Twists of Fate [Part 16]
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esp_dragonFandom: Noblesse
Summary: Nakida’s a hacker in the middle of a job to find some information. Except they’re not the only one breaking into the building that night - there’s a silver-haired guy walking around like cameras don’t exist. If he wants to get caught, it’s not their problem.
Huian’s on guard duty to protect the information they’re after. Usually it’s quiet - all she has to do is enter the system, keep an eye on the camera feeds and patrol around the clusters of data to make sure no-one gets to them.
Their pasts connect them, even if they don’t remember. And the past does tend to come back.
Rating: PG-13
Notes: Reincarnation fic! :D Written for nano! So expect some weirdness as I churn this out, haha.
Genre: General.
Word count: 1,651
Total word count: 34,871
Status: Work in progress
"It's because the Dark Spear is resonating in both of you."
"Both..." Nakida frowned, staring at him. "I don't...do that." They waved in Huian's direction.
Kang-dae sighed, scrubbing his face with a hand. "That's the only reason I can think of why you would both know where each other is." He dropped his hand, looking at her. "Does the name 'Takeo' mean anything to you?"
Huian nodded slowly. "That's...who Dark Spear said I am. That I was 'Takeo's soul' but-" She frowned, huffing. "I'm not." She was no person but her own.
But that wasn't true anymore, was it? She was a bunch of people who were chipping away are her core.
"Yeah, I know," Kang-dae said, his voice soft. He rubbed at the bridge of his nose, grimacing. "You're Takeo's reincarnation; that's why you have Dark Spear in you, why it thinks you're Takeo." He sighed, looking back at her. "Why it remembers me."
Huian bit her lip as images flashed in her mind's eye, though there was an almost presence keeping them steady and making sure they didn't flood her mind. A fight, like the one she'd been dreaming about, one that had ended in a lot of blood. Her own. No, Takeo's. And '21's face above her own, smeared with blood, tears in his eyes.
"You saw us die..." Huian said, her breath catching. That had been Takeo's last memory.
Us?
Right, Takeo and Tao.
"Oh," she breathed, the memories slotting into place. "We'd both had parts of the Dark Spear given to us."
"No," Kang-dae said, his voice firm, and Huian blinked at him. "Takeo and Tao had."
That's who she'd... Oh, fuck. Huian made a strangled noise at the back of her throat, curling up and gripping her hair. "Shit, I'm not going to stop doing that." She hadn't even realised something was wrong until it had been pointed out; it had felt natural, like that thought had always been there.
"So...that's why we can feel each other?" Nakida asked in the silence, and Huian jumped into the slight change of topic, something to not think about her sense of self being worn away without her realising it.
"Yeah," Kang-dae said, glancing between them, his face blanker than it had been before. "I guess...when you reincarnated, part of the Dark Spear reincarnated with you."
"And carried some of their memories to us," Nakida said, frowning again.
Nakida didn't seem to know about the Dark Spear from what Huian had seen so far. Why hadn't Dark Spear awakened with them? Or was it because they hadn't been a lab setting (since Takeo and Tao were both modified humans).
Huian closed her eyes, knowing that thought wasn't her own, thunking her head on the headboard. Maybe the reason why she was so wary of doctors and needles was because of Takeo's memories; her parents had said she hadn't had any bad experiences with any to explain why she disliked them, and had assumed it must have been from something she had watched.
"Yeah," Kang-dae said.
Now that her eyes were closed and she wasn't concentrating on Nakida, Huian could feel a faint pulse elsewhere. Like what she felt with Nakida, but fainter.
She frowned, trying to concentrate on it.
"Huian...? What is it?"
"I think...I can feel someone else with Dark Spear." As far as Takeo's memories told her (and she was fucking glad she made that distinction) there should only be three people with Dark Spear at most.
"That can't be right," Kang-dae said. "Papa is the only other person with Dark Spear."
"And where is he?" Nakida asked.
"On the other side of the country; he and dad wouldn't come here unless I asked or thought I was in trouble."
Kang-dae didn't think the possibility of being eaten by Dark Spear was 'in trouble'. But then, maybe he hadn't gotten in contact with them since he'd found out, or had known Dark Spear wouldn't hurt him.
There was a pause. "Huian, do you know if any of the scientists had been able to take any of the Dark Spear from you?"
Dark Spear reared up in her head, indignant and snapping at that memory.
"...Yes. Joyce." Though that name wouldn't mean anything to them. She hadn't thought much about Joyce making Dark Spear consume the rat, not after everything else, and not after she'd tried to forget the sounds the rat had made.
"Shit," Kang-dae hissed. "She must have made her own."
...How many people must Joyce had fed her Dark Spear for her to be able to feel her across the city?
And could Joyce feel where she was as well?
"She might have seen what I'd done to make the Dark Spear stronger," she said. Seen it on the camera feeds; there had to be a lot of cameras there. Or maybe it had been in the notes Joyce had read.
"I need to go stop her," Kang-dae muttered, getting to his feet.
"I'm coming with you," Huian said, lifting her head to stare at him. She wasn't going to sit around while Kang-dae dealt with it, not after what she'd been through.
"You're not-" He hissed, grimacing. "Not you too."
'Her too'? Huian glanced at Nakida, who had their arms crossed, a triumphant smirk on their face.
"You're outnumbered two-to-one; you can't do this by yourself."
"Both of you could get killed or worse if you come along." Kang-dae's lips were thin, his eyes narrowed.
"And you can't hide yourself from their cameras; you wouldn't be able to even get to the entrance before the guards spot you." Nakida snorted, sharing a look with Huian. "And that's if you even know where to get into the lab."
Hah. There were a number of different entrances to the lab and only people who knew what to look for would be able to find them and get in.
Kang-dae was silent, looking between them. He let out a long sigh, his shoulders slumping. "All right," he said, his gaze lowered. "We'll...we'll do this together."
There was something about Kang-dae's gaze that Huian couldn't put her finger on, but Takeo's memories nudged her, telling her she had to talk to him (before he started spiralling).
"What is it?" she asked, watching his face.
He stilled and then looked at her, not moving his head. "Are you asking because of Takeo's memories?" He wasn't angry; there wasn't any stiffness to his muscles, his hands weren't clenched into fists and his speech hadn't been clipped.
"Sort of," Huian said, frowning. "They just know something's wrong. And..." She exhaled, knowing what the memories wanted but unsure about saying it out loud to him.
"And?" He lifted his head so his hair wasn't covering his face any more.
"They worry when they see you like this." Takeo was dead, but that didn't mean there wasn't memories in her head about how he felt whenever he saw M-21 like that. And it seemed like he did see M- Kang-dae like that a lot depending on what was happening around them.
Kang-dae closed his eyes and nodded. "I wasn't strong enough last time to protect Takeo and Tao, wasn't fast enough to get there in time, but now... Now I am." He ran a hand through his hair, making it flop back into place.
"So...we're doing this. Together."
"Yeah," Nakida said, nodding. They opened up a couple windows, looking at what seemed to be camera feeds. "The Union'll be covering that exit though..."
"It's fine," Huian said, recognising the view from one of the feeds. "There are other places to get in."
Nakida glanced at her, their eyebrows raised. "Did someone tell you all the exits or something?"
"...No," she said, rubbing the back of her neck. "When Dark Spear eats someone...I remember what the person knows. It doesn't just eat someone, it takes the soul as well." Two people were enough to know most of the more commonly used entrances and exits of the lab.
"Shit."
She was surprised Dark Spear hadn't talking with her as much as before, but maybe it was because it wasn't as needed, or it had been sated from the people it had eaten. Or maybe it was because Kang-dae was there.
And Takeo's memories of Dark Spear were different from hers, Dark Spear being more violent and bent on taking over his body, feeling like it was skinning him alive.
Was it because Takeo had reincarnated, or was it because it had mixed together with Takeo's memories it was less volatile, why it refused to attack Kang-dae?
"Are you hungry?" Kang-dae asked her, looking at her, frowning.
Huian shook her head. "Dark Spear...consumed two people; I don't think I need to eat for at least a day." But a drink would be nice.
"All right," he said, putting the chair back. "We're going to have to get there as soon as possible; Joyce might leave before we get there."
"Or she'll still be adding to Dark Spear," Huian muttered, glowering. Either of the options were not things Huian wanted.
"How are we getting there?" Huian said, getting up. They could walk right up to them, and Huian doubted people would be searching for them, not when Joyce had her own Dark Spear to play with; only if Joyce wanted more, but she could add to her own herself, which she'd apparently been doing.
Kang-dae and Nakida shared a look, and Nakida covered their face.
"Rooftops," Kang-dae said.
"Roof-" Oh. Takeo and Tao used to be able to do that. She felt vertigo just at the memories. "But...we can't do that," she said, looking at Nakida.
"I can carry you," Kang-dae said. Huian didn't doubt that.
"And I can feel aching afterwards," Nakida grumbled. "I'm still sore from last night. But don't say I should stay here," they added before anyone could say anything.
"I wasn't."
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Nakida went out and bought M-21 a top that fitted him properly, haha.
Aaaand I'm at a shaky part in my plot, so the next parts could be shorter as I battle with the plot and characters.
Summary: Nakida’s a hacker in the middle of a job to find some information. Except they’re not the only one breaking into the building that night - there’s a silver-haired guy walking around like cameras don’t exist. If he wants to get caught, it’s not their problem.
Huian’s on guard duty to protect the information they’re after. Usually it’s quiet - all she has to do is enter the system, keep an eye on the camera feeds and patrol around the clusters of data to make sure no-one gets to them.
Their pasts connect them, even if they don’t remember. And the past does tend to come back.
Rating: PG-13
Notes: Reincarnation fic! :D Written for nano! So expect some weirdness as I churn this out, haha.
Genre: General.
Word count: 1,651
Total word count: 34,871
Status: Work in progress
"It's because the Dark Spear is resonating in both of you."
"Both..." Nakida frowned, staring at him. "I don't...do that." They waved in Huian's direction.
Kang-dae sighed, scrubbing his face with a hand. "That's the only reason I can think of why you would both know where each other is." He dropped his hand, looking at her. "Does the name 'Takeo' mean anything to you?"
Huian nodded slowly. "That's...who Dark Spear said I am. That I was 'Takeo's soul' but-" She frowned, huffing. "I'm not." She was no person but her own.
But that wasn't true anymore, was it? She was a bunch of people who were chipping away are her core.
"Yeah, I know," Kang-dae said, his voice soft. He rubbed at the bridge of his nose, grimacing. "You're Takeo's reincarnation; that's why you have Dark Spear in you, why it thinks you're Takeo." He sighed, looking back at her. "Why it remembers me."
Huian bit her lip as images flashed in her mind's eye, though there was an almost presence keeping them steady and making sure they didn't flood her mind. A fight, like the one she'd been dreaming about, one that had ended in a lot of blood. Her own. No, Takeo's. And '21's face above her own, smeared with blood, tears in his eyes.
"You saw us die..." Huian said, her breath catching. That had been Takeo's last memory.
Us?
Right, Takeo and Tao.
"Oh," she breathed, the memories slotting into place. "We'd both had parts of the Dark Spear given to us."
"No," Kang-dae said, his voice firm, and Huian blinked at him. "Takeo and Tao had."
That's who she'd... Oh, fuck. Huian made a strangled noise at the back of her throat, curling up and gripping her hair. "Shit, I'm not going to stop doing that." She hadn't even realised something was wrong until it had been pointed out; it had felt natural, like that thought had always been there.
"So...that's why we can feel each other?" Nakida asked in the silence, and Huian jumped into the slight change of topic, something to not think about her sense of self being worn away without her realising it.
"Yeah," Kang-dae said, glancing between them, his face blanker than it had been before. "I guess...when you reincarnated, part of the Dark Spear reincarnated with you."
"And carried some of their memories to us," Nakida said, frowning again.
Nakida didn't seem to know about the Dark Spear from what Huian had seen so far. Why hadn't Dark Spear awakened with them? Or was it because they hadn't been a lab setting (since Takeo and Tao were both modified humans).
Huian closed her eyes, knowing that thought wasn't her own, thunking her head on the headboard. Maybe the reason why she was so wary of doctors and needles was because of Takeo's memories; her parents had said she hadn't had any bad experiences with any to explain why she disliked them, and had assumed it must have been from something she had watched.
"Yeah," Kang-dae said.
Now that her eyes were closed and she wasn't concentrating on Nakida, Huian could feel a faint pulse elsewhere. Like what she felt with Nakida, but fainter.
She frowned, trying to concentrate on it.
"Huian...? What is it?"
"I think...I can feel someone else with Dark Spear." As far as Takeo's memories told her (and she was fucking glad she made that distinction) there should only be three people with Dark Spear at most.
"That can't be right," Kang-dae said. "Papa is the only other person with Dark Spear."
"And where is he?" Nakida asked.
"On the other side of the country; he and dad wouldn't come here unless I asked or thought I was in trouble."
Kang-dae didn't think the possibility of being eaten by Dark Spear was 'in trouble'. But then, maybe he hadn't gotten in contact with them since he'd found out, or had known Dark Spear wouldn't hurt him.
There was a pause. "Huian, do you know if any of the scientists had been able to take any of the Dark Spear from you?"
Dark Spear reared up in her head, indignant and snapping at that memory.
"...Yes. Joyce." Though that name wouldn't mean anything to them. She hadn't thought much about Joyce making Dark Spear consume the rat, not after everything else, and not after she'd tried to forget the sounds the rat had made.
"Shit," Kang-dae hissed. "She must have made her own."
...How many people must Joyce had fed her Dark Spear for her to be able to feel her across the city?
And could Joyce feel where she was as well?
"She might have seen what I'd done to make the Dark Spear stronger," she said. Seen it on the camera feeds; there had to be a lot of cameras there. Or maybe it had been in the notes Joyce had read.
"I need to go stop her," Kang-dae muttered, getting to his feet.
"I'm coming with you," Huian said, lifting her head to stare at him. She wasn't going to sit around while Kang-dae dealt with it, not after what she'd been through.
"You're not-" He hissed, grimacing. "Not you too."
'Her too'? Huian glanced at Nakida, who had their arms crossed, a triumphant smirk on their face.
"You're outnumbered two-to-one; you can't do this by yourself."
"Both of you could get killed or worse if you come along." Kang-dae's lips were thin, his eyes narrowed.
"And you can't hide yourself from their cameras; you wouldn't be able to even get to the entrance before the guards spot you." Nakida snorted, sharing a look with Huian. "And that's if you even know where to get into the lab."
Hah. There were a number of different entrances to the lab and only people who knew what to look for would be able to find them and get in.
Kang-dae was silent, looking between them. He let out a long sigh, his shoulders slumping. "All right," he said, his gaze lowered. "We'll...we'll do this together."
There was something about Kang-dae's gaze that Huian couldn't put her finger on, but Takeo's memories nudged her, telling her she had to talk to him (before he started spiralling).
"What is it?" she asked, watching his face.
He stilled and then looked at her, not moving his head. "Are you asking because of Takeo's memories?" He wasn't angry; there wasn't any stiffness to his muscles, his hands weren't clenched into fists and his speech hadn't been clipped.
"Sort of," Huian said, frowning. "They just know something's wrong. And..." She exhaled, knowing what the memories wanted but unsure about saying it out loud to him.
"And?" He lifted his head so his hair wasn't covering his face any more.
"They worry when they see you like this." Takeo was dead, but that didn't mean there wasn't memories in her head about how he felt whenever he saw M-21 like that. And it seemed like he did see M- Kang-dae like that a lot depending on what was happening around them.
Kang-dae closed his eyes and nodded. "I wasn't strong enough last time to protect Takeo and Tao, wasn't fast enough to get there in time, but now... Now I am." He ran a hand through his hair, making it flop back into place.
"So...we're doing this. Together."
"Yeah," Nakida said, nodding. They opened up a couple windows, looking at what seemed to be camera feeds. "The Union'll be covering that exit though..."
"It's fine," Huian said, recognising the view from one of the feeds. "There are other places to get in."
Nakida glanced at her, their eyebrows raised. "Did someone tell you all the exits or something?"
"...No," she said, rubbing the back of her neck. "When Dark Spear eats someone...I remember what the person knows. It doesn't just eat someone, it takes the soul as well." Two people were enough to know most of the more commonly used entrances and exits of the lab.
"Shit."
She was surprised Dark Spear hadn't talking with her as much as before, but maybe it was because it wasn't as needed, or it had been sated from the people it had eaten. Or maybe it was because Kang-dae was there.
And Takeo's memories of Dark Spear were different from hers, Dark Spear being more violent and bent on taking over his body, feeling like it was skinning him alive.
Was it because Takeo had reincarnated, or was it because it had mixed together with Takeo's memories it was less volatile, why it refused to attack Kang-dae?
"Are you hungry?" Kang-dae asked her, looking at her, frowning.
Huian shook her head. "Dark Spear...consumed two people; I don't think I need to eat for at least a day." But a drink would be nice.
"All right," he said, putting the chair back. "We're going to have to get there as soon as possible; Joyce might leave before we get there."
"Or she'll still be adding to Dark Spear," Huian muttered, glowering. Either of the options were not things Huian wanted.
"How are we getting there?" Huian said, getting up. They could walk right up to them, and Huian doubted people would be searching for them, not when Joyce had her own Dark Spear to play with; only if Joyce wanted more, but she could add to her own herself, which she'd apparently been doing.
Kang-dae and Nakida shared a look, and Nakida covered their face.
"Rooftops," Kang-dae said.
"Roof-" Oh. Takeo and Tao used to be able to do that. She felt vertigo just at the memories. "But...we can't do that," she said, looking at Nakida.
"I can carry you," Kang-dae said. Huian didn't doubt that.
"And I can feel aching afterwards," Nakida grumbled. "I'm still sore from last night. But don't say I should stay here," they added before anyone could say anything.
"I wasn't."
Nakida went out and bought M-21 a top that fitted him properly, haha.
Aaaand I'm at a shaky part in my plot, so the next parts could be shorter as I battle with the plot and characters.