needsmorezippers | [ic contact-> call, text, voicemail]

Neku-kun!

I hope you're still around, and that you know where Joshua-kun is since you two are really close! I've been wanting to see you both, so if you could, would you meet me at the hotel lobby? I have a surprise!

[As if you couldn't tell from the way he sounded. Like a kid in a candy store.]

[Well, when Neku gets the voicemail, he's kind of wondering what kind of surprise this is...]

When?

[How could you not tell? With the Christmas cheer nonsense and all.]

Tonight, ~~I almost have the tree up~~ whenever you're free!

Hey, this is Danny from school. This might sound kinda weird, but you know how to dye hair, right? Mine's started changing color, so I want to try dyeing it back to black again, but I don't really know how... do you think maybe you could help? Like, after school or something.

Yea, sure. It's not that hard. If you get the dye we can just do it whenever.

Okay, cool. I can do that for tomorrow, if you're okay with that! Any kind of black dye is fine, right?

Should be, unless you're allergic to something.

Okay, then I don't think there should be any problems. I can get that and then we can do it after school tomorrow.

Alright. See you then.

Hi, so. I think I was a little confused about how hair dye works? I thought permanent meant it lasts a long time, but am I supposed to buy and use new hair dye every day or something? But that sounds like it's really expensive and time-consuming, how do you keep up with it?

[...wait what.]

No, it's supposed to last a while... pretty much until it grows out.

Oh. Really? I don't think it worked then, because this is what it looks like right now:

[He sends over a photo of himself in the mirror, and sure enough, his hair is back to white. In fact, where he still had some strands of hair that were still black yesterday, now his hair is completely pristine, pure white.]

That doesn't make any sense.

Oh. So that's not supposed to happen?

no

oh my god

I think Skyler just tried to kill me

You said he did that to you too, right?

Oh my god he came after me just now too

[...the fuck???]

Are you serious?!

YES, WHY WOULD I NOT BE SERIOUS ABOUT THAT

I didn't think that would be something he'd try again!

Well apparently he did!

Did you know he could fly? Because he can fly now. I'm lucky I managed to get away at all.

He hasn't tried to come back and kill you again, right?

the fuck

No, he hasn't. [yet] are you ok?

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So maybe I'm safe then! I don't think he knows where I live. Maybe I should start walking home on different routes, just in case.

I'm fine, mostly, but I think I'll be feeling this for at least a week. He hits really hard.

Do you need help or anything?

I don't think so. I put him through a wall, so he shouldn't be going anywhere soon.

[...well Neku can't really say that was uncalled for.]

Ok.

[then something occurs to him.]

Do you think he'd try on anyone else?

...oh crap. I didn't think about that.

Uhhh do we have any idea why he tried to kill us and only us?

(It is only us, right? You don't think he's ACTUALLY murdered anybody yet, right?!)

With me I think he was freaking out about if I figured him out it would screw up things for his sister or something.

(How would we KNOW?)

All he said to me was "you know what I am" before he tried to kill me. I think maybe he meant that I know he's a Blood Key.

(oh god oh god oh jeez, I hope not. I should've let the police grab him when I had the chance.)

Yeah, I was kind of on the verge of figuring that out too, so that makes the most sense.

(when did you have the chance??)

So, what, he tries to kill anyone who finds out he's a Key?

Jeez, I'm glad I didn't say anything on the network when I figured it out.

(During the drug bust back in December--I saw some cops getting on his case, so I figured I'd get him out of there, one network person to another. Didn't stop him from being a douche still, though.)

Maybe we should have. Strength in numbers.

(Way for him to pay you back for saving his ass.)

I don't know...

(Yeah, that's what I told him. I guess that's kind of what started all this, but I didn't think it would end with him trying to actually KILL me!)

[ok Danny that maybe was a bit of a bad idea, to... actually bring it up.]

What the hell do we do?

...do you think we could just leave him? I mean, I did trap him in a brick wall. There's no way he can get out of that, right?

I think he had a canon in his arm. I wouldn't be so sure he can't get out. But like hell I'm gonna go try and get him out.

Me neither. If I go back, he probably will kill me!

Uh, more. Double-kill me? Kill me deader? Something like that.

I get the point.

Hey Neku, guess what? Dinner tonight's the whole mansion together - fresh fish, and on me!

[...Neku will never get used to be invited to things like this. But it is nice. Hopefully he can suck less at conversation now that he's seen them multiple times.]

That sounds really. Thanks, Cade.

Oh you like fish? I'm glad, I was a little worried at first.

Yeah, I do. [He was about to explain it as ‘I am Japanese’ but then remembers that might not mean anything to him.]

Is there any way you like them prepared? I think Yurick's going to try something.

Anything's fine, really.

Are you just saying that because you don't mind, or because I'm bothering you at a bad time?

[.......neku's not sure how that wasn't clear.]

No, really. Anything is fine. I will eat fish done pretty much any way.

Okay then. Glad to hear it - see you tonight!

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