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[It's Sunday night when Marco finally returns from the mission against pirates. He feels pretty good, it's always nice to be back out at sea doing something familiar that was absent for so long. Still he has a feeling his family that couldn't come might have had some massive explosions. They're all like Ace with a bottle of booze and some fireworks. It'd be nice just to make sure they're all in one piece. He will of course, be glad to see anyone however and probably give hugs to random CR. Affectionate tired-happy pirate get.]

[Option B:]

[Throughout the next week Marco has both made posters asking to vote for him for Homecoming King, and then doodled all over them. Feel free to catch him in the act, or to just find random posters of Marco with a top-hat, mustache, and monocle plastered all over them. MUCH MUCH later in the week, he'll also make chocolate cupcakes with blue frosting and sprinkles and hand them out with a little Whitebeard flag decoration stuck in. It's not a bribe. Obviously he just felt like it. Obviously.]

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[Sorry, tired-pirate, but there's someone else happy to see you.]

Dad!

[Tackle hug go!]

[Marco can't even get through the gate properly before Espio decides to tackle him from behind.

Well, okay. It was less of a tackle, more of "run to greet, forgot to stop" crash, but even so.]

Edited 2012-08-28 03:34 (UTC)

[Picks Toby up and spins him around in a circle.]

Toby~!

[.....]

OI! What happened to your eye? [D:<]

[Oh crap, he totally forgot about it.]

It was... just an accident...

[Pleaaaase don't make him elaborate he knows you're more sane than Mom but COME ON.]

[If Epsio weighed more, Marco would be seriously faceplanted into the ground. Luckily, as it is, he just tries to catch the chameleon and put him on his shoulders.]

Missed me or are you running off somewhere else?

What happened?

Come on, you can trust me, eh? I won't do anything crazy. [Legitimately truthful here.]

...Something happened to me. I don't really remember it but I know I did something bad during it. Espio punched me because of it.

Mom wanted to kill him, but it was my fault in the first place. And Espio didn't mean to and was really sorry, so it's okay, right?

[Sorry, Marco, did you ask a question?]

Toby went insane, and I mean actually insane, I got him to snap out of it but it could happen again and he can't remember but I haven't told him everything about it because it was creepy as fuck, and I think I broke Grell because she didn't even try to kill me she just talked about cake and boycotting homecoming!

[Espio is only vaguely aware that none of this makes much in the way of sense.]

[Despite the horror of that, Marco's actually still pretty calm. Especially outwardly.]

And she didn't kill him? Remind me to get her a very big present after my next mission, eh.

[And he'd be taking her shopping as promised...] Okay, but you don't know what the "something bad" was?

[Ruffles Toby's head to show it's okay, he's safe now, and Marco isn't planning to kill his boyfriend. ~~Yet.~~]

You... broke Grell?

I didn't know that was possible.

Okay. Tell me everything that happened with "insane Toby" all right? Do you need to go somewhere calming?

I don't know how else to put it, she should have tried to chainsaw me but didn't and I have no idea why! And - I - ugh...

[Really, really worked up. He's shaking.]

What would "somewhere calming" even be?

Yeah... I don't... just that I did something really, really bad and I can't remember.

I mean, Espio wouldn't hurt me unless I really deserved it... Right...?

[Rubs his temples.]

Kid, no matter what you did, you didn't "deserve to be hurt," okay? But I'm sure there's a lot more to this story than just you doing something you can't remember and Espio punching you.

You don't deserve pain. But I am very concerned about the blackout in your memory, okay? It wasn't from the punch, right?

I don't know, I find rooftops soothing. Come here.

[Picks Espio up to cradle in his arms and gives him a big hug.] That must have been scary, eh? Both during and after. [Pats Espio's head!] I'll handle Grell in a bit, but first, Toby. Start from the start.

No, the punch just sort of made my eye hurt. It didn't knock me out or anything...

[He's a little concerned about that blank spot too. But...]

...So if I didn't deserve it, why did he hit me? He wouldn't do that otherwise.

I'm not mad at Espio so you don't need to defend him, eh? I've gotten in plenty of fights with my brothers. You didn't deserve to be punched, but you're right, something must have happened or he wouldn't do that.

Is he freaking out and avoiding you?

...No, he's not. We're doing things together still, I'm just... kind of worried about Mom.

[He'll hug you a little... well, a lot here, Marco.]

And... I'm scared of what I did.

[Hugs Toby!]

I'll handle your Mom, no worries. [Ruffles Toby's head soothingly again.] Well, first I have to find out what happened during that time you can't remember, okay? But I'll do my best to make it better. Whatever the cause.

For now, don't practice removing the bracelet until I find out, all right?

Edited 2012-08-28 05:33 (UTC)

Well, I...

Kind of got annoyed with Toby - it was something stupid, so I didn't want to say, but he kept asking me why I was annoyed so I just kind of, well... snapped at him, but he ran off before I could even apologise and then I didn't find him for days! I thought...

[Well, he'd thought that he might have just gone. He would feel so rotten if Toby disappeared again and the last thing he'd done was yell at him.]

...well...

[Bit of fidgeting with the cuffs of his gloves. PREPARE FOR BARRAGE OF WORDS, because Espio is freaking out now that he's got someone he's willing to let his guard down for.]

When I did meet up with him again, he just... didn't react at all, and I thought he was still upset, but then it was like he was someone else completely! Doing and saying stuff Toby'd never do! And not just him being weird 'cause of being upset or anything - saying things like he didn't care about anything like you or me or Grell, that it was okay to kill monsters with his hand because they were just monsters, that it was fine if he killed someone again or got chased out of Garden, because he didn't care and it was good to not care and it was really creepy - it's just not Toby at all! He'd be horrified if he heard his own voice talking like that, right? He even gave himself a different identity, and...

It was all just because I yelled about something stupid and was being ridiculous and everything. But, I know I do that, and so does Toby, so why was this time so different?

I got him to snap out of it and go back to normal, but he doesn't even remember anything, and I only told him a little bit of it. But it's like, Toby became something I know he'd be scared of being, and if it happened because he didn't know how to handle a problem, then it could happen again and he might not snap out of it a second time!

Okay, I promise.

[He's not too keen on removing it anyway, so it's nothing big to promise that...]

...If... I did something really awful, promise you'll tell me. If... I'm supposed to get stronger, I need to own up to what I do... right?

[There's a burst of blue flames over Marco's arm.]

You punched him for being annoying.

[His tone is even, almost cold, but still extraordinarily calm considering circumstances.]

I'm going to have to ask you to never do that again. Not without a much better reason than that. Either control your temper, or find a better way to deal with it. He's still too fragile and he doesn't remember everything about the Garden.

[Still, he holds onto Espio, as gently as before and doesn't make any sudden movements towards violence or anything else. Just lightly pats Epsio's head.]

Unfortunately, I don't know enough about psychology as would be needed for this, I think. That was something my brothers were better at.

[Rubs his chin in thought.] If I try to bring out the other side again, it could be really risky, eh. [Trying to remember what he DOES know of such things.] All right, thank you for snapping him out of it Espio, I'm sorry all this happened while I was gone.

I'm going to check a few books later, I think I remember something similar, he's usually so frail that after all the times things have tried to kill him, something in him snapped to protect himself.

That said, until we know a lot more, don't him again. Use kid gloves always. If you really need enough space, you can come to me and I'll help, and I'm come up with something for when I'm not here. But hitting him won't solve anything, as I'm sure you realize. Find another way to deal with it.

If that other side comes out again, get me immediately so I can see it for myself, but let's try not to have reasons for that side to come out yet, eh? And I'll talk to the psych. professor here.

Did the "other identity" say anything?

Yeah kiddo. If you do anything wrong, I'll tell you. Because I'm your father, eh? So that's my job.

[Head scritches!] But if you did something to really deserve getting hit, I think Espio would have told you what it is.

How are you feeling otherwise?

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