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Hands deep in his coat pockets. Brows furrowed.

"How...vexing" He'd murmur. "Are you certian about this?" They had been walking for hours. Monsters have been in and out of sight. Venosnaker becoming restless as well as his other two contact beasts.

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From:

clumsynurse

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His voice had her heart skip a beat- for all the wrong reasons.

Compa whips around in surprise, looking up at him.

"W-what are you doing here!?"

From:

how_vexing

Looking her over.

𝙉𝙤𝙩 𝙝𝙚𝙧 𝙪𝙨𝙪𝙖𝙡 𝙧𝙚𝙖𝙘𝙩𝙞𝙤𝙣.

Eyes narrow. She had been crying. A hand clutches her face. "What happened?" His tone sharp. "You left this..." He pulled out her mirror, offering it back to her in his large palm.

"You could have waited for me this morning. You know how...impatient I get when I'm left alone"

𝘼𝙣𝙭𝙞𝙤𝙪𝙨 𝙢𝙤𝙧𝙚 𝙡𝙞𝙠𝙚.

Especially when any other riders, namely Tiger could be sulking close by.

From:

clumsynurse

Pulling away from him with a small backstep.

"Sorry..." She didn't meet his gaze. "I wanted to get a head start for Nep-Nep. She was double booked for the morning"

Avoiding the mirror, she stepped around him looking for more ingredients. "Um...I was thinking. We should celebrate tonight considering everything you've done"

Foreboding there...

From:

how_vexing

Something was wrong. He'd make means of figuring out what or whom was the issue.

"Celebrate? Hoh, I thought we did earlier" a smirk. "If that's what you wish. However..." He's following her.

Grabbing her arm to pull her in close. "I know you're upset...I have ways of making you talk"

From:

clumsynurse

"I realized that I haven't been cooking at home. S-so I wanted to make-" freezing up when he grabbed her, her gaze lowered some.

Perhaps he did. However..."curry" Moving to one final stand to purchase the spices necessary for this dish. She'd pay and try to ease her way through the crowds.

From:

how_vexing

Pushing several people out the way. Breaking through the bustle, he took a few of her bags.

"I have a surprise for you when we get back"

Keeping stride with her with ease

From:

clumsynurse

"Oh..." Moving along the road back out of the city.

"I was thinking. What if we went away? It's been some time since we've seen the ocean..." Red eyes keeping ahead.

From:

how_vexing

A brow raise. "Oh? I suppose I wouldn't mind that"

They finally make it home. He gazes around. Still quiet, as he left it.

"A lot of reflections there you know" Eyes cutting to her. "Did you need help?"

From:

clumsynurse

A shake of her head.

"Why don't you take it easy? I want to get this simmering. I have to make a requested medicine and then I'm free for the evening"

Setting her bag down after she unpacks their meal supplies. She'd place the handheld on the counter as well.

"There's going to be a lot of changes here, I know it..."

From:

how_vexing

He comes up behind her, hands over hers. "At least let me cut this up for you...it makes things go faster..."

Lips seek her neck with firm presses, a faint hum.

"Changes...we will remain a strong constant~" pressing to the curvaceous nurse, his kisses more frequent and turning into nips against her skin.

From:

clumsynurse

A fumble of some of the vegetables along the cutting board.

"C-can I ask you something..?" His kisses causing a bit more clumsiness in the kitchen. A blush rising on her features.

From:

how_vexing

"Hmm. Anything" catching a clove of garlic setting it on the board. He reaches for a blade and begins to chop away at the vegetables.

He'd keep her pinned between him and the counter, diligent between both tasks of preparing dinner and his woman.

From:

clumsynurse

"Do you..." a bite to her lip. The sound of the blade meeting the board.

"Where do you see yourself in the future?" Some hesitancy when she asked.

From:

how_vexing

"Here" his tongue drags across her skin.

"All the riders at my feet. This new power...it's something that I 𝙛𝙚𝙚𝙡-" a hand sliding up her shirt. "Can be beyond beneficial in the long run...that aside, there's much I know I must do here with you" setting the knife down.

"Which is why there's something important I wish to say to you..."

From:

clumsynurse

Of course, he's always had the mindset of demolishing anyone and has come along.

Tilting her head and eyeing the knife before she turned to fully face him. She's genuinely confused. Red eyes peering up into his.

"To me..? What is it?"

From:

how_vexing

"You have been with me through many many ordeals...there were times when I thought I wouldn't be able to pull through and you saved me. Time and time again you have showed me your caring knows no bounds..."

There's sincerity in his eyes and his tone. "You took a chance on me when no one else should have. I'm a bad man...and there's much that I will have to answer for, but for now..." He moves to bend on one knee.

"I must have you with me. Always" a hand in his pocket to pull out a small box. "I don't say this ever, if at all but..."
Nervousness?
"I adore you, Compa. I need you to marry me" He'd pry open the box with the ̶s̶̶t̶̶o̶̶l̶̶e̶̶n̶ ring inside to show her.

From:

clumsynurse

Hands in her sweater pockets as she listened to him. Unable to meet his eyes at first until he moved to bend down...

Her heart racing. Compa stares at him. The man everyone was right about. The man who murdered his own family as well as her mother.

The silence in the kitchen was deafening. Red eyes welling up with tears for a number of reasons. The weight of what she knew overloading her train of thought.

Taking a step toward him, arms move to wrap around him to settle on his shoulders, a syringe in her hand.

"Takeshi...You're a liar" stabbing the needle into the base of his neck and pushing the stopper all the way down before she hastily backstepped from him.

From:

how_vexing

He would move to lift her up, relief washing over him....

Until she spoke.

Eyes narrow and before he could utter any turn of praise he felt the poke of the needle.

He shoves her, confusion giving way to anger. "You..." Shaking his head as his vision split. The world rolling as he shakes his head and tries to keep focus.

"What is this..? Compa..." Reaching for her before he collapsed on the tile with a crash.

From:

clumsynurse

A sob as she watched him hit the floor.

He was hit with a powerful sedative so she had to act fast. Jumping over his stilled frame, she ran to her bedroom and grabbed any articles of clothing she could before tossing off any reflective items. Her hair clips, belts... all on the bed.

She couldn't take her potions or concoctions as they were encased in glass. She'd have to start over wherever she was going.

Running back to the kitchen to gather the handheld from the counter and some spare food, Compa looked at the man who she was once inseparable with one last time and started her journey to flee Planeptune. No weapon, nothing that cast a reflection because she knew when he woke up it was over.