Nobody on the road, nobody on the beach

[mildwildchild]

Who: Flashstep and YOU
What: assorted shenanigans with the Flashbabes
Where: Pride HQ and all around Vista City
When: mid-late April-ish??
Warnings: probably some manpain


The world tour looms, all of Pride Records is feeling the strain, and Flashstep is certainly no exception. There are new song and dance routines to be memorized, public appearances to be made, and promotional stunts to be undertaken, in between which the boys have to wrangle with the burgeoning reality of their situation and maybe try to have some semblance of a social life.

Life is stressful for the band, but stable, maybe even predictable - at least, until Sora's unexpected firing.

[Individual prompts below!]

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[faithfulflame]

"It's not good, Jamie. I know a little bit about what's going on, and...look, it's bad. Blanche and Lesedi...they're going to hurt you guys. They're using you, and the people I'm with? They're here to help stop them...and take us home."

She just hopes you believe her, and reaches out to touch his hand gently.

"I know they're alive though. And we'll get them out too."

[mildwildchild]

Jamie appreciates the gesture, moving to hold her hand tentatively in his, as though he doesn't know if he should or not. There's a lot he could say in response to her words - about how he doesn't know where his home is or if he even has one, how afraid he is that he's just alone like he always thought he was, how he doesn't even know where Sora and Yosuke and the others are being kept or what might need to be done to free them - but most of it would probably just make him burst into tears, because it's been that kind of week.

He finally settles on, "It's - it's dangerous. Do they...those people you're with - do you think they can actually do it? Get everyone out?"

[faithfulflame]

She curls her fingers around his, squeezing tightly and not letting go. She understands, in some ways, knowing that there's more at play in her home than just being a girl from Tokyo. The horrors she's faced down, the terrible doom that clearly befell her in a past life, the act of dying...and remembering it from the other side of death, and that horrible loneliness that plagued her dreams.

"I think they can. Most of them aren't human...and all of us can do things that ordinary people can't." Her skin heats a little, fingertips just a touch warmer than normal.

"Including me, remember?"

[mildwildchild]

He looks down at their joined hands on the tabletop, eyes widening just a little as her fingers warm around his. He's reminded, just for moment or two, of Luci's combustible-hands trick.

He feels small and lost and powerless in the face of everything that's going on, but he swallows the lump in his throat and focuses on the solid warmth of her touch. "Is - I dunno, is there...anything I can do to help?"

[faithfulflame]

"Tell no-one I'm alive. That's a start. The fewer people who know, the safer we'll be," Rei responds quickly. She trusts him, but...only so far. And she'll take the offer at face value.

"Other than that, I know it'll sound off and a little crass but money is always a help. I stashed several thousand dollars away in cash before I left Virgo. I'm just...completely supporting five people. A few dollars goes a long way though. While we bide our time."