isafraid: (Tired)
Robert E. O. Speedwagon ([personal profile] isafraid) wrote in [community profile] trusthell2016-04-23 05:09 pm

I'll wait, so show me why you're strong

[And so the day's trial for the attempted murder of Gabriel Knight draw to a close with... charitably better results then usual.

They were alive, at the least, but that didn't mean there wasn't several blows against the trust that had been built up here. One mole that attempted murder, another that quit, and another that was given the offer no doubt put strain on several relationships... most notably Sigrun's.

It was all, in a word... frankly shitty. But now it's all out there, no sense in trying to get it back.

An hour (or two) after the "trial" ends and everyone's gone off on their own business, Speedwagon heads back to the kitchen. It was the usual plan in mind, what they did after every trial. And everyone, regardless of what was said or done, would soon find a note being slipped under their door.
]

[Name],
There's gonna be food in the dining hall, in case anyone's got an appetite for it.
I know some might want to be alone after that mess of an investigation, but if you don't then the offer's as open as it's always been.
I'd say sticking together might still be safer then not.

-R E.O. Speedwagon


[And yes, folks that arrive in the dining hall will find a nice spread of sandwiches, soup, and what leftovers Speedwagon could scrounge out of the fridge. Speedwagon isn't the best cook in the group, but there's definitely stuff here that's good enough to eat.

...Sigrun's 'masterpiece' was, thankfully, left out of this. Keeping folks alive is the goal, after all.
]
captainobnoxious: (60 you get used to it)

[personal profile] captainobnoxious 2016-04-24 02:00 am (UTC)(link)
[She stirs her soup a little more, glancing over at him, and decides flicking a spoonful's good enough.]

Like hell he'd go through with that. Who would you have used it on, if it came up?
cherryblooded: (smile / there's blood in this picture)

[personal profile] cherryblooded 2016-04-24 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
[Soup in the face. He deserves that.]

Yosuke. He's young enough - he might recover from this. I don't think you would take it as well if I did it for you.
captainobnoxious: (23 you're joking right)

[personal profile] captainobnoxious 2016-04-24 02:07 am (UTC)(link)
[He does. It's all the food he's getting from her too.]

I definitely wouldn't have. Flattering, but please, it doesn't matter where I go, where I am. So long as I've got someone to lead.

[... So much for that...]

I think I would've done it for you though. Wouldn't matter if you hated me or not for it, you're the first person to come to mind. Black's second, then Yosuke.

[Mettaton would've been first, really, but that goes without saying. She probably would've asked he could put Mettaton in her world too.]
cherryblooded: (calm / bruised)

[personal profile] cherryblooded 2016-04-24 02:09 am (UTC)(link)
...We are a bunch of disasters, aren't we?

[He's known he was a disaster for hundreds of years, so it's not exactly news. He just sounds resigned, mostly.]

I wouldn't have hated you. Just questioned your taste.
captainobnoxious: (43 yeah sure)

[personal profile] captainobnoxious 2016-04-24 02:13 am (UTC)(link)
You have more people who're depending on you than I do.

[There's a pause there, like she's going to say something else, and she sighs.]

Which... isn't true, I guess. I have five others in my team and many more back home, all waiting for my return, even if they've probably moved on by now. But your people need you more than mine do -- mine have a back-up leader.
cherryblooded: (smile / there's blood in this picture)

[personal profile] cherryblooded 2016-04-24 02:17 am (UTC)(link)
Yours are, more likely than not, alive.

[Just... bluntly said, with the kind of smile he wears when he doesn't really care enough to put on one that seems happy.

His are probably dead.]
captainobnoxious: (39 fiiine)

[personal profile] captainobnoxious 2016-04-24 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
[... Remember how I said that was the only food he's getting from her?

I lied. There's another spoonful of soup.]


I won't take that quitter talk from you, Cherryblod. [Full name.] Your family's fine.
cherryblooded: (calm / bruised)

[personal profile] cherryblooded 2016-04-24 02:24 am (UTC)(link)
[Flick, in the face.]

...You're right, as usual. Was going to go back to be certain anyway.
captainobnoxious: (12 matter o' fact kids)

[personal profile] captainobnoxious 2016-04-24 02:31 am (UTC)(link)
[... She'll give him a napkin.]

They'll be fine, darling. You'll come home and the world will have gone to shit, but they'll be the bright spot in the dark, and then you and your sea witch will fix it all.

[Yes.]
cherryblooded: (calm / so it's like)

[personal profile] cherryblooded 2016-04-24 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
[Thanks! It's appreciated, he probably wouldn't have liked to go this entire meal with soup on his face.]

That's what will happen. I'm sure.
captainobnoxious: (09 mmm!)

[personal profile] captainobnoxious 2016-04-24 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
I'd say don't doubt your leader, but, well. You know.

[Doubt all you please. And not leader anymore, probably.

She'll nudge Black's side though.]


Kitten, can you spare your attention for a few minutes?
penduli: (69 so high so high)

[personal profile] penduli 2016-04-24 02:49 am (UTC)(link)
[ ...but he doesn't want to—

very hesitantly looking up from his notebook. ]


...yes?
captainobnoxious: (04 what've we got here)

[personal profile] captainobnoxious 2016-04-24 02:55 am (UTC)(link)
[She's going to incline her head towards Cherryblod.]

He wants to know how you're holding up too.
cherryblooded: (smile / glow)

[personal profile] cherryblooded 2016-04-24 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
[He does. And while the smile that he gives Black is maybe a little less full of affection than normal, it's not a fake smile.]

Doing alright, Black?
penduli: (69 so high so high)

[personal profile] penduli 2016-04-24 03:01 am (UTC)(link)
Oh, um.

[ ...he cares? ...that's unexpected. Black can't quite bring himself to look at Cherryblod despite the smile, though. ]

I'm... as fine as you'd expect me to be. [ He's shit, guys, but should he really be? It's not like he suddenly got told that someone he actually cared for was working for the bad guy all along, after all.

...he's a mess, and he's going to shrink back into his chair. How do you even talk to people you hurt? ]
Thank you for asking.
cherryblooded: (smile / sigh)

[personal profile] cherryblooded 2016-04-24 03:02 am (UTC)(link)
Any time.

[How do you talk to people who betrayed you? And more importantly, hurt your child?]

Sigrun will take good care of you, I'm sure, so you at least don't have to worry about that much.
penduli: (66 you just have to want it badly)

[personal profile] penduli 2016-04-24 03:09 am (UTC)(link)
[ He hums in agreement, knuckles white. He... no, he doesn't have any right to ask, even if he is worried. ]

I know. I'll kind of miss my room, but— [ HIS ROOM oh, he needs his pictures from...

... ]
I'll just... move some stuff in there, I guess. It'll be okay.
cherryblooded: (smile / oh yes)

[personal profile] cherryblooded 2016-04-24 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
I'm sure she won't mind letting you pick up whatever you need from there.

[He knows what Black really wants to ask, though, so he might as well bring it up himself.]

...Yosuke's going to be okay. He said he'd talk to you later.
penduli: (72 gotta find a new attitude)

[personal profile] penduli 2016-04-24 03:16 am (UTC)(link)
[ Well, that brings home the most panicked expression—rivaling the one he was sporting earlier before the whole mole reveal. ]

He—no, I can't talk to him, I don't even know what I'd say! [ ...or how he'd react, or...

he can't do this. He could probably avoid the fuck out of Yosuke though. ]
cherryblooded: (dark / you piece of shit)

[personal profile] cherryblooded 2016-04-24 03:19 am (UTC)(link)
[And that finally gets a darker expression out of Cherryblod, and his smile goes a little lopsided.]

If Yosuke wants to talk then you are going to talk.
captainobnoxious: (39 fiiine)

[personal profile] captainobnoxious 2016-04-24 03:20 am (UTC)(link)
Cherryblod, back it up.
cherryblooded: (dark / not smiling)

[personal profile] cherryblooded 2016-04-24 03:21 am (UTC)(link)
[Mrrrpgh.]

He hurt my child, Sigrun. I'm not asking him to do anything that's physically dangerous.
captainobnoxious: (67 well shit)

[personal profile] captainobnoxious 2016-04-24 03:24 am (UTC)(link)
I understand that, and I know they've gotta talk, but Black's scared.

[Sorry for outing the obvious, Black.]

Don't push him. Yosuke went with the intent to kill at him, I felt that, and wouldn't you fear being hated by someone you loved? Think about it from Black's angle.
penduli: (47 like you said “it's just a game”)

[personal profile] penduli 2016-04-24 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
[ IT'S NOT LOVE IT'S A CRUSH, OH MY GOD ]
cherryblooded: (dark / unsure)

[personal profile] cherryblooded 2016-04-24 03:27 am (UTC)(link)
...I know that.

[He's not happy about this, but he'll settle back down.]

You'll be there. He'll be fine. They'll have to talk eventually and Yosuke's calmed down.

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