niteo_logs | Not double trouble

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Not double trouble

Characters: Fay (Yuui), Fay
When: March 26th/ after this
Where: By the river, back to apartments
Rating: PG-13 for skeletal like children and two Fays.
Summary: The twins are reunited

Fay's mind was still reeling as he hurried towards the river. How could this be? How could his Fay have been brought back to him? He hadn't finished his journey. He wasn't supposed to be able to save him until he saw the Princess home to Clow country. This place had a magic he didn't understand. It could all be trick. He could be running to his death, but right now he didn't care. That was Fay. He knew his voice, he would never forget his voice. If it was an imitation then they deserved to kill him.

He reached the river, breathless, and head twisting about looking for his other half. He pressed on, walking alongside the river until finally a small figure caught his eye and he took off at a run again, dropping to his knees to embrace the boy. He held him close, panting for breath and struggling for words, eyes swimming.

"...Fay."

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He shouldn’t have been alive, it all should have ended the moment he’d hit the ground. And, if only for what seemed like a brief moment, it had ended. He’d been dead and from how Yuui sounded, it wasn’t just him who knew that fact. Of course...Yuui had to know, hadn’t he seen the fall right in front of him...?

It didn’t make sense, he was breathing, he could touch and he was extremely aware of hunger and thirst. Even hearing Yuui’s voice seemed slightly strange although Fay couldn’t quite understand why there was a difference. Had Yuui changed a lot? Was he alright? Well, that was something he would see soon enough.

He barely had time to register someone coming up fast and then holding him. It sounded like Yuui. It sort of looked like Yuui. But...this person was older. And the only thing Fay could really think as he lightly hugged back was, well, that he must have been gone a lot longer than he’d thought. A few false starts, talking was proving difficult, before he managed to choke out a small sound.

“”

He stroked his twin's hair, nodding absently. He was so small. So frail. Was this how he'd looked when Ashura came for him? He brushed Fay's hair back from his face, pulling back enough to get a real look at him. It was Fay, there was no mistaking him. He didn't know how or why, but it was really him, and his heart clenched painfully, joy and sorrow both trying to over take him.

"It's me," he assured him in a soft voice, offering a small smile. He had a new reason he couldn't die now. He had to take care of Fay, he had to keep him safe. Nothing could ever hurt him again.

There was no doubt left in Fay’s mind that this was his brother, albeit a great deal older, he could just tell. He didn’t resist being shifted around by his brother, far too tired and all too aware of it to do anything productive for himself. Things hadn’t seemed this bag while trapped in that awful tower, had he simply ignored his own problems so he could focus completely on keeping watch over Yuui down below? Maybe. He couldn’t tell by this point anymore.

Simply he looked back at his brother, noticing that he looked well, apart from missing an eye which was worrying. He would have asked about it but...maybe he shouldn’t, maybe it was something that Yuui would want to keep secret. ...He looked healthier though, nothing like the starved figure he no doubt had. Lightly clinging onto Yuui’s arms, he shouldn’t be there... This shouldn’t be happening...

“...Where is this?”

"It's another world. We're not in Valeria. There's some magic that brings people here," he explained, leaving out the past of this place which seemed so similar to there own world, "You need some food," he said with a frown. Out of the valley time would pass as it should and Fay couldn't go without sustenance any longer, "I have a room, I'll find you food and water...and shoes," he added, noting his brother's bare feet, moving to hoist him up, it would go faster if he carried him.

Another world? How strange that sounded. Fay could guess that it wasn’t Valeria, if only by the lack of heaps of snow but a completely different world seemed odd to think about. He wasn’t going to deny that it was possible; trusting his brother on that completely fact, but still it would probably take some time to wrap his head around the whole idea. Even if magic brought people here... Maybe that was why he was alive, the same magic could reach to the dead and bring them back, it would probably only work for this place though.

“Food?” Now that sounded like a nice idea, something to eat and something to drink. Two things that he sorely needed now that time was moving correctly instead of how it moved in that one place. Fay very carefully held on as he was lifted up, he couldn’t complain about having the task of walking taken away. After all, he hadn’t really moved while in the tower...at least not walked around. Did his legs even remember how to work? Who knew.

Fay nodded and began to walk back towards the apartment. "Something warm," he promised, knowing that would mean leaving Fay while he struck out to find something in the city. The water he could manage once they got to his room, cool water that would soothe those poor chapped lips, and then Fay could sleep and he would go to find him food.

"I'll keep you safe, Fay. I'm sorry," he murmured against his ear, keeping a watchful eye as he walked.

“......” Not that was certainly a foreign concept to him, having been trapped in that cold tower until his end, that freezing weather was really the only thing that he could remember. Any warmth from their short lived home with their family had long since fled from his mind. He liked the idea of eating something warm though, even though...this place seemed a little empty. Too empty.

Fay carefully shifted slightly to look up at his brother, not quite understanding why he was sorry. It wasn’t Yuui’s fault that he had died, he’d chosen it himself and he was going to make sure that the other twin knew that. “You have nothing to be sorry for though, Yuui.”

He frowned, shaking his head. He had everything to be sorry for. It was his choice, his selfish choice, and Fay had paid the price. The memory was fuzzy, but the feelings of guilt were as strong as when the man had told him what he had done. "I have everything to be sorry for, Fay. It's my fault. But you're back now, and that's all I wanted. I won't let anything hurt you again. I left Chii to keep you safe, I was going to come back," he assured, speaking more to himself then his twin now. He would have come back. He would have faced Ashura if it meant bringing Fay back. Giving him back his life and his name.

Fay couldn’t understand it, why was Yuui apologizing when he was the one who chose to seal his own fate? It didn’t make any sense to him, and really the only thing he could do was watch the other now and simply listen. Somehow he knew that his brother wouldn’t listen and accept that he wasn’t at fault...was this what Yuui had been living with for all this apparent time?

“You don’t...” Fay mumbled slightly as he carried on listening. And then something caught his interest, something which really made him wonder. “...Who’s Chii?” Maybe if he asked about something different then Yuui would stop worrying and stop blaming himself for something that wasn’t his fault. It was worth a try considering all that his brother had been through, Fay may have been kept in that tower but...Yuui had been with the dead people of the country, he’d seen their own uncle...

It wasn’t fair.

His face brightened slightly at the question. "I made her, to watch over you until I could bring you back. She was my friend. I made her to look like our mother," he answered, wondering what would happen to Chii without Fay to guard. She had been so good to him, he wanted her to have some happiness in her life, even knowing that eventually Sakura would need to have her feather back...

His eye widened suddenly, and he looked to Fay. "Was there a feather? Did it come with you?"

Listening carefully, nodding slightly, Fay took in what he was hearing. He couldn’t deny that we was silently wondering how exactly Yuui was planning to bring him back in the first place but...well, that was certainly one thing that we wasn’t about to bring up. Instead he moved his attention and mind into think about how Chii must have looked if she looked like their mother. It didn’t take long for him to decide in his own mind that she must have been a really good friend.

A small startled look crossed his face at the suddenness of the question; the appearance only lasted for a few brief moments before it turned to one of confusion. A feather? He couldn’t remember ever seeing a feather... A very small shake of the head. “Should there have been one?”

He frowned only briefly. It couldn't be helped. If the feather hadn't come with him, then surely it was back in Celes. Sakua-chan could still find it if she went there. "There was a feather I used to keep you safe," he said with a nod, "It belongs to a friend of mine. But she's very good at finding them again. It's better that it's not here. I'm not sure she could find her way to this place," he assured him, smiling again.

"That's where we'll stay," he said,pointing out to the building, "We'll be safe there. There are others living there too."

It didn’t take much more than that for Fay to realise that the feather must have possessed some type of power. After all, an ordinary feather would have done very little for anyone, let alone for him after his death. If Yuui said it was better somewhere else then he would trust that judgement, there was no doubt that his brother would know the best about something like that, probably after a great deal of practice with his own magic too.
“Would you want her to come here?” He was truly curious since, well, he wouldn’t mind meeting some of his brother’s friends if they had made him happy for a little while.

His attention was soon diverted to looking at the building, it seemed tall, taller than he really could have imagined. Or maybe he’d just simply been hoping to never see something high again. “...Others?”

He hesitated a moment before answering, having to take a moment to think that over. "Yes," he answered finally, "But not to stay. They would take us with them if they came though, which would be better. This is not my favourite world. You would like her. Princess Sakura. She is very brave."

He looked back down to Fay, with some guilt at his room being so near to the top. He would have to devise some curtains. "Yes. Other people were brought here as well. Some of them are very nice. Others it would be better if you stayed away from," he cautioned. If anyone tried to hurt Fay he would unleash every spell he knew on them.

Fay initially just nodded at hearing his eventual answer, it was clear that it was a difficult thing to think about, even if it was only a hypothetical choice. Still, he couldn’t blame his twin for that hesitation. He had to smile very slightly, if only to himself, at the idea of Yuui travelling with a Princess for whatever reason, he had probably taken to that girl really easily. “You’ve been to a lot of worlds with her?”

He did his best to shake off the impending fear on going up high again; he should be used to it, right? It was hard to hide but it was worth the attempt if only to get rid of his brother’s guilty look. “...Some of them are bad?” It wasn’t really a surprise to him, the two of them had lived through being turned against by their own family after all. To go to another place and... He didn’t want to think that anyone would treat people that badly in a new place.

"Yep! Lots of them," he said, beaming for a moment at the memory, "There were four of us. You would have liked some of the worlds we went to. They're all so different from Valeria."

"...Yes," he said, not wanting scare his brother, but he wasn't going to lie to him either, "Some of them are bad. But not all. And we're stronger than they are, they can't hurt you."

"Were they like this? Without all that snow?" For some reason the idea of worlds without snow seemed all the more appealing to see, maybe after all that time trapped with it passing by he'd simply grown annoyed by it. Negative thoughts now linked to the frozen water no matter how many times he may have wished to remember something happy. "There were more of your friends?"

He went a little quiet. Being stronger than them...he remembered how they had been born with a lot of magic and, while Yuui might have learnt to control it, he wouldn't be able to do that straight away. Did he even know how to use it in the first place? After several moments he simply settled with the most sensible thing that came to mind. "I know."

"Most of them. Sakura-chan is from a desert world, she'd never seen snow before our travels. Most places only have snow for part of the year." It had been a strange thing to get used to. And probably the simplest of the differences he could describe to his brother. "There was Sakura-chan, Syaoran-kun, and Kurogane."

"...I can teach you," he added, sensing Fay's worry, "I was taught by someone very kind, I can teach you what he taught me."

“People can live in a hot desert?” That was a weird concept to understand, having grown up in snow for the whole of his short life. It made understanding only having snow part of the year more, well, normal. Sort of although not completely. It sounded like Yuui had gotten used to it easy enough though, that could have been because he had other people who were getting used to things too... Either way Fay couldn’t help but be happy about his brother finding nice people, he had deserved it with his freedom.

“...You’ll teach me?” He didn’t dare ask who had initially taught the other twin, he could tell that it would be probably bring up something painful to think about.

"Mmm hmm," he said with a small laugh, "And when it gets warm enough there are lots of cool treats." He would find some for Fay. There was so much he wanted to give Fay, so much that he'd got to have while twin's only memories were of their imprisonment.

"I'll teach everything I know," he promised with a nod, "You'll be stronger than me soon en-" he started, then looked rather frightened for a moment before putting that smile back up. He couldn't let Fay trigger the curse. He couldn't allow himself to hurt Fay.

It was funny really, how the strangest things could really sound like something exciting to try after so long of being stuck to the same routine. Maybe some changes really weren’t so bad, and if Yuui enjoyed them then they really had to be good things in the end. His brother wouldn’t lie to him about something like that, no matter how old he was and how strange it was to be twins while not being them right now.

Fay gave a very worried look up at the abrupt cut off, that couldn’t be a good sign, not at all. Was something wrong? Had he said something he shouldn’t have mentioned? A small and rather weak tug to gain his attention, “What’s wrong?”

Yuui chewed lightly on his lower lip, looking down at Fay. Should he tell him? Welcome back to life Fay, but don't get too strong or I'll have to kill you, since my power is halved, hey you want some icecream? He didn't need to explain it all yet. Fay was still too young. When his powers got close enough to be a danger he would explain it fully.

"Nothing to worry about just now, I just remembered something is all," he said, shifting the too light body of is brother so that he could open the main door to the building and start up the stairs.

Fay tilted his head very slightly, an unconscious action as he watched Yuui clearly struggle to some extent with an answer to give him. Although, of course, he had no clue as to why his twin was having so much trouble in the first place. Something which would likely become a common occurrence, him asking questions which would likely prove troublesome for his brother to respond to, those years missing between them clearly showed the gap.

He nodded slowly, accepting that answer and not pressing for anything else. In fact all he did was hold on a little more as he was shifted and eye the building once more, steps seemed like a new concept entirely. At least, even though it was a tall building, they would be together.

It was a long climb, and the silence grew around them, only Yuui's footsteps echoing, but he had a soft smile on his face, and he would glance down to Fay every few steps, still not quite believing he was real. He was half afraid he would be snatched away from him again, or that Reed would find them and demand he finish his journey before he was allowed to have Fay back.

He pushed open the door to his room and set Fay down on his bed, grabbing one of the empty sake bottles he'd filled up with water and passing it to him. "Not too much or you'll be sick," he warned, "I'll have to go out to get food....will you be all right?" he asked, looking slightly anxious. He was torn between the need to protect and the need to nurture. He'd only just got him back, but without food he could loose him again quickly.

Fay stayed silent, quietly watching the walls pass by before they reached the room, and even then he remained the same while sitting on the bed. Everything was just starting to catch up to him, the confusion, the bad feeling about this, what could happen to other people. What if they started causing misfortune here? Was that even possible?

His thoughts were distracted by the bottle of water, simply taking it and nodding in understanding. Not too much at once despite how incredibly thirsty he felt. A few small drinks from the bottle before giving the best look he could give at that moment to reassure his brother. “I’ll be okay.” So long as Yuui came back, he could cope with being apart a little more.

Yuui smiled at him, perching on the edge of the bed and taking up the second PDA. "Don't answer the door for anyone but me. And if you need me you can use this call for me, okay?" he said, looking to his brother, "Just push this button here and call for me and I'll come back," he promised, "I shouldn't be long. You can sleep and I'll be back before you know it." It was clear he was probably more anxious about leaving him then Fay was about being left. He hugged him again, placing the PDA in his lap.

Fay carefully looked over the PDA, taking in the buttons that Yuui was showing him. If there were bad people then he certainly wouldn’t open the door to anyone that he didn’t know, which was everyone save for his twin. A carefully placed look towards the door as he thought over being left alone again before eventually looking back and nodding, if he slept then he wouldn’t even notice his missing brother. At least, until he woke up again anyway.

Another hug as he mumbled out something, “I’ll be fine and sleep.”

"I'll be as fast as I can," Yuui promised, getting to his feet, "Try to sleep and I'll be right back." It wasn't until he closed the door silently that he let the vice gripping his heart sink in, eyes burning with a happiness that hurt it was so strong. His breath caught in his throat and his mind didn't know which way was up, but his feet kept him on path.

Fay was alive.

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