pc catchall for junpei (crashout)

[uncurtained]

IM PUTTING THE TIMON GIF IN HERE LATER YOU CANT BEAT ME

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[uncurtained]

I mean... As close as anyone can get in two weeks, I guess. [...] She didn't deserve - something like that taking her over.

[She looks down at the water.]

[crashout]

And Prompto didn't deserve to die, so here we are at an impasse with the demon.

[...] Tomorrow's gonna be rough on a lot of people, too.

[uncurtained]

It's not really a competition for who got the shorter end of the stick. It's awful for both of them.

[She sighs, even as she nods.]

Do you think it'll be like last time?

[crashout]

Yeah, but that's because our corpses came back to life. I don't know if it's going to be that easy this time.

[crashout]

[He doesn't reply, but he's slightly biased. He can concede that things are awful for both of them, but...well, he knew one of them better than the other.]

What, the exorcism? Most likely. And we're all supposed to be there and we don't get a choice. Can't say I'm lookin forward to that either way.

[uncurtained]

If it's not as easy, then we're just going to need to work harder. And we will.

[uncurtained]

...Neither am I. She said - she could still feel everything, you know?

[Bad.]

[crashout]

That's an answer I can get behind. [But he rubs the back of his neck.] ...I've been asking around what everybody's found and who might've seen Prompto last. If I work my way backwards, we might have a lead.

[crashout]

...she did, or the demon said it for her?

[uncurtained]

[...]

We don't know that it isn't true, either way. She isn't - gone. I talked to her.

[crashout]

...what exactly did she say, Beck?

[uncurtained]

It’s a little bit personal, actually.

[crashout]

...fair enough. [And he goes silent, kicking the water still. He's still trying to think of what to say, but sometimes that means getting stuck in his own head. His mouth twists like he's going to say something, but ultimately he stares at his feet.]

...at least the week's almost over. We can figure out where to go from here.

[uncurtained]

You think we’ll be able to get rid of it tomorrow...?

[crashout]

["No."]

We'll be able to separate it from her, I think. It's going to be a problem figuring out what to do it once we have it trapped.

[uncurtained]

Well... Tomorrow, it won’t really be “we”, will it?

[uncurtained]

...I wish I could help out with that.

[But she didn't really know him.]

[crashout]

No. It won't, but we'll still have to deal with it. So it's kind of "we" anyway isn't it?

[uncurtained]

It's only we if it doesn't get killed, then.

[And she's still hoping, even if it's apprehensive.]

[crashout]

Don't worry about it. I'll take care of it. [There's a pause] ...Prompto and I talked a lot. I'll just have to remember anything that might've stood out.

[uncurtained]

[Softly:]

...I'm really sorry.

[crashout]

...Beck, I'll be honest. I don't really know what to say. [And that bothers him. He spent the whole day knowing beat for beat where to go, but now that they're here and now that they're dealing with a new situation, he's lost again.]

[uncurtained]

[After a moment passes:]

Sorry, did I say something wrong...?

[crashout]

It's okay. It happens. [Does it?] I think I'm more sorry that we have to do this all over again. We're going to have to pinpoint one of our own, and we know what happens after that.

It still doesn't seem fair, does it?

[uncurtained]

...You're allowed to be upset about it, you know. It's awful, and not just because we have to go through a trial tomorrow.

[She can agree on one point, though.]

It's not.