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Sometimes you just gotta talk it out. [Closed]

Who: Yuuna, Feliks, Waver

Where: Just outside Union

What: A conversation that needs to happen

When: September, pre-event.

[It’d been ages since they’d last talked. Since the incident with the frogs. Not a lot had really happened, but it was weird around Feliks now, Yuuna thought. And quite frankly, she was a little tired of not knowing where they stood. So, she resolved to take the next opportunity she had to talk to him. Regardless of what was going on, she was going to talk to him.

Of course, that would be the time she’d called Waver up to do a little analysis of her newfound abilities. But he was late, presumably dealing with the trouble that was that nosy mushroom. Still, she refused to put it off any longer and hopefully Waver won’t be walking into another argument.

So, Yuuna waves and jogs over to Feliks as he prepares to head back through the gate. Strands of her hair are standing a bit on end, the weather playing havoc with her poor control over her lightning, but other than that? She looks a bit nervous.]

Uh, Hey. Feliks? You got a minute?

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[It's really a good thing that Yuuna has such long arms, because she's wrapping up both of them in her own. Waver...she's really, really grateful for him coming here today. And she can finally, finally see some sort of resolution to this mess with Feliks.

She doesn't want him to forget, she just wants him to...exist beyond his grief. Because she's been there, she knows what it's like to lose a friend. Most of them know it, but she's never seen anyone quite so consumed by it.

Not that it's important. Words aren't either. What matters now is just being there, hands around both of them, letting them know she's here.]

[It takes a while. He has a lot to cry out -- months of pushing everyone away, and of fruitless searching, and of trying desperately not to think about how much he missed him. He's been getting a little better, here and there -- being friends with Waver and being able to just be happy around him was a definite improvement -- but it's been a year since he's really been okay.]

...I'm not going to stop looking for him.

[Even if they did let him cry all over them.]

....Then don't be dumb and go out alone.

[Because it would be impossible to stop Feliks, and Waver knew that. His shirt was soaked from the torrent of tears, but he didn't care.

Feliks was talking to them....and that was good.]

You shouldn't. I haven't...every time I go out I still do.

[She rubs a hand along Feliks' back.]

Just...yeah. Don't shut us out, dude. We're here for you.

No one else wants to go out as often as I do.

[There were months when he hardly came back at all, just often enough to shut down any rumors that he'd disappeared, too. And lately, he comes back much more, and lets people know when he's going... Isn't that enough?]

And I can take care of myself out there.

[But he doesn't push either of them away. After a long moment, still shaking a little when he tries to breathe, he mumbles:]

...I really miss him.

[That's been obvious to the entirety of Union from Day 1, but this might be the first time he's let himself say it. It hurts, but maybe it hurts like setting a broken bone.]

...Yes. We've seen that for a long time.

[Even an outsider like Waver could see that there had been something lurking in the background of Feliks' mind. It wasn't hard.]

Just ask someone next time you want to go out. You might be surprised at who would walk with you.

[Waver would go along. He wanted to see the rest of the world, and helping a friend offered the best excuse to do so.]

I know you do.

[She let her head rest against Feliks's back, the arm around him patting gently. She'd go with him, she did often enough. It was her job and her joy, travel.]

We're here for you, though. You know that. Just...let us okay?

[Feliks sniffles -- it still makes half his body expand and collapse jerkily, but at least he's winding down a little bit. His hands clutch at Waver's shirt, and he keeps his head tucked down against him, making himself even smaller than usual.]

...I never really had a lot of friends before him? Besides Jadwiga, I mean. And some of the noble girls, but we weren't super close. I...

Even the first time I met him, he made me feel like all the little weird things about me were great. You know?

[That first day, they ended up coming in from the forest to play dress-up in a shop it was hard for even Feliks to afford, and for the first time in his life, he felt like he was like someone, like someone really liked his eccentricities and didn't just like him in spite of them. The idea of losing that, or of giving up on the person who helped him feel that way, is devastating.]

[Waver awkwardly continued rubbing Feliks' shoulders while he listened to the story. Once again, he found himself suspecting that the two of them were oddly alike in a few respects, besides their strange resemblence to each other.

If only they had grown up in the same city. Then, perhaps...]

Yeah, I know what you mean, [he replied, thinking back on how Atlas and, later, Orpheus had been his first and only friends for a long time. Meeting Rincewind in the libraries was happenstance, but there was still too much of an age difference between the two outcasts to ever really be very close.]

But that's no reason to stop living your life, is it?

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[Yuuna pulls back though, breaking her hug and just standing over the two boys, rubbing Feliks's shoulder with her palm. She did actually understand that. She'd been the odd one out growing up too. So far ahead of her classmates, but lacking the dedication. She'd had something to focus on though, with Martin and Hongo.]

Same. Believe me. I know what it's like. [Having people who didn't think she was a weirdo for wanting to fight, for hating sitting still, for getting bored. Still rubbing, she gives Waver a grateful smile around Feliks]

And no, it isn't. You've gotta live. You can't just...give up on life, Feliks. That's what we don't want you to do.

I'm not giving up.

[He laughs, a little exhaustedly and without much humor.]

I don't give up.

[He doesn't know how.]

[Waver sighed, but found himself returning Yuuna's smile with a tired one of his own.]

That's good. It'd be entirely unlike you if you did.

Good. Because if I have to reach across the pale and yank you back because you gave up? I'm going to make damn sure you regret it.

[Is this a joke? Or is she serious? He's a friend. She's gone to fight gods for perfect strangers. If helping Feliks meant fighting Yveltal? Well she knew one bird that was going to get itself punched.]

Gods, whatever. Haven't you heard, Yuuna? I'm way too stubborn to die.

[He's honestly pretty serious, too. He has shit to do, Death can wait.]

.....For once, I'm glad to hear you say that.

[Satisfied now that they had gotten Feliks out of the worst of this storm, Waver awkwardly patted Feliks on the back.]

Now, what are we going to do? We're all a mess here!

It's the last week of summer.

[Yuuna says that pretty simply, but she's got a plan.]

The beach. That's what we're going to do. I was dragging you anyway, Waver. Now Feliks gets to come for the ride.

What, to the islands? I don't have a Water type with me...

But-- I don't have anything! And Atlas isn't big enough to carry all of us!

[He was also a supreme klutz whenever physical activity was involved. It was bad enough that Yuuna knew, but he didn't want others finding out too!]

Well first of all...

[She taps her Warp Band and look, here's Susume and Kuina. A Dragonite and a Salamence.]

I have rides. And second? I have a Lapras keyed to the warp band. I was really thinking just down past the forest but if you guys want to hit the island, we can be there in like...thirty minutes.

...Alright, let's do it.

[It's entirely possible that his own willingness to roll with this idea is inversely proportional to the amount of protesting someone else is doing.]

What? Flying again!?

[Oh no. Oh no no no no no nooooooooooooo~~~~~~~]

[And with a cackle, Yuuna scoops Waver up by the collar and brings him right on over to Kuina. Hey buddy. Remember her?]

Take your pick, Feliks.

Better than surfing!

[Feliks comes over to Susume and gives a flourishing little bow in greeting. It's rude to just jump on someone's back without saying hi, right?]

[Waver just hung there in Yuuna's grasp, having entirely given up on this fight before it had even began-- he knew all too well that he would never win, even if she was a Fighting-type.]

Uhm.....hi.

[He lifted a hand hesitently at the Salamence in awkward greeting, his eyes wide and face pale from his fear.

Flying, he decided, was probably something he would never get used to.]

[Yuuna grins and swings up onto the Salamence, and Waver? Gets dragged up.

Susume though, trills a greeting to Feliks and bends over, ready to scoop him up.]

Geshi, I'll call you out later. See you at the beach!

[And...away they go!]

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