Closed to dumb dinos and birds

[powertotearer]

Characters: Eiji and Ankh
Date: Feb 7
Location: In a holding cell
Situation: This is what low Justice gets you
Warnings/Rating: None yet


For the record, Eiji was not guilty. He was sure this was just some kind of mix-up because...well, for some reason, a man in a purple tie-dye T-shirt carrying bright green-and-pink flowered boxer shorts around is really memorable and easy to point out to police.

The embarrassment would be easier to deal with if he didn't have to share a holding cell with Ankh, however. Ankh, who he's been keeping an eye on while also doing everything possible to avoid. Ankh, who betrayed him and his friends.

Ankh, who, if Eiji can help it, is going to stay on that side of the cell while Eiji's on this side, pointedly not talking to him.

Yeah. This is going to go well.

Comments

[notsogreedy]

"Heh." It's about all the comment he has on Eiji being his usual level of stupid and pretending to be fine.

[powertotearer]

Eiji shoots a glare over at Ankh.

"No one asked you."

[notsogreedy]

He shoots one right back.

"No one asked me about whether I wanted to be stuck in a cell with an idiot, either."

[powertotearer]

It's an insult Ankh has used against him time and time again. Eiji is used to it. It doesn't hurt. He responds like a mature, responsible adult.

Actually, no. He does not.

He throws his empty cup at Ankh's head.

[notsogreedy]

Well, that was unnecessary. Ankh catches it with only a small amount of surprised flailing.

And does the obviously mature thing and throws it right back at him.

[powertotearer]

Eiji, being Eiji, gets hit in the face.

"Do you really have to act like a child?" says the child who threw the damn thing in the first place.

[notsogreedy]

Of course he does. It's so easy a target Ankh can't even bring himself to be smug about it.

"You think you can say that when you started it?"

[powertotearer]

"I started it?" Eiji repeats, apparently oblivious to the fact that yes, he did in fact start this stupid fight.

"What about you? What about taking Shingo's body?"

[notsogreedy]

"What does that have to do with throwing a cup at me?"

Not that he doesn't have plenty of actual retorts to that, like the part about how he tried to take form again after Eiji destroyed three of his Medals and immediately started falling apart. But really.

[powertotearer]

"Because you can't go a minute without insulting me! Even though I've done everything I could to save you!"

Eiji knows his eyes are starting to flash again, and he's trying to keep his Medals under control, but it's not working out very well.

"Hina even said you could stay--how could you betray her like that? I could have figured something out!"

[notsogreedy]

Ankh did thank him for that. Considering how rarely he says thank you, he thinks that Eiji should appreciate it more. As for Hina... yes, she said he could stay, for now, and Eiji was very clear about exactly whose side he was on if push came to shove, and it's not like that even counts if the detective would be awake and Ankh would just be a hand.

"You destroyed three of my Cores!"

If he could actually hold together by himself, then maybe he would have some kind of options, but no, someone left him with no choice.

[powertotearer]

"It's not like I was trying to!"

He wasn't, and admittedly, that's probably more than he should have said. He'd gotten angry, tapped into too much power, and then the next thing he knew, he sensed the three Medals exploding.

"Your imposter kept saying he erased you! I had to try to separate you from him!"

[notsogreedy]

His eyes widen slightly at that first part, because he's not sure whether it's less or more terrifying that Eiji did that unintentionally. The rest... the rest he knows, and he can't argue with, but also it can't be a reason to just be a hand forever. He can't live like that.

"Do you think saying you did it by accident is an excuse?!"

[powertotearer]

"No! It's just...."

Eiji screams in frustration for a second, slamming his fist against the bench, even with the officer outside yelling at him to keep it down in there. His hand hurts as soon as he hits it, but it's still a kind of welcome pain--despite what happened before, he is still human enough to feel.

It calms him down enough that he can talk without screaming again.

"I couldn't sense you anymore. I had no idea if you were still alive. I didn't know. I had to...do something."

His voice wavers for a moment at the end there. He's still human enough to feel. A lot more than he wants to admit.

[notsogreedy]

Officer outside be damned, Ankh would have no issues with getting into a brawl with Eiji in here if he keeps being stupid. But when he does get an answer to that, it's...

still alive

But he's not alive at all to begin with, is he?

And why should Eiji care, one way or the other, really?

He doesn't say anything, just turns away. "Tch."

[powertotearer]

That's not the reaction Eiji expects, but then, he's not really sure what he does expect. Still, it hurts, and Eiji turns away too.

"All right, boys, you're both free to go."

The cell door opens up, letting them out.