That's...it's what my father told you. When he died.

You make up for it by staying true to your own beliefs. Not by trying to live up to someone else's idea of who you should be. That's how you got yourself lost in the first place, trying to pander to the dead.

[He goes back to running his fingers lightly through Dimitri's hair.]

I'll stand with you, this time. I'll help you and protect you. From your own mind, if I must. But the only one who can know whether you're truly following your heart or not is you.

[nastyboy]

[Dimitri listens. As best as he possibly can, he listens, trying to hold what he can keep in his hands close to his chest... Just, not in the same way he keeps Felix's hand there.]

[Or maybe exactly as he keeps Felix's hand there.]

...I want to restore Duscur. And - I want us to stop fighting with Sreng. I want to make people healthy... like here.

[bestswordmaster]

Then you will. When you're king. And Sylvain and I will be by your side.

But in the meantime, just be Dimitri. That's all you have to be while we're here.

[nastyboy]

Oh... [Dimitri blinks slowly, and finally lets his eye slip shut again.] I wonder when the last time I was Dimitri...

...Maybe that is the part I left with you.

[bestswordmaster]

...well, now I'm here. So if it is, then that part of you is here, too.

[nastyboy]

[Red eyed, face still a little sticky, Dimitri smiles up at Felix.]

I have your part with me too, if you still want it.

[...]

My head hurts.

[bestswordmaster]

[Felix gives him a small smile in return, reaching over to the bedside table to retrieve the wet cloth there and wipe Dimitri's face clean. It isn't cold anymore, but it will do for this purpose.]

I do. And like I've told you before, I'm not going anywhere.

If your head hurts, then go to sleep.

[He puts the cloth aside and smooths back Dimitri's hair, then starts to maneuver them both so he can get up.]

[nastyboy]

[Even if the cloth isn't ice cold anymore, the liquid still helps make his skin feel cooler, and Dimitri sighs in contentment. It's a sound that quickly becomes one of protest, however.]

You said you are not going...

[bestswordmaster]

What? Oh. I meant--

[He sighs and shifts to get more comfortable, instead.]

Never mind. Yes, I'm staying here. So go to sleep. [A pause.] If you...need anything, to fall asleep, tell me.

[nastyboy]

Mm.

[A sleepy smile before it drifts away to equally sleepy thought.]

I need to call out Kent....

[He may be sick, but that does nothing about his nightmares. If anything, it makes them worse.]

[bestswordmaster]

Right.

[Felix looks around for Dimitri's technology rat.]

Hey. Gremlin. Release Kent. ...please.

[nastyboy]

[Gremlin beams from where he is, immediately scurrying over to some of the Pokeballs. Like a pro, he immediately identifies the right one and smacks his little rat hand down on the button.]

[Materializing lazily right into the air, Kent slowly blinks his eyes open and reorients himself. It doesn't take him long, either, before he floats over to where Dimitri is laying down. Rather considerately, he nestles not across the man's face, but more against his shoulder - still nice and close for dream access, but not disrupting Dimitri's position against Felix's lap.]

[With a slippy little tapir smile, he blinks up at Felix. Heeeey buddy.]

[bestswordmaster]

[Felix's initial wariness of Kent may have been misplaced, but Munna are still weird, and that look isn't helping.]

Does he always look at people like that?

[He finds himself lowering his voice, as though somehow Kent wouldn't hear him despite being a foot away.]

[nastyboy]

Yes. He uses his eyes...

[Dimitri seems a bit too sleepy and head achey to really. Take in what Felix is saying. And also not in a position to see what Felix is talking about, even if his eye was open. Kent just smiles some more up at Felix, absolutely able to hear him perfectly well and not seeming to mind.]

[There are more important things to do, like gently pressing his snout against Dimitri's face and snuffling. Dimitri laughs a little, just one soft burst. It tickles.]

[bestswordmaster]

[Felix rolls his eyes.]

I...never mind. Go to sleep, Mitya.

[He brushes a few stray strands of hair back from Dimitri's face and beckons Gremlin over again so he can make another request, this time to fetch one of Felix's Pokemon from the other room. If he does so, Fantine the Delcatty will soon join them on the bed and begin to quietly sing Dimitri to sleep.]

[nastyboy]

[Gremlin doesn't need much convincing, especially for his trainer. He bounds off happily, and soon enough, Fantine is right there with them. Dimitri seems to fall asleep almost instantaneously, cheeks still a little wet... but happy.]