Virtue, dear friend, needs no defense, The surest guard is innocence

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Characters: Ritsuka, Open
When: Backdated to after this
Where: Garage at 16th and Nevinnost
Rating: PG-13
Summary: The reaction to the Joker's message
Note: Anyone can come, but Ritsuka won't want to leave until he sees Soubi



He hadn't moved much from where they'd left. The cigarette had been let to fall from his lips after a few minutes had passed, and dull eyes watched in for some time, laying prone on the dirty floor. There was blood on in, looking almost like a lipstick print. He wasn't sure how long he stared at it before a wave of nausea had him curling in further on himself.

His fingers came to pry weakly at the collar cutting him off from Soubi, making a small noise in the back of his throat as he tried to keep his emotions plugged up. It wouldn't budge and his head hung, resting on his knees. Tentatively, he brought his hand up to his head, where his ears should have been, and instead is hand feel through nothing and came to his hair. They were really gone.

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The sound that announced Soubi's arrival was not a cacaphony of destruction, but a dead silence. Anger was not hot and burning. It was cold and without any room to feel anything else. A chill sharper than a knife that seeped into the waking world as he ran, frost forming on the half-thawed ground of spring. Coating his path in ice as fast as it took the heart to beat. The power it took to do this leaking from him without a thought - his emotions unchecked.

He did not care that there were others in the garage, save that they were between him and his sacrifice. The sacrifice he could not feel, the one he was not strong enough to protect, not able to find because their bond was a flimsy as rice paper. And it was his fault. It had to be.

Soubi didn't stop at the door, the ice forming on everyone and everything as he moved to kneel next to Ritsuka. The anger that bled out directed as much at himself as it was the Joker. His knees gave out as he lowered himself down, dropping him hard to the floor, body shaking at the proof before his eyes that he had completely and utterly failed his only duty in all ways.

His mouth opened, but he couldn't find the words.

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The tears finally spilled over his checks when he saw him. Tears of sorrow and of relief. He wasn't dead. He couldn't feel him, but he was there. His cheeks flushed in shame of Soubi seeing him like this. It was meant for Soubi. He wanted to give his ears to him. But he'd been so stupid and trusting as a fucking child, and look what he'd done.

"Soubi, I-I'm sorry-" he sobbed, throwing his arms around his Fighter's neck and clinging to him tightly. He buried his head in his shoulder, fingers tangled in his pretty hair, and mumbling over over , 'I'm sorry'.

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Soubi couldn't stop himself from wrapping his arms tightly around Ritsuka when the boy fell against him. He couldn't keep himself from burying his head in his love's shoulder and simply cling to the other. He didn't know what else to do but hold Ritsuka as tightly as possible.

He could see and touch his sacrifice, but he couldn't feel him. Was this his punishment then?

"You did nothing wrong. It's my fault" he whispered back, voice choked with tears he hadn't realized he was shedding.

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"I was stupid. I thought I could trust him. He said if I came he'd give us food, enough for everyone, I just wanted to help-" he mumbled, "And I couldn't feel you-and-and I was supposed to give them to you- and there were so many- and- I thought you were dead-" He had to stop there, trying to catch his breath, chest heaving as he hyper ventilated, "Soubi, I want to go home. Please, I want to go home."

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Soubi clung all the more tightly, gathering the boy into his arms. Picking him up and standing, his legs regaining their strength. He didn't know how to get back home, but he could take Ritsuka away from this disgusting place.

"calm" Soubi whispered, power pouring off him in an attempt to help Ritsuka. Not knowing anything about the collar his sacrifice wore, only that it would have to be removed.

"I love you"

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"Mm- my..." he motioned towards his tattered clothes as he was scooped up, where his PDA still sat in his pocket. He would miss it later if he forgot it, and who knew if he would ever be able to find it again.

Soubi's words seemed to work, taking a slow breath and laying his head down eyes closing. He just wanted to disappear.

"Love you," he repeated numbly.

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Hitsugaya's eyes widened at the sudden energy being released - frigid energy, his kind of energy. And when the face he recognized as Ritsuka's partner from the PDAs made its way inside, he silently stood and moved out of the way. He frowned at the ice following the man, but it didn't touch him. No one could use ice against him, not when all the water in the atmosphere was his to control.

He did his best to show no emotion at the display taking place before him. The ugly cuts at the sides of Ritsuka's lips were now only faint scars, which meant Hitsugaya had done what he'd set out to do. He wouldn't interfere now.