[Open] A poisonous feast

[foggydetective]

Characters: Tohru Adachi [The Evil Queen (Snow White)] & everyone / anyone
Campaign: Break
Format: Either
Open
Summary: Poison plot time.

Prompts are on the comments. Feel free to contact me via the original plotting post or the Discord Server if you have any questions.

The food is being distributed during the festival mentioned on the intro log.

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[gobetween]

Gobo had been in and out for most of that, if only because he kept drifting off, though thankfully not into another deep, cursed sleep. His head felt like it was floating, and he wanted so much to just let it drift away...

Once he felt his bed around him though, he glanced up, not at all surprised to see Wembley still there. Wembley... He drew in a breath and let his head rest back, wincing a moment at a wave of nausea. Then when it passed, he spoke.

"...'m sorry. You were right, about.. everything."

[forachange]

Wembley shook his head before Gobo even finished speaking. "Gobo, you need to rest."

There was a trilling sound as Thorn hovered into the room. They settled down on the floor by Wembley's feet, nudging their head up beneath his hand. Wembley smiled softly at that, scratching them gently between the eyes.

[gobetween]

Rest? How much more rest could he get, lying on the bed like this? And nodding was fine, but what if he fell asleep like that again...? So he gently shook his head, even if he regretted it after that. He drew in a long breath with a hand rested to his forehead, then looked over at Wembley.

"No, l..look... All I've ever been is a jerk to you. Bluerock, the flight, the race, heck I dropped a ceiling on you once. Dragged you up a rock wall against all health sense... Forced you to get postcards with me who knows HOW many times..." He closed his eyes, putting his head carefully on the pillow. "I do push you around. I don't know why you..." There were multiple ways he could finish that sentence and none of them were anything he wanted to say, so he just let it drop there.

[forachange]

Wembley was quiet for a moment, though he kept shaking his head 'no' as he focused on Thorn... Until finally he sighed and switched that to a nod. He wasn't sure how to explain, exactly, how the response to all that was no but also yes, when that sounded like something Cantus would say that kind of made no sense...

"Well... The ceiling was an accident." He knew that wasn't enough, but it was where he could start. "Gobo, you've done other things - good things. Without you, I would never have picked a job. Or, I'd have one as a servant to the Gorgs." He pulled a face at that thought, then finally looked up at Gobo, his expression shifting to one of deep emotion - though what emotion that was, exactly, was hard to place.

"But you know what really matters to me? Gobo, you've trusted me with big things - even your life! You believe I can do things, more than anyone else does. More than I used to. Aw, heck, the biggest reason I believe I can do things now is because of you. Gobo, you do some bad things, but we all do. And it doesn't take away from the good you do - the good you do for me! Even though I've done bad things, too, like- Like, well, leaving. You were right about that..."

[gobetween]

"'Course I trust you with my life. You've shown time and again you can pull through in the clutch..." Gobo looked up through his heavy eyelids at him. "An'.. okay, maybe I was right about you leaving, but you haven't done nearly as much bad as compared to me."

[forachange]

"Hmm. I've been talking to Thorn about what happened with us, you know?" Wembley murmured, returning his attention to the fairy. "They don't say much back... But that's how I've figured things out. Because no one else could figure it out for me."

Sure, he could've talked to Roxas or Crane about what had happened... But they knew Gobo, too. It was too complicated.

"What I've figured out is that I don't know why we are how we are. Best friends, boyfriends, so different... But I don't care! What if why doesn't matter? What if all that matters is that we are? Because- Because that's what I think is true!" He got to his feet and walked up to stand by Gobo's head, gesturing for Thorn to stay put. "There's stuff we have to be better about, but I want to learn how to do that together!" He knelt down and stroked Gobo's hair back. "Is that... Is that what you want...?"

[gobetween]

Gobo watched Wembley, a hundred things tumbling over in his muddied, foggy mind. There were things he could say, but words were hard for one reason or another, and...

That was it, wasn't it? That was why they worked. He stared at him, then nodded, reaching a hand up for Wembley to take. "Yeah. Yeah, that's what I want."

[forachange]

Wembley smiled softly and took that offered hand. "That's the best thing I've heard in a long time, Gobo."

He shook his head, feeling cozy from the inside out. "Now, just focus on being okay. I'm helping some people make an antidote for this, and we're gonna fix it." He gave Gobo's hand a gentle squeeze, and then a slightly less gentle shake. "And tell me if something like this happens ever again! Even if we're fighting, huh?"

[gobetween]

"Of course you are, Wembley... That's why people can trust you." He smiled at him then, there was the faintest little chuckle at the other shake. "Y-yeah. I will, I promise."

[forachange]

"Gee, thanks, Gobo." He glanced down toward Thorn, near the foot of the bed, and gestured them over. The fairy stood and walked up - with some difficulty, flying was definitely easier for them. They glanced between Wembley and Gobo, back and forth; took in their clasped hands and their smiles, then lightly headbutted Gobo's side with a happy coo of sound.

Wembley's grin grew at that, and he lay a hand on Thorn's back. "That's Bobo," he stated, glancing at Gobo with a spark of humor in his eyes.

[gobetween]

Oh, so he hadn't been hallucinating. He watched the fairy thing, raising a curious eyebrow. Must've been what hatched from the egg.

Then there was that introduction and, despite how he felt, he laughed. "That's Gobo," in exactly the tone from the referenced moment.

[forachange]

Wembley snickered, nodding. "Right, oops!" he teased. "Gobo, this is Thorn. Aren't they a cute little fairy?"

[gobetween]

An amused smirk, then he smiled softly. "Yeah. They're really cute. Perfect for you."

Then he felt a wave of unease and settled back again, shutting his eyes. "I think... I'm just gonna rest for a little bit, Wemb..."

[forachange]

Wembley nodded, eyes widening some. "Yeah! Yeah, Gobo, that's a good idea! I'm gonna stay here, okay? Just to make sure you're alright."

[gobetween]

He nodded somewhat dimly, swallowing a bit. "Yeah. I'd really like that."

[forachange]

"Good," Wembley said quietly, nodding. "I'll be here."

And he would be. They'd always been there for each other when the chips were down, from Bluerock to the Whoopie Water fountain. If anything, being in this place where they were such odd ones out together... And where they'd realized just how much they meant to one another... It made that even more important.