the_campus | Joint Post! Like an Old Married Couple

[From just outside the jungle's trees, near the mountainside, some bickering can be heard:]

Here. It's probably fresher than you'd like, but it's all we have.
...I can't eat that, Bakura.
You don't have the option to be picky, Malik!
No...I really can't, you fool!
Tch... I can cook it a bit more, but we have to be careful, or the smoke from the fire will give us away!
Ughh...can't you find some fruit? Just look up.
Do you want to die? If someone finds you while I'm out looking for fruit, you'll have worse problems than having to eat meat.
But Bakura... [Malik sounds a bit like he might be ill.] My stomach...
O-oy! Hold on a little longer, okay? I'll see if I can find something close by. I'll stay within earshot, so if someone approaches, scream.
Just get a couple...I don't need that much.
Be quiet, you idiot. You need to eat something. [He chomps down on the meat Malik refused to eat.]
Well? I can't eat anything if you don't go get something!

((ooc: So! Tags will come from both Bakura and Malik. If we're going to tag you with both on a turn we'll put a "1/2" in the subject line, otherwise it's just one at a time. Also since the two of them are injured, we just ask that nobody with magic healing powers comes along to heal them up and stuff. Thanks!

Warnings for adult content in some threads.))

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You could always blame it on the bloodloss... heheh.

[The joke came easily, but he supposed it was time to at least let on a little of his thoughts. Not much, however.]

Sad, isn't it? When I saw you lying there like that, in such a helpless state among the rubble, it was as if I was looking at a corpse. If you hadn't moved, I would have left you behind. However, you clung to life even in that situation...

... [Malik prefers not to think about how close he had come to death, or how pathetic he might have looked lying there. He barely remembers the events leading right up to his wound, and has no idea what Bakura had done while he was out.

Even their talk in the jungle leading up to the school was a blur to him.

His words come out confident despite the topic.] I wouldn't die so easily, Bakura. I still have things I want to do.

Heheh. That spirit is why you're alive now.

[Yes, he is in fact implying that part of the reason he saved him was just because he enjoyed seeing him struggle for life.]

... [He'll take that as a compliment.]

Are you almost done? [Referring, of course, to his work on cleaning his wound.]

Yeah. Just a second.

[Dressing on, bandages on. There they were.]

Mmmhmhm... [Malik looks down at his newly dressed wound, smiling.] Much better.

Now...what were you saying earlier?

[His lips twitch upwards into a smirk.]

Remember that I'm a thief, Malik. The easiest way to get information out of me is to offer it. Or to offer something else of value.

I'll be honest if you will. Nothing's free in this world unless you take it.

[Not that he really plans to be honest.]

Is that so? [He says with a light air of amusement, as if this were nothing more than a game.]

Then what would you have me tell you in exchange for knowledge on your other "plans"?

Why does it bother you that I have plans you don't know about?

[His answer is immediate and without concern.]

[Malik's own answer comes with the slightest hint of a warning.]

Because those plans might interfere with my own. And I can't have that.

You share your plans, don't you? Then my plans would obviously be worked around yours.

Unexpected things can happen. What if one of your plans interferes with a readjustment I have to make to one of my own?

[He narrows his eyes, giving Bakura a testing leer.]

Then that's just too bad, isn't it?

[Bakura seems entirely unruffled by the idea.]

[He leans in, adamant.]

No. That's why you need to tell me!

Is that so... Well, then. I'm going to give you one reason why Karasu is useful.

Dragons can fly, Malik.

... [Despite how obvious that fact was, Malik hadn't realized it. His face loses some of its color in silent, visual shock.]

Well... [He starts, slowly trying to regain his composure.] ...it's not as if I permanently drove her away.

[Even if that had been his intention.]

[And finally Malik sees the point. He isn't sure whether he wants to shake him or punch him more.]

That's true. Thanks to my damage control, she thinks you're just a little paranoid.

Haha...good job, Bakura.

[Yes he's going to praise you for fixing up his own mistakes as if this were all according to plan. What of it?]

Now...if she really can fly, why haven't we just left already?

She was injured in her arrival here. Attacked by some other creature on the way and crash-landed. Her injury and yours are actually rather similar... so you can see why it might be a problem. Rest assured... it's only a waiting game.

Besides, we need to get the Rod back before we can leave.

Tch, that's right... [They were essentially stranded until the Rod was back in his hands. Not that they weren't stranded before he had the Rod...but at least they could have left at the first chance they had.]

Do you have any idea how long it'll be until she's well?

From the looks of it, not too long. She seems to heal rather fast. But she's quite similar to Yugi and his friends. She'll wait as long as she has to for us.

As long as you don't antagonize her further.

Keh heh...okay, okay...I get it. [He shoots Bakura a pointed grin.] I'll play nice.

Good boy.

[He draws the phrase out sarcastically, stretching out on the ground.]

Was that all you wanted to know?

[He curls his lip a bit at that sarcasm.]

No--was there anything else I should know? Other plans, maybe?

[Other plans... He has more goals than he does plans. Escape. Gathering the items. Teaching Malik a little respect. His final goal. Plans? Plans are changeable. They're nice to have, but easy to abandon. Bakura is an opportunist, not a planner. He absently grabs his knife and plays with it a little, looking thoughtful. He seems to be quiet for an annoyingly long time, as if he doesn't want to answer.]

Plans change. What of yours? I'll tell you if any of mine conflict.

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