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Who: Alisaie Leveilleur ([personal profile] adelphoi) & you nerds
What: October general shenans
When: All month
Where: Everywhere potentially but probably just at her house mostly
Warning(s): Sick.. stuff?? idk probably nothing but will update if necessary.



PART 1;

a; aftermath
[ alisaie is not present in the marketplace when the attack occurs, but the resounding boom cannot be missed, even from her home flat. it's a hectic hour or so while she rushes to figure out what has happened, and when riza returns home sick she feels a heavy misgiving sink deep into her stomach. disease is not an enemy she can fight with her rapier, it's something insidious, something sneaky and unpredictable - gods help them find a remedy soon.

immediately, she's dashing right to work. with riza ill they'll need supplies - healthy foods, spare blankets, medicinal herbs, ice, a great deal of ice. once she's set with her list she's off to the institute and markets to gather what useful things she can, stuffing them into a canvas shoulder bag, but you can certainly bet that she'll stop to assist in any way she can, whether it's righting an overturned cart or leading those who were injured in the panic to the sanctuary.

of course, it's not long before she's feeling rather warm and dizzy herself and, of course, chalking it up to the rush and mayhem. maybe she'll just.. sit down a moment. ]

b; sickbed;
[ alisaie is an awful patient.

keeping her in bed is no easy task, and there's an itch under her skin that urges her to move, to work - there's so much she could be doing, ways she could be helping. this disease is a godsdamned prison.

she's responsible enough to at least not mingle with the public, lest she spread this horrible mystery illness further, but she cannot remain strictly indoors in bed for so long, not without losing her mind. so when she can, when the weather is tepid, alisaie sits on the second floor deck of her flat, wrapped up in a blanket, usually with a book (or stack of books), enjoying the fresh air on her too-hot face. ]

c; reaching out
[ what else can you do when you're more or less bedbound? catch up on the internet, of course. mostly, alisaie keeps an eye on the network for any updates, and takes the time to reach out to those she knows, to doublecheck that they're safe. if you've met her even once or twice, chances are she will toss a line out and test the waters. incoming message from RedMage: ]

This is Alisaie; how are you faring?


PART 2;

a; wandering
[ it's late evening the first time she sees him.

though first she hears him, the familiar voice of her grandfather calling her out of her dreams, warm and welcoming. she wakes in her bed, slick with fever sweat and surrounded by silence - mayhaps she had misheard it? it must have been a dream, her head is spinning. but then it comes again, distinct and clear; it has been years since she last heard his voice but it is not a sound that she would ever forget. ]


Grandfather..?

[ dizzy and disoriented, she climbs out of bed and stumbles toward the open window, squinting into the slanting light of sunset just in time to see the shape of him, louisoix leveilleur's all too familiar form disappearing around the corner. immediately her heart kicks up into her throat and alisaie gasps and turns, stumbling back through her bedroom and out of the house, down the stairs and onto the street barefoot, in her nightdress, to follow a ghost. ]

No, please wait.. don't leave me again..

[ how long she wanders in this delirium she cannot say, but her feet are sore and scratched and muddy, her hair down and wild from sleep and the tugging winds. she may run right into you, or trip over a flagstone, but short of forceful intervention nothing will keep her from her goal. ]


b; friendly fire
[ for those of you unlucky enough to visit her (or stop by her home for some other purpose) while the symptoms continue to worsen, you will find that her delirium has not abated. between bouts of lucidity and sleep she tries still to wander, to follow the voices and phantoms of her family and friends to whatever oblivion they might call her to, but it is not only friends she sees. sometimes it is enemies or horrible, twisted monsters. it's hardly a problem if she wanders outside, weaponless, but any creak of sound within her home would easily alert her.

blinking blearily, alisaie tumbles out of bed at the noise, her heart thudding and her mind cloudy, and she does not think twice before taking up her rapier and focus which lie across a chair in her room and stumbling into the dimly lit common area. her voice is rough from coughing. ]


Who.. who goes there?


[ catchall for october! alisaie will spent much of it being sick, apparently, so feel free to crash her place and visit.. make sure she stays in bed. get her texts or send her one, or meet up in the market!! if none of these prompts work for you i'm more than happy to work something out and write up a starter. ♥ plotting comment is here, or i can be reached on plurk for planning. i'm game! ]
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[personal profile] punshots 2017-10-13 06:16 am (UTC)(link)
[ His expression tenses, knee bouncing as he worries at his bottom lip. It's - inexcusable. No matter who was right or who was wrong in this, that didn't make what they did okay. That didn't make all this senseless, needless suffering justifiable. Was this only the beginning, a sign of more radical attempts in the future? How long would it be until someone died?

Why is this always how it goes?

It kindles a fire in him, too, one that has scarcely been fanned since Eos had become no more. He's spent more than enough blaming himself for this, for not catching them before the bomb went off, but he's slowly coming to realize that if he'd really been a threat to their plan, they would've taken him out. More than likely, there was nothing they could have done to stop this.

So all they could do now was try to fix it. ]


We'll make this right. They have to see...that the only way anyone on either side can get better is by us all working together. They have to see that, right?

[ And yet, why does that seem like such an impossible thing? ]
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[personal profile] punshots 2017-10-14 04:59 am (UTC)(link)
[ Maybe he's naive. Qrow had made him question as much, too, because how could they really trust the word of the Shady Man? But...if they can't trust that, what else do they have to cling to? They're so powerless in all of this, it feels like. And he'd rather choose hope. ]

They won't get away with this. On the bright side...it seems like almost everyone who's not sick has been trying to help out in one way or another.

[ So even if he can't quite put his trust in the government they're now subject to, he can put his trust in his fellow refugees. None of them asked to be a part of this war.

War...they just can't get away from it, can they?

When she pulls up the drain, he stands to grab a towel off the rack for her, ready to warm her up as soon as she leaves the comfort of the bath. ]


I'm...I'm sure they will. I mean...this hasn't been a bad place to live.

[ He doesn't sound as certain about that as he wants to, though. ]
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[personal profile] punshots 2017-10-14 05:53 am (UTC)(link)
[ He wraps her snugly in the towel before his arm finds its place around her shoulder again, holding her close. She may have learned to live with that constant chill, but that won't stop him from offering what comfort he can. ]

...Nah. A lot of that's on our fellow refugees-in-arms, huh?

[ They all came from such different worlds, and yet that single unifying theme tied them together. The relationships that he's made here...

Well. Suffice it to say that without them and bereft of his friends, Prompto would be in a very, very different place right now. But he's not in that place - it's a darkness he's able to avoid because for once, he's letting other people hold him up instead of the other way around. ]


I guess we've done pretty okay for ourselves.

[ To say the least, and he squeezes her shoulder. ]
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[personal profile] punshots 2017-10-14 06:39 am (UTC)(link)
[ The pajama and cold medicine business in Olympia must be booming right now. He follows close behind her as they return to her room, and to his credit, his blushing is minimal as she drops her towel, though his eyes certainly linger as he moves to the closet to retrieve the first aid kit.

...So he bumps unceremoniously into the corner of her desk. Ow...

Okay, he's going to pretend like that didn't just happen, and he turns his attention to the closet fully, picking the first aid kit off the shelf before returning to the bed. ]


Aaaalright, let's get you all patched up.
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[personal profile] punshots 2017-10-14 07:14 am (UTC)(link)
Ah...kinda. [ REASSURING. But he's opening the kit anyway. It's pretty rudimentary by the standards of what you'd find on Eos, and all non-magical, but seeing as they don't have any potions or anything, this would have to do.

He picks out the bottle of antiseptic and a handful of cotton balls first before he waves a hand for her to rest her feet in his lap. ]


Even with magic, you can't get by out in the middle of nowhere without picking up a thing or two about first aid. [ Sort of how he'd (unwillingly) picked up his survival skills that had so come in handy back during the Descent. Funny how these things keep coming up.

He dabs a bit of the antiseptic onto the cotton, preemptively wincing in sympathy. ]


I probably don't need to tell you "this is gonna sting", do I.
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[personal profile] punshots 2017-10-15 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
- Heh. Got it. I'll shoot for slightly-better-than-worst.

[ Once again, reassuring! But for his own exhaustion, uncertain in his own ability to do this properly or to cause her pain in any way, there's nothing uncertain in his hands as he gingerly rests one on her ankle, thumb running gently over the top of her foot, the other gently swabbing at her cuts and bruises. They're the hands of a photographer, a sharpshooter, honed to stay steady even when outside forces would have him tremble.

It's a somber task, that it even has to happen in the first place, but...it's soothing, too, to be the one to help ease her hurts, to bring her some relief in the long run. That same satisfaction is what has kept him going these last two weeks. That for all he couldn't change this situation, and what happened to her, he could still help her, even if it's only in small ways. ]


Don't mention it. [ But he's smiling now, like a ray of sunshine breaking through the clouds. ] I'm...I'm happy to help. Every time.

[ That's putting it lightly, even as he stresses those last two words. He won't let her think she's being a burden on him, or that she asks too much. It's never too much. Not for her.

He switches to her other foot now, swapping out for a fresh cotton ball. ]
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[personal profile] punshots 2017-10-15 05:41 am (UTC)(link)
[ A huffed, disbelieving laugh escapes him as he continues to dab at her scrapes, at the idea that she could ever lean on him too much. It was so much the opposite, but he knows she won't want to hear that - and he doesn't want to say it, either. That's what a relationship is, isn't it? It's a give and take. It's a balancing act of two sides, two parts of a whole. They'd both have their moments, where they'd need to ask for more than they could give, and the other would be happy to give it. They've already done it countless times already.

As he finishes cleaning her wounds, he smooths his hand along her calf, from the ankle to her knee and back again. ]


I'm - [ hah ] - working on believing that. [ That he's an incredible person, but he'd never belittle her gratitude, and the fact that he can even say he's working on esteeming himself with more than self-doubt and insecurity is a feat in and of itself. But he's trying. In the face of everything he can't do right now, he's trying.

He starts with the bandages then, to carefully wrap her pains away. ]


So...you're welcome.
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[personal profile] punshots 2017-10-15 06:22 am (UTC)(link)
[ He matches her smile with one of his own, worn and weary but so genuine that it lingers through the rest of his treatment, and he secures the bandages firmly yet gently around her feet. ]

How does that feel? How'd you score me on a scale from zero to ten?

[ Not that he's going to pursue a career as foot doctor or anything, but if the bandages aren't comfortable, he can still adjust them. ]
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[personal profile] punshots 2017-10-15 06:50 am (UTC)(link)
Ha! [ Look at that! An earnest laugh as he reaches out to dust his fingers over her knee playfully. ] I'll take it. Put it on the books! 8.75...

[ Whatever "books" he's talking about. But as his chuckle shakes out, he can't help but reflect on how...almost normal this feels. If he could forget how ill she is, how her skin still radiates heat like its trying to imitate the sun, how he'd had to bandage her feet because her fever had driven her out into the streets in pursuit of a phantom, it almost feels normal.

They'll have that again. That normalcy, when they can just be together without having to worry about illness or bombs or political squabbles that they had somehow ended up in the crossfire of. When they could hold each other close and kiss, and whisper how they loved each other without aching in their hearts. Gods, someday soon, he hopes, but until then...

Until then.

After a long moment of silence, his hand still resting on her knee, he looks up into her face again. ]


Alisaie, can I...give you something? I-I mean it's - like, super sappy, so if it's not your thing I totally, one-hundred-percent get it, but I...

[ Well. Even if it makes her laugh, that's still something, right? But this is uncharted territory. He's been bringing her food and books and watching out for her needs, but he's never really...given her a gift like this before. ]
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[personal profile] punshots 2017-10-15 04:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[ She presses her finger to his lips, and it's a good thing, or he might've gone on in that fashion for awhile yet. You'd think by now, with everything that's happened between them, he wouldn't be nervous about something so simple, and yet here he is, charting unfamiliar waters once again. If nothing else, at least she can tease him for how hopelessly sentimental he is, and that wouldn't be so bad. It'd still get her to smile, one way or the other.

So after a moment, a smile that's somehow fond and nervous and exhausted all at once settling onto his face, he reaches into his pocket with one hand and takes her hers in his with the other. ]


We've had some...pretty incredible times together, haven't we? I mean - that barely even covers it. Since I met you, you always make me so happy, and when we started dating, you made me happy in a way I...never thought I would be.

[ Bear with him. He's leading up to something. He pulls his hand out of his pocket and presses something small and cool to the touch into the palm of her hand. He doesn't pull his hand away just yet, so she can't see what it is. ]

I can't even imagine how hard these last couple of weeks have been for you. [ And since he's being so painfully candid, he lets his voice waver, because gods, it's been hard, so hard, to watch her suffer. ] First it's attacking your body, and now, it's getting into your head, and...it sucks. It really, really, sucks.

[ His hands, still both holding hers, squeeze gently, and he can't keep a tear from rolling down his cheek. ]

So...I wanted to give you something that c-could help you...remember the good ol' days, when it's not so easy to do on your own. In case you need to...you know. Jog the memory.

[ And finally, he pulls his hand back so she'll be able to see what he's set in her palm. It's a locket, simple, brushed silver in the shape of a heart, because of course he couldn't resist something so sweetly cliche as that. Should she open it, she'll find a picture of the two of them, smiling and unfettered and happy in such a pure, unfiltered way. Maybe sometime soon, they'll be able to smile again like that, but until then...

She'll have this to look upon. ]


I know it's not...all that, but I thought...it might help a little.
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[personal profile] punshots 2017-10-15 09:33 pm (UTC)(link)
[ He's watchful as he gauges her reaction, ready for her to let him down easy if it's not really her sort of thing, and it'd be fine if it's not. Not everyone's into gifts, and while Prompto was always so eager to shower her in affection in whatever form possible, he doesn't want to smother her or make her uncomfortable, no matter how much he might adore her.

He's waiting for the finale verdict, but it doesn't come with words - as it often does with her, it comes in action. It comes in her form drawing close to him and curling against him, in her arms around his shoulders as his come up around her back. It's clear, then, what her verdict is before she even utters a word, and for all his apprehension in giving her the locket, he shouldn't be surprised that she likes it. He'll get over that someday, that he can do things right in this relationship without messing up the first attempt, and her warmth floods his every corner in rolling, enveloping ways.

Shutting his weary eyes, he nestles against the crook of her neck and just holds her. What he wouldn't give to kiss her, but for now, to hold her, just to hold her and to know that she loves him is enough. ]
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[personal profile] punshots 2017-10-16 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
[ It's hard to let her go, but the warmth of her kiss and the sight of her fitting the locket around her neck has his heart soaring in a single moment. It's still sappy, and he knows it, but it also feels right. All of this does, and it's only that rightness that has allowed him to come so far, to get so close to her, to give her his heart in a metaphorical and a literal way. And now, if she has trouble remembering...she'll have something to look upon to help her look backwards and forwards.

He leans close to nuzzle his nose against her cheek, before drawing back again to meet her eyes with a slanted grin. ]


Now then, I don't know about you, buuuuut I'm due for some beauty sleep before our big day tomorrow.

[ And by "beauty sleep" he means sleeping like the actual dead, but that doesn't sound as nice. He still has his arms around her, so it's easy to adjust them and lift her back onto the bed. ]

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