We carry our sins in our backs [Possesed Airlocked AU]

[tacomeme]

[Everything was going to be better now.

They had defeated the ones that had ruined their lives, those trapped in the simulation were freed. Somee were going to go home. Some had new homes. Some were still figuring that out. And that was fine- they had time and the entire universe available.

Takumi was quiet.

Everything was fine, surely. It just took some getting used to, being back in a real body again. The PIPs were off, so while he was less powered then some, having his dragon blood freed was something to readapt to.

But with the PIP gone, something else came back. The headache that made his eyes pulse and his ears scream. He had excused himself from Finn some time ago, heading towards the storage where their gear was held. Likely he was eager to have his bow back.

Xander had followed shortly after, saying that... well, if they were both to go home even just to visit, it was best they clear the air between them.

It's been a long time. Neither has come back.]

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This- no. We're going, together.

[Finn shifts back enough to look at Takumi, one hand cupping the prince's face to bring them eye to eye.]

Wherever, okay? The two of us, I am not leaving you alone again-

[He starts a little as Xander groans; a brief instant of relief quickly replaced with more fear and confusion as the implications lined up in his head. Takumi wouldn't be acting this way if this were just self-defense, but if he'd struck first-]

[None of this was adding up-]

Taku. You told me- told all of us, about the war, remember? About- how you'd died, before you ever came here.

And then you said you didn't want to go back to that, to feeling that kind of hatred.

[...sort of. More or less.]

That- I still believe that's true. Whatever- whatever happened here, whatever might be pushing you, the part of you that doesn't want to hate is stronger than it, I believe that even if you don't.

I said then I wasn't going to let you deal with it alone, and I still mean that.

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... I thought it was gone. That Corrin killing me was enough. But right when they took off the PIP I could feel it. I don't know if they rebuilt it with my body or... or if it's just part of my soul now. I thought... I could fight it now that I'm so far away from Nohr.

... But it... it wants everyone dead. All humans.

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...shit.

[Finn's quiet for a moment, just resting his forehead against Takumi's.]

Okay.

[He's speaking quietly, foreheads still pressed together.]

That- I promise I won't let that happen. No matter what, okay?

[If he's even capable of that. He doesn't have any illusions about his own capabilities compared to Takumi's; if he had a blaster and a lot of luck, maybe, but he's still pretty sure that even success would involve following Takumi again sooner rather than later. Frankly, that scared him a lot less than failing.]

But it's not gonna come to that, okay?

[He has. The barest seed of an idea. It's probably dumb, definitely half-baked, and possibly more suicidal than his promise to stop Takumi's body from committing galactic genocide, but at the moment it's all he has.]

Because I've seen you. I know how strong you are, and it's stronger than this. The man I fell in love with didn't let dying three times stop him, and he wouldn't let this either. That- thing that's pushing you, that did this, it needs you to believe you can't win, but I know you can. Taku, tell me - which of us are you going to prove right?