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Another accidental video - re-entry with a new canon point

[Dirty fingers brush over the NV screen when it switches on, leaving bloody streaks across the screen. The whole video is vibrating; as the fingers move, a view of the Newcomer apartments from the baseball diamond is clearly visible. Whoever is holding the NV is clearly a newcomer and clearly in some kind of trouble.

After a minute, there's a shallow gasp and a moan; the voice is high pitched, obviously a girl's. The NV falls, and goes black; it's camera down in the dirt. But it lasts only a minute. The owner of the voice goes to pick up her NV, gasping in agony as her hand curls around the device. It's obvious why; there's a hole shot clean through her palm and out of the back of her hand.]

Marius? Marius, where are you?

[The voice has a heavy French accent when she speaks, and just for a minute, Eponine's face comes into view. It's dirty and tear stained. Her hair is a mess, greasy and tangled but that is the least of Eponine's concerns. She's forced herself into a sitting position, and one hand she presses to her chest, - a chest which is bleeding profusely. She gasps again, and sinks down onto the ground and out of sight of her NV.Without anything to support her weight, she can't keep herself upright any more. She knows she's dying, and tears wet her cheeks. She feels sick and dizzy and the world - wherever she is, fades in and out. She needs to see him before she dies. Her breathing is getting more and more shallow. She has to ask his forgiveness.]

Mariussss...

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Aren't your dreams better than that?

[The self deprecating quip is softened a bit when he reaches over and brushes her hair away from her face for her.]

You're a lot of trouble, you know that?

You're a good dream, M'sieur.

[Her hair is still drenched from all of the rain in Paris, but Eponine doesn't realise it. She smiles as Yosuke touches her.]

You feel so real though...

[But her face falls as he says that she's in trouble]

He's cross with me, isn't he? M'sieur Marius? For keeping the letter? I told him lies... I was going to give it him. But I fell and I' dead now, and he'll never know, and he'll be unhappy forever. And Gavroche will be cross with me too...

What letter's that? Maybe I can pop into his dreams next and deliver the message for you.

[It's not nice to tease her when she's hurt like that, but he can't resist. He's still shaking with leftover adrenaline. Still tasting that sour taste of expected grief in the back of his throat. She'll just have to deal with fussing, and silly banter.]

I ate your rice cup. Sorry. My stomach gets funny when I'm nervous, you know? But don't worry, I can definitely steal you another one if you're hungry.

Dreams... he had a dream of Cosette, and I have taken it. I just wanted him to love me. Yosuke, can he dream... but you're not a dream, are you? This is real and I am alive, and... and if I go back, I'll die.

[She sniffs hard, holding back her tears.]

What am I to do now, M'sieur? and... What is a rice cup?

...That's from home? You-you got shot at home?

[The teasing in his tone is gone instantly, and the taste of grief is back. His breath hitches, and when he tries to make it behave it comes out in a thin, breathy wheeze. No. No, no, no, no. Why does every girl he care for have to die?

Any adult would realize that Eponine has enough troubles of her own, without adding a hyperventilating teenager to the mixture, but Yosuke is 17 and permanently stuck in his own head. He wheezes, and stares. No, no, no, no...]

You can't!

[Her tears are trickling instantly when she sees Youske reacting in such a way.]

I'm sorry, M'sieur. I am so sorry, M'sieur.

[She shrugs and gasps in pain from her wound] I think I will die now at home, if I go home. That was it, M'sieur. And I have to go back for Marius... M'sieur, I do not want to die.

Don't go then!

[It isn't up to her. He knows that. He tried his hardest to fight it, and he'd still gone home too. None of them could do anything about that.]

You can't go back. I won't let you.

His letter, though... M'sieur, I do not want him to be sad. He will know I lied to him... He will be cross. But I do not want him to be sad.

M'sieur, what am I to do?

[Shemeans abouteverything - Marius, that she isn't dead, being here again, the hospital bill...]

i don't know what to do any more.

Screw the stupid letter!

[Yosuke kicks the beside table furiously, and has to sit down from trying to shout and wheeze at the same time. His head drops into his hands.]

I don't care about that guy. Okay?

[Eponine's definitely alarmed by Yosuke's violence, and she tenses out of sheer nerves, before turning her face away. She's still crying, harder now than before.]

but I do. M'sieur, I am dying for him; I can tell this to you. I climbed the barricade and I put my hand in front of the gun, and my chest to my hand and I let them fire it at me just so, so that he would live. I had forgotten, p'raps... But I love him.

No matter how many times I save you it isn't enough.

[He's grumbling into his hand now, and tugging at his hair with the other one, the way he often does when he's stressed. This conversation can't be helping Eponine in her weakened state, but he shoves the thought aside and protests anyway.]

That guy held a gun on me before! He has soundproof walls. You know who has sound proof walls? People who don't want their neighbors to hear the screaming! But I went there anyway! I asked him a favor. I owe that asshole a debt now. I owe that jerk and now I don't even know why because you're DEAD!

Edited 2013-01-12 21:44 (UTC)

Yosuke?

[Eponine turns back in alarm. He sounds so cross with her]

Yosuke, what are you talking about?

[She tries to pull herself up; her movements are stiff and she gasps again, but eventually, she's sat right up. Her face is a shade or so paler and her hands grip the bedsheet covering her modesty so tightly that her knuckles turn white.]

What guy? What favour? YOSUKE, WHAT HAVE YOU DONE? YOU TELL ME RIGHT NOW! WHAT DEBT HAVE YOU GOT YOURSELF INTO FOR ME? TELL ME, YOSUKE.

Woah...woah, hey-

[That's not good. He reaches instinctively to stop her, but draws his hands back before they connect. He's not sure where he can touch her right now without hurting her.]

Calm down! You're going to hurt yourself.

I am FINE, Yosuke! You tell me RIGHT NOW what trouble we are in. What hae you done? Who have you bargained with? Is it M'sieur Gold? M'sieur Xellos? WHAT HAVE YOU DONE?

[She is furious, beyond caring if every yell is making pain blaze through her chest, ignoring the fact that she wants to faint right now.]

Yosuke. Tell me NOW.

We aren't in any trouble! You need to calm down before you tear something back open!

[The commotion attracts security again, naturally. One of them greets Yosuke with "you little shit!" and a firm scruffing. Yosuke coughs, and kicks futilely, and tugs at his collar crossly. Great. He's going to get banned from the stupid hospital again, isn't he? Damn it.]

She knows me! She KNOWS me!

[Oh my - Eponine lunges for both Yosuke and the guard, accidentally dropping the sheet covering her bottom half as she does. She swipes out at the guard immediately]

LET GO OF HIM. He is my FRIEND, M'sieur. YOU LET GO RIGHT NOW.

[Doctors, attracted by their patient's shouts, hurry, and force their way past both Yosuke and the guard, gently lifting Eponine off her feet and placing her firmly on the bed. Eponine struggles against them, desperate to get to Yosuke, until she is threatened with a sedative. She allows them to put her back into bed and tuck the sheet tightly around her. She glares at Yosuke the whole while though. And the guard can only laugh a quick comment of, 'little alley cat. What gutter did you pull her from?' to the doctors as they leave.

From the bed, Eponine calls.]

Yosuke. Come here. Please.

No way. Choking me will hurt you too, you know.

[Besides, he's had enough of being choked. He rubs unhappily at the collar burn on his neck. Why are the security guys always three times his size? It's really unfair.]

I am NOT going to choke you! Making me yell is bad too! Come here or I will come for you and then we will both be in trouble.

[She means it too - he better KNOW she means it and get his butt back to her RIGHT NOW!]

[Sigh.

He tiptoes back over, though not without a glance at the door first. There's a guard posted outside now, and he's still giving Yosuke a dirty look. Yosuke resists the urge to make a face at him, though, and turns back to Eponine.]

It's nothing to get worked up about, alright? I just didn't want you to be so unhappy. You're not as unhappy now, right? So it worked.

[She drops her voice to a whisper; with the guard outside, she feels a bit like she's in prison. As soon as he's close enough, she makes to grab him, to force him to bend over her. Her grip, if she manages to catch him, is weak though; it's more a gesture than anything.]

You better start telling me, Yosuke, very FAST, who you have made a deal with on my behalf. Tell me or I'll scream loud enough to get you arrested for hurting me, Yosuke. I am not sad; I am FURIOUS at you. Why have you interfered in my life? Who have you told about me? You tell me so I can sort this out. I have powers now - I can fix this.

At worst they'll toss me in a holding cell for a-

[Jail isn't the same sort of threat it once was, frankly. As long as it's short term it's no big deal. Anything long term is pretty rotten with a face like his, though. That threat he would take more seriously. But what Eponine says next catches him genuinely off guard.]

He gave you powers? Wait, why? Which ones? What for?

[It takes her a minute to process, but then her mouth drops open.]

JESSE? You went to JESSE about me? You made him - you told him to ask me -

[She looks HORRIFIED.]

This is YOUR doing? Yosuke...

[She shakes her head in disbelief] Yosuke, what have you done? What have you promised Jesse? ...What did you tell him about me?

...Ask you to what?

[His mouth has suddenly gone dry. That was t the deal. Eponine wasn't supposed to have to do anything.]

Wh-what's my doing? What are you talking about?

[She twists her mouth, scowling, though really, she's more worried about what to say to him.]

I can't tell you, Yosuke, what he asks of me. It was part of our own deal; I have said too much already, and you cannot tell him what you know of this, or we will both be in trouble, and I do not want to do what I think he will make me do to you if he knows of this. What deal did you make with Jesse? Tell me or I will ask him.

[He might not fear jail... but perhaps he'll feel differently about Jesse]

That son of a bitch.

[He tugs at his hair again, furious to realize that just as he'd suspected, Jesse had screwed everything up.]

I'm not scared of him. And you shouldn't be either. He doesn't have any powers, you know. He can't even use them. All he can do is steal them. Did he tell you that?

...What am I saying? It's not like you care. You probably think that's a great idea, right? Never mind that it leaves people completely defenseless in a fucked up place like this. Never mind that people could die, or go insa-

[And there it is. The connection he never made, but he should have. Jesse steals powers. People have been turning up in the news all of this time, powerless. Some of them really did go insane. And he's known about it all along, he just didn't realize that he knew.

His eyes go wide, wider than they should be able to, and he stumbles backwards into the nearest chair.]

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