Hey guys... Again, Sorry for the lateness... I hit another writer's block. And unfortunately, I realized that this fic is not going to be very long. That is, unless I can think of some other things than what I'm planning on writing. But another thing I realized, was that I don't know how this is going to end. Y'know how the title is Lifting Curses & Mending Broken Wings? Yea, well, I don't know how I'm going to have the curse "lifted" or how the wings are going to be "mended" if they even are... Or perhaps I will be able to think of nothing and the title is going to be incredibly misleading, if you know what I mean. ::evil laughter::
Disclaimers: See first chapter (these are going to stop...)
Warnings: Gore, as always. But I haven't written this chapter out yet, but I know what's going to happen. I'm not sure if the gory stuff is going to come up in this. But then again... If I end it where I really want to, it'll be incredibly short... Damn, this sucks. Ok, I won't end it where I really want to, but then I won't say all the gory stuff because what I imagined is really too horrible to put into words - in my opinion... I really don't want to write out what I made up... It might give me nightmares. ANYWAY! Gomen... As always, Yaoi... See previous chapters...
I'll continue that rant in Warnings about the gory, evil things that I don't want to put down for yours and my sakes... ::shudders::
Lifting Curses and Mending Broken Wings
Chapter 3: The Worst Has Yet to Come
It started out as an ordinary day... It was three days after Duo's little "underlying message" talk with Heero. Duo was strolling down the hallway towards Heero's room for a visit. He had no idea where this visit might land him...
He turned at Heero's open door with a smile on his face and a bounce in his step. But what he saw made him stop dead and the smile faded rapidly from his face. Heero was sitting on the window seat with his left leg tucked under him and his right was just hanging off the side, his tip-toe touching the blue carpeting. His arms were folded on the windowsill and his chin rested on them. His eyes were closed peacefully and the sun shone in through the window and bathed him in yellow-golden light. He seemed to glow in the glittering beam that engulfed him.
But this was not what made Duo halt in horror. Sprouting from Heero's shoulderblades were a pair of white feather wings. They rose up from his back in a graceful arc to a point that was a few inches above Heero's head, then they bent back down in that beautiful curve down to where Heero's knees would be if he were standing. There, they stopped abruptly. Here, at the end of his wings, they were broken and tattered and covered with his blood.
Duo stumbled back against the far wall, his eyes wide and shimmering. "Oh, Heero..." he groaned. This was just loud enough for Heero to hear and he looked up questioningly at his braided friend across the short hall from his door. Heero's confusion increased when Duo turned and ran, full speed, back down the hall from which he had come.
When Heero rose and walked briskly to his door and looked down the hall where Duo had run, the guards who stood along the hallways had gotten ahold of him. He saw Duo being held by the arms by two men in white. He lunged forward in hopes of freeing himself continuously, but to no avail. He started screaming at them to let him go as he now jerked backwards as well as forwards. His cries were soon drowned out by his captors yelling at others to fetch assistance.
One woman in white who stood by, watching anxiously turned to Heero. Their eyes met for a moment. Heero shrugged at the silent question that stood out in her eyes. Duo's frantic screaming and lunging made Heero turn his gaze back to him. He silently willed for Duo to stop. He knew what happened to people who acted like that...
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Duo hadn't stopped.
He now was sedated and was watching his new room swirl dizzyingly. It wasn't long before he was asleep.
His alarming actions had caused the people in white to move him into his own cell kind of room. It sure seemed like a cell. The door was made of thick, gray metal and there was only a small window in it. Inside the closet-sized room there was a bed that was connected to the wall and stood about a foot off the tiled floor. There was nothing else in the room. Except a camera in the corner above the door.
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After a few hours, Duo finally awoke. It was the middle of the night, though he had no way of knowing it. He was in a set of blue clothes provided for him now that he was in this particular section of the MI. He gazed groggily up at the long, narrow lightbulb that was built into the ceiling.
"What the bloody hell...?" he murmured. He sat up and realized that he was on a bed. A fairly uncomfortable one, at that. He held his head in his hands and closed his eyes tightly. He froze as everything came back in a flash. Again, he saw Heero with his broken wings and he remembered running down the hallway... And everything up until they poked his arm with a needle...
As he thought of Heero, he noticed that the light above him was flickering and turned from a bright white to a dull yellow color. His eyes widened. "Oh, no..." he whispered aloud. It didn't take a genius to understand where this was leading to.
His body began to shake with fear of the dark. He hated the dark. He hated being alone in the dark in a strange place. He whimpered and continued to watch the light.
He opened his mouth and let out a long, loud, ear-piercing, nigh glass-shattering scream as it flickered out. The people in white were at his cell within the next ten seconds. They shouted at each other, telling them to unlock the cell and to retrieve some "materials".
They hauled Duo out of his (lit) cell by his arms. The two men holding him grunted with the effort of keeping him still. He struggled and lunged and shrieked endlessly. His eyes, which were previously shut tight, snapped open wide. White showed all around the iris of his eyes and his pupils were dialated so his normally amethyst eyes were nearly black. He truly looked mad.
He then broke down crying. Through his tears, he gazed up at the men holding him and quietly asked to see Heero. His black eyes caused them to look away with chills coursing up and down their spines. They both shook their heads. "Please!" he cried frantically, "You've got to let me see him!! If I see he's safe, I'll be ok! I promise! Please!!" He panted and lowered his head so his chin nearly touched his chest and cried, spilling his tears onto the gray tile. He started shaking again.
But as he looked down at the floor, he didn't see a watching man in white mutter to another to fetch the boy whom Duo had previously requested to see.
"Duo?"
He looked up quickly, his eyes had still not returned to normal and made Heero shudder. His eyes shimmered with fresh tears and the two men holding his arms reluctantly and slowly released him. Heero watched Duo as he took a shaky step towards him. Then another. He wrapped his arms around himself as he slowly went to Heero.
Heero had to catch him and kneel next to him when Duo's uneasy legs decided they couldn't support his weight anymore. Heero saw the two men jerk forward as if to restrain him again, but Heero had caught him first, so they backed off again. "Duo, what happened?" he murmured to the shaking boy in his arms.
He didn't reply, only took in shaky breaths and released them heavily.
"Duo... Tell me what happened."
He shook his head. "I can't, Heero... It hurts too much..." he replied weakly. He leaned into Heero's arms and closed his eyes.
"Did you see something?" Heero asked him, already knowing the answer.
Duo nodded.
"What was it about? Who was in it?"
"You... You were... The light went out and I saw it." Duo was still quivering slightly, as though he were cold.
Heero looked up at the cell whose door stood wide open. The light was on. He shook his head and closed his eyes. "Don't worry, Duo. It's gonna be ok." He watched the two men come toward Duo again. They had heard Duo say the light went out and both saw that it was not.
Duo began to panic as soon as they got his arms in their hands. He knew that they thought he was a lunatic and he didn't want to leave Heero. He saw clearly that he was safe, but what he saw in that cell was driving him crazy... Heero-crazy.
Heero saw that Duo was panicking again and he asked the men to hold on a minute. Duo looked up at them as they shook their heads and the one holding his right arm said, "This boy needs help ASAP." Heero didn't respond.
Duo shook his head. "No... No, Heero!" He turned back to Heero and started struggling again. "Heero, you know I'm not crazy!" he screeched as he lunged and jerked, trying futilely to free himself as he had before. "Heero! Tell them I'm not crazy!"
The two men started to haul him off down the hallway.
"I'M NOT CRAZY!!!!!!!" Duo screamed while disappearing around a corner. The last syllable of his sentence echoed and Heero hung his head. He feared that if Duo continued to act this way, they would never see each other again. He wrapped his arms around himself as he was escorted back to his room where his roommate still slept.
He was left there as the employees shut his door behind him and departed down the long, gray hall. He strode silently to his bed where, tucked away in a hidden crook on the bottom of his bedframe, a very small pocketknife was stored. He had smuggled it in when he had first come. It had been sitting there, unused and collecting dust since that day. He really only did anything to himself when he was severely depressed or overwhelmed or worried.
And right now... He was worried.
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Alrighty then... Just a few notes for you about this chapter.
As you probably noticed... Duo's medication hasn't started working yet. Just... Thought I'd like to point that out... And if you didn't notice... This was the first time Duo had spoken during one of his hallucinations (he said Heero's name...). Since you haven't been with him for the past two years it's been going on, you wouldn't know that he never speaks when hallucinating, only after.
And the reason I pointed out that Heero's wings only would go down to his knees if he were standing up was because I always imagine wings to be as high as a few inches above the person's head (when they're not outstretched) and they curve down to the tips which brush the ground when the person is standing. In short, they're BIG. Because since anything besides birds and bats don't have hollow bones so they can fly, it would make sense to have the wings be huge and powerful to lift up whatever it is that unnaturally has wings.
If you didn't notice, the light in Duo's cell was shining brightly the whole time. Duo hallucinated it going out. He also hallucinated about Heero right after the light "went out". But like I said before, I didn't want to write it out... It would give me nightmares. I'm not positively sure about what exactly he saw about Heero, but just know that it was horrible and would probably drive someone who didn't hallucinate mad. And just meaningless FYI: Duo's "cell" was pretty much based off of that one girl's cell in Gothika... Phoebe... Sophie... Um... I can't remember her name, but she was the one with the cool accent who Dr. Grey (Gray?) was talking to in the beginning. The cell with the little plus sign-shaped window in the door... Yea, you get the point...
BTW, sorry for the shortness of this chapter.
Arigatos:
nekomoongirl - This one really has no point... But yes, Heero is VERY special... hehe...
Bunch-o-Nuts - Cool, hope this chapter was satisfactory!
B.U.G.I.M.S. - Astounding? Erm... Well, thanks, but I really don't think it was THAT good... ::cough cough:: And I don't know if you can find how to play Nertz... But ok, whatever floats your boat! Hm... Interesting name...
Angel Reid - Really? Did I? I didn't know how the MI would turn out since I've never been to, nor seen one.
Nikkler - ::sweatdrop:: Erm... I'm afraid I can't promise what you asked... But as for hinting toward why Duo doesn't see stuff happen to Heero... Well, that will come in time. ::grin::
Hazel-Beka - "Hikari"? WTF is that? I feel like I should know... Oh well! BTW, you should continue to read this fic so I can persuade you into liking yaoi, too! Just like my friend! Well, that is, if you weren't planning on reading it all the way thru already... ::clears throat:: Yea...
heather - Arigato gozaimas for all the advice! I'll look back on that sometimes, definitely. And as for the bars on the windows... That's what my best friend had when she went not too long ago... So yea... Lol, solitary dragon ::giggles:: That's highly amusing for some reason.
crazy-lil-nae-nae - Hey! I thought I lost you! It seems like you haven't been around lately... Or maybe you have and I'm just on crack... Which is entirely possible. Lol, arigato!
Dragen Eyes - Yea... They did kinda... Disappear, didn't they? Oh well, they're still there and alive! They're just not quite as important... ::coughs:: erm... yea... Sorry about that!
Nyxity - Hey! I like Enya, thank you very much! lol! ::sweatdrop:: I didn't think anything... strange when you said "hot seat"... I'm not THAT perverted... ::mutter, mutter:: ::laughs hysterically:: Yea, I could just see Fei saying something like that. Though maybe not QUITE like that... I don't imagine him (or any of them) as people who say "yo" and "man"... I don't know why, but I think of them as more... "sophisticated" - so to speak - than normal teenagers. Anyway - Arigato gozaimas for the advice!
Regina - Number 1: I love foreboding last lines ::evil grin:: Number 2: I think what Duo saw in his cell MIGHT have grossed you out a little... Maybe ::shrugs:: And Number 3: Not that it matters, but I don't really consider Hee-chan a bishie... ::shrugs again:: Maybe it just depends on your definition, ne? (BTW, I have no idea why I was talking in "numbers"... Gomen)
my-parents-worst-nightmar - Cool... school was out for me, like... A month ago ::nods:: Lol! Arigato!
Jade Crescent - Ah, yes... Things that you can hide OTHER things in is bad... ::makes mental note of that:: Awesome, thanks for your help! I don't think I'll be asking much about it, but just let me know if there's something I did incredibly wrong.
ALL DONE! And just so you know... I got into this weird "moment" when I wrote this chapter and the first chapter (not the second... that one sucked XP) and this "moment" doesn't happen very often, but when it does, I really feel like writing and when I do, it usually turns out wonderfully. And when these moments come, I get all my best ideas and I'll write them out. So that's usually why I wait so long to update. I'm waiting for one of my moments. But if none come (like last time), I'll just kinda... force myself to update whether I have good ideas or not.
Disclaimers: See first chapter (these are going to stop...)
Warnings: Gore, as always. But I haven't written this chapter out yet, but I know what's going to happen. I'm not sure if the gory stuff is going to come up in this. But then again... If I end it where I really want to, it'll be incredibly short... Damn, this sucks. Ok, I won't end it where I really want to, but then I won't say all the gory stuff because what I imagined is really too horrible to put into words - in my opinion... I really don't want to write out what I made up... It might give me nightmares. ANYWAY! Gomen... As always, Yaoi... See previous chapters...
I'll continue that rant in Warnings about the gory, evil things that I don't want to put down for yours and my sakes... ::shudders::
Lifting Curses and Mending Broken Wings
Chapter 3: The Worst Has Yet to Come
It started out as an ordinary day... It was three days after Duo's little "underlying message" talk with Heero. Duo was strolling down the hallway towards Heero's room for a visit. He had no idea where this visit might land him...
He turned at Heero's open door with a smile on his face and a bounce in his step. But what he saw made him stop dead and the smile faded rapidly from his face. Heero was sitting on the window seat with his left leg tucked under him and his right was just hanging off the side, his tip-toe touching the blue carpeting. His arms were folded on the windowsill and his chin rested on them. His eyes were closed peacefully and the sun shone in through the window and bathed him in yellow-golden light. He seemed to glow in the glittering beam that engulfed him.
But this was not what made Duo halt in horror. Sprouting from Heero's shoulderblades were a pair of white feather wings. They rose up from his back in a graceful arc to a point that was a few inches above Heero's head, then they bent back down in that beautiful curve down to where Heero's knees would be if he were standing. There, they stopped abruptly. Here, at the end of his wings, they were broken and tattered and covered with his blood.
Duo stumbled back against the far wall, his eyes wide and shimmering. "Oh, Heero..." he groaned. This was just loud enough for Heero to hear and he looked up questioningly at his braided friend across the short hall from his door. Heero's confusion increased when Duo turned and ran, full speed, back down the hall from which he had come.
When Heero rose and walked briskly to his door and looked down the hall where Duo had run, the guards who stood along the hallways had gotten ahold of him. He saw Duo being held by the arms by two men in white. He lunged forward in hopes of freeing himself continuously, but to no avail. He started screaming at them to let him go as he now jerked backwards as well as forwards. His cries were soon drowned out by his captors yelling at others to fetch assistance.
One woman in white who stood by, watching anxiously turned to Heero. Their eyes met for a moment. Heero shrugged at the silent question that stood out in her eyes. Duo's frantic screaming and lunging made Heero turn his gaze back to him. He silently willed for Duo to stop. He knew what happened to people who acted like that...
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Duo hadn't stopped.
He now was sedated and was watching his new room swirl dizzyingly. It wasn't long before he was asleep.
His alarming actions had caused the people in white to move him into his own cell kind of room. It sure seemed like a cell. The door was made of thick, gray metal and there was only a small window in it. Inside the closet-sized room there was a bed that was connected to the wall and stood about a foot off the tiled floor. There was nothing else in the room. Except a camera in the corner above the door.
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After a few hours, Duo finally awoke. It was the middle of the night, though he had no way of knowing it. He was in a set of blue clothes provided for him now that he was in this particular section of the MI. He gazed groggily up at the long, narrow lightbulb that was built into the ceiling.
"What the bloody hell...?" he murmured. He sat up and realized that he was on a bed. A fairly uncomfortable one, at that. He held his head in his hands and closed his eyes tightly. He froze as everything came back in a flash. Again, he saw Heero with his broken wings and he remembered running down the hallway... And everything up until they poked his arm with a needle...
As he thought of Heero, he noticed that the light above him was flickering and turned from a bright white to a dull yellow color. His eyes widened. "Oh, no..." he whispered aloud. It didn't take a genius to understand where this was leading to.
His body began to shake with fear of the dark. He hated the dark. He hated being alone in the dark in a strange place. He whimpered and continued to watch the light.
He opened his mouth and let out a long, loud, ear-piercing, nigh glass-shattering scream as it flickered out. The people in white were at his cell within the next ten seconds. They shouted at each other, telling them to unlock the cell and to retrieve some "materials".
They hauled Duo out of his (lit) cell by his arms. The two men holding him grunted with the effort of keeping him still. He struggled and lunged and shrieked endlessly. His eyes, which were previously shut tight, snapped open wide. White showed all around the iris of his eyes and his pupils were dialated so his normally amethyst eyes were nearly black. He truly looked mad.
He then broke down crying. Through his tears, he gazed up at the men holding him and quietly asked to see Heero. His black eyes caused them to look away with chills coursing up and down their spines. They both shook their heads. "Please!" he cried frantically, "You've got to let me see him!! If I see he's safe, I'll be ok! I promise! Please!!" He panted and lowered his head so his chin nearly touched his chest and cried, spilling his tears onto the gray tile. He started shaking again.
But as he looked down at the floor, he didn't see a watching man in white mutter to another to fetch the boy whom Duo had previously requested to see.
"Duo?"
He looked up quickly, his eyes had still not returned to normal and made Heero shudder. His eyes shimmered with fresh tears and the two men holding his arms reluctantly and slowly released him. Heero watched Duo as he took a shaky step towards him. Then another. He wrapped his arms around himself as he slowly went to Heero.
Heero had to catch him and kneel next to him when Duo's uneasy legs decided they couldn't support his weight anymore. Heero saw the two men jerk forward as if to restrain him again, but Heero had caught him first, so they backed off again. "Duo, what happened?" he murmured to the shaking boy in his arms.
He didn't reply, only took in shaky breaths and released them heavily.
"Duo... Tell me what happened."
He shook his head. "I can't, Heero... It hurts too much..." he replied weakly. He leaned into Heero's arms and closed his eyes.
"Did you see something?" Heero asked him, already knowing the answer.
Duo nodded.
"What was it about? Who was in it?"
"You... You were... The light went out and I saw it." Duo was still quivering slightly, as though he were cold.
Heero looked up at the cell whose door stood wide open. The light was on. He shook his head and closed his eyes. "Don't worry, Duo. It's gonna be ok." He watched the two men come toward Duo again. They had heard Duo say the light went out and both saw that it was not.
Duo began to panic as soon as they got his arms in their hands. He knew that they thought he was a lunatic and he didn't want to leave Heero. He saw clearly that he was safe, but what he saw in that cell was driving him crazy... Heero-crazy.
Heero saw that Duo was panicking again and he asked the men to hold on a minute. Duo looked up at them as they shook their heads and the one holding his right arm said, "This boy needs help ASAP." Heero didn't respond.
Duo shook his head. "No... No, Heero!" He turned back to Heero and started struggling again. "Heero, you know I'm not crazy!" he screeched as he lunged and jerked, trying futilely to free himself as he had before. "Heero! Tell them I'm not crazy!"
The two men started to haul him off down the hallway.
"I'M NOT CRAZY!!!!!!!" Duo screamed while disappearing around a corner. The last syllable of his sentence echoed and Heero hung his head. He feared that if Duo continued to act this way, they would never see each other again. He wrapped his arms around himself as he was escorted back to his room where his roommate still slept.
He was left there as the employees shut his door behind him and departed down the long, gray hall. He strode silently to his bed where, tucked away in a hidden crook on the bottom of his bedframe, a very small pocketknife was stored. He had smuggled it in when he had first come. It had been sitting there, unused and collecting dust since that day. He really only did anything to himself when he was severely depressed or overwhelmed or worried.
And right now... He was worried.
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Alrighty then... Just a few notes for you about this chapter.
As you probably noticed... Duo's medication hasn't started working yet. Just... Thought I'd like to point that out... And if you didn't notice... This was the first time Duo had spoken during one of his hallucinations (he said Heero's name...). Since you haven't been with him for the past two years it's been going on, you wouldn't know that he never speaks when hallucinating, only after.
And the reason I pointed out that Heero's wings only would go down to his knees if he were standing up was because I always imagine wings to be as high as a few inches above the person's head (when they're not outstretched) and they curve down to the tips which brush the ground when the person is standing. In short, they're BIG. Because since anything besides birds and bats don't have hollow bones so they can fly, it would make sense to have the wings be huge and powerful to lift up whatever it is that unnaturally has wings.
If you didn't notice, the light in Duo's cell was shining brightly the whole time. Duo hallucinated it going out. He also hallucinated about Heero right after the light "went out". But like I said before, I didn't want to write it out... It would give me nightmares. I'm not positively sure about what exactly he saw about Heero, but just know that it was horrible and would probably drive someone who didn't hallucinate mad. And just meaningless FYI: Duo's "cell" was pretty much based off of that one girl's cell in Gothika... Phoebe... Sophie... Um... I can't remember her name, but she was the one with the cool accent who Dr. Grey (Gray?) was talking to in the beginning. The cell with the little plus sign-shaped window in the door... Yea, you get the point...
BTW, sorry for the shortness of this chapter.
Arigatos:
nekomoongirl - This one really has no point... But yes, Heero is VERY special... hehe...
Bunch-o-Nuts - Cool, hope this chapter was satisfactory!
B.U.G.I.M.S. - Astounding? Erm... Well, thanks, but I really don't think it was THAT good... ::cough cough:: And I don't know if you can find how to play Nertz... But ok, whatever floats your boat! Hm... Interesting name...
Angel Reid - Really? Did I? I didn't know how the MI would turn out since I've never been to, nor seen one.
Nikkler - ::sweatdrop:: Erm... I'm afraid I can't promise what you asked... But as for hinting toward why Duo doesn't see stuff happen to Heero... Well, that will come in time. ::grin::
Hazel-Beka - "Hikari"? WTF is that? I feel like I should know... Oh well! BTW, you should continue to read this fic so I can persuade you into liking yaoi, too! Just like my friend! Well, that is, if you weren't planning on reading it all the way thru already... ::clears throat:: Yea...
heather - Arigato gozaimas for all the advice! I'll look back on that sometimes, definitely. And as for the bars on the windows... That's what my best friend had when she went not too long ago... So yea... Lol, solitary dragon ::giggles:: That's highly amusing for some reason.
crazy-lil-nae-nae - Hey! I thought I lost you! It seems like you haven't been around lately... Or maybe you have and I'm just on crack... Which is entirely possible. Lol, arigato!
Dragen Eyes - Yea... They did kinda... Disappear, didn't they? Oh well, they're still there and alive! They're just not quite as important... ::coughs:: erm... yea... Sorry about that!
Nyxity - Hey! I like Enya, thank you very much! lol! ::sweatdrop:: I didn't think anything... strange when you said "hot seat"... I'm not THAT perverted... ::mutter, mutter:: ::laughs hysterically:: Yea, I could just see Fei saying something like that. Though maybe not QUITE like that... I don't imagine him (or any of them) as people who say "yo" and "man"... I don't know why, but I think of them as more... "sophisticated" - so to speak - than normal teenagers. Anyway - Arigato gozaimas for the advice!
Regina - Number 1: I love foreboding last lines ::evil grin:: Number 2: I think what Duo saw in his cell MIGHT have grossed you out a little... Maybe ::shrugs:: And Number 3: Not that it matters, but I don't really consider Hee-chan a bishie... ::shrugs again:: Maybe it just depends on your definition, ne? (BTW, I have no idea why I was talking in "numbers"... Gomen)
my-parents-worst-nightmar - Cool... school was out for me, like... A month ago ::nods:: Lol! Arigato!
Jade Crescent - Ah, yes... Things that you can hide OTHER things in is bad... ::makes mental note of that:: Awesome, thanks for your help! I don't think I'll be asking much about it, but just let me know if there's something I did incredibly wrong.
ALL DONE! And just so you know... I got into this weird "moment" when I wrote this chapter and the first chapter (not the second... that one sucked XP) and this "moment" doesn't happen very often, but when it does, I really feel like writing and when I do, it usually turns out wonderfully. And when these moments come, I get all my best ideas and I'll write them out. So that's usually why I wait so long to update. I'm waiting for one of my moments. But if none come (like last time), I'll just kinda... force myself to update whether I have good ideas or not.