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Klaus Hargreeves ([personal profile] bestfuneralever) wrote in [community profile] penancememes 2020-10-25 09:26 pm (UTC)

There's a difference in the way he walks and holds himself when he reaches that utterly compartmentalized side of himself, putting all the emotions away to focus on the task at hand. It's a persona he hasn't had to wear in a really, really long time, and it's absolutely all The Séance and not Klaus, really, at all, even if he was never quite what anyone would call sadistic, even in that persona. In Klaus' mind, this is a mercy for what he's going to have to do next.

"Just...trust me..." The words barely even sound like him, detached in a way Klaus really never gets. Not here, not here, not here. He's not living this moment so much as moving through so very familiar motions, now, taking Five's wrist tying a tourniquet with what he thinks was meant to be a blindfold around his arm. Expert and nimble fingers seek an easy vein, a couple of sharp thumps to make it easier to slide the needle in. He presses down on the plunger and releases the drug into his brother's system.

Klaus can picture it in his mind, can almost feel the phantom of that near-instant sensation, a sort of rush in his veins that spreads a warmth through his entire body in seconds, a low-bubbling kind of euphoria that's more subtle than it is a smack in the face like any number of the uppers Klaus has taken in the past.

Five's smart.
He'll figure out why he did that, right?
(Klaus wishes he had saved some for himself.)

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