Event Log: Flu Season

[hadrielmods]

Who: All characters
What: The event log for the Flu Season event
Where: All over the city
When: March 20th-March 30th
Warnings: Gross sneezing, sick people, and paranoia

It starts with a cough, a sneeze, a sore throat - something small and simple, easily ignored. But then your symptoms get worse. It's probably been awhile since you've been sick, that sort of thing doesn't usually happen here. You might be able to raid the shops for some tissues and tea before it gets too bad, and hopefully you've got a friend to help out until you get better. Surely it'll be over soon, right?

Until the fever sets in, and you start to understand why your friend is really there. They don't want to take care of you. They want to make sure this is the last anyone will ever see of you. They want to learn all your secrets. They want to steal your most precious possession. You know they're plotting against you, you know they're keeping something from you. What will you do to find out what it is?

Then, as the sickness fades, you realize it was all in your mind. Let's hope you didn't do or say anything too awful. But that friend of yours... they seem to have picked up your cough. Maybe you should help them out?

► This log covers March 20th-March 30th.
► Feel free to make your own logs, as well
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Comments

[hot_mes]

[they will both have to get blind stinking drunk when this is over...

The reaching hand is not exactly a threat, but Law's fevered mind sees it as such, the twitch of movement that has him reacting out of pure instinct. With the Room around them he can do almost anything, but some part of him still doesn't want to hurt Atem. So, instead of unsheathing Kikoku and slicing him into puzzle-pieces, his open hand comes forward, fingers crooked as if to grab something.]

Mes!

[it's lightning-fast and then his hand is in Atem's chest - bloodless, painless, but undoubtedly plunged to the wrist in his body]

I can't let you stop me. I'm sorry...Atem-ya...

[he pulls his hand back and with it comes a heart, neatly boxed in a translucent shield similar to the Room and still beating. Atem has about a minute before he passes out to see what's been done and hear the apology, not that it's going to do Law any good.]

[puzzlingly]

「It happens before he can even finish talking.

The sensation would never compare to anything he's ever felt before, not even to the day Law helped him taking off his own eye. It is as if he were trying to swallow a really large chunk of food without choking. It takes him a moment to realize what has happened, and there certainly is more surprise in his eyes than horror at the living organ on his friend's hand. Just a little moment later that he falls on his knees as he tries to grab onto Law's clothes, a strange fatigue falling over him — he's not dying, he knows how that is — ultimately making him feel unable to move.」

Law...

「He can barely whisper his friend's name, and the last thing he listens is the apology, but he can no longer respond to it to tell him that it's... fine. He doesn't blame him.」

[hot_mes]

[Ironically, it is the same command as the one that took the eye, but...this is the ultimate form of it. A scalpel as gentle as the fingers clutched around the heart.

Law lets him fall, doesn't even cushion the tumble, because he's too busy folding that heart against his chest. He can't let anyone see that he has it. It needs to go with the others, somewhere safe. He really didn't mean to make trouble, it's just that this is the fastest way to slow someone down, easy and painless, keeping them out of his way until he's ready to deal with them directly.]

Sleep. You can have it back when I've solved this problem.

[now, to get the hell out of there and squirrel this precious heart away where no one can damage it. It must be kept safe! No one can have it!]

[puzzlingly]