Scaredycat Club in: Total Eclipse [open]

[moonlitlove]

Date & Time: November 16th, all day
Location: Housing areas, mess hall
Characters: Usagi and OPEN
Summary: The world is ending. Usagi freaks---and then maybe realizes that other people are scared too. Useless people unite!
Warnings: dramatic teenage wailing, maybe some silliness as she tries to keep busy

[a]

It's dark. The atmosphere can't seem to keep it together---she feels heavy, then light, then she keels over. There's no message from anyone about what might be going on, and she can't call either. Most doors are locked. Sure, the place is dreary, but it's even worse now! There's nowhere to go. The ship is sinking! Or...it would be sinking if they were on a ship, but this is the non-boat version of the same thing.

They're gonna die. Usagi knows that much.

So she can be found curled in a tight ball in one of the few open hallways, making enough whimpering noises to be heard even in the dark. She's shaking, muttering to herself.

"...no, this can't be happening. I can't die yet! No one will ever know what happened to me. We'll just rot up here in this place forever unless we get to be zombies too? Oh, that's gross.

And I haven't even had a boyfriend yet!" she wails, burrowing her head in her knees.

[b - some time later]

Eventually, after hearing the hustling of feet and the mutterings of people who would probably help, Usagi manages to dry her tears. Is she still scared? Oh, of course. But even though she's not a fighter, she has to be brave like Sailor V and the cool people who protect them, right?

Easier said than done. But she tries anyway, channeling her energy into playing with some stray paper scraps she's picked up. Mama tried to teach her how to fold paper cranes once, and so Usagi tries this to calm herself. They're messy and they would look more like sea urchins if she could see them well, but it helps.

If someone who doesn't seem too sure of where they're going passes by, Usagi calls after them.

"Hey, wait! Wanna sit down?"

Comments

[lucency]

"Oh, lots of things. We put together first aid kits, hand them out, learn how to treat injuries, learn emergency medicine - at least, I do. Enough to keep them well enough until an actual doctor can treat them."

She smiles and nods, taking a look at Usagi, and squinting through the darkness. She looks nervous, though Belle doesn't comment on that right away. "And - even if you don't think you fit in now, there's so much to learn that it'd be impossible not to find something."

[moonlitlove]

"I...well, I guess I could," she says, twirling some hair around her finger.

"I don't want to see people hurt and suffering." That conviction surprises her, like it comes from somewhere. She should really be more afraid.

[lucency]

"Nobody does!" And there's a vehemence behind Belle's words as well, and - well. She knows it isn't entirely true. She bites her lip slightly as she makes an attempt to calm down. "I just mean - if we're going to get home, we have to help as much as we can."

[moonlitlove]

"I don't know how I will yet," she mumbles, looking down at one of her not-cranes in wonder. "But I'll find a way. I don't want everyone stuck here forever, it's creepy!"

[lucency]

"What is it you're most interested in learning?" Idly, Belle folds a corner. If she can figure out the folds, maybe she can get something a little closer to one of the lucky birds. "Out of anything at all?"

[moonlitlove]

That's a hard question. She has to pause to think about it, rocking back and forth while she ponders.

"I want to heal. I guess first aid would work."

[lucency]

"I think we can manage that," she says with a smile. The attempt to re-fold a crane isn't exactly working well, and she takes to rolling the corners inward almost idly. "I can't train you, I'm afraid, but some others can. I don't know how many you've met."

[moonlitlove]

"Then I'll ask for help for sure," Usagi promised, nodding once before finishing her fold. Somehow, the sheet she held now vaguely looked like a bird. "Thanks, Belle."

[lucency]

"Not at all." And then she reaches forward and helps Usagi out, twisting the end of one of the corners and suddenly, it has a neck and a beak! Like magic.

[moonlitlove]

At that, Usagi cheers quietly and claps her hands together. "I guess we'll be okay. I'm not so scared."

[lucency]

And a gigantic, proud grin from Belle. "I'm glad."