flameandpassion | 45 [Video]

I care. And I'm busy.

[It's said tightly.]

Fine. Then I'll make this quick.

[So he can go finish burning shit.]

I asked you that because I was afraid. Not because I thought it was true, but because... I had to hear it wasn't true from you.

[She watches with hard eyes.]

...When I first got here, I didn't have the senshi. He was one of the only people in this place I could trust. And he was one of the only people in this place who gave me the chance to prove myself. He has saved my life more times than I can count.

And he has never disrespected me by ever crossing that line.

Never accuse me -- or him -- of that again.

Edited 2011-03-04 02:15 (UTC)

[He doesn't say anything, because he honestly believed that Hitsugaya, in some light, felt that way about her. Whether it was left over feelings from the event or his own, actual feelings, he still couldn't shake the idea from his mind.

So instead he takes a deep breath. He felt justified in what he had done. She felt justified in her own argument. It would never get them anywhere.

But he knows now who will always come in front of him. He's not sure he can deal with that.]

You're right. I'm sorry.

Edited 2011-03-04 02:21 (UTC)

I will never betray anyone.

[Fiercely.]

Not you, not him, not anyone.

And that week hurt.

Why?

[Because he doesn't remember the reasons why fighting with Hitsugaya the way she had, or being without him would hurt her so badly. It's an honest question, asked only because he wants to understand.]

Because they took my entire life and made it a joke.

[It's practically spit out.]

They took all of my memories of this place, of my life here, of my life in my own world, and replaced them with memories of things I've never done and it --

[But her voice trails off after that and she fiddles with the PCD.]

... it hurt because it took the people I trust the most in this place and turned them into enemies.

And I almost lost the people I care about because of it.

[Lost. Maybe. She doesn't know what Cloud is thinking. She can't consider that possibility right now.]

[He got all of the anger out. He did what he had to. He worked through it. He talked to Usagi, spent time with Horst, who for some unknown reason seemed to get him in a way very few people ever had. And now? Now he just wanted to work things out with Rei, because the event had royally screwed up what they had taken months to build and put together. It had taken who they were and who they had become together and had destoryed it so swiftly they never saw it coming.]

Rei... when I asked you those things, I wasn't doing it to hurt you. I was doing it because... because I don't feel like I desevre you and maybe, somehow, this event had made you realize that I don't. And he did.

I wanted to know because if that's how you felt, I'd rather let you go and see you be happy than to have you feel like you had to stay with me.

[It was stupid. It was so stupid. But he had to know. Because she really was one of the best things that had ever happened to him.]

I wouldn't stay with someone because I felt like I had to.

[A bit crisply. She's stronger than that and far, far, far more independent than that.]

And for your information, for that week, I had dumped him.

That's why we hated each other.

[For the love of Christ.]

Would you hate me if we broke up?

[Yeah, he had to ask that, sorry.]

[She pinches the bridge of her nose. She hated this event with a burning fiery passion.]

No -- we didn't actually hate each other, it was just a turn-of-phrase.

[aslghsh why are fake memories so effin' complicated?]

... Toushirou and I just yell at each other when we both get frustrated with each other. That's all.

I don't make a habit of hating people I care about.

Right.

[He has a feeling he knows that, but he doesn't say anything.]

I understand now.

[And he does. This is exactly what he wanted to know before, but the conversation had been one long strand od miscommunication.]

I uh... I kind of... burned your Christmas presents.

[He looks totally sheepish, partly because that's how pissed off he was and mostly because he just remembered those were her presents.]

Mature of you.

[She's still annoyed and still guarded -- Rei doesn't take her loyalty being questioned lightly at all -- but she'll give another chance.

Just don't expect her to stop talking to the chibigami and Rei is fine.]

[He's just going to let that go, because seriously, Rei, insult him or make him feel like a bad person one. more. time. and he'll make Nibelhiem look like a marshmellow roast, so help him Shiva.]

I'll get you new ones.

[You pushed a very serious button and crossed the one line Rei doesn't allow crossing. And then told her you burned her presents. Excuse her if she's not happy.]

You don't have to get me anything except trust, Cloud.

[It's said almost tiredly.]

I need to get ready. I'm testing machines and I have to find Ami.

[And Hitsugaya. But Rei can't even begin to go near that issue without getting a headache.]

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