029. Video Comm

[taughttolisten.livejournal.com]

[The image shakes, as if the comm is being held by an unsteady hand--and there's Obi-Wan, his expression terribly blank.

He's cradling Bakura in the crook of one arm, wrapped in his cloak as if to keep him warm. The boy looks chalk-white, and it's pretty clear he's not breathing.]

My... [His voice is small and somewhat disbelieving.] My son... needs a healer.


((ooc: following on the heels of this log. So despite the call for a healer, Bakura's already dead. :( ))

Comments

[video] literally from the elevator

[hackeralastair]

W-what? WHAT?

[taughttolisten.livejournal.com]

I--I sensed--the door was open--I called an ambulance, but--

Video

[lyingbrat.livejournal.com]

I- what?!

No! No, he's going to be all right, he's going to be all right. [Lyra knows what dead bodies look like, but she can have totally irrational hope, right?]</small

[video] of the HT garage

[satisfiedsigner]

What?

[video]

[taughttolisten.livejournal.com]

[you're getting feed of his conversation with Alastair, since he hasn't thought to turn off the comm]

[video]

[answer2darkness.livejournal.com]

[[There's a muffled, shrieking groan of forced mechanisms just before the video focuses. He's stepping off a bus, hastily stopped, with the sounds of disgruntled passengers behind him.]]

I'm on my way.

[action]

[taughttolisten.livejournal.com]

[[Think of this as a text from your Force phone. One that just says ]]

[haki.livejournal.com]

Oi! What's going on?! Is he okay!?

[taughttolisten.livejournal.com]

No. No, he's...

I'm sorry.

Video

[whatmuttiforgot.livejournal.com]

Oh, oh god. Is he-[He doesn't finish that thought.]

voice, much later

[taughttolisten.livejournal.com]

Yes. I'm sorry. Are--...were you a friend of his?

[video]

[loveyourenemy.livejournal.com]

[Matsuka made it as far as the ground floor. He's sitting on the carpet there where his legs gave out from underneath him, clutching a confused, wriggling puppy.]

Ryou... why?

action jackson

[answer2darkness.livejournal.com]

[[Having blazed an unorthodox trail through the neighborhood to reach the building, Qui-Gon arrives at around this time. He senses Matsuka before he sees him, and immediately goes over to offer him a hand up and a warm mental nudge. He can't just stay there.]]

[voice]

[coldempress.livejournal.com]

What-

What happened.

[voice, later]

[taughttolisten.livejournal.com]

I don't know. He was attacked.

[video]

[miraclefusion.livejournal.com]

...

[Stop. Stare. Expression falling further when he checks the comments and recognizes people calling Bakura by his name.]

That's... Bakura? But-- he was just talking to me a few days ago! How the hell did--?!

Shit... he even told me this place wasn't so bad, and yet... this...

[voice] after probably an hour

[satisfiedsigner]

It usually isn't.

[allthecards]

[looks at the comm, and realism and pessimism making it clear a healer is going to do nothing.]

What the hell happened?

[taughttolisten.livejournal.com]

[The reply comes about an hour later, after he's had significant time to calm down.]

He... Someone attacked him.

[voice]

[notadartboard]

Shit...not the kid, too!

[voice--later, once he's been pried off the body]

[taughttolisten.livejournal.com]

Do you... have a sense of who might have done this?

voice;

[prodigitalson.livejournal.com]

Your son...?

--I'm sorry. What happened? Who did this?

voice; later

[taughttolisten.livejournal.com]

We're not sure. It was--he was killed, but we're not sure how, or by whom.

permavoice

[boogaroos.livejournal.com]

Oh... shit, Ben.

You alright? You get a healer ok?

also permavoice

[taughttolisten.livejournal.com]

No.

I just don't understand who would do this.

[permavoice]

[precog-princess.livejournal.com]

[ Oh god.

Oh god no... no...

She'd warned him. ] That's...

[ Goddammit she's sobbing. ]

[comment not here]

[nottheanswers]

[Vic makes another note in his pad and goes off to find a wall to break his hand against.]

voice; half an hour later

[nottheanswers]

Do you know who would do this?

[Video]

[maidenofice.livejournal.com]

Bakura!

[Yukina is absolutely horrified, then schools her expression into a calmer one.]

...I'm a healer. I'll do everything I can to help him. He's a friend of mine.

[voice: private to Yukina]

[gardenerthief.livejournal.com]

I'll go over with you.

voice; private

[unastregadoro.livejournal.com]

Who is your son? What happened?

voice; private, after he's had time to calm down

[taughttolisten.livejournal.com]

His name is Bakura. Someone--someone attacked him.

I arrived too late.

[Voice] fff html WE MEET AGAIN, MY OLD ENEMY

[gardenerthief.livejournal.com]

[Kurama's voice is utterly calm and controlled.]

My name is Shuichi Minamino, Ryou's employee and friend. I see that Jonah Matsuka is with you as well. I'm on my way with Yukina, another friend from my own world who is a healer. If anyone can save him, she can.

[There's a pause as if he's going to say something else before he sends his reply, and there is something old, angry and very powerful in that pause, but the human heart in him reigns in the demon: they will seek answers when they get there. Now is not the time to interrogate a man in shock.]

[voice] SUP. a couple minutes later

[taughttolisten.livejournal.com]

I'm--I'm sorry.

1/?

[spacetimeprime.livejournal.com]

[that's...!]

2/?

[spacetimeprime.livejournal.com]

[



D:

this is like when he realized /Safeguard/ had been killed and it

it doesn't feel very good



]

[notsoloyal]

[Chess buddy, Bakura!]









... Frag.

[comment not here...]

[donttasemebro]

[... Because by the time "Bruno" sees this message, it is just the machine from which his soul was violently ripped that is accessing it. It is scanning near-past Network activity for data pertaining to the recent anomalous behavior of ImPort Alastair Krajac and accomplice/sexual partner Kyosuke Kiryu. This message and the comment threads associated with it are soon flagged as having key relevance.]

[As it watches, it doesn't feel anything at all.]