streetwalkers | TRAINWRECK AU MASTER POST

[Byakuya can't sleep through that kind of screaming even at his drunkest, and he is not in fact particularly inebriated this evening. It took a bit to wake him up though, and longer for him to decide to come downstairs. Shinji screaming isn't too unusual, with Shirou. But something just feels wrong. Call it parent's intuition, but he has a gut feeling that things are not as they usually are and he needs to check it out.

He comes around the corner, and at first thinks that Makoto is a ghost. His reaction, therefore, is to shriek and stumble backwards.

When he sees what it really is, his legs go out from under him entirely.]

W-What the hell?!

[ ah, daddy woke up. that's no good, he's going to ruin the surprise. her arms are shaking from the adrenaline as she lifts an index finger to her lips. shh. be quiet, daddy. you're going to alert the rest of her prey.

her voice cracks, her eyes glassy and distant.
she's trying to do really good things and it's a lot of hard work!
it's just that byakuya deserves to be happy so much, she can't help but feel emotional over it. ]

I-I'm sorry if I woke you up...
I'll be done soon, okay?

Everything will be fine v-very soon...

What are you doing?! Is that real blood?!

[No. Nope. He can't calm down, because this is entirely too freaky. He feels like he's in a horror movie or something.]

I'm going to Kotomine's room. [ there's a sort of amused lilt to her voice in that phrase. ] I'm going to make him pay.

I'm making everyone pay for what they've done to you.
I'm making this world better for you.

[oh mother fuck]

...Where's Shinji?

I already took care of that.

[FUCK. He's just going to push past her and follow the blood trail then WHERE IS MY KID???]

[ whoa -- ! she stumbles back a couple of steps and watches.
i don't know what you're expecting to find there but
shinji is pretty dead. freshly dead, but dead all of the same. ]

[WELL HE WAS KIND OF HOPING FOR A MIRACLE. But since he's not going to get one he's just. Gonna stand there in stunned horror for a few moments. This is entirely too much "no" to process.]

N-No way...

[ she pouts a little defensively ]

He can't hurt you anymore!
I fixed it! He'll never hurt you again!

That's not fixed!

[It's not, and it's not remotely okay. He feels like he's going to be sick. He wants to puke, an d his legs are too shaky to hold him up anymore. He'll just double-check for a pulse while he's down here, and when there isn't one he'll curl up, cradling the corpse and pressing his face into Shinji's hair.

He can't handle it. The idea that he'll never seen that bratty pout again, or watch the boys cuddle up, or even get into arguments, is too much to bear. It's his fault for telling her the wrong things, but... But it's still not fair.]

This isn't what I wanted! It's-- Shinji-- You got it wrong, so...

[So give him back. Only that's not possible, and Byakuya knows it, so he's just going to trail off and dissolve into tears.]

I'm sorry...

[ she's watching this, bewildered. byakuya had said this was part of his fault. all the pain she sees in him, watches him try to endure every day... it was because of this person, wasn't it? and yet, he looks so sad, cradling his body like this. maybe he would almost look peaceful if he weren't covered in blood. the clothes covering his chest and abdomen are soaked, and line of still wet blood trailed from his mouth. it's a mess. how can he hold him like this?

why is he crying.
why.
she'd done a good thing. she was protecting byakuya.
... right? ]

I-I didn't get it wrong! He hurt you!
He hurt you so much! He was bad!

Shut up! I don't care!

[Of course he does, or did. He didn't like the complete failure that was his relationship with Shinji. But that doesn't change the fact that he's a father, or that so much of what he's gone through has been for him. He's been pathetic and he's failed at almost all of it, but that's the core of what he's kept going for, all these years. He doesn't know what he's supposed to do like this.]

I don't care. That was-- It wasn't our fault! I just-- What the hell do you think I've been enduring everything for?! He's all I had left!

[ how does he not realize that she's just released him from prison? relieved him of his greatest burden? she doesn't understand this reaction at all. this wasn't supposed to happen. and though she is visibly upset with byakuya's being upset, she holds no remorse for destroying shinji. he was no good for anyone and it's better that he's dead. ]

You're free now and he can't hurt you anymore! If you d-don't realize that now, then you will soon! [ she grits her teeth. ] I have to get rid of everyone who hurts you!

No you fucking don't, you stupid little bitch!

[That's not possible, anyway. She'd die up against either Kotomine, and she really ought to realize that. Part of Byakuya wants to let her find out the hard way. It would only be fair for her to get her ass kicked, or even die.

But as soon as he's thought that he feels sick. Much as he wants to hate her, he can't, really. She's his too, just like Shinji and just like Shirou. It's only bad luck that he ends up with the crazy ones. And speaking of Shirou...]

Fuck.

[And that's bad, right? Definitely. So he takes a deep breath and makes himself let go of the body, hiccuping and wiping at his face with bloody hands.]

Shirou's going to kill us both, I hope you know. You won't be able to beat him. And I'm not losing any more family, so-- s-so we just have to-- We just have to clean this up before he gets home...

[ she gasps, looking rather dismayed that he's call her something like that even though she definitely just murdered his only son in cold blood. she's having a little more trouble composing herself as her eyes start to tear up, too. she doesn't want to think she killed someone for nothing! she was trying to do good things. ]

But... I did it because I love you! I love you so much! [ it's all she ever wants really, is to be shown love. she never gets it in this shitty place and it was all because of shinji and kotomine. so how did this get so fucked up? it was a fool proof plan. ] I-I'm a good girl...

[ she's confused. for the moment, her moronic and frightening thoughts of destroying kirei kotomine and playing in his guts for just a little while fly away because daddy needs her help. ]

Mm. Okay. [ she'd do whatever he wanted, ultimately. crouching down, she gathers shinji's legs. she had actually forgotten to consider shirou. while she thinks she could beat him, she wasn't going to argue at this very second. ]

You're a crazy fuck is what you are. You're damnded lucky I don't just let Shirou gut you.

[In that regard, he doesn't have to hold back. He can lash out. That much is more than deserved. There isn't anything he can say to her that could hurt as bad as he's hurting right now, after all. It's all he can do to stay composed enough to help. If he had his way, he'd just give up and die. But there's kids to think of, so instead he tries to hold it together for now.]

Let's just... We can throw it in the basement. They'll take care of it.

[ she's still not sorry she killed him, but she's sorry that he's upset. though she does flinch visibly when he suggests the basement. that would be the most efficient, for sure, but it really sets in what she's done and how disrespectfully they're going to dispose of him. did anyone really deserve to be fed to those things even if they were awful? she's not even sure she knows the answer. ]

Y-you said he was why things were this way... th-that's what you said! That it was his fault! That it was Kotomine's fault! I'm sorry -- [ she sniffles, standing up and making her way down the hall, helping carry shinji. she feels sick to her stomach. she's never killed anyone on her own, actually. she always had lancer do it. everything felt so surreal right now. ]

You should be sorry. Do you think your dad wants you dead when he's mad at you, or when you're being a brat?

I-I've never said such horrible things to my father! I would never strike my father!

Yeah? Well you're still nuts, so I bet he can understand how I feel anyway.

I-I thought I was doing a good thing... I thought I was defeating a monster for you... [ he keeps wavering between defensive and defeat while her legs start to shake more the closer they get to the basement. ]

You weren't.

[That's all he has to say on the subject. All his concentration is on not melting down, so he has no time for someone else's panic.

Once they get to the basement, he takes a deep breath to steady himself against the gut fear, and kicks the door open with one foot.]

Just shut up and throw it.

[ fuck. she doesn't quite comprehend having done something wrong, because she's never wrong. she only knows that byakuya is really unhappy with her and that feels like a stab to her own chest. swallowing the lump in her throat, she bites her bottom lip and they toss shinji to the worms.

wow.
that's really gross.
damn, son. ]

[Well. There it goes.

This is, somehow, less terrifying than when it was Shinji's mom getting eaten by worms. Then again, she wasn't dead yet when she got thrown in there.

It actually makes him feel kind of numb.

Huh.

He's really gone that easily, huh?

Maybe Byakuya can just be done, now.]

...Let's clean the floor.

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