Video 10 → I See No Way This Carefully-Laid Plan Could Possibly Fail.

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[Well, someone isn't looking too healthy.

[Ken looks like he's been fighting, and quite possibly up all night. One of his eyes is swollen shut, there's an obvious bruise on his jaw and a cut on his brow. Honestly, he should just stop trying to walk to take-outs. Nothing good ever comes of it.

[As to what he's doing now, he's trying to prise a purple stone off his forehead with his fingernails using the Dreamberry camera as a mirror, because it shouldn't be there and it needs to go and if he was in the bathroom he'd have to stand. The obvious downside to this - that if the camera's on he's being recorded - doesn't seem to have occurred to him. Maybe if he didn't feel so damn tired--]

Ow!

[He rubs at his brow. All he's done is give himself a rather nasty-looking scratch.]

Dammit.

[Ken sighs. Rubs one eye with the heel of his hand. Clearly this isn't working and he needs a better plan. Getting up, he wanders around for a moment and returns with a pair of craft scissors. He slumps heavily back down before the camera, carefully opening the scissors so the blades are bared. On that note, the feed times out.

[Somebody save this idiot from himself. Please.]

Comments

[video]

[nie_unschuldig]

And yet, nice guy that I am I'm offering.

You know there are doctors that make house calls. I can give you the name of one if you'd like.

[Actually he knows two of them, but there's one in particular he'd recommend.]

[video]

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

Just out of the goodness of your heart or something, yeah whatever. I think I can use the phone by myself thank you Schuldig.

[And do I even want to know what kind of doctor you'd recommend-- wait, scratch that. I can guess.]

[video]

[nie_unschuldig]

More like, I want to keep my favorite playthings around. And we all got to see how well that worked...

[What? He's a really nice guy. Silver hair, wears glasses...]

[video]

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

[Yes, absolute charmer. Only killed me once.]

Who's a plaything? And forgive me if I'd rather drop dead on the spot than go see a doctor you'd choose for me!

[... and this would be Ken picking up the scissors again and trying to fin d the edge of that damned gem.]

[video]

[nie_unschuldig]

[Give him a chance, that number could go up.]

You are Ken dear; as much as it pains me to say, since you aren't the brightest thing around, you do amuse me so. It's like watching a dog chase its tail, knowing that it will never catch it. Never gets old.

[Oh Ken...]

I have a gun if you're really interested in hurting yourself. Or maybe if you asked nicely, Nagi could try removing it for you. Then again, I'm not sure how charitable he's feeling at the moment.

[video]

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

[Ken slams the scissors back down on the table. His temper has not been improved by far too much sleep and no rest at all.]

I already told you, I don't need your help!

[Don't think Nagi'd ever feel particularly charitable towards me, even if I pleaded with him-- Not that Ken's likely to let that guy anywhere near his head unless he really wanted to know what it felt like to have his brain explode. Right now, that whole mess with Sister--

[Just one more thing in his life that didn't end well. And it's one more thing he doesn't want to deal with right now.]

Dammit! If I ever felt like hurting myself I'd just have to take your bloody advice, wouldn't I?!

[video]

[nie_unschuldig]

[Hey Ken? Promise me you'll never change.]

I heard, just ignoring you.

[Damn and here he was look forward to finding out just how far Nagi's power extended especially now that he had the added irritation of being a girl. Maybe he'll just give Nagi the idea anyway.]

Well you could just suck it up and bother one of the smart kitties.

[video]

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

[... going totally nuts count?]

So why don't you just talk to the damn wall then if you don't even care what I'm saying!

[Frankly, if it comes to a choice between the scissors and Nagi, the scissors win hands-down. At least the worst the scissors can do is give him a cut.]

Maybe I don't want to bother them, ever think of that?

[... yup, he's feeling stupid for even being in this situation and why can't he get himself out again? Ken slumps, rubbing at his unbruised eye with his hand again. Stays like that for just a fraction too long. Damn, he's so tired--

[Like Hell he's telling Schuldig Omi's in a sleep coma. Right now, Ken wishes he was.]

[video]

[nie_unschuldig]

[The more the merrier.]

Because the wall doesn't respond nearly as well as you do.

[So Ken's not as dumb as he looks sometimes.]

Translation, you don't want them to know you got in trouble when left to your own devices...again.

By the way, you look like shit.

[video]

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

So? If you're not listening anyway what's the bloody difference?

[Like it or not (and he doesn't think he likes it one bit) Schuldig's hit the nail on the head here. No, Ken doesn't want them to know that - hence his determination to go this alone. They'll find out, most likely, but that doesn't mean he wants them to or is actively going to court it--

[Yes, he's screwed up again. BUT HE'S JUST SO GOOD AT IT, SCHULDIG.]

Thanks, I hadn't noticed! You want a medal for that observation or something?

[video]

[nie_unschuldig]

You're more fun to provoke.

[Although it is a bit like hitting your head on a wall sometimes talking to you Ken dear.]


A medal? No thanks. What else are you offering?

[video]

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

You'll get a punch in the face if you don't stop talking.

[video]

[nie_unschuldig]

Oh, you like 'em silent do you? Sorry but gags don't work on telepaths.

[video]

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

[Wait, what?]

... the Hell are you implying?

[video]

[nie_unschuldig]

[Just another reason he loves you so much Ken.]

Why don't you just go wake up Aya, then you ask him along with letting everyone's big brother come to your rescue?

[video]

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

Dammit this is my problem not Aya's, I screwed up, it's got nothing to do with him! So I guess you're stuck with me!

[Touchy, isn't he?]

[video]

[nie_unschuldig]

Damn, even Schwarz can ask each other for help when it's needed.

[There might be hell to pay for it later, but they can ask and usually get it.]

I'm stuck with you, you're stuck with that bauble. Aren't we a pair?

[video]

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

Schuldig are you deaf or just defective I don't. Need. Help!

I'm stuck with this thing and you, I think I got the crap end of the stick!

[video]

[nie_unschuldig]

Of course you don't; why don't you go back to poking yourself with those scissors some more? Maybe you'll save someone the effort of giving you a lobotomy later in life.

[Ken, you keep forgetting how a phone works don't you?]

[video]

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

I don't need your help then will you get a hobby that doesn't involve bugging me!

[That or he's just stubborn.]

[video]

[nie_unschuldig]

Oh, I could always go bother someone else.

[video]

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

[NOT WHAT I MEANT, SCHULDIG.]

Why've you gotta bother people at all, can't you just watch TV like a normal person?

[video]

[nie_unschuldig]

[He knows that, but it's more fun this way!]

TV is for people with no imagination. Or lives.

Re: [video]

[insorrow.livejournal.com]

And going out and ruining other people's lives for the Hell of it isn't pathetic at all, right.

[video]

[nie_unschuldig]

Pathetic is practicing kitchen surgery when there are at least three doctors in the area who might be able to help you. Pathetic is ending up in this situation in the first place. Pathetic is being afraid to let your friends know what is going on.

Shall I continue?