Mar 31 18:10:19 <Knave>	Callum's in the gazebo. You can tell because of the smell, and the sound of ragged breathing, both of which reach to the roof of San Francisco Hall. The trail of beaten-down dirt and bracken twisting and looping through the forests, back onto paths then back off them again, leads back to the gazebo, where he sits hunched over, elbows on his knees and head in his hands, breathing hard and slow.
Mar 31 18:14:05 <LipstickThespian>	Yuki had been around, talking to a few people but really just trying to focus on her thoughts. She had meditated, just like her Mother always told her to, and it hadn't really done much for her.  Eventually she found herself standing at the entrance to the gazebo. It wasn't hard to find Callum, he wasn't exactly quiet in that moment.  She gave two quick knocks on one of the posts and then leaned against it, crossing her arms over her chest and watching the boy with a neutral expression.
Mar 31 18:15:19 <Knave>	Callum raises his head slowly, his mouth hanging open as he continues gasping for breath. He nods in recognition, then straightens up slightly. "Hey."
Mar 31 18:17:07 <LipstickThespian>	"Are you okay?" Yuki asks as she manages to push some of her errant strands of hair back behind her ear. There's a bit of smile on her face as she realizes she's caught him post-run.
Mar 31 18:20:23 <Knave>	Callum shrugs, his neck still hunched forward giving the gesture a caveman-esque bent. "Are you?" He says between deep breaths.
Mar 31 18:21:22 <LipstickThespian>	Yuki gave a small, uncertain laugh and finally stepped into the gazebo to walk over to him. "Should I come back? You look like you just ran yourself to exhaustion."
Mar 31 18:23:29 <Knave>	Callum raises an eyebrow, then shifts to one side and pats the seat next to him, "Not a hard book to read, am I?" He says with some weariness, but not an absence of humour.
Mar 31 18:26:07 <LipstickThespian>	"Well, you could hear your panting from the dorms." Yuki says as she walks over and drops down unceremoniously next to Callum.  "You smell, too," she pinches her nose playfully after, but releases it in a second.  It wasn't that bad.
Mar 31 18:28:03 <Knave>	"Didn't sleep so good last night. Thought a run to clear my head would be a good idea." He offers as an explanation, making no argument or comment regarding his stench.
Mar 31 18:29:52 <LipstickThespian>	"Did it help clear your mind?" Yuki asks with a glance over, a bit of hope in the look. Like running a lap around the campus would make it all better.
Mar 31 18:31:51 <Knave>	"No." He shakes his head, almost laughing, "Just pushed everything to the side for a while." He twists his head away and rests his temple in a palm.
Mar 31 18:38:17 <LipstickThespian>	"At least you got your excercise in for the day!" Yuki says with a bright look on her face, before she slips forward and rests her elbows on her legs.
Mar 31 18:40:33 <Knave>	Callum rubs at his eye with the heel of his palm - it's not hard to guess that he's crying, from the way his "Yeah." comes out light and non-committal and not quite as blank as usual.
Mar 31 18:43:52 <LipstickThespian>	Yuki is used to crying, it's a normal way to show emotions. She just never really expected such a big guy like Callum to do it.  "Callum-chan," she says softly as she slides down the bench to be right next to him. "Please don't do that, please? You're the strong one."
Mar 31 18:46:42 <Knave>	Callum shakes his head, "Not you too. I thought," He looks at her, huge wells of tears streaming from the corners of his eyes, his face that looked like it might have been carved wobbling pathetically, "I thought I didn't have to worry about this with you." A heavy sob racks his shoulders, resembling nothing so much as a seismic event, "I can't be that, okay? I can't be like that."
Mar 31 18:50:52 <LipstickThespian>	"I'm sorry," Yuki says as she dug into her bag and tried to find something, eventually pulling out a handkerchief.  Simple cloth, with a small little anime girl monogrammed in the corner. "I didn't mean to say it like that, Callum-chan.  Here," she said as she held the small little piece of cloth up to him as an offering. "It's okay to be sad, you know? Even the best samurai cries over a lost battle."
Mar 31 18:54:26 <Knave>	Callum accepts the handkerchief, tries to smile. He tries to say "thank you", but his throat catches and no sound comes out. He sobs into it for a while, futilely wiping up tears while they're still coming. By the time he calms down enough to speak, the thing is four-fifths liquid by weight. "I'm not perfect." He says quietly, as if revealing a deep personal truth.
Mar 31 18:57:59 <LipstickThespian>	Yuki leans over after she's given up her handkerchief to a good cause and she slips her arm around Callum's.  Wrapping around it with both of her arms, hugging him would stretch her arms a little much, so she can settle for this.  Leaning against him, head resting on his upper arm as she's a little too short to lay it on his shoulder.  "Of course you aren't," she says with a small smile
Mar 31 18:57:59 <LipstickThespian>	on her lips, "if you were perfect you wouldn't sweat this much from running."
Mar 31 19:03:05 <Knave>	Callum makes a noise. It might be a laugh, it might be a cough. "When I saved those people, back home," He says, fiddling with the handkerchief, "You should have seen the way everyone. The way they talked. They all looked so relieved." He shuts his eyes, and puts his free hand over one of Yuki's, squeezing it very gently.
Mar 31 19:05:27 <LipstickThespian>	Yuki glances up at him, lifting her head from where it rested to do so. "You saved people?" She says with a bit of curiosity in her voice, "really? What was it like? Were you a hero?"
Mar 31 19:07:13 <Knave>	"The ferris wheel." He says, a little absently, "I think I mentioned it." He sniffs, the retelling seeming to help with the emotion, "It was collapsing, and so I carried it to safety is all." He nods then, his mouth clamped shut but his lips wobbling, "Yeah. They said I was a hero."
Mar 31 19:10:18 <LipstickThespian>	"I thought you were making a joke when you said you could lift one of those," Yuki says with a light giggle as she lays her head back against his arm.  "You know," she says after a second of thought, "even the Chikara Force didn't win all the time. Sometimes people got hurt, and in the movie they even lost one of their own."  She looked up towards the ceiling of the gazebo, "but they
Mar 31 19:10:19 <LipstickThespian>	picked themselves back up after. Because that's what heroes do, even when their power transformation belts get taken from them and they think all is lost."
Mar 31 19:12:47 <Knave>	Callum sniffs in deep, and turns his head to Yuki, appraisingly. With little effort, he pulls his arm free of hers and wraps both softly around her shoulders.
Mar 31 19:14:20 <LipstickThespian>	Yuki lets out a small surprised little mewing sound as she is wrapped by his arms, and she finds herself reactively holding her arms against his chest as she leans against him.  She closes her eyes and just lets herself be there for him.
Mar 31 19:15:50 <Knave>	It's only a few seconds before Callum withdraws, back to his hunched over position, dabs at his eye with the remains of the handkerchief. "Thank you."
Mar 31 19:17:20 <LipstickThespian>	Yuki drops her arms back to her lap and tries to hide the fact that her cheeks are red with embarassment.  "You're welcome, Callum-chan."
Mar 31 19:19:03 <Knave>	"You're a good friend, Yuki." Callum nods to himself, "You're a good person." He looks at the handkerchief he's crumpling in his fingers, "Sorry about that. I'll clean it before I return it."
Mar 31 19:21:36 <LipstickThespian>	"That's very sweet of you Callum-chan," Yuki said with a dismissive hand wave. What was a handkerchief? She could live without seeing it again but it would be nice.  Then she asks the same question she did when she came to visit him, "are you okay?"
Mar 31 19:24:09 <Knave>	Callum shrugs again. His voice is shaky from crying as he says "Better, I guess." Callum looks up, remembering she never answered him either, "You?"
Mar 31 19:25:53 <LipstickThespian>	"You really do stink when you sweat," Yuki says in answer as she glances over to him.  "You should take a shower or something."
Mar 31 19:27:36 <Knave>	"Yeah. Sorry." Callum stands up, slowly, creakily, "Yeah, I should go take a shower." He runs a hand through his hair and begins to walk away, "I'll see you around, Yuki."
Mar 31 19:29:03 <LipstickThespian>	"Callum-chan," Yuki says as she jumps off the bench to stand there in the middle of the gazebo. "I had a question for you, actually. Before you go?"
Mar 31 19:30:01 <Knave>	Callum turns on the spot, his still-reddened face a picture of serene curiosity. "Shoot."
Mar 31 19:32:51 <LipstickThespian>	"I t-thought that maybe we could go on another walk," her face turns that shade of red again and she fiddles with her hands in front of her skirt. "If you want?"
Mar 31 19:36:14 <Knave>	Callum looks at her, her face, her hands, her everything. He couldn't say no. There were a million reasons not to. "Tomorrow." He says, smiling, "I think I got my exercise for today."
Mar 31 19:37:48 <LipstickThespian>	"Okay," Yuki echoes him with a small nod of her head and a renewed look of determination on her face. "Tommorow."
Mar 31 19:38:52 <Knave>	He nods back, smiling blithely. /She's cute./ He turns with a wave and sets off for the dorms.
Mar 31 19:41:58 <Knave>	-Scene sobbed-