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Posted: Sun May 18, 2014 11:23 pm
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Posted: Sun May 18, 2014 11:37 pm
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Posted: Sun May 18, 2014 11:53 pm
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When he was released, the grunt held the agent's gaze a little longer before seceding. He reached down to finish what he had started and picked up the mop. His hands were still shaking as he gripped the handle hard, holding on as if for dear life.
"I know it's not the same," he said, staring down at the mop's head. "I know Aila wasn't the family to me that your gang was to you, and I know she was just one person. Still, though - the fact that anyone would do anything like that for me was...well, let's just say the last time it happened, that person got between danger and me for the sake of someone else." He forced a bitter laugh.
"I owe a lot to you, Agent Jerome," he said, slowly raising his gaze to meet his former roommate's. "Conversation, companionship, tolerance...I owe you for a lot of things. But I know I can never repay nor return what I'd taken from you before I even met you - what you probably cherished the most - and us info brokers prefer not to keep debts." Nakura tipped his head to rest it against the mop, his lips curved slightly in a faint trace of his usual, annoying smile. "So, in that case, you're free to do whatever you want to me in return."
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Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 12:10 am
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Jerome stepped away, just one as he shifted his stance to the side, running his nails over she shaved side of his head and licking his lips in a clear agitation.
"Yer a ********' punk." He said, his voice a lot more gentle then it had been before "She was jus s'much family t'you as anythin' Ya were jus' t'stupid t'see it."
He looked away, down the hall, not meeting Izaya's gaze as he seemed to put some deep consideration into his last words. Nothing about this felt right, Jerome self betrayed, he felt that sick ache he had when he had seen the last of his gang be taken out, the guilt that he had survived when everyone important to him had died. It was surreal and uncomfortable that Izaya had a hand in all of it. "I ain't want non'a yo debts." He grunted after a long silence, looking back to Izaya "Y'were my brotha' yer still m'brotha' but ya went and kept somethin' like this from me. ********' disrespected me." He lowered his hand after running it down his face. Shaking his head grimly "I ain't got a ********' clue what I wanna do wit ya, ain't sure f'i should go enforcer on yo a**, er jus' let it go."
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Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 12:35 am
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Nakura's mouth twitched, but he didn't respond to the mention of Aila practically being family. He'd never really gone so far as to think of that before. Would his real family even have done what she had...?
"I didn't think it was relevant to our relationship," he replied quietly, lowering his gaze yet again along with his volume. "And whether or not that's true... If you were me, Jer - Agent, I doubt you would be so keen to risk wrecking something as rare as a personal bond with something as dangerous as the truth of the past."
He swallowed to rid himself of what felt like a knot in his throat. "I'm sorry for keeping it from you. I didn't trust you to still want anything to do with me after you found out. It's difficult for me to trust people when I've spent my life up until now learning to survive by being cynical and suspicious; keeping people at a distance and not relying on anyone. I don't have the faith in others or the strength to rely on them that you do."
The info broker gave a small shrug. "I still have a lot to learn about being part of a team, but it was Aila and other Rockets like you that showed me I could even be accepted into one. I didn't want to ruin that."
"I'm still not sure why you ever wanted anything to do with me let alone consider me a brother," the grunt told him, turning in the direction he'd been headed before he saw Jerome, "but I am sure that you'll have plenty of chances to go 'enforcer on my a**' now that you're an agent, so no need to decide right this minute."
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Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 12:50 am
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Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 12:54 am
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Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 12:56 am
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Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 12:58 am
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Posted: Mon May 19, 2014 1:01 am
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