flameandpassion | 72 [Voice]

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Lucifer isn't stable anymore. The Temple is protected against angels coming inside. But I -- I don't know if he's going to come after me.

[There's a long silence before her breath hitches. She's trying not to cry.]

I'm so sorry, I didn't --

[But she stops herself before she grits her teeth. Strength, dammit.]

I played a card too early. This is my fault. I'll fix it, but I need --

[Pause.]

... I'm going to need help.

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[This -- takes some doing, and there is a pause, before Rei speaks. It is quiet and reserved.]

Castiel and I are going to ward your house against angels so they can't get inside. It won't take very long. And I need --

[Pause.]

I really -- need your help.

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... he's going to retaliate and he's going to start with the people I care about.

[It's said quietly.]

Castiel and I can protect your home so he can't get into it.

That's fine, but... You know full well Sasuke and I spend a great deal of time away from the house.

[That's not about to change. Hitsugaya can't give Sasuke orders, and Hitsugaya himself has to be sure they have food on the table.]

I know.

[She says it heavily.]

I'm the only person in this city that can create holy fire. I don't know -- how else to keep him at bay. And I'm --

[... sigh.]

I'm not exactly in top condition.

You've already said as much.

[There was just no point in asking how she's faring since she's well enough to talk.]

How does holy fire become holy?

... in their world, it's made from a specific oil from Jerusalem. But my fire is created through talismans and blessed seals -- I bless it the same way I do my ofuda. It's always been that way. I only had to make it into a ring to trap them.

Then you could teach anyone who is capable of wielding fire how to bless it in that way?

... I don't know.

[It's an honest answer.]

I've never met anyone else who can bless things like I can. Castiel can redraw the talismans like a Xerox machine but he can't actually bless them like I can. But -- I could try.

Who else do you know other than Sasuke?

If it's the fact that it's blessed that does damage, are you capable of blessing other objects for a similar effect?

If it has to do with religion, would another spiritual figure be able to do the same?

Roy Mustang works with fire. And I can bless objects -- I've blessed the Temple against harm. As for religion, I don't think it matters. I was born with this gift.

Then Sasuke and the Colonel. Ask them.

Have you tested other blessed objects like you tested the fire?

I will.

[It's said without hesitation.]

And as far as I know, fire is the only thing that works. There are angel banishing sigils, too, that I can do. I can ask Cas if he knows anything else.

Do so. Test things he isn't 100% certain about as well. On him.

[Because he deserves it right now.]

...I can't do that.

[It's quiet.]

He doesn't have his Grace. It wouldn't be effective.

[Well, damn. That makes all the difference, does it?] Who else?

...I can ask Gabriel.

[If he survives the altercation.]

Maybe Anna. Michael and Raphael are useless.

[He is not about to argue the relative uselessness of angels.]

Gabriel or Anna then. [Who are they? Screw this stupidity.] Make sure they don't alert the others, even if they don't agree to do it.

Okay.

[She isn't about to argue over semantics with him when he isn't yelling at her.]

I'll start once this has calmed down. They're busy with damage control over Lucifer. I don't want to distract them.

Right. [Siiigh.] Until then, recuperate.

[There's a tiny liptwitch, though he can't see it.]

Yes, sir.

[But it's followed by a rush of air -- a sigh in return.]

I feel a lot better than I did last night.

[She was convinced she was going to die. He is never going to hear that. But she was.]

...Have you seen Unohana?

No.

[Her tone indicates that she doesn't particularly want to, either.]

Why not?

[It's not exactly accusing. Unohana is scary. But it is demanding. He needs a good reason.]

[She's silent, for a long moment. There's a brief debate on whether or not she wants to tell the truth. Lying would probably be easier to deal with, in the long run. But it's Hitsugaya -- lying to him is damn near impossible with Rei, and besides, she's fairly certain he won't judge her for it.]

Because I don't want to be told that defending myself was a stupid thing to do.

[She hesitates, before her tone becomes slightly less abrasive, and much more subdued.]

...and I don't want to leave the house.

[The Temple is warded. She's said it plenty of times. It makes sense to stay. However with Hitsugaya, there's always a "but." He sighs, massaging a growing headache.]

There has never been anything wrong with defending yourself, Hino. The problem is that you constantly find yourself in situations in which you need to defend yourself.

I know. It was a stupid thing to do. Everyone is in danger because I put trust in the wrong person and overestimated the intelligence of another.

[It's said tiredly -- there is no argument to be had, there.]

The moment I leave the Temple, I'm going to have half of the city staring at me because I know he's going around and telling everyone who will listen about how I started it. How I'm the reason why people are going to get hurt and if I hadn't been so cruel as to trap him where he stood, then none of this would have happened, and that blood is going to be on my hands. And no matter how hard I try to make people understand how dangerous and deadly he is, people always seem to pick his word over mine.

[There's a shift of sheets -- Rei is pressing her head into her hands.]

I don't need fifty-four reminders of how I screwed up the status quo. I'd rather heal the slow way and -- figure it out until I -- I don't know. Until I know what to do.

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