3rd Treasure - [Voice / Action for house #12]

[ps3pirate]

[It’s late afternoon of the 13th, and life in Vesperia house is returning to normal now that Estelle’s kidnapping side-effect has worn off. Patty has snuck into Yuri’s room with only the most innocent of intentions. That is, one of Yuri’s socks had ‘accidentally’ found its way into her laundry and she was only entering the room to bring it back. This certainly has nothing to do with a morbid curiosity of what Yuri’s room looks like after such a long time in Luceti. Nope.

Still, her motives don’t stop her from gazing around the room in amazement when she does enter. Everything looks exactly as she expected it to. It’s distinctly Yuri. With the sock dropped on his bed and her curiosity satisfied, she turns to leave the room again. That’s when she spots it. A picture of a familiar woman, her smile filled with more happiness than Patty’s used to seeing. In her lap is sitting… Well, there’s no question about it. That’s a young Krityan boy.

Overcome by surprise, even a small amount of shock, she opens her journal, puts up a hurried, flimsy filter and shouts into it.]


[Voice | Filtered to Yuri, but hackable to everyone]

YUUURIIII! Why do you have a picture of Judy and a kid?! When did this happen? Why didn’t you tell us? [… Gasp!] Are you the father?!

Comments

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[trueknight]

[This ... this was not what Yuri wanted to see after taking a break during his usual battledome runs. At the very least, she made an attempt to filter, but dammit Patty why now?!

... That aside, though, he decides to try to derail this as much as possible by going after something that this situation very obviously suggests to him.]

Hey, who said you could go picking around through my room?

[Filtered]

[ps3pirate]

[Her tone of voice is a little huffy and defensive when she replies, but she knows Yuri has a point. She totally just revealed she went into his room.]

I wasn't picking around. I was just bringing back one of your socks. ... You're evading the question, ya know.

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[trueknight]

... Huh. I thought I was missing something. [A quick pause, then--] Still, next time, just wait until I get home. I like my privacy, you know.

[... Still very obviously evading the question, yes, but Patty might hear fairly quick footsteps coming from him as well. Someone's on his way home, and he's not being a slowpoke about it either.]

[Filtered]

[ps3pirate]

People who like their privacy should lock their secrets away tighter than the jaws of the great white shark. [Or in other words, next time Yuri should just lock his door.

Meanwhile, her gaze falls back to the picture.] The old man never told me Judy was here. When was this?

[Filtered]

[trueknight]

I usually don't expect people to wander into my room like that, but I guess I might as well start doing that now.

[He's trying to keep his tone neutral and indifferent, but there may be some bitterness seeping in near the end of that sentence. Not that that's entirely Patty's fault.]

... Aside from one other quick time, she was here years ago. [... That's probably going to open a lot of questions. Yuri decides to make it clear as he can that he doesn't want to discuss this over the journal without bluntly stating it. ... But it still comes out a little cold either way.] I'll explain later.

[Filtered]

[ps3pirate]

[Years ago... But the boy in the picture looks old enough to be one. Was the kid born here, or was he brought in from Terca Lumireis? Hm... She'll reluctantly take the hint, though.]

Aye, fine. I'll be waiting!

[Action]

[trueknight]

[And about ten minutes later, the front door will be opened and Yuri will be entering the house. He at least managed to separate his annoyance with some girl he barely knows being in his room and finding something that personal to him and his much higher bitterness/anger with the things he read down in that tunnel on his way to the house, though!

... Mostly, anyway. But hey, better than him coming straight home and throwing misdirected anger at housemates, right?

Anyway, he'll go ahead and call out once he's inside. Mostly so he knows where the heck Patty is.]

I'm back!

[Action]

[ps3pirate]

Yuriii! [Patty comes dashing around the corner from one of the hallways, straight into the living room. Despite the situation, she's smiling happily. Really, what else can she do but smile? The only thing she could be mad at him for is keeping secrets, but he said he'd explain everything.]

Welcome home.

[Action]

[trueknight]

Thanks.

[Well, she seems to be in a better mood. That makes things a little easier on him, at least. Either way, he'll be heading toward his room now as he continues talking, mostly to throw the jacket he's wearing on his bed.]

I'm guessing I don't need to ask whether or not everything is still where it should be?

[Aka, that picture.]

[Action]

[childofthefullmoon]

[Estelle had indeed come to her senses, but... it's not been easy for her. The earlier experiment, being kidnapped shortly thereafter, practically reliving what had happened at the sword stair... it was a lot for Estelle and she has been keeping mostly to herself since.

However, when she hears Patty shouting, she quietly peeks in on the girl]

Patty? What's going on?

[Action]

[ps3pirate]

This! This! [She snatches the picture up and practically holds it in front of Estelle's nose.]

Yuri's been keeping dirty little secrets!

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[childofthefullmoon]

[Estelle blinks at the picture that's literally shoved in her face. Quietly she takes it from her and studies it for several silent minutes, just staring.

That's Judith, there's no doubt of that, but the boy in the picture... Definitely a Krityan, but... he looks so much like... And then she thinks back to when they had amnesia. Yuri had mentioned a son. She had thought that it was just one of those lies, since not everything on hers and Rita's card had been truths either. But... Was it true after all?]

[Action]

[childofthefullmoon]

[It takes those several minutes for Estelle to process this in her head. At some point she drops the picture, not even realizing she had, and looks visibly deflated.]

Yuri...

[Action]

[ps3pirate]

What do you think? [She picks the picture up from the ground again, peering at it some more.] I can't believe Judy was here and he didn't tell us! And a cute little boy like that! It's like one big happy family. A secret happy family! It just makes my blood boil, ya know.

[Action]

[childofthefullmoon]

[Estelle looks as if someone had just kicked her puppy, but Patty's angry words seem to snap her out of it a bit.]

Yuri is entitled to his privacy, Patty. I... I don't think this is something he would really want to talk about.

[Action]

[ps3pirate]

Why not? If I had a kid as cute as this one, I'd be telling everyone! 'Sides, he might not even be Yuri's. [She squints.] ... I think he's got the old man's nose, actually.

[Action]

[childofthefullmoon]

[Estelle shakes her head.]

Because he's not here, and neither is... is Judith.

During the experiment Yuri was... looking for his son. I haven't seen him. Have you?

[Action]

[ps3pirate]

A son, huh? [Patty's a little iffy on the details of the experiment- she was out of town for half of it. Still, there was amnesia at play, here. Who knows whether Yuri was looking for a real person or just a misunderstanding?]

Guess we'll find out when Yuri gets home.

[Action]

[childofthefullmoon]

[Estelle blinks at Patty.]

Huh? You're going to ask him about it?

[fullofhotaer]

[Damn, that's a loud noise to come out of such a small girl. Rita groans, throwing open her door, a pile of books spilling into the hallway.]

Can't you dig through people's dirty laundry more quietly!?

[ps3pirate]

[Patty peeks her head out into the hallway as well, looking a little affronted.]

I could, but then nobody would take me seriously. When you need a man's swift response, shriek like a wounded siren!

[fullofhotaer]

Well shriek somewhere other people aren't reading, will you?

[ps3pirate]

Fine, fine. [She stands on tiptoe for a moment, peering down at all the books that came pooling into the hall, then stands back again.]

So you're not interested in gossiping, huh?

[fullofhotaer]

Gossiping...? [She huffs, moving a placeholder between the pages of her book, before carefully closing it.]

And just what is so important that you need to go screaming your head off?

[ps3pirate]

[A devious grin appears on Patty's face and she holds up the picture between two fingers. No vocal explanation, just the picture.]