13TH ♫ | do or die, you'll never make me

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A POST-MURDERGAME CELEBRATORY CALL ME OUT POST

Honoka Kousaka | Love Live!: School Idol Project recolle cosmographia	Dia Kurosawa | Love Live! Sunshine!! ryslig
Yoshiko Tsushima | Love Live! Sunshine!	Maki Nishikino | Love Live!: School Idol Project
Rin | Shelter	Yuuri Wakasa | School-Live! theairlock
Karin Miyoshi | Yuki Yuna is a Hero	Miku Hatsune | Vocaloid (World is Mine)
μ | The Caligula Effect	Alalia Ridgely | Intone (Original)
Hazel Summerhelm | Intone (Original)	Caelina Gwynlaw | Intone (Original)

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[serrata]

[ She very nearly tells him not to bother. The shovel can't be that heavy to heft around, she's sure she'll manage. Some sort of fib like that. But he cuts her off before she can do more than open her mouth and Yuuri falls briefly into a troubled silence. Again, that niggling worry -- they don't know how injured he is. She doesn't think he'd be walking around if he was really that badly hurt. But there's a voice of doom concocting all sorts of nightmare scenarios in her head like maybe his ribs are fractured, maybe one's broken, maybe he's fine now but if they push too hard it could puncture a lung and they wouldn't be able to do a thing and--

(and maybe he'll be just find with some painkillers and some rest shut up shut up shut UP)

Worrying herself sick helps neither of them. He looks so woozy and shaken still, but who is Yuuri to act as if she knows Prompto's limits better than Prompto himself? She's going to have to take his lead.

Her smile's still there but it's strained and her concern is clear in her eyes. ]

... right. As slow as you need. And the instant you feel like you need to stop, just tell me and we'll take a breather. Don't push yourself too hard.

[ With Shovel-kun safely in her hands, Yuuri leans out and peers down the corridor. She doesn't expect anyone else to be down here but it's still a welcome sight to see the coast is clear. She glances back at Prompto then inclines her head in the direction she'd come hurrying to find him. ]

It won't be too far, I'm sure. And with any luck, we'll find some supplies and then you'll be too hopped up on painkillers to mind the rest of the walk.

[ It's a weak joke. But it's a joke, at least. Maybe if she can try and inject some normalcy into this, she'll stop feeling like everything is still going to go awfully, dreadfully wrong again. ]

[photoshooter]

[The fact that Prompto laughs has nothing to do with the joke's objective hilarity. It's relief and gratitude and fondness, and maybe a little bit of kindness, too. If Prompto Argentum won't laugh at your bad jokes, who will? No one, that's who. He's everyone's favorite sidekick for a reason.

The fact that laughing's a mistake, pain-wise, also has no impact on his doing it. It's wheezy, it's brief, and it still very much happens. Prompto keeps his hand on the wall and limps gamely in the direction Yuuri's indicated.]

Oh man, I can't wait. Painkillers.

[Just one foot in front of the other. Just do that a bunch of times, and he's home free, he and Yuuri and everyone else. Just keep walking and keep breathing, and don't drop her sweater on the floor, that's not cool.]

You know I've never had anything stronger than, like, Tylenol? This is gonna be a trip. ...Ahah, literally. [A beat.] Because drugs.

[But oh, does he ever want something to kill the pain. He almost doesn't care what it is, even if it'll knock him out again, even if he'll lose more time. Rii's got him, and he'll be with Noct and the guys again soon, and he's not a zombie, and things are going to be okay. They will. She said so, she said he'll be all right.

This... is pretty painful, Prompto's kind of an idiot for saying he could do it. Oh well, he's committed now.]

Wonder if they've still got the good stuff stocked. Haha...

[serrata]

[ He's practically dragging himself along. For the second time, just for a blip, she finds herself wondering if it was a mistake that it's not Noctis here, walking with him. But again comes that thought that both of them need this buffer that Yuuri's providing. Maybe it'd hurt Noctis more to see Prompto at his worst and maybe it would hurt Prompto to be seen like that by his best friend.

So the least she can do is make sure this boy is doped up on the good stuff before she makes him face everyone again. That's what a friend would do. Obviously. ]

I hope they do. Whatever they have, we're taking armfuls of it at least. It's not like there's anyone to stop us from stripping this place bare of everything we can fit in the car.

[ It's a bit of a novelty, the idea that they might end up with a surplus of supplies. ]

Do you think they'll have any vending machines for us to raid?

[photoshooter]

Vending machines. [He repeats it reverently, as a twenty-year-old metabolism machine might. Vending machines, or: manna from fucking heaven.] What I wouldn't give for. For a Snickers.

['You're not you when you're hungry' might as well be the motto of the zombie apocalypse. Prompto chuckles at the morbid joke, but has enough presence of mind to think maybe it's not the time to share it and presses on.]

Dunno if they'd still... have stuff in them, at this point, so many people here. ['So many.' It says something about life at the end of the world, when 'so many' means 'about twelve.'] But you know what they gotta have?

[He stops for a moment, leaning heavily against the wall, but he picks up his head with a breathless grin.]

Really. Big. Kitchen.

[Time to get their mamaheckin' RAID on.]

[serrata]

[ She tries not to make it too obvious that she's watching him, even though it's not like there could be anything else she has her eyes on right now. Even though Prompto's the one who's injured and she's perfectly fine, Yuuri still feels like she's the one following his lead and not the other way around. That's not right. But what else can she do?

She comes to a halt when he does, almost about to ask again if he's sure he can do this. But the sight of his smile reassures her, as weary and frayed at the edges as it seems and she feels her shoulders droop a little as some of the tension goes out of her. Prompto's just his usual self. So maybe she just needs to follow in turn. ]

Oh, can you just imagine what they're going to have in there? All kinds of cans and maybe some dehydrated food, too. I bet there's going to be more than we could carry. Do you think we'll get really lucky and find a bigger car to take with us, too?

[photoshooter]

Oh, oh man. Rii.

[It's a wheezy, unbalanced kind of laugh. Despite his unplanned nap, Prompto's had a long, long, long few hours.]

Let's take their tank.

[CHEW THROUGH THIS, ZOMBIE GOASTS!]

[serrata]

Their tank?

[ And... it's not funny. Not in the slightest, but the very idea of any of them piloting a tank suddenly seems hysterical. She has a vivid mental image of Kurumi and Gladiolus hanging out of the top of a tank, hard hats at odd angles on their heads and Kurumi joyfully declaring full steam ahead! and getting a salute in response and all she can do is give a helpless, breathless laugh behind her hands that she's pressed to her mouth. ]

I-- absolutely not! I don't trust a single one of you behind the wheel of a tank! Can you just imagine the sort of disaster it'd be?

[photoshooter]

[What? Come on, it's super funny, Yuuri. Laugh out loud for those whose ribs hurt too much for laughter!]

What if Iggy drives? Come on, Rii, live a little! Ha-hashtag yolo!

[It's so strange that ten minutes ago Prompto honestly thought he was going to die, and now his face hurts from grinning.]

[serrata]

Oh, well in that case -- maybe? But only so long as no one else even looks at the keys. And there's nothing to say we can't steal a few cars, is there? Maybe we'll set Ignis-san off ahead to scout things out and we'll follow along in the path he mows down for us.

[ Her voice is still wobbly and her eyes are a bit overbright but she's smiling, really smiling now. They're making stupid jokes and Prompto's walking and most importantly Prompto's alive and that's not going to change any time soon if Yuuri has anything to say about it.

Things are going to be just fine. Maybe if she keeps telling herself that, she'll eventually believe it. ]