flameandpassion | 56 [Voice]

56 [Voice]

[Rei sounds tired.]

There's a breach in the wall at [x,y].

Stay away from it until it's fixed.

[Filtered to the shinigami // Private // Unhackable]

Can one of you set up a barrier until it can get fixed? Please?

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It never erases what happens.

[Rei still has the scar, from where Aizen skewered her. She will never get it healed or removed.]

But it gives you a second chance.

[Usagi doesn't remember it, which is probably a great blessing.]

Rei-chan, you always say things happen for a reason, don't you? Do you think there's something we're supposed to learn by having those chances?

... everything happens for a reason, but I don't always know what that reason is.

You can always learn from your mistakes -- and from other people's mistakes, too, though.

Hey, Rei-chan... if you see Fran especially... You can hold him still until I can get there, can't you?

[They've done it before, Rei keeping the person immobilized until they can be helped. And Usagi feels terrible that after all her searching and running, Fran still outpaced her and vanished.]

... yeah. I'll keep an eye out for him.

Thank you. [This is where she'd squeeze Rei's shoulder, if they weren't over this frustrating voice connection that makes her worry. Her head has been so full of Fran in particular - looking for him that night, wondering if he's alright.]

Hey, Rei-chan, by the time we go home, everything we have to do there will be easy. [It's a terrible attempt at levity.]

[That gets something of a small laugh, but it's strained.]

Totally easy.

So easy you can let up on me a little. [She makes a game attempt at the usual teasing.]

Maybe, if you do your work for once.

I do plenty of work. [When she's not busy ducking out of it by one excuse or another. Really, Rei, how could you accuse her?]

You could always do more.

[It doesn't have the usual bite to it, though.]

[And the answer that comes back may be surprising.]

Alright. I will.

[She'd do anything to make Rei happy, especially when they haven't had many chances to just be together lately.]

I'll even clean up today, and make dinner.

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