((RP Thread))

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[pogo_boy]

*Quint doesn't reply to that, just nods slightly.*

[sharpenedblades.livejournal.com]

*Metal shivers a bit.* I was the perfect target for that. I couldn't really fight back unless they said I could...

[pogo_boy]

*Quint blinks, surprised a bit by the thought of Metal treated like that* I couldn't either. I wasn't allowed to use my weapon inside the Castle, and I'm small even for the way my universe is. All I could do sometimes, with some of the others, was run and hide.

[sharpenedblades.livejournal.com]

*Metal shivers a bit.* Never could run or hide for very long, and I figured out rather quickly that running was exactly what some of them wanted me to do. More fun for them...

[pogo_boy]

*almost distractedly* It made it into a game. Especially for Top. Hardman would get bored and look for an easier target, but Topman liked trying to find me. Hide and seek...

I'm very good at hiding. Being small helped there. I could get into places he couldn't even reach into. And I only had to run and hide long enough for Enker to find out.

Enker never liked that kind of thing, but sometimes he had orders, and he was busy a lot. So he didn't always find out until after...

[sharpenedblades.livejournal.com]

*Metal sighs.* I stopped bothering to run not long after they told me about the others... What was the point? No one cared if I was hurt... And I didn't think there was any reason to try to escape with the others gone... It was over faster at least. They got bored with an easy target sometimes...

[pogo_boy]

Maybe that's why they told you the others were gone. So you wouldn't try to get away.

There was a crazy alternate of Blues that tried something like that with me. I still don't know why. He said that nobody from the Castle cared that I was gone. Not even Enker...

[morethanafan.livejournal.com]

*Air sighs.* Knew he couldn't convince you that we didn't care, so he convinced you that we were gone...

[sharpenedblades.livejournal.com]

*Metal seems puzzled.* They usually got angry when I didn't run. It was boring to the ones who liked doing it...

[pogo_boy]

*Quint shrugs slightly* I don't know why they said that. I don't know why Psycho-Blues said what he did.

All it matters now is that they lied.

[sharpenedblades.livejournal.com]

*Metal shivers a bit.* It's still hard to believe that it's over. That they were lying all that time...

[pogo_boy]

I know. But they were.

*Quint smiles slightly* If is were one of Wind's tricks somehow, would he have kept it up this long?

[sharpenedblades.livejournal.com]

*Metal sighs.* If it amused him, he'd keep it going until he got bored... And he has a long attention span.

[pogo_boy]

Wouldn't he have other things, though? I mean... even the new ones have guard duty, don't they? Or other things Wily'd want them to do.

We're not a trick, oniisan. I know it'll take time for you to think maybe we are sometimes, but Wind wouldn't be able to keep something like this up for very long.

If there's anything I can do to help prove this is real, just let me know.

[sharpenedblades.livejournal.com]

*Metal seems a bit uneasy.* He didn't have guard duty often, since Wily usually let those with other talents get away without as many shifts. The others were always willing to take over a shift if he was busy too... Wily never cared as long as it was done.

[pogo_boy]

Oh.

That's different where I'm from. The only excuse for missing duty is if you're damaged too bad to leave your room. Just about anything else will get you punished. We weren't allowed to cover each other's shifts unless someone's damaged or being punished.

[sharpenedblades.livejournal.com]

Wily likes Wind's little projects. Wind is allowed to do as he wishes, and since most of the time Wind was using me to test his little projects... He had plenty of time to think up more elaborate ways to mess with my head.

[pogo_boy]

That's not right. I'm sorry he was allowed to do that, oniisan. It's not right, and it shouldn't be allowed. Not by Wind, and not by Wily. Not by anyone.

[sharpenedblades.livejournal.com]

*Metal shakes his head.* I guess it's over now, though. Should probably just be trying to forget about it now... But it's hard to, after so much time.

[pogo_boy]

I know. Things like that take time to start to recover from. *he frowns briefly, remembering a few unpleasant encounters early on in his time in the Nexus* Some people don't understand that, but I do. When something bad happens, you don't just get over it overnight. But it does get better.

You're safe now, oniisan. And you won't ever have to let anyone hurt you again.

[sharpenedblades.livejournal.com]

Can't help feeling like I should have been strong enough to prevent it from happening in the first place... I'm supposed to be the oldest of us. The one with the most experience.

[pogo_boy]

*somewhat distantly, thinking of a fragment of the nightmares - Blues' scarf laying on the pavement...* Sometimes bad things happen. Even to the oldest of us.

*shakes his head as if to clear it* We all have bad days, oniisan.

[morethanafan.livejournal.com]

*Air sighs.* What happened then no longer matters, Metal. The now is more important.

[sharpenedblades.livejournal.com]

*Metal shakes his head.* It matters, Air. It matters because I'm going to spend the rest of my existence wondering...

[pogo_boy]

There are things I still wonder about too, oniisan. Some things, there might never be answers for. But Air's right. Now is more important. You can't do anything about the past. You can only change things that haven't happened yet.