#but take this pain cait mwah

[exitiumparit]

You are my sunshine for Adiri and Dan

@enneads || let me kill your muses || not accepting

Fuck, he looks like a mess.

She sits at the edge of his bed with her knees tucked to her chest. He’s all sorts of haggard and thin, but there aren’t any machines hooked to him. He denied them all--saw the flies and all, afterall. There was no helping this. Death would come eventually, and she’d see him soon after a haunting.

“Now--don’t take my cancer or you’re only going to end up like me,” he wheezed. His voice sounded like it was running through a blown out speaker--all gritty and pieced-apart. She shrugged.

“Wouldn’t even if I wanted to,” she replied, curling back a little farther. The windows were bleeding behind him, coming for him closer and closer. They both shone a little differently; she saw everything in blood, he saw it all in flies.

He laughed at that and there it was with the speaker voice; there was a gritty, mechanical echo to the sound of it like she was in her shitty high school’s auditorium. It was all hooked together, all pieced together--everything felt like everything else.

“Hey, Dan?”

“Yeah, kid?”

“What’s your ghost gonna be like?” There weren’t very many nice ones she’d ever met. Not to really call Dan nice, because he was a goddman fuckup, but...well...He kind of made this psychic bullshit almost bearable. Didn’t want to lose that.

“Wish I could tell you, kid.”

That felt better than some sort of platitude she couldn’t believe.

She didn’t want to be near him when he died, but couldn’t help it--he’d been in her life since she was five years old. Fucking hell, she’d miss him and his shitty looking face. So she, carefully, hesitantly, set her hand on his leg. Comfort or some bullshit. Right?

Ten minutes later, the blood got him.

[hauntingblue]

I know everyone wanted vi and cait to kiss in the cait gives vi shimmer cure scene or whatever but imagine you're nearly dying and suddenly you get this horrible pain that you can't contain and the girl who's taking care of you is just... mwah!

Maybe it's better to just show cait calming her down and reassuring vi and explore their connection this way and it's even more meaningful because cait is just... caring for her (like she cares for a lot of people) but there's this attraction/tension with vi that she can't ignore