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route_10652014-08-07 08:32 pm
neededlassie) wrote in route_10652014-08-07 08:32 pm
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There's an endless road to rediscover
Who: Shaun Mars and Yusuke Urameshi
Where: Olivine
When: mid-July something or other - after they've been bumming around about a month
Summary: Discussion about where to go next turns into a feelings jam. [Potential spoilers for Heavy Rain]
Rating: Probably PG-13, maybe R if you think that child-murder warrants a rating increaseor if Yusuke exceeds the allotted amount of swears that's also entirely possible
Log:
By the time Yusuke got to Shaun, now slightly less drowned-rat-like after the rain let up enough for him to let his Charizard out to keep warm by, the younger boy had been so happy to have company that he was able to push all those anxious thoughts and fears to the back of his mind. When the random snow showers came, he and Yusuke spent all day playing in it, throwing snowballs at each other and using their teams to form ambushes. And the fun didn't stop just because they made it to Olivine. They annoyed the lighthouse staff and trained their teams and basically everything fun to do in Olivine.
Except go near the beaches.
It's been about a month and Shaun still doesn't go any closer to the sandy shore than the nearest building, and he's been taking his time challenging the gym (even though he knows he's not going to have a problem with it). There's an ice cream stand near the lighthouse that has really great value, and they have pokemon-friendly ice cream, too, and it being the middle of summer it's a pretty great treat every so often to just get some ice cream and cool down from training and goofing off all day.
"You know what my favorite thing about being here is? Besides all the people I met that I wouldn't have gotten to know back home. Not having to worry about going back to school."
Where: Olivine
When: mid-July something or other - after they've been bumming around about a month
Summary: Discussion about where to go next turns into a feelings jam. [Potential spoilers for Heavy Rain]
Rating: Probably PG-13, maybe R if you think that child-murder warrants a rating increase
Log:
By the time Yusuke got to Shaun, now slightly less drowned-rat-like after the rain let up enough for him to let his Charizard out to keep warm by, the younger boy had been so happy to have company that he was able to push all those anxious thoughts and fears to the back of his mind. When the random snow showers came, he and Yusuke spent all day playing in it, throwing snowballs at each other and using their teams to form ambushes. And the fun didn't stop just because they made it to Olivine. They annoyed the lighthouse staff and trained their teams and basically everything fun to do in Olivine.
Except go near the beaches.
It's been about a month and Shaun still doesn't go any closer to the sandy shore than the nearest building, and he's been taking his time challenging the gym (even though he knows he's not going to have a problem with it). There's an ice cream stand near the lighthouse that has really great value, and they have pokemon-friendly ice cream, too, and it being the middle of summer it's a pretty great treat every so often to just get some ice cream and cool down from training and goofing off all day.
"You know what my favorite thing about being here is? Besides all the people I met that I wouldn't have gotten to know back home. Not having to worry about going back to school."
WOOHOO HEAVY RAIN SPOILERS
Yeah.
Did you know him?
No.
"...He was dressed as a police officer," Shaun all but whispered under his breath, squeezing his eyes shut and pulling his feet up onto the bench to hug his knees. Did he tell you his name?
He said his name was Officer Shelby. He told me to call him Scotty.
Thank you, Shaun. We'll let you rest now.
"I don't know," Shaun admitted quietly. "I told them everything... But I don't know if they caught him." He squeezed his arms around his knees even tighter. "Mom always changed the channel when the news came on..."
no subject
Of course.
Of course he was dressed as a police officer. Yusuke didn't know the exact circumstances that had led up to Shaun meeting the guy who'd stuck him in the well, but it didn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that the guy probably pretended to be a cop so he could lure Shaun in without looking suspicious. Revulsion twisted in Yusuke's gut. And here he'd thought it wouldn't be possible for him to feel more disgusted than he already did.
"Son of a bitch," he snarled. He leaned forward and thrust what was left of his ice cream at Gin, gesturing for her to throw it in the trash. He'd lost his appetite.
As Gin trudged away to do as she was told to do (without arguing or putting up a fuss for once, because as much of a pain in the ass as she could be, she was smart and sensitive enough to know that now wasn't the time for that), Yusuke leaned his elbows on his knees and knitted his fingers together, hard enough to make the tendons in his forearms stand out. His mind was racing. He wanted to hit something. Everything made so much sense now, from Shaun's refusal to go to the beach with him to his reluctance to go outside when it rained, but to think that this had been the cause of it all--
It took a second for Yusuke to get a hold of himself enough to wrench his gaze away from his clenched hands and look at Shaun again. When he did, the sight hit him harder than a punch to the gut, and for a moment, Yusuke forgot all about how angry he was.
Shaun looked so small. Yusuke stared at him, feeling suddenly at a loss. He didn't know what to say to him. Didn't know if there was anything he could say. He wasn't gonna tell him he was sorry, because that was the most stupid and useless response in the book, but what else could he tell him? He wasn't good at using words to solve problems. He was used to solving them with his fists.
"Hey," he said after a moment, his voice soft. It wasn't exactly the most profound thing he's ever said in his life, but it was a start, at least. Better than just sitting there and watching Shaun look miserable.