AU; ain't no rest for the wicked

[nooses]

i've got bills to pay, i've got mouths to feed
there ain't nothing in this world for free

STARRING:
THOSE BORN INTO FORTUNE - Shintaro Kisaragi. Shinji Ikari.
THOSE CAST OUT BY FORTUNE - Masumi Seki. Monica Campbell. Guy Cecil.

Comments

[truants]

[His back is still warm when she leaves. Seki watches the way she walks, the way she moves, studying it as though he's been granted the privilege of glimpsing something rare that only comes by once in a lifetime. He's half-afraid that one day, when he drops her off, that radiance will be gone.

Shit. They were terrible. Him especially, for appreciating that smile.]

It's nothing. [As always.] Have a good night, Monica.

[maskmaker]

[There's a bounce in her step and a flair to her movements that she knows she only has because he's there to watch. There's no need for a mask when nobody will see. There's no need for a play when there isn't an audience. There's no need for her to act alive if nobody knew she was there. But there's Seki. He's her only audience and her one co-actor. The only one she'll truly accept, and she knows it. She doesn't touch him once they've pulled apart, taking a few steps forward and stopping when he's far enough that she couldn't reach him if she stretched her arm as far as it would go.]

You too, Seki. If we're lucky, we'll see each other again.

[She means it in no ominous way. But it'll save them both the disappointing of promise of seeing each other again and it not happening, right?]