lovesickkiller | IC Voicemail [RtE]

[It just feels like everyone is mad at him today.]

This situation has escalated and I'm so sorry to say that it involves you. ...being candid has gotten me in a lot of trouble today. I'm going to do my absolute best to break this to you gently, OK? Are you ready?

. . .

[Well now she is terrified, and waffles back and forth between asking to do this over video or in person before deciding that text is probably for the best. How is she a part of this now?]

What happened?

Are you sitting down? Do you have some hot cocoa? Maybe you should get some hot cocoa. Actually if you were planning to eat you'd better do it now.

[Have a sudden screeching voice.]

WHAT IS IT?!?

Oh my God, stop! Stop it, don't yell at me, I'm working very hard to take your feelings into consideration!

Well it's terrifying just tell me!!

Uh, OK. All right.

The doppelganger told him that I got you pregnant with twins and he seems to believe it.

[There is a long, looong silence on her end.]

... ... What?

I'm bringing you some hot cocoa.

Laz- Wait. What? The doppelganger told Cesar that I'm pregnant??

Yeah... Cesar didn't know about us. He didn't take it well when I told him, I don't think. Then the doppelganger started sending him messages, and Cesar started ignoring mine.

My attempts to contact him via network have been deleted by Ryuzaki.

Didn't- what do you mean he didn't take it well?

[Immediately she is on the defensive and actually a little distracted from the pregnancy scandal.]

Did he want to get back together with you? What did he say?

He seemed like he just wanted me to leave him alone. So... I got worried and I sent him 43 texts.

[A startled and disbelieving noise is her only response to that for several seconds.]

Y- do you want to get back together with him?!

[Trick question...? He is so in over his head here.]

I don't want anything bad to happen to him. That doesn't mean...

Your hot cocoa's almost done. I'm bringing it over.

That isn't an answer! Do you want to get back together with him or not?! Is that what this is?

That's not what this is. My doppelganger is victimizing a string of people and I don't know where my responsibility for it factors in, but it's got to be somewhere, right?

... That's the only reason you texted him 43 times?

[She sounds hopeful, but not entirely convinced.]

That's going to send him the wrong message you know, especially if he's not happy about us...

Well of course it sounds excessive and crazy when you put it like that...

What do you think I should do, Misa?

... Bring that hot coco and we'll talk about it.

[She is going to need a good deal of cuddling before she can bring herself to embark on a plan to help Cesar.]

[And then, as if it is just occurring to her all over again-]

He said I'm PREGNANT with TWINS?!

Yes, that's what he said.

[He moves quickly to get the hot cocoa ready, preoccupied enough that he forgets the sugar, and then he hurries over and knocks insistently on the door.]

[Misa spends the few minutes he takes pacing around the room, going through everything she is going to scream at the doppelganger for saying such a thing and at Cesar for believing. She runs to the door and has it open at the second knock, grabbing Lazarus and pulling him inside before slamming the door behind him.]

Has word gotten out? Do other people think it's true? I'm going to kill that stupid- ghhh!

[She impulsively pulls Lazarus into a hug, before letting go and resuming pacing.]

How did that thing even know you and Cesar were talking again? Why now?

[No sooner is he in the door than she's opening it and pulling him bodily inside, nearly spilling the cocoa in the process. He's able to set it on the counter, and it only overflows a little before she's beginning to rant and pulling him into a welcome and relieving (but highly confusing) hug.]

Uh, n-no. I don't think that word has gotten out. He just told Cesar.

[He watches dazedly as she paces.]

We were talking on the Network. We moved to a private channel before it got serious or specific but...he must have suspected that something was up. He has a sense for that.

Do you have any Tylenol?

[He sinks into the sofa, pinching the bridge of his nose and resting his elbows on his knees.]

And that idiot believed him.

[She does not have a single thought to devote to Cesar's feelings right now. The man reappears in their lives out of nowhere after a year, and in the course of one day he has already ruined everything, and gotten them all involved to boot.]

Stupid, dumb idiot.

[Misa directs her pacing toward a cupboard and throws a pill bottle in Lazarus's general direction, still muttering angrily as she fetches a glass of water for him.]

How many times is he going to get played by that thing? At this point it's his own fault!

Hey... that's uncalled for, he's not an idiot. The doppelganger's been deleting my Network messages and... all right, I think it's ridiculous that he's ignoring my texts, but... he's upset. And he might be drinking...

[He dodges the bottle rather than catches it, then sheepishly stands to pick it up off the floor.]

He's hurting. He's an easy target. The same thing happens with cults... they recruit people at their low points.

[He dumps about fourteen Tylenol into his palm, not paying particularly close attention to the process.]

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