The Normpocalypse!

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Who: OPEN LOG
When: 12/12/12, beginning at 12:12am and ending around 10pm at night.
Where: Siren's Port, across all sectors
Summary: Everything detailed here is going down, citywide. Panic and chaos ensues as shortly after midnight, everyone in Port loses their special abilities. Is The Core playing a cruel doomsday trick? Or is it something even more sinister?
Warnings: Violence & Civil Unrest. Angry swearing inevitable!

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[icy_heavens]

"It's not like I know how you spend your nights."

That probably came out more nastily than he'd intended it to. Whatever. This whole situation was pissing him off. Weak, slow, powerless, cold . . . and he had to get helped out by him. Yes, there were worse people, but there were also better ones.

He got himself off his feet, but he didn't sheathe his blade. Mostly because he would have had to create the sheath out of water vapour and that wasn't exactly an option right now. But also because . . . well he wanted to feel some sort of connection to the sword. The constant presence of Hyourinmaru in his mind wasn't constant now. No power, no zanpakutou spirit.

It was just wrong.

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Frau let it go, knowing Hitsugaya was probably more put out by the loss of his power than Frau was his. If anything, Frau was more friendly because of the loss. Or maybe not friendly, but at least light. The constant presence in his mind only weighed him down.

He moved over toward Hitsugaya with the supplies and dropped down to one knee in front of him.

"Let's see it."

[icy_heavens]

At this point, it was mostly the whole being cold disaster. He'd been injured before, had his powers flicker away from him before, but the cold? Never.

Focusing on the most minor things was alway best, surely. It wouldn't make him unreasonably irritable at all.

He moved his hand and peeled his shirt away from the wound, probably getting a few bits of skin with it, but that couldn't be helped. He hissed a little at the pain, but again, it was the chill that bothered him more. Concentrate on being cold, and things wouldn't hurt as much.

"I guess I shouldn't be surprised that you're taking this so well."

He'd seen Frau's power get loose. He'd had to contain it, along with Hinamori, for days. At least someone was getting something decent out of all this. For his own part, he couldn't wait to get back to normal.

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Frau snorted and began to clean out the injury. As he worked he spoke, though his eyes never left the injury. Looking at Hitsugaya would give away far too much, and he wasn't willing to do that.

"I'm taking it well now. It will be a lot harder later."

Which was the truth. Once he got his powers back, especially if it was without warning, he would be in a lot of danger of losing control. Without wasting a moment with a segue, he continued again, this time about Hitsugaya's injury.

"It doesn't look bad enough that you'll need to see someone who can really heal you. I should be able to just bandage it up."

[icy_heavens]

He wasn't in the most analytical state of mind right now, at least about his present company, so he let it go. He just gritted his teeth while the wound was cleaned, not as used to it as one might think. Healing kidou was a far more standard treatment for shinigami. Basic medical methods were strange, at least without the kidou backing them up.

"It'll heal better once my power is back. Normally wouldn't have me in this state."

Because honestly, this dizziness? He wouldn't be feeling it from such a comparatively small blood loss under normal circumstances. He'd fought clear-headed through more severe bleeding than this. It was part of being shinigami.

But nearly everything shinigami about him was gone, now. Another shiver.

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Once Frau was satisfied that the wound was clean he started bandaging Hitsugaya up, using a liberal amount of cause and covering. He didn't want it to start bleeding through, and the injury looked serious enough that it very well could do that if Frau wasn't careful enough.

"That's good at least... not that we know when anything is coming back."

He finished the bandaging with a few pieces of tape and stood up before heading to the sink to wash his hands. While he was in the kitchen he started to make a mug of hot chocolate for Hitsugaya. It should both warm him up and help replenish some of the blood he'd lost.

[icy_heavens]

He eyed the bandage work critically. Maybe he had no reason to examine it that intently, but that was how he did nearly everything. It wasn't something that he could help.

It occurred to him after Frau left the room that he should check in with work to let them know he'd be delayed. He was nothing if not responsible. And he was mildly suprised when he pulled out his NV to do that, that there was a message from the offices, asking everyone to let them know their status. Because powers had been cancelled out over the whole city.

The whole damned city. This wasn't just a Void.

He sent in a quick text, letting them know he was also affected by the outage, but he'd gotten indoors and was in no immediate danger. Nothing about being injured. Nobody else needed to know that. Superfluous information, of course.

Of course, Hitsugaya wasn't going to spend the whole time here sitting in the bathroom; that was more undignified than he cared to be. He used his sword to help him stand again, but declined using it as a crutch while he walked this time. He could balance fine, as long as he took it a bit slow.

He silently watched for a moment as Frau prepared a drink. "Everyone in the city got hit with this."

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Frau startled a moment at that news and almost knocked over the cup of hot water he'd just pulled out of the microwave.

"You're kidding..."

Only he couldn't think of a reason why Hitsugaya would kid about this. Hell, why he would kid about anything. Well, that added a whole new twist to this whole thing, but in a way it made him feel better. It meant that something hadn't randomly happened to him. There was an explanation.

Pushing all of that aside for the moment, he nodded toward the two mugs of warm water on the counter.

"Coffee, tea, or hot chocolate?"

No, he didn't get to chose none. If he did, Frau would just pick one for him. Probably hot chocolate. Completely with marshmallows just to be an ass.

[icy_heavens]

"Since when do I ever kid about anything?"

Anybody he would actually joke around with in his own way -- yes, he did actually have a sense of humour -- was gone. Well. Ella was back, but that was hardly relevant to the situation at hand.

"Probably a Core flux or something of the sort." He scowled at that last option. "Tea."

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Frau didn't feel the need to comment to the question. After all, he'd come to the same conclusions himself. He nodded at the request and dropped two tea bags into the cups before walking them over to the couch in their living room.

So far Teito was still asleep, and Frau hoped it would stay that way. The kid didn't need to worry about this quite yet.

"You want anything else?"

[icy_heavens]

He took the cup after sitting down. The tea warmed his hands, and he couldn't help the brow furrow at the fact that it felt pleasant. That was not supposed to feel pleasant. Everything was backwards.

"I'm fine."

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"Sure you're fine. You're always fine."

Frau wasn't being sarcastic either. He meant it. There hadn't yet been a moment when he'd met Hitsugaya where he couldn't be considered fine. That wasn't what Frau had been getting at when he asked if he needed anything else.

"That doesn't mean you couldn't want something that would make you more comfortable."

[icy_heavens]

And that brow furrow turned into a scowl when Frau decided to debate this point. What, precisely, had been wrong with what he'd said?

"I said I'm fine; it's not difficult to understand what that means. Now leave it alone."

The only thing he'd really count on to make him more comfortable right now anyway was getting his power back. That was out of Frau's hands and probably in the Core's.

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Frau shrugged. Personally he could think of a few things that would make him feel better if he was in Hitsugaya's situation, but he wouldn't voice them all. He would, however, share one. It seemed to be the one that was least likely to show weakness. The most likely to wake Teito too if Hitsugaya agreed, but whatever.

"Personally I'd want to get out of blood clothes and have something clean to wear."