Room 504, Friday Evening

[intraspective]

After talking to Hurley, Ino was glad to wander back to the room she shared with Zack—that was still weird to her, that she couldn’t say it was just her room anymore—and collapse on her bed.

Yay. A week gone by and she hadn’t—been weird and issuey at people other than... well, Bod had gotten a bit, but he hadn’t seemed to care and Ino just... wasn’t going to push that. All right, fine, and so on. She was fine.

Repression was probably bad, yes. Ino closed her eyes briefly, then sat up and stared at the open door. She should shut it. But that seemed like far too much work and instead she fumbled for one of her notebooks. A pen.

If she was thinking, she didn’t have to think.

It made sense to her.

[Open door, open post.]

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[intraspective]

"Freedom," she said, smiling and ignoring the question about funding. Warren had offered it freely, so it wasn't anything bad. That was enough for her.

Not that 'bad' would have stopped her.

"And a chance to just... look around. Without being on call, really."

[puppy_fair]

Without being on call? For a brief instant, Zack alternated between thinking that actually, being on call would be great, and thinking that the odds of ShinRa calling on him to do work just because he was in the neighborhood were slim-to-nil anyhow. Both thoughts went unspoken as the connotations of the statement actually sank in a little.

"Which would give us all of the time in the world to just... do whatever we need to do, huh?"

[intraspective]

She snuggled and she sighed and she was never moving ever. Mmmm no.

"Just like that," Ino said, blinking up at him. "If you wanted to, I mean."

[puppy_fair]

"I can't think of a single reason not to," Zack murmured, shifting his weight about just enough to be able to lean forward to kiss her on the forehead.

In all fairness, he wasn't trying very hard to think of reasons not to, either.

[intraspective]

"Okay," she said, sighing and relaxing entirely. "We'll do that."

And she was just going to... kiss him. Because she wanted to.