i feel the love, and i feel it burn, down this river every turn

[oyashiromama]

[The trial, as usual, was taxing. It's for different reasons every week, but what it all comes down to is there are fewer of them than there were, and that keeps on happening. The note comes, as it always does, earlier than last week, but still with some delay. There's a note slipped under everyone's door. ...One under Gold's door because of course Silver will be staying there, she knows.]

Please come to the dining room, if you would like not to be alone. There will be food, and there will be some cards and board games if you need a distraction.

- Hanyuu & Elda

[True to that, there are a variety of foods. It's nothing too fancy. Rice, grilled fish, eggs in various styles. ...No creampuffs this time, it seems Hanyuu thought that would be a little in poor taste. Also a bunch of fries? ...Really spicy fries, like incredibly so.

On a far table, board games brought from the games room have been left out, along with many decks of cards.]

Comments

[matchbreaker]

Don't push your luck, your name isn't even artful enough for me to think you're a rakugo performer, let alone noble enough for me to call you -sama.

[ This is getting a little convoluted ]

[foundfate]

My name is functional, not artful.

[He's referring to his last name there, he doesn't remember that his first name is actually part of his job description yet.]

Why are you here anyway? Come to do some writing?

[matchbreaker]

[ Snort. ]

Without the dwarf around, no one's going to write a story for these three. It'd look silly to have them be naked after everyone else got one.

[ That's why she's here. ]

[foundfate]

Good, then we agree.

[Bonding over writing stories about dead people, this is exactly how he thought he would spend his evening.]

Do you want to each take one, or should we work together on all three?

[matchbreaker]

I can't say I really have a preference... though I also didn't know Viktor or Killia from Adam. [ A beat ] Or Bael, I guess, in the case of the later.

[ SHE MADE A FUNNY ]

[foundfate]

[That funny might have worked better if Watanuki was more familiar with Christian mythology. As it is, he looks confused for a moment, before deciding that it's just an Elda Thing and giving up on trying to understand it.]

So you knew Varric the best, then? I guess that makes sense, I did see you guys talking a lot. He, er...he left letters, there's probably one for you too.

[matchbreaker]

[ For her...? Her eyes widen a little at that, but he hangs her head. It's not like with Kimbley, she feels no real guilt for her actions. Rather, it's simply a sense of... disappointment. He really had been charming. Perhaps in time, they could have gotten along more.

You never knew. ]

... You had a promise with the man, so you knew him better. Which means dividing it up makes no sense, we're better off doing it together.

[foundfate]

...ah.

[So she doesn't want to talk about it. Okay then.]

Alright. I don't think I'm going to include his promise in it though. It was personal to him.

[matchbreaker]

Not like anyone would know if you did or didn't.

So who're we starting on?

[foundfate]

Let's start with Viktor. He gets a huge, sappy, romantic wedding.

[matchbreaker]

Ah, right, with his boy, right? Do you know the gent's name? I mean, we can write around it... that'd probably be more in the style of the others, actually.

[ Elda hums, tapping her pen on her paper a few times, crouching down into a frog-like position here in the foyer. ]

[foundfate]

Yuuri. I don't know his last name, but we can just say he took Viktor's name.

[matchbreaker]

Oh, Japanese?

[ Interesting, she never would have guessed.

Oh well, Elda hums, ]

Okay, so a big, sappy wedding with his boy Yuuri. Probably including some pictures... ah, and he's famous, but fans wouldn't be there, but they might read about it in the papers, right?

[foundfate]

Oh yeah, it would have made headlines everywhere. A small wedding with friends and family, but plastered on every newspaper.

[matchbreaker]

[ okay so it would start something like... ]

It was all above in every paper around the world. A minor footnote in the events of all humankind, but a great, world-shaking event for the fans of the man. Viktor Nikiforov had gotten married over the weekend! There were no reporters at the ceremony, for the affair was private, limited only to friends and family, but the one shot captured towards the end of the day saw the celebrity smiling, hand in hand with his beloved groom.

[ She's not 100%, but that's an okay start. ]

[foundfate]

[Definitely an okay start, and Watanuki will take up the pen next, to add another paragraph.]

The world was focused on all the little details- who was this man? How had he won Viktor's heart? What would happen to the star now? But Viktor, he only cared about one thing: the life he was about to build with the one he loved the most. Not everyone got their 'happily ever after', but he felt like he was one of the lucky ones.

...

too cheesy?

[matchbreaker]

Probably, but that man was ridiculous.

[ Elda hums. This needs one extra bit to go over the hump.

And so: ]

For the new Nikiforov couple, everything except that happily ever after was immaterial, at least for that moment. The two laughed, kissed, and planned how they would go about their honeymoon, the world purely theirs.

[foundfate]

[yeah, fair point. It needs to be over the top for him.}

I think that sounds like a great ending.

[matchbreaker]

[ Elda nods, looking at the paper before her. She... smiles, just a little bit. And she shakes her head ]

I wouldn't mind seeing what that Yuuri boy of his looked like. Viktor wasn't my type, but he was handsome.

[foundfate]

Oh, he did a drawing once. I bet if we found it, you could see. He, er, he had black hair that was kinda messy, and he wore glasses.

[matchbreaker]

[ . . .

Looks at Watanuki.

... Looks up and down.


Shakes head ]

[foundfate]

...okay look, I know exactly what you're thinking, and I told him the same thing too.

[matchbreaker]

[ Wordlessly pats him on the back...

As long as you know... ]

[foundfate]

[Oh believe him, he knows. That's actually a huge part of why he's been reluctant to do anything about his feelings for Orihime.]

ANYWAY we have one left don't we?

[matchbreaker]

[ One? ]

Did you do Killia's already?