Jensen Quackles
I swear, every time I see this my mood goes up by 967%
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The frost haired boy nodded as he listened, finally shrugging before he spoke. “Yeah, I guess.” He said. Well, watching the kids couldn’t be too hard. They’re just kids after all, and Jack loved being around them regardless if they could see him or not. “Yeah I can watch them for you.” He told her with a small smile.
Cadence gave him a smile and a approving nod in return, relief going over her. She thought for a moment he wouldn’t help her out.. Yet, Jack was very kind. He would always help her. Ah, for reasonable things. She removed her hand from his knee and leaned back against the bench, causing the aging wood to creak in the process. Right now, she just needed to rest.
The subject of it Akiyo told anyone else seemed to bother him, so she quickly dropped it with an, “Ah, I see.” There seemed to be a history in those glazed over brown eyes, and it made her curious, as always. Cadence felt her eyebrows pulling together, causing a small furrow. Kiyoshi didn’t like admitting it’s reality, huh? To cover up his true emotions about it, probably, she thought. Cadence sat back in her chair and nodded to herself. Yeah. That was it.
The blonde’s eyes flickered to the stairs, and she wondered if he was already back to original form. Even so, she felt pity. Pity for both men. Cadence looked back at Akiyo and smiled. “You know, it’s good to talk about these sorts of things. It’s not good to bottle them up. That’s why I keep.. er, kept a journal. It’s really relieving when you have the words out or down on a piece of paper.”
Akiyo nodded, a light blush dusting across his face. “I… I know… I, uh… h-have one…” He cleared his throat. “Oh! That reminds me… wait here a second.” He got to his feet and ran up to his room, taking the stairs two at a time.
Cadence was a bit taken aback when Akiyo upped and left, but the surprise turned into a chuckle. While he was gone, she reflected on the information she’d just gathered. A tough childhood was the summary. Cadence personally couldn’t imagine being sold off.. Hell, her father might have done it for a little bit of booze money if he found the right people. She snorted and rolled her eyes at the thought. What a stupid man he was.
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Jack watched Cadence with careful eyes. She seemed tired. He didn’t doubt it, considering she was being tormented by the Nightmare King. “Yes, I can do that..” he agreed. However a sudden thought occurred to him, and he immediately looked up at the blonde. “W-what if they can’t see me though…?” He asked, feeling hurt to ask the question.
Cadence blinked, immediately wishing she could take back her careless question. Of course! That factor of Jack and his non-believers.. She frowned a bit and wanted to do something to comfort him, so she decided on laying a hand on his knee. “It’ll be okay. Ah.. That’s the thing with watching, right? Just.. making sure they’re okay. And letting them have fun, I guess. Oh, but no more tree house until I’m there, got it?” She suggested with a small smile.
At the end of his story, Cadence hummed in response. Every bit of that life, that past life, had sounded really difficult. Could it be that Kiyoshi was depressed and was secretly hiding it? She took her cup and sipped it a few times, watching the liquid from down the bridge of her nose. How strange it was, to know that someone that happy could have had such a past. And Akiyo.. Sold to a family as a servant. She couldn’t imagine being in that situation..
Cadence set her cup down after a few drinks and sighed, debating on whether to hug the poor man or not. Deciding against it, she offered him an apologetic look, and the words, “I’m sorry. I.. It must be difficult, speaking out it though, hm? Have you ever spoken to anyone else about it besides Kiyoshi himself?”
Akiyo shook his head. “No… I…” He stopped, his eyes glazing over. There had been one person he told. The hunter, Reiji Kiryuu. The man who ruthlessly stabbed him in the back and nearly took Kiyoshi out of this world. “…Just once… Kiyoshi doesn’t like me to talk about it… he doesn’t like to admit it’s reality…”
The subject of it Akiyo told anyone else seemed to bother him, so she quickly dropped it with an, “Ah, I see.” There seemed to be a history in those glazed over brown eyes, and it made her curious, as always. Cadence felt her eyebrows pulling together, causing a small furrow. Kiyoshi didn’t like admitting it’s reality, huh? To cover up his true emotions about it, probably, she thought. Cadence sat back in her chair and nodded to herself. Yeah. That was it.
The blonde’s eyes flickered to the stairs, and she wondered if he was already back to original form. Even so, she felt pity. Pity for both men. Cadence looked back at Akiyo and smiled. “You know, it’s good to talk about these sorts of things. It’s not good to bottle them up. That’s why I keep.. er, kept a journal. It’s really relieving when you have the words out or down on a piece of paper.”
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Jack had to think about it for a moment. Would he really cut her any slack? I mean he was the Nightmare King, he was capable of any kind of fear that he wished to bestow upon others. “I honestly don’t know..” Jack admitted. The spirits heart jumped a little, the speed of its beating picking up the more he thought about it. He felt about as scared as Cadence probably was. He didn’t know what Pitch had up his sleeve, and if he was prepared for anything he decided to whip out and terrorize Cadence with.
Cadence slumped forward a bit, defeated at the words. If Jack didn’t know, she had doubts. A lot of them. She heaved and sigh and rubbed at her eyes, which were aching from not blinking in a while. She blinked them a few times and looked at Jack.
“If it’s not too much to ask, can you watch over the kids? I.. I don’t know if I’m gonna be able to watch them in the mornings. In the afternoons, yes. But if this guy throws something at me and I can’t handle it, I’ll need time to recuperate.”
Cadence picked up on his nonverbal meaning about his parents and himself. So Akiyo had had a rough childhood as well, huh? She nodded in acknowledgment, a decisive look on her face, replacing her frown. Akiyo always did look older than Kiyoshi by a few years. She didn’t like that he was picked up and sold, but.. he was here now, and he was okay. Cadence watched and listened as Akiyo set the things on the table.
“We stayed there for many, many years… ninety-four, to be exact. Never once was he let out of that room… but I had a lot of access, so I snooped around. That was how I found out the truth about Kiyoshi’s scar and where it came from.” He sighed, pinching the bridge of his nose and fixing his tea. He took a sip. “When those ninety-four years had passed, I convinced him he was going to be set free because he was an adult now. Truthfully, we were breaking out, but he didn’t need to know that. He found out later, of course, and we spent many centuries on the run and in hiding… we had a lot of adventures, but… well, that’s more stories for some other time.” He took another drink. “That’s the basic outline of our childhoods.”
At the end of his story, Cadence hummed in response. Every bit of that life, that past life, had sounded really difficult. Could it be that Kiyoshi was depressed and was secretly hiding it? She took her cup and sipped it a few times, watching the liquid from down the bridge of her nose. How strange it was, to know that someone that happy could have had such a past. And Akiyo.. Sold to a family as a servant. She couldn’t imagine being in that situation..
Cadence set her cup down after a few drinks and sighed, debating on whether to hug the poor man or not. Deciding against it, she offered him an apologetic look, and the words, “I’m sorry. I.. It must be difficult, speaking out it though, hm? Have you ever spoken to anyone else about it besides Kiyoshi himself?”
A frown made it’s way onto her face, and her eyebrows pulled together a bit. Locked away and kept there in the dark for how long? Left alone. Cadence looked down a bit, feeling remorseful. She’d treated Kiyoshi like he hadn’t been through all that.. Yet, would he want her to continue doing that? Coming from experience, Cadence knew that she didn’t want people to dislike her for her past, or treat her any different, so she decided against treating him wrong. Her eyes diverted back to Akiyo, coming away from her little break-in-time-stare that had her staring at the cabinets above him, and nodded. “Yes, please.”
Akiyo went to get the requested items. “Now during all of this, I was living with my parents—I’m eight human years older than him, see? Anyways, I was out wandering around because… well, that’s what I did. My parents and I…” He stopped, clearing his throat.Why was it so easy to talk about Kiyoshi’s past and then so hard to talk about his own? “Well… we didn’t get along. The point is, while I was out, I got picked up by some slave traders and was later sold to the Hio family as a servant. My job, as fate would have it, was to watch over Kiyoshi and tend to his needs.” He brought the cream and sugar over, setting it down on the table.
Cadence picked up on his nonverbal meaning about his parents and himself. So Akiyo had had a rough childhood as well, huh? She nodded in acknowledgment, a decisive look on her face, replacing her frown. Akiyo always did look older than Kiyoshi by a few years. She didn’t like that he was picked up and sold, but.. he was here now, and he was okay. Cadence watched and listened as Akiyo set the things on the table.
