thusia | Just a rainy day...

Just a rainy day...

Who: Anyone
When: Day 59, Noon
Where: Anywhere
What: A soggy mingle.

[ The mist around headquarters is mostly cleared along with the morning air, but people may have noticed that it hung around much later into the morning than usual. The rain that started in last night has also been continuing, strong enough to be heard anywhere inside the stone headquarters and much heavier than one would expect for a sudden tropical rain. It also looks as if it'll be lasting the rest of the day and then some. Hope you've got plenty of indoor activities planned for the day. Or don't mind getting a little wet if you don't. ]

[ So what are your plans, Thusia? ]

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Here. You don't want to go inside with that much, you'll never see the end of it.

[Strips off his gloves ans he comes over, reaching for Gokudera's hair.]

[stops and gives him a vaguely curious look, but isn't moving to avoid that at all]

[Starts squeezing out Gokudera's hair in small strands, combing out as much of the sparkles with the water as he can.]

Back to our conversation before the monkeys came, how much have you sealed away?

[ducks his head a little, but it seems like it's more to avoid getting glittery water in his eyes than anything else. His voice is even and calm when he speaks]

Grief, guilt . . . Anger too.

[Tilts Gokudera's head a bit to the side as well, to better direct the flow.]

It's very much like speaking to one of my own, before the restoration.

Do you intend it to be permanent?

Don't be stupid. I just . . . I need time. I couldn't keep going like that. It felt like I was dying.

I can understand that.

[Squeezes out another few strands, finger combing chunks of sparkles out.]

It is not a choice I can condone, but it is your choice to make. If you need that time, take it.

. . . [shrugs]

You wouldn't have condoned things staying the other way either.

And?

What else was there to do?

Do Yamamoto and Allen know?

Not yet.

Then there was, at the very least, the possibility of confiding your feelings to your support structure.

. . . Those feelings were enough to stop me. Why would I add to their burdens with something that heavy?

[Takes another moment to answer, squeezing out another few strands, giving the question due consideration.]

If Allen had been the one going through such times, would you want to know?

Of course.

Even if you were dealing with your own issues, whatever they might be?

Yeah, but I wouldn't want him to feel so burdened down that he wanted to give up on everything either. And I don't think he'd want that for me.

Edited 2012-07-10 00:12 (UTC)

No. Nor do I. But he will want to know, and may honestly wish that you could have told him before you made that choice, rather than after.

It's the kind of oversight I have often been scolded for in the past.

He'll know. I'm not going to hide it from him.

I didn't think you would. You trust each other, and besides that, there isn't even any reason to.

[Moves to the other side, tilting his head the other way.]

[reaching up to fuss with the already cleaned side idly]

Aa . . . He'd be too upset if I didn't tell him anyway. He worried for a long time about Slick because he didn't know why he was acting differently suddenly.

[It's kind of nice, at least, having someone else play with your hair. And he's careful of snarls and tangles.]

Slick did this as well?

He cut out all his sorrow too.

Before or after his encounter with Yamamoto?

Re: [AND THEN IT WAS TIME FOR EXPLOSIONS]

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Re: [AND THEN IT WAS TIME FOR EXPLOSIONS]

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