The Midnight Prince

[Shisou]

"Love you." And then, after a brief kiss to the cheek, she is gone. 


The next few days are quiet, peaceful even. Rokag is able to settle her nerves somewhat, and Shiori even reports some progress finding Isabela. "It seems she's in town," she reports, "I'm hoping to meet with her tomorrow night." 

As before, they're sleeping in separate rooms; it seems this is the norm in Toukami, as Kuronue and Indou sleep in separate rooms conjoined by a common parlor. So when Rokag turns out the bedside crystal lamp, she is alone as she drifts off to sleep in her pure white nightgown.

The next thing she knows, there's a hand clamped over her mouth, pressing her into the bed, and another hand roaming up her leg, under her nightgown. 

[Rokag]

Her first instinct is to immediately try to sit up and pull the kni-shit! Right. She stopped doing that because she was worried someone was going to think she was planning on killing someone cuz people cleaned her place. The next thought was interrupted by the feeling of a hand roaming up her leg and trying to swing a fist at whoever or whatever was attacking her.

[GamesMaster]

Her fist hits solid flesh, and he grunts, pinching her nose shut so she can't get any air. "Little bitch," he growls, and she may be surprised to find it's Indou's voice. "I'm going to get what I want one way or another, so you better not fight me, understand?"

[Rokag]

This can't be happening. What the fuck is this!? Rokag squirmed and started to thrash. What the fuck was Indou doing here and Oh GODS ! She tried swinging again, trying to bite his hand, trying anything to her herself some air.

[GamesMaster]

His hand comes off her leg to smack her, hard, against the side of the head. Then it goes back to pressing her leg down, and as he crawls up her a little, she can feel something firm and slightly damp pressing against her leg. 

[Rokag]

There is a small, brief moment that Rokag thinks that this could actually happen. That Indou was here and he was going to rape her. That there wasn't anyhting she could do because if she did, then she'd be killed. The Eels would have her head and Shisou would probably be married off quickly. And in that mass of fear there is a singular point in her mind. That she didn't want to die...but something in her chest says that this isn't right. That letting him do what he wants would be worse than death. It would kill a part of her that knew ALL of this was wrong and that she WASN'T supposed to be like this.

She felt her hand close over something cold and thrust it directly at what she thought was Indou's chest, feeling a chill sweep over her skin as she did so.

[GamesMaster]

Her head swims for lack of air. And then, suddenly, she gasps for breath, able to breathe once more. The pressure on her leg lessons, replaced by a pressure against her abdomen -- a broader, heavier weight, solid but not pressing down. There's a sticky wetness against her belly, spreading through her nightgown.

And there is silence. 

[Rokag]

Rokag tries to scramble away from the weight and feeling and the slight dizziness in her head. She had to be ready for when he got back up and attacked again. Her heart was racing and she forced her way out from under him and prepared to hit him again if he moved.

[GamesMaster]

But he doesn't move. 

There's silence, and stillness. And slowly, the scent of blood. 

[Rokag]

He's dead. The thought was stark and cold in her mind as she watched. She slowly started to relax....only to tense as the rest of her catches up with the thought. "Fuck!" he was dead...he was dead and bleeding out on her bad and she could smell blood and it was starting to turn her stomach and he was fucking DEAD! She moved immediately to her closet and started throwing things around to look for a disguise. She needed to find Shiori. She needed to move and find someplace to go before she was caught like this. A small part of her wondered about feeling bad that she'd killed someone and the rest of her told that to shut up or they'd be next and he was FUCKING DEAD and she needed to RUN!

She managed to find something close to the clothes she'd found to hide her identity, a simple kimono and shoes, wrapping a sash mostly around her face to let her keep her eyes clear but her face hidden. With the long sleeves and hair pulled back, no one could tell she was merikos, outside of her looking a little taller than most. With that, she moved to Shiori's quarters, hoping she was either there or that Carbonne was sulking so she could ask xim to track Shiori down since they couldn't stay there.

[Shisou]

Shisou is sleeping a little restlessly, for some reason. His brow is furrowed, and he clutches at the covers like they will save him from some trouble. Carbonne is in xir cage, lifting xir head as Rokag enters. 

[Rokag]

She was relieved that Shisou was here, tho if he wasn't already awake this would take longer. "Shisou, wake up, we have a fucking problem and have to move quickly!" There was the small bit of panic to her voice that she couldn't completely keep under control, but she did keep from shouting.

[Shisou]

Shisou sits up, startled, clutching the blankets. "W-wh-wh-what?" he barks out, frightened. 

[Rokag]

"Look, we have a problem and things are kinda fucked up and we NEED to move, so I need you to wake up quickly enough to try and help with this." Rokag was pacing, which wasn't ever good. She paced when she was stressed and this was almost frantic. "Damnit, I'm not even sure how he could just walk in there and fuck this is fucking bad."

[Shisou]

"C-c-c-c-calm d-d-d-d-down and t-t-t-t-t-talk t-t-t-t-to m-m-m-m-me," orders Shisou, as he climbs out of bed and reaches for his dresser to get dressed.