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clarke "no chill" griffin ([personal profile] skaikru) wrote in [community profile] come_sailaway2022-10-01 08:19 pm

( catch all | october ☠ ) windows cracking, heart attacking, cryptic laughing

Who: clarke griffin & you
What: natsuno nurder nystery, & tba
Where: throughout the ship
When: october
Warnings: blood & gore, dead body, more will be added as necessary



i'll make this prettier later, also hmu with wildcard options
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[personal profile] fonomena 2022-10-02 04:37 am (UTC)(link)
[Lucky for Clarke, Jade's generally an early riser! Very early; truthfully, his day generally starts around 4am, which is just how things tend to go when you have a sleep schedule as erratic as his own. It's fortunate in several ways, really, that he happens to have a person like Natsuno as a roommate--seeing as the boy just so happens to be someone that no longer needs much sleep at all, and so isn't generally too fussed by the very early activity most days...

When he's around, anyway.

Which he...isn't, this morning.

The same way he hadn't been around pretty much all day yesterday, either. An odd chord struck...and then, a text from Clarke, just as Jade's debating on stepping out for a coffee--]


Yes, I am. [Hadn't stepped out yet after all, and doesn't now, hovering by the coffee table to frown down at his phone now instead. He and Clarke Griffin aren't exactly on casual texting terms, necessarily, so. This is...hm. A sardonic "good morning to you too" might have been added about here, on a more normal sort of morning, but...] Incidentally, just out of curiosity: Yuuki wouldn't happen to have been in your room lately, would he?
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[personal profile] fonomena 2022-10-02 05:50 pm (UTC)(link)
[Never...

Well, that's rather surprising for an entirely different set of reasons, actually--but it's a notion to be set aside for much, much later review...or forgetting about in entirety, which is rather likely with how the trajectory of the day's currently shaping up. (Clarke and Natsuno really do just sort of hang out with each other in 109 nigh-constantly anyway, in retrospect--)

Still, it's hardly a handful of seconds after reading the text message before those hammering knocks resound off the door. Which would be enough to give most people at least a bit of a jump, and manages to be startling even to Jade at the very least. Pocketing his phone and moving to open it...

No surprise to find Clarke on the other side.

On countless occasions past, Jade tends to greet he prospect of Clarke seeking out Natsuno with obnoxious cheer and idly cajoling barbs about their hangout tendencies; not this time, though. He might paint an entirely opposite outward picture to the drawn tension pinching Clarke's features and bending her frame already--fully dressed in his usual uniform and not a hair out of place, demeanor still flatly composed--but he meets her fraught expression with a neutral one of his own.

Promptly:]
What happened?

[Because something, apparently, is happening...if it hasn't already come to pass....

If Clarke wants to move into the cabin, Jade's not going to stop her; steps aside easily enough, attention still focused steadily upon her as he awaits an answer.]
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[personal profile] fonomena 2022-10-04 03:41 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh, without a doubt, Jade's well aware he's still rather firmly entrenched in Clarke's ill favor at the moment--after all, he's fairly sure that no amount of justification for the heist would be enough to truly satisfy her ire for awhile yet, and after a certain point one has to accept that time and detachment will have to do until something else gives. He'd been quite happy enough to give her a businesslike sort of space in the interim since then...but now, there's this.

Where, in the face of an entirely different concern revolving around a mutual friend, other grievances are now rather firmly set to the wayside...

Indeed, Jade's the only person in the room at the moment, more's the pity. Natsuno's side looks rather the same as always, his personal affects scattered about in their typical (slightly more organized lately) fashion--and unfortunately, unlike Jade, he doesn't have any notebooks lying around containing possible scribblings about clandestine undertakings. From behind Clarke, Jade pulls the door shut more out of habit than anything, but doesn't move from the doorway after that to leave her to her inspection, frowning at the answer-question combo she goes on to provide.]


None whatsoever? [That is--unusual. They really are thick as thieves on a given day, after all--anyone could tell just from observing Clarke and Natsuno from a distance for any length of time, really...] ...No, I'm afraid I really haven't. Last I saw him was yesterday morning; we both went to the information meeting, though he left before I did.

[A slight pause of thought, as Jade slowly folds his arms.]

I don't exactly tend to follow him about on the ship. ...And there were occasions, earlier on, where he'd avoid returning to this cabin for fairly long stretches of time, considering he needs rather less sleep than most. [But those were indeed earlier times--and after the battle royale, he hadn't seemed to find 109 nearly so objectionable to linger around in even when Jade would be present, as something of an agreeable compromise had formed between them. Natsuno's even taken to sleeping on the bed a bit more often nowadays...although, Jade's pretty sure it's more to rudely emphasize his ownership of said bed than anything else most times. Either way, though, the fact remains that Jade had been ready to qualify that longer absence as a slight relapse to that early habit on Natsuno's part. Except..] He hasn't responded to any of my messages since yesterday as well, however, now that you mention it...and he does tend to be prompt about those.

--I don't suppose you two got into an argument or anything like that at some point yesterday, did you?
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[personal profile] fonomena 2022-10-07 04:00 am (UTC)(link)
[Jade weathers the insulted reaction without much change in his own expression, simply nodding a bit at Clarke's rather vehement confirmation. Sure, between the two of them, Clarke might indeed be the one more apt to be avoidant; Natsuno always did seem like a sort of person who would prefer settling things bluntly and promptly, his own brand of avoidance saved for rather more traumatic affairs where isolation from just about everyone seemed a measure against being suffocated. Even then, though--just as Clarke says...]

I was just starting to wonder about that myself--whether he might have taken a lifeboat out once more. [Not that the tidbit about a 'distant explosion' is being filed away for some form of potential future review, about now; Jade can't recall having heard any such thing himself, yesterday, but the ship is large enough that such a sound could likely be missed on certain deck levels. (An explosion, though. Someone letting off steam after the library meeting, perhaps...? Seems most likely. At any rate--)] Still, he did tell me of his plans at that time--and he told you as well, I'm sure. I've had no arguments with him lately myself, and if it's the same for you...the reasons he would decide to make himself scarce grow thinner, do they not?

[A pause, here, in which a slight sigh pushes its way out. Jade draws away from the doorway at length, if only to drift over beside Clarke instead; still at a more professional distance than not, prescient of their recent disagreements even now. But she's now being joined in staring at the scatter of Natsuno's possessions about his empty bed, as if some form of answer might yet be buried somewhere in there...]

I'm starting to wonder if this is a willing disappearance on his part at all. [....] How many others have you asked so far, about him?
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[personal profile] fonomena 2022-10-14 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[There's naturally quite an inherent risk, yes, in drawing himself into melee range like this. As if the memory of their last meeting in this room isn't still a perfectly clear picture in his head--as if Clarke Griffin might yet be beyond making it three for three, where assaulting Jade Curtiss in his own quarters might be concerned.

But he never really has been one to shy away from dangers to himself when there's larger matters at hand--not beyond what would be practical--and it feels...slightly more prudent, to have this particular talk in this particular way. Beside each other at a decent range, like this, as opposed to speaking from behind her back a few feet away at the door. For all that's Jade's quite certain a disagreement or two still sits between them...this, at least, is an entirely different matter that demands mutual address.

He doesn't try looking sidelong at her when she answers, at least, still studying Natsuno's effects himself and still just as unable to derive any answers from the sight of them. Even the way they're moderately scattered is about typical as it gets, nothing particularly out of place or distinctly missing. He didn't exactly gather anything in anticipation for a long absence to himself, it seems...]


Logical steps all around, so far. In your place, I'd have expected him to be in his cabin as well. ...Though that unfortunately isn't the case. [Hm. Maybe he should have noticed something amiss sooner, last night, no sign of Natsuno's presence or even a response to any messages in those later hours. They'd developed such an agreeable system of not fussing overtly over each other's chosen hours for activities on the ship, though.....well. All beside the point now, one way or another.] Rita may well be your next best bet. She visits this room about as often as you do, of late, to see him. She might have heard or seen something the rest of us haven't. But if she doesn't know anything either, then...

[...Who else might there be, after Rita? Jade's not certain. He hasn't really been keeping extremely close tabs on the sorts of people Natsuno interacts with, either, besides the ones that barge frequently into 109 of their own volition. Now he almost wishes he had any other ideas. But as he does not...]

Is there anyone else you can think of? ...And what will you do, if any other leads from others are exhausted?