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No, keep doing what you're doing.

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[Selphie needs to wait about an hour and a half. Maybe she's forgotten about the request by now, but that's the idea. Natsuno is up in the crow's nest, away from everyone. He takes a deep breath and focuses. He can smell everyone, he can hear their heartbeats and he can find Selphie in her room.

All of a sudden, the air might seem a little thick, a strong sense of foreboding might creep up on her. It will seem subtle at first, and then become increasingly stronger. She might hear a creak on the stairs, one or two as it sounds like something is coming towards her.

Then he appears, hovering in her doorway, eyes red and hypnotic, his fangs extended forebodingly.

All at once, everything vanishes.]

*Selphie is well enough to be out of bed, and she's decided to clear up her room. She's just finished making her bed when she feels that horrible, creeping feeling. She freezes, afraid tobreathe, wide eyes glancing around for whatever is coming. Then when she sees that image in her doorway she lets out a terrified scream and reaches straight for her nunchaku, stumbling across the floor*

[Natsuno exhales as he's done with his hypnosis trick, and he can feel that her heart seems to be racing and he wonders if it worked.]

*Once she's finally calmed herself, Selphie goes storming out of her room, nunchaku firmly clutched in her hands. Well done, Yuuki. You're the first person to get her out her room in days. But she's glaring and shouting for him at the top of her lungs*

Yuuki! Where the hell are you? You big coward!!

[He peeks over the edge of the crow's nest wall and looks down at her.]

I'm up here.

[Yeah, he's pretty sure that worked.]

Quit hiding up there, you creep! Get down here!

*Standing beneath, she shakes her nunchaku up at him. Oh, and maybe a little water spell sent his way too*

[Fortunately he's already moving before the water gets there, so it misses him completely. He does climb down from the crow's nest.]

Right! You! What in the hell was that about? You knew that would scare me and you didn't even warn me!

*She points her nunchaku at him then walks close to him, until she's pressing an end against his chest*

I said it wasn't going to be pleasant!

[Natsuno raises his hands up a bit, in a placating gesture.]

And I wasn't sure it was going to work!

*Selphie swiftly moves the end of her nunchaku to smack hard against the side of his hand*

There's a difference between unpleasant and out of you mind terrifed, Yuuki! Learn it!

Ow! Okay, I'm sorry!

[He hisses a bit and rubs his hand. Sure, it's going to heal in a moment but that doesn't mean it didn't hurt.]

[Well he is experimenting, and although he hasn't bit her, he's feeling a lot stronger than he usually is. With the hand she didn't hit, he reaches out to catch her attention, maybe touch her chin to get her to meet his eyes. They've gone red again, but more interesting, his voice has changed. It sounds a lot more melodic. Calming.]

Selphie you're safe on the ship. I'm not going to hurt you. You don't have to be scared anymore.

*The effect isn't quite instant, but it does work. Her expression is entirely focused on Natsuno for a moment, before the angry look in her eyes turns softer, and she smiles. She looks at him, still smiling, then realises she is holding her nunchaku, and remembers that she was angry with him a moment ago*

Hey - what the?! Yuuki! You can't just do that to me!

*And this time she goes for an even harder whack of her nunchaku*

Ow! That really hurts you know!

Well that's what you get for playing with my head! Don't. Do. It. It's cool and all that you've figured it out, but seriously... *She frowns and shakes her nunchaku in warning*

I promise I won't do it again.

[He sighs a little and bows appropriate to a sincere apology. There isn't much of a need to do it again, not to Selphie anyway.]

*She seems satisified enough, and nods, but rests her weapon over her shoulder jus in case*

How did you figure you could do that anyway?

[He looks like he's thinking about the least depressing way to put it.]

Shimizu used hypnosis at a distance to torment me, and there's a few other things she was able to do when she came to kill Tohru. She had control over my body.

[Yeah, he's not going to do that to Selphie.]

I'm feeling especially...strong at the moment.

And... You're not gonna try any of those tricks on me, are you? Cause - I think that would weird me out a little too much. That's kinda gross.

*Because talking about this in a more light-hearted way might be better than allowing him to be depressed about it*

Huh, I wonder why that is? Is it like, a moon thing? Wait, no, that's werewolves...

No, I'm not going to do anything else to you. My hand still hurts.

[It's part of why dealing with his own vampirism is such a sore point. He's had a real taste of what they can do.]

It's because when I got rescued, I bit a few people in the process. I've had a lot more blood then I normally do.

Good!

*And she allows herself a little smile of triumph*

Oh... I see. Well, I'm glad that something good came out of... all of that.

*She sighs a little awkwardly - she hadn't seen any good from her point of the events*

It wasn't that good. I kind of lost control, but Riku grounded me. I am grateful for that.

[He exhales, closing his eyes a moment.]

I could have killed one of them. Whatever those chains were, were suppressing me and snapping out of it was...an experience.

I wish I'd been strong enough to fight back... but... things just didn't work out that way.

*Mostly because she'd been very close to her own death*

I'm glad Riku was there to help you. And I'm sorry I couldn't.

Don't feel bad about that Selphie. We couldn't really know what we were in for. I should have been able to resist myself, but I was just as weak as I've always been.

[His fingers curl into fists and he looks down.]

I am fortunate enough that I can heal from something like that physically, with little time or effort. Especially once I bit someone. It's not like that for you.

[After a pause he reaches out and touches her arm gently.]

As scary as my illusion was, you know I'll never hurt you right?

But that's kinda why we offer to let you feed too. Doesn't matter if you think you can do without. What if something like that happens again? You need to be as strong as you can be.

*She watches as he looks down, and though maybe he can't see it, she shakes her head - her wrists are still pink and healing, and the deep cuts on her leg will probably scar. She blinks when he touches her arm - as light as it is, she's surprised. But in answer she launches herself closer to him and hugs him tightly*

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