[You're in Katie's room! Saki is ruining Katie's carpet by bleeding on it.] * Katie takes one look and immediately whirls on Taki. "Take me back. Now!" * Taki lets go of Katie, and collapeses against the wall shaking, "N-no." You have to. You have to! * Katie doesn't let go of the gun. She's shaking, too, but she's not crying. "If you don't, he'll live. I don't want there to be a next time. Damnit, Taki!" The-They're gone, not going. Just *take* me there! You need to go back for them anyway. * Taki starts to shake harder, but nods. "S-satoshi." Then take me with you. Nn-n * Taki swallows, "won't" * Katie stares at Taki for a moment, then says with... unreasonable calm, "I'm a killer. This didn't change. Let me make sure *he* doesn't do this again." I'm tired of it, Taki. I'm tired of all of this. If he doesn't stop now, he'll do it again. * Saki groans, slowly bringing a hand to her chest and twitching a bit. * Katie twitches and looks at Saki. She stares for a long moment, then her gaze softens. "Fine." She moves, still not putting down the gun, but she goes to her satchel and opens it, pulling out the kit. Fine. * Taki looks at Katie, "th...thankyou." He's going to die one way or another, Taki. Just go. * Saki gets to her knees and takes her hand away. She stares at the blood in silence for a long minute, before muttering... "Fuck." * Taki nods unhapily. * Taki vanishes from here. * Katie goes over to Saki and kneels next to her, setting the gun down. "You can still talk, at least. That's good. Don't know how I'll explain this to my parents." She puts pressure on the wound and grabs the tweezers, trying to see if she can't remove the bullet and patch her up. [In actuality, there's two wounds, one on her arm, one in her chest.] (Chest first.) (That's... uh, kinda more important.) ( K ) [Katie takes off Saki's shirt. Lemon fics ensue.] (*snicker*) It'll be okay, Saki. [There's a big ugly red hole. Eew.] * Katie maintains pressure to slow bleeding and tries to extract the bullet. "Do you want me to call the ambulence?" Hell no. That's what I thought. [Saki winces as Katie yanks out the bullet. It's a tiny little blood- soaked thing.] * Katie eyes the bullet for a sec, then sets it aside and goes about bandaging her. Thanks, by the way. I don't think you hear that enough. * Saki watches Katie work! As best she can. It looks like she's having trouble keeping her eyes focussed and her head up. * Saki doesn't respond to Katie; it's not even clear if she heard her. * Saki does speak, though! "That was... not my best moment. Don't... Don't tell anyone." * Saki chuckles weakly. "Can't lose my rep..." * Katie smiles a little. "It's okay. I won't." She lets out a breath, finishing at particular wound and starting on the one in her arm. * Saki nods. "Good." It's probably the closest she comes to saying "Thanks." Remind me... carry a gun. I've got one now. Maybe... maybe two... * Saki chuckles. "Like John Woo." * Katie turns the smile into a little grin. "Hey. At this rate, we just wait for the druggies to get them, and then make our own armory." * Katie snickers. * Saki suddenly blurts out with, "Goddamn... hate losing." Yeah, Ryo got away. I don't know... * Katie pauses for a brief moment. "Saki?" Wuh? If Tenjirou isn't dead by now, I'm... going to try to make sure he is. ... 'Kay. * Katie lets out a sigh and finishes patching that up, too. She looks at the discarded bullets, then the gun. * Katie gets to her feet. "I'm gonna help you onto the bed." (...Katie can probibly hear the people arriving downstairs >_>;;) (Yup.) * Saki grabs Katie's arm and says with some deliriousness, "Hey... don't ever... ever let anyone get in your way... Whatever it takes..." * Katie blinks as she's grabbed, then gently loosens Saki's grip. "Okay. Whatever it takes." [Katie hears peoplez downstairs] * Katie twitches her gaze out the door briefly, then turns it back to Saki. She moves, gently lifting her and putting her on the bed. (Hopefully Saki doesn't struggle, but she's not in much of a condition to.) * Saki struggles passively. Meaning she gets revenge by bleeding on Katie's bed! Muahaha! * Katie expected that and doesn't really care anymore. * Katie scoops up the gun and bullets, hiding them in one of her drawers and locking said drawer. She slips the key away, then heads out to wash up (and get water to wash Saki up). [End!]