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andsuddenlydynamite ([personal profile] andsuddenlydynamite) wrote in [community profile] badfic_manor2011-04-30 02:28 am

10th bomb||Hayato Gokudera|| [video/inperson]

[After hearing from Megamind about his room the teen GUNS IT to see for himself. Low and behold his room is a blackened husk of it's former self. He runs in, looking around at it desperately. There was hardly anything recognizable left of the bed... his dresser was reduced to nothing but charcoal.

He stands there for a moment, face pale and his jaw hung open. He snaps out of his trance and rushes to the only thing still standing in his room. A bookshelf. He feverishly begins rummaging through it starting at the bottom, obviously looking for something. As he does so his black berry tumbles out of his pocket and switches on to video.

Hayato continues undeterred gradually working his way up to the higher shelves. Once he can no longer reach, he steps on one of the lower shelves to hoist himself up. Just as he seems to have something in his grasp, the shelves give out, causing him to tumble onto the floor, landing on his back. He sits up, holding what appears to be the charred remains of a little wooden toy are in his soot-blackened hands. He swallows hard, and it seems that his eyes begin to water... just a little.

He just sits there looking at it. The only thing he had left to remember his mother by...
]

In Person

[identity profile] finalarbiter.livejournal.com 2011-04-30 04:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[No, Light's not going to give Gokudera the satisfaction of knowing he had been right about not really caring for his well being. But searching for allies? That accusation is laughable. It's almost as if the kid thinks he's that important to Light, which really, he isn't. At best, Gokudera is a nuisance, but that doesn't put him on a list of people Light would actively try to torture in small ways. Another sigh.]

Again, don't be ridiculous. I'm more interested in catching whoever is responsible. [Slightly softer.] If you don't believe it's for your sake [which it isn't] consider it to be for Sayu's.

In Person

[identity profile] finalarbiter.livejournal.com 2011-05-04 03:29 pm (UTC)(link)
It's... [Light sighs. He almost wishes Sayu had been sent home, but there are of course, slightly more selfish reasons embedded in his thinking along with the altruistic ones.] It's complicated and I don't want to have to explain this twice, so pay attention.

Sometimes the Author sends people home temporarily, but as long as the name plaque stays on their doors, they will come back. I've seen it happen several times before. It doesn't look like they have any recollection of the Manor either, when they go home. [Light still doesn't know if this is a blessing or not.]

In other words, she's more than likely safer than we are. [Especially considering just exactly who was in power back home. A pang. Light had been so damn close, that it actually hurt thinking about it, though he'd bury it under a layer of anger and external maliciousness....which is something the unexpected reddened hue of Gokudera's cheeks provides. Light knew that the two of them were talking, but a blush? Now this was new. Gokudera ...Sayu? Really? And here Light thought maybe Sayu had some taste.]

So, let's hear that list. She'll be frightened out of her mind if she returns to this place with an arsonist on the loose.
Edited 2011-05-04 17:59 (UTC)

In Person

[identity profile] finalarbiter.livejournal.com 2011-05-05 04:35 am (UTC)(link)
[Light listens carefully to Dera's partial list, mentally rifling through the list of potentials. How this kid is still alive after making so many enemies- other than the obvious fact that he couldn't technically die here- is something of a mystery in itself. He hasn't spoken to Belphegor long enough to discern much about him. Rather his disgust with Belphegor had outweighed his patience with him. The name Beyond Birthday, however, that causes a raised eyebrow. Light had been under the impression that B's target had been Misa, not Gokudera.]

You "Took care of B?" Elaborate.

[As for Android 17, Light has heard the name before from the public feeds on the network, and knows enough about him, to know that Light has no interest in being acquainted with him. As for Nice? Sure, she liked bombs and explosions, but this didn't seem to fit with what Light knew of her. She was the sort to face confrontation directly with the source- or at least that's what he surmised from her stupid squabble with Misa.]

As for 17, what exactly did you do to him?

Re: In Person

[identity profile] finalarbiter.livejournal.com 2011-05-06 03:35 am (UTC)(link)
[When Light hears it, he's convinced he must have misheard. The rest of what Gokudera says, however pertinent to his line of inquiry, is sent to the back of his thoughts.]

You did what?

[Surely not. The kid couldn't be that much of an idiot. Payback for Misa? ...Damn it, and Light had ordered her not to do anything reckless! Why would she-... He takes a deep breath. Did Misa request this? Or did Gokudera act of his own volition? The latter wouldn't be surprising, but neither would the former. This was the girl who had threatened to kill all of Light's "girlfriends" in the past.]

...You're not serious.

In Person

[identity profile] finalarbiter.livejournal.com 2011-05-06 03:51 am (UTC)(link)
.....

[There's a very long, drawn out silence in which Light mentally cycles through a list of variations of the word idiot. Moron. Imbecile. Stupid. Fatuous. Retarded. All of thesm are applicable to Gokudera.

Light is not an expert on any of B's motivations, other than the more obvious ones- namely his pathological obsession with L and the Shinigami eyes, and true, Gokudera hadn't been around when the previous B had apparently snapped and decided to go on serial killing rampage, but it didn't take a genius to figure out one didn't push a psychotic freak's buttons and expect to be free of any repercussions.]


....

....

So you've angered the one person who is a confirmed serial killer in the Manor.

In Person

[identity profile] finalarbiter.livejournal.com 2011-05-12 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[Only years and years of patience keep Light from physically bringing his palm up to his forehead, though at this point, he is more than exasperated enough to want to sink to that level of expression.]

You realize that... [What you've said is the equivalent of I've already gotten burned once, so I'm going to continue playing with fire?!] ...Never mind.

[He has absolutely no inclination whatsoever of starting this argument with Gokudera today precisely because it would only fall on deaf ears; Light does not fight losing battles. Besides, it isn't his problem that Gokudera apparently has no survival instinct. What did it matter to him if Gokudera lives or dies anyway? For that matter what it matter if Gokudera did die? He'd only come straight back to life, thanks to the stupid girl running this place.]

Let's hope it's not your last then. [Light shrugs indifferently.] What will you do about clothes?