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WEEK 5 - TRIAL

TRIAL

It takes a full day after finding the body, but on Saturday, the counselors call you all to the campfire, the bonfire already roaring away as everyone finds their seats. Stan and Red are seated there, with Stan holding a box saying 'VOTES' written on it.

It looks like you're here to find the killer.

And just like before, you know you'll be forced to vote before the night's over...

And condemn someone to a grisly fate.

VICTIM: Usagi Tsukino
CAMPERS REMAINING: 15

((Remember that Everyone must vote and that Votes are due by 6pm EST!))

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You think it was an accident, don't you?! You're trying to make it out like I'm like you, that I belong here somehow.

[ He's yelling now, volume control absolutely down the drain alongside his emotional state. He can't stand it. He can't stand being loved like this, when... ]

Boa... [Eddie's eyes get wide. No... no he can't be doing this. Tears start streaming down his cheeks.]

You don't fucking mean that. You're our friend! none of us belong here, but... but you're our friend!

So was she, wasn't she?

You're never going to forgive me anyway! I heard all you said yesterday! Stop playing nice, stop pretending!! This isn't...

I'm not....

[ And now the tears are just streaming down his face. He can't do this, stop extending your hand when he knows you're going to recoil in disgust sooner or later. He can't do this. ]

Yes you fucking are, asshole!

[Eddie takes a step forward, trying to grab Boa's arms. He sobs, shaking his head]

Yes you are... I'm... I'm not pretending!

[ Boa recoils yet again. ]

I strangled her! I looked her in the eyes and made the choice to kill her! I knew what I was doing. I just... they'd have killed me if I'd let her go.

I can't die here, I...

[ God, he's going to die here now, isn't he? His legs are shaking harder. ]

You... but... [He hesitates] I... why?! [He fights to keep the betrayal from his eyes]

We talked about how people needed to stop fucking killing! We talked about that! That if people just stopped fucking killing each other we'd find a way out!

She... she threw the damn bucket at me. I didn't know who or what, I just... I needed to defend myself.

When I noticed it was her, I... I had my hands around her neck. And if I'd let go...

Look, someone always has to die! They love her, they all love her. So who would they kill if they know someone attacked her?

[Eddie suddenly feels weak, his legs give out and he falls to his knees. His voice is distant]

She would've forgiven you... If you let go and didn't kill her... she would've fucking forgiven you...

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... We would've forgiven you. Not killin' woulda been fine.

[ He wouldn't have been that upset. ]

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He couldn't listen to us, Eds.

They trained him too fucking well.

[there's no emotion in his voice, there. no blame. he knows it's not Boa's fault, ultimately. it's those fuckers in the Snake Pit.]

[it's the adults.]

[it's always the adults.]

[and he's too small and sick and angry to do anything about it.]

[Eddie just turns to Richie and buries his face in his shoulder with a sob]

[Damn it.

He isn't oblivious. He knew from the start that Boa was the most obvious option - he was on the beach, something people had blessedly seemed to forget about early. So--]

Boa.

[Don't do this.]

[ Boa can't look at Mitsuru. Even known Mitsuru is seeing him, seeing this, makes the shame burn through his skin into his very soul. The one person who should never see him like this, never ever ever ever ever ever.

He doesn't know how to face him. There's nothing he can say to preserve that precious something they had before, he's so sure of it. ]

Boa...

[They could have thrown their votes at Chuuta. They could have been rid of him instead--

He makes a frustrated sound, moving to Boa, placing a hand on his shoulder - trying to ground him. Face close, come on, focus.]

[ Mitsuru is touching him... He's... despite everything, he's right here.

It does get Boa to look up and meeting Mitsuru's eyes is almost too much. ]

... I'm sorry. I'm so sorry...

[He's still frowning, a weariness at the edges of his eyes, loss--

Today of all days. It had to be today, didn't it?]

We were supposed to leave here together.

[He's not angry with Boa. He doesn't miss Usagi one bit. He's just angry that Boa's going to die because of that girl.]

[ This is too much. Boa doesn't think he's ever been this pathetic in his life. He's never felt smaller or dirtier.

They made this promise. They promised.

And he's been too much of a fool to keep it. He could've let Chuuta die in his place, but the eyes of the others... The looks they gave him. Friends make you weaker. They'd told him in the Snake Pit. He'd known that.

And now he's going to die because he had friends. And he won't be able to keep his promise to the strongest boy he's ever known, to the person who made him feel so safe that his heart could almost burst.

This isn't how it was meant to go. This isn't what his life should be like.

But if he's going to die here and now and if he's already disgraced himself too much to ever return from it then... then he doesn't have to fight it when his body wants nothing more than to fall forward and rest his forehead on Mitsuru's shoulder. ]

I wanted to... I wanted to so badly...

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[Well I mean.

They can vote for ANYBODY. It's majority vote, even if the vote is wrong.]

[Richie's hands fly over his mouth.

no.

fuck.

no.

all these weeks ...

he thought they'd gotten through to him ...]

[...

Ichigo doesn't know Boa that well. Not like the rest of them. But he knows that note of self loathing more than anything else in this world, and he's somehow kept it together during all of this long enough to step forward.]

...Boa.

What happened?

[ He can answer this now, huh? It's obvious anyway. ]

She threw the bucket at me. I think she thought I was someone, something else... She tried to apologize, but I... I was defending myself.

She wasn't... she wasn't actually a threat to me, but if I'd let go...

She would have told you all. And you'd have killed me!

...You don't know that. Especially when she wouldn't have blamed you.

[Because Usagi was...selfless. Like Shirou, in a lot of ways.]

...I'm sorry, Boa. But - you knew what you were doing. You knew what the outcome would be.

[He understands, he does. But he also thinks Boa crossed a line from defending to attacking, because -

He was scared. Scared, afraid, and he didn't trust anyone.

(That's the whole point of this, isn't it? To not trust. To kill each other, in fear...)]

...And now, we have to decide what happens to you.

[ Boa just looks at him with wide teary eyes. He knows, he knows, he knows.

The words 'don't kill me' are on his lips but won't quite pass them. ]

[...

Ichigo quietly reaches out, to try and place a hand on his shoulder.

His face is grim, but it's also sympathetic.

(yet, at the same time...

He feels so much like a shinigami at this moment, more than ever.)]

[ Boa is too weak to resist this touch now. He lets it happen, almost as if he doesn't notice. ]

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