[ Lea had been listening with one ear to the music inside the bar - you know, there was something weirdly familiar about it that he just couldn't place - and when it ended, he looked up, just to people-watch as a number of the band members and crew members started hauling equipment out the back. Sounds like it was their last gig for the night. They're probably going home to their families and friends... probably not hunting aliens in an attempt to locate an escaped experiment that sounded like a Heartless.
(Lea had a strong suspicion it actually wasn't, but there was no talking common sense to Riku and Kairi, who were worried to death about a Heartless outbreak on an island where people were too far from other land-masses to escape. Proooobably projecting, those two. Remembering how bad it sucked when the Heartless hit their own island... yeah.)
Lea swallows the last sip of his too-sweet cocktail around the lime peel in his mouth, and turns the glass upside down next to his elbow on the concrete made up to look like natural rock formations. It's then that he looks up and, for a split second, makes eye contact with one of the band members just as he's turning away, looking like he's in a bit of a hurry.
Oh no.
Lea recognizes that guy.
In fact, he recognized him so hard that he'd gasped the moment recognition hit him (Demyx?!), and when he gasped, that lime peel that he'd been chewing on dejectedly got lodged in his throat. ]
K-klhghg!
[ Oh - oh shit - oh goddammit he's choking. What are you supposed to do when you're choking?! - The thing, the thing he forgot the name of, the thing where you punch yourself in the gut. Lea makes a fist, wraps his other hand around, and thrusts them into his gut, under his ribs, once, twice -
The good news is the lime peel fires out of his throat like it was shot from a cannon on the second push. The bad news is that, this was done with such force that Lea loses his footing in the water and slips, falling beneath the surface of the water in the hot tub, with absolutely no air in his lungs. ]
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(Lea had a strong suspicion it actually wasn't, but there was no talking common sense to Riku and Kairi, who were worried to death about a Heartless outbreak on an island where people were too far from other land-masses to escape. Proooobably projecting, those two. Remembering how bad it sucked when the Heartless hit their own island... yeah.)
Lea swallows the last sip of his too-sweet cocktail around the lime peel in his mouth, and turns the glass upside down next to his elbow on the concrete made up to look like natural rock formations. It's then that he looks up and, for a split second, makes eye contact with one of the band members just as he's turning away, looking like he's in a bit of a hurry.
Oh no.
Lea recognizes that guy.
In fact, he recognized him so hard that he'd gasped the moment recognition hit him (Demyx?!), and when he gasped, that lime peel that he'd been chewing on dejectedly got lodged in his throat. ]
K-klhghg!
[ Oh - oh shit - oh goddammit he's choking. What are you supposed to do when you're choking?! - The thing, the thing he forgot the name of, the thing where you punch yourself in the gut. Lea makes a fist, wraps his other hand around, and thrusts them into his gut, under his ribs, once, twice -
The good news is the lime peel fires out of his throat like it was shot from a cannon on the second push. The bad news is that, this was done with such force that Lea loses his footing in the water and slips, falling beneath the surface of the water in the hot tub, with absolutely no air in his lungs. ]