Los Angeles…An eerie silence sat over the living room, yet nothing seemed unbecoming of the normal behaviour of the area's inhabitants from a purely visual standpoint. Gunk, now thawed out, sat on the couch watching TV, with Suzy squished in next to his bulky emerald form, while Thomas sat on the sofa beside them, the side of his head laying upon his knuckles with utterly unenthused disinterest. In the kitchen, Kon leant his back against the bench with his hands in his pockets while Lizzy, seated on a stool, placed the side of her turned head on her arms that were folded atop the table. From a sheer glance, it all looked like a typical night in with the Crusaders, but anyone actually standing in the room at the time could tell that there was more to all of it than met the eye. A strange tension hung around each of them, comprised of words unsaid and actions drastic. It hadn't dissipated by the time the door opened and Hikaru and James stepped through, now changed back into their civi

Central Park…Sunlight bounced between the lightly-tremoring leaves, the branches blown by the light breeze that was passing through. Joggers and walkers of dogs moved up and down the edges of the cement pathway. In the middle of said pathway, Kon and Lizzy walked slowly, Lizzy resting her head on Kon's relaxed shoulder with her arms wrapped around his waist. Lizzy kept her eyes closed, letting Kon guide her steps and allowing the sun to fall upon her skin as she fastened her arms to his to his toned torso."Y'know, I never realised you had such a nice body." She playfully complimented, to no response. "Do you work out?" Her affectation changed to one of minor worry. "Sweetie?" She opened her eyes to look up at Kon's face. Rather than enjoying the walk with his girlfriend, he was gazing at the ground, his expression set in stone and his eyes serving as windows to the racing interiors of his mind. The way his brows dropped over his straight-staring yellow eyes, combined with how his li