Daisukenojo "Beat" Bito (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
skaterbrain) wrote2012-09-13 02:42 pm
skaterbrain) wrote2012-09-13 02:42 pm
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So it's kinda coo'. Been hearin' people comin' back an' all. Phones got his butt back in Luceti so now I get ta' punch him wheneva' I want.
But uh.........
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Been lotsa people goin' home, too. Guess that's coo' too, but...... Well.... I've been thinkin' yanno?
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....What do people do when they get forgot? I-I mean, peeps from Luceti don't remember this place, right? ....So what'dya do then? When you get forgot?
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...Nngh, naw, forget it. This is dumb. This is why I ain't suppose to think.
[he flips the book against the bed and flops onto it with a heavy sigh]
But uh.........
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Been lotsa people goin' home, too. Guess that's coo' too, but...... Well.... I've been thinkin' yanno?
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....What do people do when they get forgot? I-I mean, peeps from Luceti don't remember this place, right? ....So what'dya do then? When you get forgot?
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...Nngh, naw, forget it. This is dumb. This is why I ain't suppose to think.
[he flips the book against the bed and flops onto it with a heavy sigh]
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...um...I've known. For years now...I found out when we got back to the RG.
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He guesses it wasn't THAT big of a secret, but still, whoa. She's known this whole time. Does that mean she knows how they died? What--
No, better not think about that. He rubs the back of his neck with one hand, looking away.]
.......So she's the only one that don't know.
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...has she even given any signs that she might recognize you?
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[He sighs and shakes his head, looking at the soda again.]
Jus' her partner, yo. S'all I'll be s'long as we here. Can't even help her 'cause I dunno how it all works.
[He squeezes the bottle so hard it creaks.]
An' that Prissy Kid ain't gonna be no help neither.
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Yeah, that kid. I ain't callin' him by name. He pisses me off too much.
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[He would gesture to all of him and Rhyme, wherever she was at the moment, but yeah. Three weeks in the Game, becoming a Reaper, that whole whatever the hell it was that happened to Neku - Beat is pissed about it all.]
Look, I get that we get a second chance 'cause of his game and that's cool n' all, but me n' her both be dead right now if it weren't for Coffee Man, aight? I don't think I owe that prissy kid nothin'.
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I know. I know! But I can't think of a way to help her! Jus' tellin' her would be like droppin' a bomb on her, yanno? S'why I didn't do it in the game neither. Jus' ain't fair tellin' her stuff like that.
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[talking to her about it. about them.
...about everything that will happen.
Beat lowers his hands and breathes out slowly.]
...Maybe tellin' her that I'm her brother ain't so bad, but what about the rest?
...She don't even know that-- ...that it's my fault she gets Erased. That she ain't never gonna be the same again.
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[They...win? They win and everyone comes back? ...Even Rhyme?
For a moment, he feels hope and he looks at Shiki, almost unable to comprehend what she's just told him. Then it sinks in and he pulls his hat over his eyes.]
....What 'bout her fee?
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She gets it back.
She's going to be okay.
Beat puts his face in his hands and just tries to let that sink in. Months of worrying, fretting, wanting to beat Joshua into a pulp until he relented and gave Rhyme everything back. Months of guilt and hating himself because of what he did to her.
She'd be okay.
She'd be right again.
He presses the heels of his hands against his eyes, forcing back any display of emotion he can, the knit of his hat rubbing against his eyelids.
God. She was going to be okay.]
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Ch'yeah, I'm aight.
[He lets out a heavy sigh and then looks up at Shiki, smiling at her.]
Jus'-- you jus' kinda blew my mind, yeah? Nice, though. Ain't no bad thing.
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