IC Inbox/ DIO's Diary

[dioception]

[It is easy enough to send a private message to DIO, but anything written here would be visible only to recipients and to those who hold his book in their hands.]
{I'll pretty this post up more in the future}

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[dioception]

I suppose that's how you do it.

...This is about Josuke.

[rayofsunlight]

Yes.

[dioception]

He's gone, Jonathan.

[He's probably as upset as Jonathan. Maybe a little less, because Dio's feelings were just not that strong in general.]

Would you like to talk about it?

[rayofsunlight]

Yes, please. I'm in the bedroom.

[He'll also be all teary all over you almost immediately so have fun with that, Dio.]

[dioception]

[Yeah, but Dio is prepared for that, and while he's certainly not teary-eyed, Dio looks obviously dejected as he enters the room, making for the bed so that he could lean on Jonathan.

He would probably not admit to the relationship that he had with Josuke, but he'd be more willing to admit to at least having some manner of affection for the kid. He wasn't going to start talking immediately, just holding onto Jonathan for now.]

[rayofsunlight]

[Jonathan immediately holds on to Dio tightly, face pressing against his shoulder and wetting it with silent tears save for an occasional sniffle. He lets a long silence pass with them holding each other before he bothers to say anything, voice cracking just a little.]

I feel like I didn't get to know him nearly well enough before he left...

[dioception]

[Dio didn't break the silence, only moving to put a hand on Jonathan's back, holding him in an embrace.]

He was a good kid, Jojo. Reminded me a lot of you.

[rayofsunlight]

Did he ever tell you any stories about himself? He talked about a little with me, but...

[There was still so much more to be said, to be experienced. He knew his father was Joseph and that he was his grandson, that Speedwagon had taken care of the family, that Joseph's grandson Jotaro had met Josuke...]

[dioception]

[They had never been so close as to swap stories about themselves, really, though Dio had gleaned a little bit from what he HAD learned.]

Mmhh... He's from... from about a decade or so after I... [After he died. He was still having trouble with that bit of information.]

I think he said he'd gotten very sick as a child, and a friend of his had a family member that I'd influenced, apparently. He didn't speak much about himself or his life before Between.

[rayofsunlight]

I can't believe a hundred years after I was gone plus a decade after that where you were gone too, you still were finding ways to influence the world.

[He's teasing Dio to make things a little lighter, but at the same time he WAS pretty surprised about that.]

He had a Stand too, right? What was his like?

[dioception]

[Really, neither of them could possibly know how far Dio's influence extended. Dio doesn't seem to crack a smile though, he was never the sort to use humor to make himself feel better when he was upset.]

It looked somewhat like my own, but it's power was to heal things. [Fitting, he supposed. How very like a descendant of Jonathan's.]

He'd come to help me when I was torn apart in the catacombs, even knowing who I am, and what I'd done.

[rewindfate]

It is not my intent to entertain you.

I hope your goals are well worth the enemies you will make by continuing your behaviour then, sir Dio. I would normally wish you the best of luck in obtaining them, but as I do not agree with your methods, I cannot.

[dioception]

It is worth anything.

[text, the 16th]

[totallysane]

Sam is feeling better now. He should be able to get out again, so if you want to see him, you could probably let him know that and you could meet up.

I'm not planning to keep you from seeing your friend, you know.

Sorry I freaked out a little, but I really care about him, and laudanum is a pretty scary thing to anyone from my time period. I didn't mean to yell at you so much when you were trying to help.

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[dioception]

I'm still sore with you. I suppose you expect me to thank you.

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[totallysane]

I don't. I just wanted to let you know. We're friends too, after all. I don't want to fight with you.

[rayofsunlight]

[Ah well, at least he tried. Jonathan seemed rather tickled by the idea of his stand though, definitely coming to the same thought as Dio himself about the matter — what a good group of men, his descendants were.]

I'm glad someone like Josuke was in your life. He was a good man, through and through... I'd like to think that he's merely back home for now with his friends and loved ones, with whatever that entails in this place. Plus, I've read that sometimes people come back...

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[dioception]

[Friends, huh? Dio doesn't really see it, but whatever. He might as well play nice for Sam.]

You had better be good to him.

[And no, he wasn't jealous.]

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[totallysane]

I'm trying. I'm honest with him, more so than with anyone else.

You're really concerned, aren't you?

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[dioception]

He's

I don't

I can't lose him right now.

Just. Know that I won't be pleased if it turns out that you're doing something wrong. And I'll be watching.

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[totallysane]

Well, that's not terrifying at all. ^^;

I'll do my best though. He certainly deserves better than either you or me, but for some reason he's decided I'm the right person for him. I don't intend to let him down.

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[dioception]

You like terrifying though. Weirdo.

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[totallysane]

That's why you and I get along, isn't it?

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[dioception]

It's why we have sex, in any case. Getting along... I guess it's because after that we aren't so different, you and I.

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[totallysane]

I thought you'd realized that by now.

[ It's a pretty big admission in some ways. ]

Besides, it's good sex, isn't it?