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Post by Nikolai Laska on Oct 16, 2017 15:05:17 GMT -8
Standing was a bad idea. Now that he was calm again Nik wanted to pass out. Heh.. Dash'd probably kick his ass if he let himself fall asleep standing, but he did lean against the wall and rest his eyes a bit. Jasna had fallen asleep in his arms now, and her steady breathing and knowing she wasn't hurting right now were perhaps a little too soothing.
Dasha's voice called him back, and he hummed a soft "Mm?" ... No? Okay the-- er, wait... "H-hey," he vaguely recalled. "Were you, like... mad at me about something when you called earlier...?"
In the distance, the sirens could be heard faintly, but it would probably be at least a minute or two.
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Post by Dasha Laska on Oct 16, 2017 15:37:31 GMT -8
He really could read her mind sometimes huh. Dasha’s lips pressed together hard. A slow breath escaped from her, and she looked forward towards wherever she expected the ambulance to eventually show up. “Nik… how much do you know about Niso Konto?” she asked briefly stopping herself before going on. “Aside form the things the Pokemon League has said and I guess the Gala incident—“
She straightened some and took in a breath. “I had a confrontation with Konto today and he said he knows you personally.” Well, not personally personally but between Niso saying he was Nik’s ‘acquaintance’ and that he ‘knew him better than he'd like to admit~’ (Dasha shivered on remembering the tone of those exact words), it was a safe bet. “I don’t want to believe him, but he seemed annoyingly convincing. You don’t have anything to do with him, do you?”
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Post by Nikolai Laska on Oct 16, 2017 16:04:39 GMT -8
Nik's heart stopped as she asked such a pointed question. ...Surely she was just-- She couldn't know. He must just be assuming from--
...Oh. No, Niso was. just a piece of shit. Okay then. Also wait, confrontation??? He clenched his jaw. The ambulance was close. "...We'll have to talk more later," he hurried. "The short answer is I've met him through his girlfriend, and I'm begging you to trust me until I can explain better." It was rounding the corner now. "I need to know now, though: did he hurt you?"
The ambulance pulled in, and Nik started limping toward it, but kept his attention on Dasha for the answer. ..Would she ride with him or follow on her bike, he wondered.
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Post by Dasha Laska on Oct 16, 2017 16:21:51 GMT -8
Dasha’s eyes grew. Her cheeks blanched porcelain, and a sharp breath escaped from her. He met Niso Konto through his girlfriend? Niso Konto had a girlfriend? Nik really did know Niso Konto?! Too many thoughts were jumping up in her to quiet all at once, and she blinked hard before her features scrunched up. “Are you kidding me, Nikolai?” she hissed, demanded. “He wrecked my Pokemon and kicked me out of a fucking van.” Color had filled her features again, and she might have been trembling a little.
The van was parking, however, and EMTs were on the move. Dasha blinked a couple times and looked away before forcing herself to take in a shaky breath. “Let’s just… go Nik.” She would be the first one to walk over to the first EMT before redirecting them to Nik and Jasna. Though she hesitated for a moment, she did pull out a Pokeball and released her Sawk, Basil. “Drive the bike behind the truck.” She’d give a few more instructions before he moved off and would wait for Nik to be in the van before climbing in herself.
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Post by Nikolai Laska on Oct 16, 2017 17:00:15 GMT -8
"FUCK." The word was hissed, bitten. Nik... didn't even want to get in now, he wanted to talk about-- no, what he really wanted was to go smash Niso Konto's stupid face in. To find Sera and tell her exactly--
He tried numerous times to talk to Dasha in the back, but the EMTs had questions or wanted to go ahead and look at his wounds and he kept being interrupted either by them or by pain, never making it farther than a "Dash--" or "I--" or the like. "Motherfucker..."
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Finally, some peace. A small bed was provided for Jasna near Nik's where he lay with his own IV and vital monitors and properly dressed wounds. They were worried he'd gotten the big ones infected, but time would tell how bad it might be. As he watched the last nurse leave the room for now, Nik wanted so much to sleep again, but his focus turned to Dasha instead.
"Dash..." he finally mumbled. "About... Voldemort," he decided. He Who Must Not Be Named, because cameras in the room + potential for inciting panic, even if the odds of further incriminating himself were low. Like in inherently was confessing something, but if anyone was going to avoid making it sound worse than it was it should be his own twin.
"I didn't say anything because she thought she could fix him. I thought... if conventional punishments were only going to delay things with his... situation, the chance of actual reform would be everyone's best chance of avoiding... future incidents. Even if that did always seem like a really slim chance..." he grumbled.
A deep breath was drawn, causing him to wince after a certain point. Too deep, not pleasant right now... Ugh. Shaking that off, he continued, "I want to trust her... But if he threatened your life, that means it isn't working well enough, and I don't wanna sit back and wait for him to go too far. So let me know what you want. To help you bring him in, or provide ongoing intel, or just to make him suffer.." He bit that last word. He could manage that easier than most if Dasha wanted it.
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Post by Dasha Laska on Oct 16, 2017 17:24:59 GMT -8
Dasha sat in a small circular arm chair near Nik’s bed. Occasionally she’d looked up and gave some information to the doctors and nurses, but mostly she was quiet, fuming. The emotions in her ranged from raw rage to deep panic and had all balled up together in her stomach. When Nik spoke, she jerked slightly to look up at him. His choice of names brought a quirk of her lips only for a second, and as he went on, they fell again.
Though she could fix him? Reform him? Niso Konto? It sounded like some one-off fairy tale, and her nose wrinkled a little at it. Keep everyone from avoiding further incidents? Dasha’s teeth grit, and she sat back and stared at the ceiling for a moment taking slow if precarious breaths. For as much as she wanted to snap at Nik for even going through with it to begin with, some part of her was remembering the other things Niso had said. He wanted to kill Nik. If the cons outweighed the pros, he would have. He’d also said they couldn’t get away with hurting this one.
For all that had happened and all that she was, Dasha had done more of the fighting than Niso had. She was the one holding a real sword and the one who was so fiercely adamant about fighting him. Whether it was from blind aggression at his words or not. “He broke into Gringotts and stole an entire vault on page …think it was ten- something…” Dasha sat forward again over her knees. “Two people were injured.”
Shifting, Dasha drew up closer to Nik, staring down at him. “He said he didn’t think he could get away with hurting me. None of my Pokemon were killed, and aside from some scrapes and bruises I’m not injured. However, the vault had numerous things in it, and I don’t want to know what he plans to use them for. I want him stopped. I don’t want anyone to hurt because of him. He must be contained.”
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Post by Nikolai Laska on Oct 16, 2017 17:55:01 GMT -8
He... Dasha the page metaphor was more confusing than helpful honestly, but he did appreciate Gringotts, heh... eh... "I see." He thought over everything carefully. Niso did hold back, then...? So it was working to some extent...
"I'll... see what I can do, as far as.. what he wants and what he's planning and..." He sighed. "Hopefully stopping him from doing... whatever it is." He frowned heavily. "Knowing that little shit, it could be for some dangerously over-the-top romantic gesture as easily as something malicious. He's..." Nik shook his head. He was so hard to figure out.
"You say you want him contained, but honestly... I'm afraid he'd find a way out, and the longer he was bored the harder he'd strike back when he did. But..." He shifted, grunting a bit from discomfort as he did. "The fact he hesitated to hurt you says... she's still holding his leash pretty tight. And.. As absurd as it sounds, I honestly believe he'd do damn near anything for her."
Arceus this sounded stupider and stupider the more he said out loud but... He sighed. "I know I'm asking for a lot of faith here, but... Please, believe I'd love little more than to see him get his ass kicked and the get the hell out of my and everyone else's life. I'm not saying this to protect him or even for her sake at this point. I just genuinely believe our best hope of dealing with the situation is to try to keep enough sway over her to influence hers over him."
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Post by Dasha Laska on Oct 16, 2017 18:13:11 GMT -8
Dasha frowned hard and harder and harder at Nik’s words. Dangerously over the top romantic gesture or something truly malicious. Contained but…. hard to vicious. Ugh Konto might as well have been giving her a migraine himself. Little immortal cretin— But no. “I refuse to let him do what he wants, and I doubly refuse to just let someone else try and reform him. That’s not their place, it belongs to society, law, justice. If we let every whack job run around doing what they want Veria could just as easily become Era-“
Dasha stopped. A grimace pulled across her features, and something almost vaguely vulnerable flashed in her gaze again before she looked away. “I didn’t mean…” She sighed deeply already more than aware that was not why Era had fallen. “I imagine with the infrastructure it has, Veria will remain pretty stable even with one running around.” Her voice sounded a it more mechanical at that, and she still wouldn’t look Nik in the eye. “But I can’t just let it go either.”
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Post by Nikolai Laska on Oct 16, 2017 20:30:23 GMT -8
Veria could just as easily become Era.
Dasha had no idea how deep those words stabbed him. He... guessed it was an easier wound to tend than his physical ones right now, for what that was worth, though probably only due to a lot more practice.
Of course he didn't know what he was doing. Of course his arrogance in thinking he did was just going to lead to more devastation, to more people getting hurt. Of course it was stupid of him to expect her to trust him after he'd failed so miserably before.
"Tell me what you want," he said flatly. "If I'm handling this wrong, tell me how to do it right."
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Post by Dasha Laska on Oct 17, 2017 6:21:38 GMT -8
Dasha exhaled. As much as she wanted this, she did not at all want this. As much as she knew this was necessary, she also knew how much trouble it could also put Nik in. “I’m going to need you to come into Interpol and explain all of what you know about this kid,” she started reaching up a few fingers to twist through her hair. “I need my commanding officer to know any and all details.” From there… well, Interpol was an organization, a legal organization, and whatever steps came after that— well they’d go from there.
Sitting back some, Dasha elbowed the arm rest and set her cheek in her hand. One finger pressed against her temple slowly. She wanted to ask more, to demand more, but Dasha was tired in more ways than one. “You’re going to sit here and get better first though.” She spoke after a moment.
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Post by Nikolai Laska on Oct 17, 2017 13:07:44 GMT -8
Nik... didn't know what he'd been expecting, but that wasn't it, and it didn't sit well with him. He wanted to shift, but moving took a lot of energy and had proven more uncomfortable than staying still the past few attempts. Just.... ugh.
"I'll be fine," he mumbled. Once he got a ton of rest and the IV flushed out his system and rehydrated him and all, it'd really just be flesh wounds. As long as those weren't infected, he'd be home free, and if they were it'd just be a little longer dealing with that, right? They were supposed to come back in and get some x-rays to check for rib fractures or whatever, but Nik was pretty sure he'd have felt something like that.
Sighing, he belatedly replied, "Can you promise me they won't do anything stupid?" Grimacing a bit, he supposed he meant, "Can you promise their efforts to fix things aren't going to make it all way worse? And that... Sera won't be punished for associating with him?" The only thing she was guilty of, aside from occasional pettiness, was loving various assholes when no one else would and trying to bring out the best in people. He wanted to help Dasha, and to ensure Niso didn't harm anyone, but he also wanted to protect Sera if he could.
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Post by Dasha Laska on Oct 17, 2017 13:22:08 GMT -8
Dasha’s lips pressed together pretty hard, and her brows furrowed. Interpol wasn’t stupid. What was stupid was associating with a homicidal maniac who believed chaos was the answer to anything. Even as Nik rephrased the question, she only sighed momentarily after. “I can’t promise that,” was the truthful answer, both for making it ‘worse’ and in regards to Sera whom she assumed in this case was Niso’s girlfriend. “Harboring a criminal and-or not reporting his whereabouts is enough for certain charges to be filed.”
She paused and leaned back in her seat some, bridging her fingers. “If this were under my old commander, it could be even messier but recently a new one has been instilled and he…” The corners of her lips twitched with something resembling a smile for a second. “I think he understands a lot more.. and can be sympathetic.” She … actually wasn’t too sure of that, but her gut told her so… so?
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Post by Nikolai Laska on Oct 17, 2017 13:46:55 GMT -8
Nik breathed in as deep as he dared and breathed out slowly. "I'm not sure if that's good enough..." he admitted quietly. How could he make Dasha understand what he was dealing with here?
"Sera is... family to me," he decided, then added before she could take that the wrong way: "As much as Alex or Jasna are." He definitely wasn't trying to downplay or undermine his loyalty to Dasha here... and in fact... "She was the one at the gala. The one who.. got your number after we fought." He averted his gaze. "Without her, we might still not be talking."
And that was barely the surface of it, huh? "When we left Era, I was at the lowest point in my--" He swallowed, knowing it was grim but not wanting to leave any room for ambiguity here. "I was regularly considering suicide. ..Meeting her reminded me there's decency left in the world, gave me just enough hope to keep going. So just.." He choked back tears. "Please understand why I've trusted her this long, and why I'm... so hesitant to do something that might hurt her..."
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Post by Dasha Laska on Oct 20, 2017 18:12:16 GMT -8
Dasha’s lips pressed together, hard. Without her we might still not be talking. For a brief moment, she wondered if that would really have been a bad thing. She wouldn’t have to be dealing with… this among other things. Her teeth grit a little at that. Of course them talking was better and best but… But? But bringing along this? Ugh…
Dasha’s eyes flicked away as Nik kept talking describing what he’d felt, what state he’d been in up to that point. Please understand. It was in that moment that Dasha realized she couldn’t. She couldn’t understand what Nik was feeling, what he had gone through, what he had dealt with. She’d never once considered suicide. The will to live burned in her brighter than anything she’d ever known. Even when everything felt lost, the drive to move forward pounded in her pulse. It was nothing if not a part of who she was.
But…. but if she considered say Alex or Jakob or even Lexi…. She understood the want, the feral need, to protect them. Whatever the case, whatever the situation, whatever they had done or would do, Dasha knew very well she’d be there at their side. A soft sigh escaped from her. “Niiiik why did you have to get yourself into this mess….” her voice… came out in almost a comical whine, something that really didn’t fit the situation at all but… but was what Dasha was feeling right then.
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Post by Nikolai Laska on Oct 20, 2017 18:40:54 GMT -8
Nik was hurting. The meds in his IV had started to numb his body, but his heart ached. Even with things with Sera taking a bit of a turn for the better recently, they were still kind of awkward, on a gradual road to recovery but not quite there yet. But for all that had happened, he still loved her so dearly, and it tore him apart to think of betraying her trust, but even if he'd held back Niso came so close to badly hurting Dasha-- might have killed her even while holding back when there were moving vehicles involved. ...Would Sera buy 'it was an accident'? Would she forgive him, give him more chances? Would the little shit learn he could get away with it as long as he was careful enough? Probably... So he couldn't just... but he also couldn't...
So as much as he usually clung to humor to cope himself, when Dasha's whine came out, it felt very mocking of his pain, and a defensive switch was flipped.
"Because of you," he snapped. "Because you left me so desperate to not feel alone that I'd take anyone willing to put up with me, and then Storm left me so broken and bitter that the only person who could find any good in me is also the kind of person who could find good in him."
He huffed quietly, then said flatter, "Report me. Strip me of my rank and send me to jail. I won't tell you anything that might endanger her."
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