[closed (for now!)] of doppels and drama

[excaliburden]

WHO: Altria (excaliburden) & Wanderer (featheradrift) & various others as the prompts demand!
WHAT: First, you wake up in a hotel room with your new bae. It all goes downhill from there
WHERE: District 5 hotel
WHEN: February 19 onward, during the Feb event
WARNINGS: cws: violence, character death

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beginning.

[excaliburden]

[Altria wakes up to warmth and coziness, which is the norm nowadays. It feels odd still for it to be more normal now, but she's certainly not complaining; she enjoys being able to wake up lazily, in comfort and contentedness.

It's certainly something she's never gotten to do at home.

She stretches lazily, yawning widely, and... bonks her hand against the person next to her in bed.

...?

The person?

...???

She sits bolt upright then, hair a mess and eyes wide, and--]

Y-Y-Yuu?!

[If her brain were working, she'd realize pretty promptly this must be another thing caused by the City itself. It's not on yet, though. All she knows is she's in bed with Yuu not too long after they finally properly talked about their feelings, and her heart rate is through the roof.]

[featheradrift]

[ If there's one small comfort to all this, it's that whenever he's been forcibly placed in a different location by the city unconscious, he does not find himself waking with tears trailing down his cheeks. Putting that aside though, Altria's touch and subsequent yell wake him in an instant. His eyes snap open and he jumps up into a crouched defensive stance in a flurry of blanket, which wind up getting thrown onto the poor girl next to him. Oops. ]

[excaliburden]

[Oh.

Well.

Altria is disappearing beneath a pile of blanket with a squawk.]

[featheradrift]

[ A quick assessment of the situation brings him these findings: first, they must be in that hotel right now, the one that had been impenetrable. Two, they're in no immediate danger. Three, that squawk and squirming pile of blankets was—

Ah. Somehow, the fact that they ended up together is more unsettling than it is reassuring or heartwarming, but he ignores that in favour of pulling the blankets back to free Altria from her cloth cocoon.

Her hair is a mess. His lips quirk up in amusement. ]

You should see yourself in a mirror.

[excaliburden]

[... Huh?

She blinks up at him owlishly for a moment.

And then she plops her hands on top of her head as if that could somehow help hide her oodles of hair (it does nothing, of course), and sticks her tongue out at him.]

I-it's not my fault! Usually I can brush my hair before I see youuuuu!

[featheradrift]

[ He chuckles and reaches over to help sort out her hair a little. At the same time, he notes that both of them have been put into pajamas. This damn city changing their clothes again. But—he needs to stop thinking Altria is adorable in anything, he's getting way too sappy. ]

It's alright. It only makes you look like an adorable lion.

[ He runs his fingers through her hair one more time before turning away to get up from the bed. Now isn't the time to be mushy, as much as he wants to be. ]

We should be alert. This must be another one of the city's damn experiments again.

[excaliburden]

[An... adorable lion? Oh... oh she kind of--likes that description.

--And she also likes his fingers in her hair, though he pulls back before she can embarrass herself more by leaning into his touch too much.

Instead, he's back to business, and she blinks a little, getting out of bed as well and trying as best she can to tame her hair back into pigtails. She can make hair ties out of bits of the bedding, it's fine; property damage seems to still not register with her at all.]

Oh... right. Like that exhibit.

... At least we're together! That makes it a lot better, I think. We can watch each other's backs!

Closed to Yi Sang

[featheradrift]

[ He's managed to shake off the Balladeer for a moment, somehow. The hotel's hallways are straightforward and uncomplicated, making it nigh impossible to throw himself off. If there was one thing he (and consequently, his murderous doppelganger) is good at, it's a prolonged pursuit.

Thankfully, the maintenance tunnels under the hotel are far more labyrinthine, and it's here that he throws the doppelganger off. But the maintenance tunnels don't have anything to staunch the flow of blood coming from his injured arm, meaning he has to risk a return back to the hotel rooms above to retrieve a towel or something else to stop him from dripping everywhere and leaving a trail for the doppelganger to follow.

It's in this state that Yi Sang finds the Wanderer, using the long sleeve of his outfit to keep himself from dripping blood, and making his way to one of the floor's supply closet. ]

[reflexio]

[ There's been the unsettling tap, tap, tapping throughout the halls. Yi Sang knows it's unsafe to wander about alone, but staying in one spot and allowing the noise to venture closer seems just as hazardous.

The stench of blood permeates the air. Perhaps most people would try to avoid the source of the smell. It's a warning that something dangerous is nearby, something capable of drawing that much blood. Yi Sang, on the other hand, moves towards it.

As he'd suspected there's someone injured near the supply closet. He recognizes that silhouette. It makes him move at a brisker pace until he's made it to the Wanderer's side. ]

Stay still. You are losing a great amount of blood.

[ His fingers deftly undo his tie, sliding it off to make a temporary tourniquet. ]

[featheradrift]

[ He hears Yi Sang's approach well in advance, vigilant as he is for any signs of his doppelganger catching up with him. It makes him tense at first, hearing another's approach, but he quickly realizes it's not who he feared it to be and relaxed only slightly until the man appears in his vision.

He turns away from Yi Sang deliberately—a show of trust, but also to hide the injured arm, as if Yi Sang hasn't already seen it. ]

It's not a big deal.

[ He's not human, so he won't lose consciousness because of this. But losing too much of his blood will affect his movement. ]