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Sunny & Omori ([personal profile] sadpoem) wrote2020-02-08 08:28 pm

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headhooligan: (06C lies down)

[personal profile] headhooligan 2024-04-07 05:53 pm (UTC)(link)

Sunny…

[Her voice cracks on his name. There’s a muffled sound as she covers her mouth. Every message is its own little stab; of course he was never okay. What a sick, cruel, joke of a thought.]

How long…?

headhooligan: (09A i have no chill and i must scream)

[personal profile] headhooligan 2024-04-07 06:00 pm (UTC)(link)

It’s been like this since you got here?!

headhooligan: (09B having a normal one)

[personal profile] headhooligan 2024-04-07 06:20 pm (UTC)(link)

No. [Firm. It falls apart from there.]

Sunny, it’s… It’s been two months, it’s been four— Too long. God, it’s…

[She wipes her eyes, futile.] It’s not your fault. I’m sorry....

headhooligan: (09D can’t fix that)

[personal profile] headhooligan 2024-04-07 06:51 pm (UTC)(link)

[She misinterprets. Apology after apology rises in her throat; she chokes them all down. This isn’t about her…]

You didn’t have to be alone.... [But Aubrey’s not not at fault, is she? This guilt can’t be for nothing. Four long, lonesome years, and not once did she reach out; not in four years, not in two months, not until someone else’s distress hit her cold and dead.

[She’s so fucking stupid.]

You didn’t. And now you… [It takes some sputtering, but she forces it out.] You don’t have to be....

headhooligan: (08C unfortunate.)

[personal profile] headhooligan 2024-04-07 07:11 pm (UTC)(link)

[God, after all this?]

D… Do you want me over there? [Desperately soft.]

headhooligan: (06B tired.)

[personal profile] headhooligan 2024-04-07 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)

be right there

[She tears out like her life depends on it. Forget the phone, forget shoes, forget everything else. Aubrey nearly trips in her haste, but in within minutes she’s knocking at Sunny’s door. It’s far, far overdue.]

headhooligan: (06B stares forlornly)

[personal profile] headhooligan 2024-04-07 08:15 pm (UTC)(link)

[It takes substantial self-control not to throw her arms around him on sight, but Sunny was never quite a hugger (and really, neither was Aubrey); only with Mari. His sister.m

[Sunny’s arms are closed in upon himself, and Aubrey inadvertently mirrors. He looks smaller than he sounded; pale, undernourished, wiping his eyes. He was a hollow facsiile of himself at church, and she’s hardly seen him since—looked, yes, passed and disregarded, but never seen.

[Aubrey doesn’t know what to say. She shuffles in like an unwilling trespasser.]

H-hey… [The room gets a passing skim, but it’s Sunny she’s trying not to stare at. I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry, I’m sorry—]

You’ve, ah… [Aubrey forces a glance towards the stuffed animals. It wanders idly back to the floor as she talks.] You’ve made it cozy here…

headhooligan: (06B tired scribbling)

[personal profile] headhooligan 2024-04-07 11:22 pm (UTC)(link)

[No hesitation:] Yes.

Yeah. We– We are. If you still…

[If you don’t hate me, like you should. She swallows, hard.]

…want… that.

headhooligan: (08C unfortunate.)

[personal profile] headhooligan 2024-04-07 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)

[There’s a split second, his face tense in fury, that Aubrey is dead certain she’s fucked up forever. Too hasty. Too desperate. The gall of her, assuming they could be friends again after one conversation, two months, four years—

[Sunny falls. She can’t hear him; she knows exactly what he’s doing. The drop to her knees is immediate; the outreach, delayed for a choked breath—]

Sunny…

[—and without second thought she throws her arms around him. The heave of her chest is audible. Aubrey’s no good at holding back.]

headhooligan: (06C squeak toy noise)

[personal profile] headhooligan 2024-04-08 12:16 am (UTC)(link)

[God, but they are both a mess. Aubrey’s never heard Sunny cry this hard; it makes her own sobs worse. But she could stay like this forever if it meant never having to let go of Sunny again, keeping him curled into her, being together. Despite his flash of anger, the way Sunny gasps out her name leaves little to doubt, or so she desperately, desperately hopes.

We’re friends, Sunny… [Pitched high and strained, croaked out between gasps. She pulls him closer, closer, closer, fingers curling tight around him. Don’t break him again.]

We’re friends, and we never should’ve sto— I, I never should’ve turned my back on you. [There she goes again… But it’s necessary this time. It feels necessary. Sunny has never been to blame at all.] I can’t… do that again.

headhooligan: (06B tired scribbling)

[personal profile] headhooligan 2024-04-08 12:35 am (UTC)(link)

[“Sorry” for what? Grieving? Locking himself away? Staying in his house to rot when no one lifted a finger to check on him?]

[Don’t be, she wants to say. Like it’s ever that easy.
[Instead:]
It’s okay… [Like it ever is.]

headhooligan: (06C lies down)

[personal profile] headhooligan 2024-04-08 02:02 am (UTC)(link)

[Somehow, Aubrey’s crying slows before Sunny’s does. That’s okay with her; Sunny pulling away even briefly, just to wipe his tears, sends a panic through her chest. But he comes back. And she can focus better on keeping hold of him if her own vision isn’t blurred.

[It’s late, and she’s drained. They both are.

[Sunny has a couch now. And a pile of stuffed animals. He feels so… frail in her arms. She wonders…]

You’re tired, huh… [It comes out hoarse, almost idle, but Aubrey’s arms around Sunny are still tight. Less desperate, maybe. No less close.]

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