Take...Responsibility?

[kingmakereffect]

Unlike previous weeks in the Vault, there was no specifically allotted time for investigation; for the first time, this weekend the elevator doors remain closed at the end of the first floor corridor. There's no getting down into the courtroom from here – but then, you don't need to. After all, no one is dead. Just the same, however, a crime has been committed; perhaps not one that warrants any sort of death penalty, but one of your number was attacked by someone else still walking among you. The dining hall has been chosen as the allotted meeting place for the day; it's not the same as the trial circle by a long shot, but even so, the portraits of the deceased watch the proceedings from the far wall. Ten Survivors still remain. Let's see who wanted to lower that number by one – or nine.

Comments

[garudynamic]

[He knows that look- but all it causes is confusion]

But... if you heard something why didn't you say something before now?

[penduli]

[ ...yeah, he can't look at Yosuke directly, he's just going to look at the profiles instead. ]

It didn't seem that important, really, or I could've just been hearing things. [ A shake of the head. ] Either way, I was alone when I got out to the hallway, so I'm guessing that's when our would-be killer struck? I'm not really sure, to be quite honest.

[garudynamic]

[He can't refute him- he has no evidence to do so. But he's SEEN Black at the breaking point before. He KNOWS what this looks like. So softly, confusion just growing:]

Why are you lying?

[penduli]

[ God, Yosuke, why do you always have to...

he's not answering, he has nine other people to answer to right now. ]

[garudynamic]

Stop ignoring me!

[He looks like he wants to die a little]

You've told me outright that you've thought about it before... You're a really good actor Will, but you're acting too good right now.

[And that's what was bothering him the whole time, ever since he started talking. If he was really innocent he wouldn't be calmly refuting everyone- he'd be annoyed. He'd be quietly sarcastic about it. Not this vague serene.

he might not be lying, but he's hiding something.]

This makes no sense...

[If he IS lying there's no reason to- he's always stated that the group was too nice for their own good. He has to know that fighting now is pointless. Unless-]

Will, what are you scared of?

[God help him, but Black has made deals before]

[penduli]

[ He flinches just a little—at the raised voice, and at the use of his real name, and—no, he isn't quite the picture of composed and calm anymore, with a tremor in his voice from... everything. ]

Dying. [ ...there, that's it, but that's not all— ] Losing the people I care about, again. Disappointing people. Being hated. Spiders. Normal people things, Yosuke, what the hell do you think?

[garudynamic]

Oh fuck you!

[He's not sitting anymore, hands on the table and almost in Black's face. He's being irrational- again, he has no reason to doubt Black other then his gut. And his gut is howling in agony]

I KNOW that!

Just... tell me something. Anything. Tell me something happened to push this. Tell me why you're acting. Please.

[penduli]

[ SORRY, BIT OF A SITUATION HERE, PLEASE HOLD. ]