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flameandpassion) wrote2011-10-26 02:43 am
flameandpassion) wrote2011-10-26 02:43 am
Entry tags:
- !event: fog,
- and so ends the worst week ever,
- break my little heart in two,
- don't tell toushirou,
- fuck you seriously,
- guilt is her middle name,
- i love my boys really,
- i quit my dayjob,
- let the bodies hit the floor,
- listening to hitsugaya for once,
- minako is the social one,
- not as strong as she appears,
- shinto priestess by day,
- stupid shinigami,
- three inches from the edge,
- toushirou toushirou toushirou,
- worst timing ever,
- you fail the 'not evil' test
78 [Video] Forwarded to the dawn.
[When she had seen the image, she had thought it wasn't real. Why would she believe it? The very nature of this event was to see people die -- it was just a hallucination. A horrific, horrid, terrible hallucination, but a hallucination all the same. Still, Rei had a feeling in the very bottom of her heart that something was not right -- so she set out to find Hitsugaya. Just to make sure he was okay.
He hadn't picked up his PCD and he obviously wasn't at Juubantai house, otherwise he would have told Hinamori that it wasn't real. So Rei set out to the wall surrounding the city, to his favorite spot to sit whenever he felt upset. No Hitsugaya. She then hopped the wall and went to the Wastelands, to his favorite sparring location -- and then to the second favorite sparring location -- and then the third, the one they frequent whenever they both needed to let off some steam. Still no Hitsugaya. She checked the clinic, the dojo, the fountain in the center of town, the surrounding tall trees, and finally, she had dropped back down on the steps of the Temple of Heaven, with her PCD in her hands, to stare blankly at the ground. It's at this moment that the feed has actually started -- just Rei, on the steps, staring at nothing.
When she speaks, it isn't clear whether or not she knows it's recording -- but her voice is so quiet, and faint, and heartbroken. There are no tears or choked sobs or any of that dramatic nonsense -- but it's obvious, in the way that Rei carries herself -- the way her shoulders slump and her cheeks pale -- that she is positively devastated.]
He's actually dead, isn't he.
[Her fingers curl around the PCD and the feed shakes, ever so slightly, with the change. Her hands are shaking. And if you look carefully, it's obvious that Rei herself is trembling. Almost every single person who has been with her for as long as Hitsugaya Toushirou has been has eventually left for some period of time, but not him. He's practically indestructible. Always the one to drag her away from doing something stupid -- and sometimes the other way around -- but Rei has never had a day pass in Adstringendum where he has not been there to tell her what to do whenever it got to be too much. And now, when it's too much -- way too much -- he isn't here. Temporary or not (oh, if it isn't temporary -- no, Rei can't even consider that as a possibility, because she may very well crack), she can't quite grasp the idea that she can't pick up her PCD and call him to tell him to come over and sit with her. Even if it's silent contemplation of how badly their lives suck. Or for him to tell her to snap out of it and stop being so depressing, because not only did this happen, but Minako -- vanished. Again. And on top of that, Hitsugaya --
She closes her eyes and -- finally, tears roll down her cheeks at the motion, but she doesn't actually cry or sob. Not quite yet. That is going to be reserved for when she's alone. No, instead, she keeps speaking, and while her voice is still quiet, and still positively heartbroken and crushed, there is a fine edge of anger to it now, and it is obvious that Hino Rei knows this is broadcasting to the entire network.]
When he comes back, he's going to tell me what happened to him, and not even God can hide you from what I'll do to you. You'll be punished, and when I find out what he lost because of you, you'll be punished again. Come forward now or hide in your hole like a coward, it doesn't matter to me, but I'll find you.
[He'd do the same for her, after all.]
He hadn't picked up his PCD and he obviously wasn't at Juubantai house, otherwise he would have told Hinamori that it wasn't real. So Rei set out to the wall surrounding the city, to his favorite spot to sit whenever he felt upset. No Hitsugaya. She then hopped the wall and went to the Wastelands, to his favorite sparring location -- and then to the second favorite sparring location -- and then the third, the one they frequent whenever they both needed to let off some steam. Still no Hitsugaya. She checked the clinic, the dojo, the fountain in the center of town, the surrounding tall trees, and finally, she had dropped back down on the steps of the Temple of Heaven, with her PCD in her hands, to stare blankly at the ground. It's at this moment that the feed has actually started -- just Rei, on the steps, staring at nothing.
When she speaks, it isn't clear whether or not she knows it's recording -- but her voice is so quiet, and faint, and heartbroken. There are no tears or choked sobs or any of that dramatic nonsense -- but it's obvious, in the way that Rei carries herself -- the way her shoulders slump and her cheeks pale -- that she is positively devastated.]
He's actually dead, isn't he.
[Her fingers curl around the PCD and the feed shakes, ever so slightly, with the change. Her hands are shaking. And if you look carefully, it's obvious that Rei herself is trembling. Almost every single person who has been with her for as long as Hitsugaya Toushirou has been has eventually left for some period of time, but not him. He's practically indestructible. Always the one to drag her away from doing something stupid -- and sometimes the other way around -- but Rei has never had a day pass in Adstringendum where he has not been there to tell her what to do whenever it got to be too much. And now, when it's too much -- way too much -- he isn't here. Temporary or not (oh, if it isn't temporary -- no, Rei can't even consider that as a possibility, because she may very well crack), she can't quite grasp the idea that she can't pick up her PCD and call him to tell him to come over and sit with her. Even if it's silent contemplation of how badly their lives suck. Or for him to tell her to snap out of it and stop being so depressing, because not only did this happen, but Minako -- vanished. Again. And on top of that, Hitsugaya --
She closes her eyes and -- finally, tears roll down her cheeks at the motion, but she doesn't actually cry or sob. Not quite yet. That is going to be reserved for when she's alone. No, instead, she keeps speaking, and while her voice is still quiet, and still positively heartbroken and crushed, there is a fine edge of anger to it now, and it is obvious that Hino Rei knows this is broadcasting to the entire network.]
When he comes back, he's going to tell me what happened to him, and not even God can hide you from what I'll do to you. You'll be punished, and when I find out what he lost because of you, you'll be punished again. Come forward now or hide in your hole like a coward, it doesn't matter to me, but I'll find you.
[He'd do the same for her, after all.]
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[Because if they could be showed things that hadn't happened yet, and those things turned out to be real, who's to say the hallucinations couldn't be accurate, at the least?
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[Rei's voice is quiet.
That includes the Animus, tyvm.]
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[He's quiet too, but he's curious. And he wonders if this might not be worth the chance that it's real.]
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[They could drive someone insane.]
Don't go near the fog anymore. Please.
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He wants to just agree and not cause her any more stress, but at the same time... The temptation is so great. There are some other tombstones he wants to visit, deaths he heard about but never saw, gravestones for some who should still be alive. And he wants to find out why.]
I'll be careful, Rei.
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[But it's tired, resigned. She's not going to argue. She doesn't have the energy or the willpower to argue. One of her main pillars of support is dead for who even knows how long -- and that fact is positively draining.
People were going to do whatever they were going to do regardless of what they were told. They can deal with the consequences without her.]
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[Even if he didn't have reason to seek out any tombstones, he didn't want to be confined to the Temple. He'd spent enough time as such, and it was unpleasant and claustrophobic to be.]
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[Her voice suddenly sounds odd, as if she were speaking through a tin can connection. Tight and strained and distant. Faint.
The skies hadn't turned black. It hadn't snowed. Wind hadn't picked up. The tell-tale signs of her friend's bankai hadn't alerted her to the fact that he was in trouble. He hadn't released Hyourinmaru.
Hitsugaya Toushirou couldn't even fight back.
How many times has he saved her life and the one time she had to be at his side, she wasn't.]
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He was likely surprised.
[It's the only thing he can really say back, something factual, even if he also means it as a reassurance. Even an angel could be taken out by surprise; it meant nothing but a cowardly attacker.]
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[Quietly. Castiel guessed right.]
If you want me to look for anyone you want to know about, then I'll do it. But don't go to the fog.
[It says quite a lot that she's willing to poke into his world's timeline again over him wandering into the graveyards. She hates his world.]
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There's nothing that can fix what's happened, especially not talking to ghosts that shouldn't exist.]
It's fine.
[The words are soft, but he means them, no matter how a part of him still longs to go looking for the graves of those siblings that are gone forever.]
I won't go out.
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It's a silent thanks.]