I'll tell you all how the story ends

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Who: Ghost Quest kids and all those who want to see them.
What: So as it turns out, going against the label might've been a bad move. Who knew, right? 
When: Feb 3rd and after 
Where: Pride HQ
Warnings: Talk of torture, aftermath of violence, aftermath of brainwashing, dudes there's some dark stuff.

For the past three days, the troublemakers and ghost helpers of Pride Records were kept locked away from their friends and their bands. 

As far as everyone else knew, they were just gone. And then they were back. 

They are all worse for wear, some far more than others and some much more mentally than physically, but they are all returned to their penthouses, finally, at the end of their ordeals. 

But, at least they're back. Somewhat in one piece. For the most part. 

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Carnieville

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How in the hell Xanxus remained passed the fuck out through all of that is a miracle. A miracle and the sheer amount of drugs and alcohol in his bloodstream right now. He's barely conscious. He doesn't wake for her fit. What he does finally wake up for is her tears. He hears her sobbing and that's what finally wakes him up.

He sits up slowly and his voice croaks a little when he speaks, full of that groggy note of being high. "Yuffie, that you? You finally back?"

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"Xan- Shit, I- "

Yuffie jolts when she hears him talk, she rolls to her feet, wincing. She didn't mean to wake him up. Hell, she barely realized he was there at all, she was so upset. This was all her fault. Fetch was gone, all because of her. Because of what she did.

She scrubs at her face with her hands, splitting back open the cut on her cheek on accident. It hurts, and she ends up with blood on her fingers and striped across her face.

When she turns and looks at him, she looks half wild.

"...Yeah. It's...It's me."

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Someone hurt his Yuffie... that thought barely makes it through the haze. Someone dared to hurt his favorite girl. Someone had made a part of his Family cry. It's sobering enough to get him upright completely and looking at her. Well sort of at her. His eyes go in and out of focus, pupils dilated.

"Thank fuck...I thought they'd take you forever. I thought I'd lose you too." Because they took Alec and they took Wakana and they took Fetch. They took everyone he actually cared about.

He tries to stand. "But fuck Yuffie. Fucking fuck. Look at you. Shit. Let me get you some bandaids...I'll let you use my bacon ones." If he can function long enough to manage to walk to his room and back. A lot of signs are pointing to no because he's so strung out he can barely keep sitting upright.

"Predator didn't fuck you up too did they? I don't care if they're Santiago's buttbuddies. I will fuck them up somehow if they did."

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Yuffie immediately moves towards him because she can see he's pretty much drugged to fuck and what did he even do to himself. She's still horribly shaky, but she immediately goes over the couch to sit next to him, tugging on his arm to keep him on the couch with her.

"I'm fine, I'm fine. It wasn't them." She says, trying to keep him sitting and trying to keep him from deciding he needs to go after the boss's golden kids. She's not stupid, she knows that's a terrible idea and Xan will get his ass kicked, again. She's not about to let that woman decide Xan needs to go too. They lost Fetch. She's not losing Xanxus.

"Please, please don't do anything. What ever you do, you can't do anything about this. Understand?" She'll beat it into his head when he's sober, but right now she just wants him to stop, she's terrified that no matter what, if they step out of line another Carnie will go. Clearly The Boss is willing to do that.

"Promise me." It is very low to try and get a promise out of someone who is so high they can barely function, but she's hoping it'll hold. "Promise me, right now."

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She tugs him and his immediate reaction is to drape himself around her. It's a hug of sorts. She had been crying and he didn't know how to handle that. He's too high to do anything else but he wants to do what he can for her. "You promise? You swear to all that's fucking unholy that it wasn't them... Cause I won't forgive anyone that makes my Yuffie cry." Because she's important to him. Her and Fetch (wherever she went) and Luci. Even Po is growing on him.

He wants to plant his chin on her hair but she's so hurt. So hurt and he doesn't want to make it worse. "The hell I can't. Yuffie, you're one of mine. You're a Carnie. I won't let anyone bully you or hurt you. I won't." How he could right now when he can barely string words together is still questionable.

She demands a promise and he blinks. "What is with the important women in my life and promises. Luci made me promise too. Not to do anything dumb without consulting her first." He then laughs and looks at the tourniquet on his arm. "Guess I did a shit job at that."

"So, I might do a shit job again. But I will. Cause I don't to see you cry more. So I promise. Whatever it is, I promise it. So no more crying and let me plop some of my special bandaids on you."

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"I swear on everything, Xan. It wasn't them." She tucks herself in against him a bit like a kid would. He's her family, and she adores him in ways she doesn't always say, but she really should. The edges of her mouth tug down against her will, because she just wants to keep crying and raging until all of the rage in her dries up and there's nothing left, but she's not sure what will be left if she does.

And the chance that there's not enough to hold her up at the end of the day is a terrifying idea.

"We're Carnies. Even if we do a shit job at it, we still try to take care of each other." She thinks that she may manage to get that out without her voice wavering too badly. Which is why she's willing to wring a promise out of him now, or why she'd wreck anyone for doing anything to any of them. Or why she feels quite so terrible because Xan can say he fucked up but at the end of the day, she got Fetch fired. And with what they're willing to do, Yuffie has no illusions about the state of her friend.

"I'll try not to cry anymore, kay? Shouldn't be too hard, right?" She is glad he can't see her face at the moment, having tucked it into his shoulder, because she's lying her ass off. She's still crying, and she can't quite stop, though she's going to try. She's really going to try. "I'll be fine, ya know."

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She curls up against him and he has to believe her. He has to because there's so much he's keeping from her. It makes him almost feel guilty for all the things he's not telling her about himself. Even more when she confirms what he's known for a while. They were all fucked up, but they were also all there for one another. Which is why he sighs and mutters against Yuffie's hair. "I promise. I'll leave it be." He doesn't want to but he will.

"And that's right. It's not hard. You'll be fine. Because you have Luci and me. We've got your back." He awkwardly strokes her spine and rocks her just slightly. "And after we get you taken care of, I'll bitch about that fucking leak in the ceiling." Yeah. He's going to let her cry on him if she wants; he'll blame the fake leaky ceiling for as long as she needs.