Room 504, Sunday Evening
Aug. 8th, 2010 03:32 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
intraspectiveIf you asked Ino the steps that had been involved in getting her from the lobby to her room and being clean for the first time in days… Ino wouldn't have been able to answer you.
At the moment she was more consumed with toying with the edge the over-sized shirt she normally slept in (it was soft and clean and the room was clean and smelled like flowers and Zack was there and and and) and leaning against Zack.
She knew she should… say something. Or do something. Her hair desperately needed to be brushed out.
But she was just going to take a bit before thinking that far ahead was plausible and, at the moment, just be.
That was okay, wasn't it?
[For that boy.]
At the moment she was more consumed with toying with the edge the over-sized shirt she normally slept in (it was soft and clean and the room was clean and smelled like flowers and Zack was there and and and) and leaning against Zack.
She knew she should… say something. Or do something. Her hair desperately needed to be brushed out.
But she was just going to take a bit before thinking that far ahead was plausible and, at the moment, just be.
That was okay, wasn't it?
[For that boy.]
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Date: 2010-08-09 12:41 pm (UTC)//You're not at fault.//
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Date: 2010-08-09 12:45 pm (UTC)He sighed, closed his eyes, and nodded a little.
"Are you hurt?"
It... didn't have anything to do with whether or not he was guilty. But it seemed important, too. Yeah, he'd cleaned her up. Yeah, he'd looked her over for injuries. He was still going to ask anyhow.
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Date: 2010-08-09 12:54 pm (UTC)//Not really,// Ino determined, her voice quiet. //My head and my chest hurt but I'm not... hurt.//
Just too much telepathy (not that it was stopping her from using it now, please note) and too much foul air. Both would pass.
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Date: 2010-08-09 01:09 pm (UTC)And then... then he fell silent. Holding her in his arms seemed like the most important thing right now, and he could deal with what was troubling himself later.
He'd settled into that smile, again. The one that meant that he was smiling because smiling was the strong thing to do. It didn't matter that she couldn't see. This time, that smile was for himself.
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Date: 2010-08-09 01:23 pm (UTC)She didn't have anything else to say other than a mind-murmured 'I love you' again, as Ino lay against him and slowly, without even realizing it, drifted from being awake to falling into a deep, boneless sleep.
It was safe, here.
It was okay.