─ one hundred & forty-one

[amiable]

[ This isn’t right.

Uru stares with uncertainty into the empty room. Her head is trying to process what exactly is going on. Everything that belonged to either Damian or Dick was gone. Instead of the familiar arrangements of furniture and whatever else is supposed to be in here, there’s nothing. It’s reverted back to a standard Paradisan room, as if nobody had ever once inhabited it. Every trace of proof that Damian Wayne lived here... gone.

She manages to get out her journal, tearing her gaze away from this emptiness. Desperately, her eyes scour the journal, flipping the page slowly at first before she picks up the pace and tries to find his handwriting or hear his voice.

Again, there’s nothing.

She ends up blurting it out without thinking: ]

Damian’s gone.

[ Her heartbeat begins to race. There’s an unwanted surge of emotion in her chest and making its way down into her stomach, but she pretends it isn’t there, because this is all just a mistake. ]

I mean— I can’t find him. [ A beat. ] But this has happened before. His room, it... it was just a loss. It—

[ She abruptly cuts herself off. ]

Comments

[save_the_souls]

Uru...?

[amiable]

Um-- yes? Allen-kun?

[save_the_souls]

[a pause]

May I ask where you are?

[secondchances]

Wait--what?

[Steph's not sure she heard correctly.]

What's going on? What about his room?

1/2

[amiable]

[ Stephanie.

A pause. ]

[amiable]

There's... nothing.

But I'm going to look a little more!

[secondchances]

[It feels like all of her limbs have gone numb. Not that this hasn't happened before, but it has been a while since she's heard from Damian or Dick, and...]

I'll be there in a minute. I mean--Damian and Dick's place. If you're there, don't move.

[dictated]

[whathedoves]

Miss Takamura ...

Is there anything I can do?

[dictated]

[amiable]

Yuuya-kun? [ A pause. ] It's... okay.

[dictated]

[whathedoves]

I know how hard it can be to lose a friend, Miss Takamura.

Call on me if you should need anything. You aren't by yourself, are you? I - [Yuuya cuts himself off.]

[heloise]

[ Awh, Uru, she wants to hug you. ]

Are you in need of company, my friend?

[amiable]

[ It takes a couple of minutes before she replies. She's just... stunned that this is even happening. ]

... I'm okay, Lucrezia.

[heloise]

You lost a friend, I should not like to see you saddened or lonely.

[payback]

... He's gone?

[amiable]

[ The entry with lots of pausing, especially when she hears Rin's voice. ]

... Mm. Gone home. [ She hopes. :/ ]

[payback]

[A pause in turn. She knows Uru and Damian were close, but she and Uru didn't part on good terms last time they spoke.

... She'll just go, after she puts in enough padding to be nice about it.]

Well, I hope he's all right.

[detectivegenius]

... Damian Wayne?

[amiable]

[ FEELS REALLY BAD. ]

Um... yes. [ A pause. ] I didn't mean to say it like this, Tim.

[onlyanapple]

[Crowley tries his best not to sound happy about this, because he knows Uru liked the little squit]

Oh. Well.

...Happens, right?

[amiable]

[ This reply comes probably after she's back home. ]

Yeah, I know. A lot of people are leaving again.

[fanstheflame]

Uru ...?

[he frowns] Do you need me to help look for him?

[amiable]

[ THIS WILL COME A WHILE AFTER SHE'S HOME. :( ]

It's okay, Gale. He's gone.

[loisfuckinglane]

It's strange how I never really thought about what this place would be like without him.

1/2

[amiable]

[ Oh, this is... ]

[amiable]

[ A pause. ]

Same. I never thought that... that he'd leave like this. I mean... That came out wrong.