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Quatre (Accidental video)

*Albedo's phone is lying discarded on a side table in Albedo's apartment room, recording him sitting with a length of cloth bandage within arm's reach, a knife in his left hand and his right hand unusually bare. He curls his fingers briefly, pressing the tips of his long, pointed nails into the red 667 tattoo on the middle of his palm before opening his hand again and slashing the knife across the number. Instead of reacting in pain, he closes his eyes and lets out a pleased moan.*

Ahhh...that ought to do it. How frail this body is, though, that even this much is the limit of what I can safely inflict.

*The video ends as he reaches for the bandages and starts wrapping his hand, although he clearly has no practice in such things.*

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No I don't. [He's still looking at your palm, not at you. His hands still moving gracefully with the wrapping.]

But I know you, now you know how to do this it won't be as much of a big deal. [Finally it's done and his hands still, but don't remove themselves from Albedo's wrist.]

You know the child I used to be.

*He flexes his fingers a bit, but doesn't pull his arm away.*

We've all grown up and changed Albedo, I don't expect you to be any different. [Inner sigh. He knows Albedo won't listen to him if he tries to say anything really important. He'll try anyways.]

But some things still remain the same.

You expect me to believe that anything could remain the same after what's happened?

*He wants to, but he's held onto the bitterness from Miltia and the idea that his brothers wouldn't be bothered by his death for so long that it's hard to let it go now.*

[His brothers were very bothered! But that snapped link took a while to repair and they couldn't find you. And then well, black holes kind of prevented them from going back to look.

And you half killed him. There was going to be a little bit of trepidation on his part on trying to find you again. That's with out going into yours and Rubedo's issues.]

You're still bonded to Rubedo.

But our relationship is nothing like what it was before.

I wouldn't say it's 'nothing' like before. But as you two grew up that would have changed anyways.

Perhaps, but possibly not quite so dramatically.

Possibly. No one can say for sure. But my point still stands Albedo, you two still have a relationship, it just looks a little different.

Oh? Then why is it that neither of you made any attempt to re-initiate contact with me after you recovered from the Conflict?

*His hand clenches into a fist, but he still doesn't pull his arm from Gaignun's grasp. It's still comforting to be in physical contact with one of his brothers, especially with the link thoroughly destroyed.*

[Damn, he was hoping this question would never come up and his fingers tighten around Albedo's wrist minutely.]

[He sighs] Albedo, that question is complicated, and I can only speak for myself. [He and Rubedo had never talked about what happened during Miltia with each other. It was one of those topics that they both instinctively avoided.]

If it makes you feel any better he did try and find you before we got rescued.

There was time after that, Nigredo. You didn't even try to reach out to me with the link-or are you trying to claim that it took fourteen years for that part of your minds to recover from Rubedo blocking us all out?

*He's snarling now, though mostly to hide how torn up he really is about that fact.*

No, it didn't take 14 years, but it did take a good while. He shattered the link very badly and then with all the standards gone...We were both pretty messed up for a while.

[He's silent for a moment, obviously thinking about how to word what came next.] As for me Albedo, for a long time I was terrified of you, scared of what you had become, what you could do, and what I had tried to do to you.

After I worked through that, I knew that it had to be Rubedo who made the first move on that part. You two had to fix yourselves first.

*It's his turn to be silent, staring at Nigredo's hand on his wrist as he processes what he just heard.*

To think...the stoic Nigredo actually paralyzed in fear of his own actions.

*He's trying to joke it off, but there's no smirk. He knows he picked that fight when he could have avoided the URTVs' failsave. He never really regretted attacking his younger brother before, but it was something he'd avoided thinking about ever since his mind had been freed of the amplified fear and anger of contact with U-DO.*

[Of course Albedo would focus on that part of the story.]

Stoicism does not mean the absence of emotion Albedo. We may have been soldiers, but we were also children with all that entails.

[He closed his eyes] Just children.

*He doesn't want to focus on what he'd become. He's ashamed of how easily he gave in.*

We were all foolish back then...mindlessly following orders or else acting on thoughts and desires half formed from incomplete information.

We were. We all trusted a man so obsessed with his own fear that he'd sacrifice the universe just to deal with it. He was father and general, no wonder all we could do was obey.

There wasn't anything we could do, any of us.

[To be fair, under all of this he doesn't really blame you for what happened. He knows U-DO is a powerful force and to the mind of an already disturbed child it must have been overwhelming.]

I must admit that I'm a little jealous that you had the opportunity to end his life twice, though. I've been wanting revenge against that man for quite some time.

It didn't do me much good the first time. Think of it more...finishing something I started. You did startle him a bit when you showed up though.

It was rather satisfying to take the wind out of his sails, even if deflating that oversized ego of his is an exercise in futility.

He was very angry when you absconded with Abel and the zohar. [It had been that burst of anger from Yuriev that had allowed him to realize things were moving again in his dark prison. A flare of sorts.]

I think he was counting on you being dead so that Jr. would be at half power.

I always was nothing more than a disappointment to him, eh?

*He's very much enjoying this fact. He'd be disgusted for Yuriev to be proud of him.*

[Gaignun has to laugh a bit at that.] Yes but in the end you were his undoing. Kind of fitting, don't you think?

It's his own fault for being so arrogant as to assume that the unwanted extra is of no consequence to him.

He did fall pray to his own arrogance a lot, didn't he. [Mocking Yuriev! Yay for hating daddy to avoid awkward situations.]

Besides, he honestly thought you were dead.

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