[open]

[thleepy]

Date & Time: 5/12, day
Location: EVERYWHERE. Around the apartments, around the Hold, NIK IS GONNA FIND YOU.
Characters: Nikolai/Cherkesov/Maletski (thleepy) + you???
Summary: Dumb android baby is havin' some maaaaad hallucinations over here. And is therefore busy rolling around screaming and crying and crashing into walls.
Warnings: idk Maletski and his obnoxious self might show up...

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It'd started two days ago. It'd started with a bad feeling, at first, the sort that he'd gotten used to back home -- that something was always watching. Something that did not wish him well.

Only this time, it had stopped watching, and gone on to hunting.

Nik had fled his room as soon as he'd heard his window crack open. He'd launched himself off his bed and landed running, and he'd kept running until he crashed into the front door. A few moments wasted fumbling to get it open-- a few moments too many. After kicking the door open, he'd glanced over his shoulder just in time to see one of the Masked emerging out into the hallway, all strange and misshapen and twisted. And turning towards him.

Nikolai hasn't bothered looking behind him since.

[ ooc: FEEL FREE TO JUST RUN INTO NIK ANYWHERE. And he'll probably even be pounding on apartment doors of complete strangers and demanding to be let in. Or he'll just burst RIGHT ON IN uninvited, if the door's unlocked :'C

ALSO WILL MATCH TAG FORMAT B) ]

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[thleepy]

[ Nik's comforted by John's words, a little -- he does have friends here. He supposes.

But he also has friends back home. A lot of them. And none of them have come here yet, and... he wishes they would catch up, too. He really does. Especially now. ]

Okay. Promise? [ Nik's fingers dig into John's arms, and he pulls back a little to stare intently at John. Then holds out a pinky. ] Promise.

[doctorly]

[john peers back at nik, captured by that intense stare until he is shown the pinky. which he's puzzled by for only a split moment.

with a small smile, he lifts his own hand to link pinkies together.]

Promise.

[thleepy]

[ Nik allows himself to smile back. He shakes on their pinky promise, enthusiastically, longer than necessary, and then lets go. ]

Thank you, Mister John. You're a very good friend.

[ They have a promise, now. And no one ever breaks their promises to Nik. It's never happened before. And -- he is convinced -- it won't happen now.

With that, Nik settles down to go back to his tea, finally looking less unhappy and more content. ]

[doctorly]

[so long as Nik keeps it connected, does he as well, only letting go when he does as though to prove it is a promise to be kept.

that gets a little wider smile out of him.]

I'm happy to help. You can always count on me as a friend.

[he's relieved he can make something good out of this situation. it's stressing when things only get even more worse, but in given times like this.. it makes it easier to deal with.

seeing the terrified boy looking more relaxed helps ease the tension off him, bringing the tea back to his lips. he hopes for nik's sake he is able to return home soon.]