[closed] Two Old Goats

[unionjackoff]

Who: unionjackoff & manolia
When: IC July 22 / OOC June 12
Where: the pleasure district
What: abused goats and memory exchanges
Rating/Warning: probably just minor offenses



[hm.... hm... okay.

England peeks around the corner, carrying a bag and holding it to his chest. what's inside the bag? more books for Merlin, about woman's bodies. how to please women. yeah, when England says he's going to do something, he's going to do it.

the thing was, is this is so freaking embarrassing. first he went to the library, but when they only offered books about reproduction, England knew he had to check more places. he finally found what he was looking for at an adult bookstore. but both times, he'd had to take these books up to counters, and have robots or aliens ring him up. and even though he's pretty sure the robots or aliens don't care, he's still... embarrassed!

now he has to make it out of the pleasure district without being seen. so he's hunkered against walls, darting in and out of alleys, avoiding the main streets. this is stupid. no one can see what is in the bag, because it's cloth, and yet he's still worried. but he should almost be to the edge of the district by now. then he can just hop a train back home. aaaa this is so nerve-racking!]

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[manolia]

[The sense of warmth lingers with Chibi even after the memory is gone, like he, too, has been warming in the sun; like he, too, knows that child. Maybe there's a bit of jealousy, too - is this child his? Well... Chibi raised some of his siblings, raised Yugo and Adamai like this, so he's no stranger to it.]

[Besides, it was such a gentle memory that any negative feelings can't remain for long.]

[And the name...] America, huh. [His voice is wistful, sure, but it's more inquisitive than that.] Your brother? ... Your son?

[unionjackoff]

[England leans against the wall, pinching the bridge of his nose for a moment. yuck, he feels gross, despite that being such a pleasant memory]

Ah... My little brother. [brother, kind of son? they were certainly a lot like siblings, but also like parent and child. but, then, country relationships are bizarre] He was. Actually here for a while. In Cerealia. [he lifts his head, swallowing heavily from the nausea]

[manolia]

[Ah, a little brother - so something like Yugo and Adamai were to Chibi. (Perhaps, someday, like Chibi will be to Yugo and Adamai.) The thought makes him miss them more, and he wonders if England, too, relived that memory; if England, too, is missing his little brother.]

[If he was in Cerealia, it must have been awful to see him leave.]

[Gently, Chibi rubs his thumb against where their hands are still linked.] It must have been awful when he left. [After a moment:] ... It is hard when they grow up, but it is amazing, too.

[unionjackoff]

[actually, a part of England had felt relieved when America left, and Russia, too. it meant that they wouldn't be around to get into trouble, or to cause trouble. that was... one of the first instances of them dying and being brought back to life, then, wasn't it?

he clears his throat, squeezing Chibi's hand before starting to walk towards the exit. he doesn't know if he wants to talk about this] It is, in a way. [though sometimes they grow up too fast!]

[manolia]

[Chibi tries a moment to think of what Yugo, so young (and so short!), might have grown to look like before the world ended. A bit taller, perhaps, standing better with the poise a king should have; hopefully not too worried about minor things, hopefully not too stressed, hopefully with the same sense of humor and tendency towards pranks he's always had.]

[Oh, Goddess, he misses him. He misses Grougal, too, so much it tears him apart sometimes.]

I... Think I am going to go to the church and pray a bit before I settle back home. [Home. Such a weird word for a place he knows is not his... But it has become his, too.] Would you like me to walk you home?

[Playfully:] Or shall we go shopping around here?

[unionjackoff]

[shopping? here! England grimaces a bit, but not in anger] I've finished my shopping for the day. But. I would not be opposed to walking home with you.

[manolia]

I was teasing, you know. [Geez!!]

Onward home, then. [Church can wait; there is something itself calming about England's fingers laced between his - such a small show of affection, and yet so large compared to what he had back home. He forgets, sometimes, that love is not a secret here. He and Mina had to be secret, and he knows why, but he never stopped hating that.]

[He'll pray for Mina when he gets into the church, that she is safely at rest in her Dofus after the world's end, that she does not resent him for finding love after his death. He'll pray for Yugo and Adamai, that they will shepherd the Eliatrope people as Chibi had wanted. He'll pray for Grougal, that they'll be together soon, and that if he ever meets England he won't bite the man's head off.]

[But for now, he'll walk England home, and talk about little things - and this once, maybe he'll take the long way around.]