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Ino wasn't avoiding Zack. She really wasn't. This wasn't like the situation they'd been in last year, with both of them ignoring the elephant in the room and coexisting without ever really living with one another.

This was different because Ino had drowned herself in research since Kueng had left and had barely looked up from it for long enough to eat and shower and sometimes (maybe) sleep.

So, in a way, she was perhaps to be forgiven for not realizing just how much time she'd spent buried in years and years of painstaking work—a great deal of it done after her death—by a man whose love for her showed in the sheer amount of information he'd provided.

There was a lot of think about. And not all of it was about her death either.

Ino frowned at the report she was rereading.

[For ze guy, yo.]

Date: 2018-04-21 03:43 pm (UTC)
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Zack squinted and set down his noodles.

"That's bad. That... sounds very bad."

Sure, he'd been soaked in Mako himself for years and years, but that mako had presumably been refined, and he'd at least had someone monitoring to make sure he didn't die.

He had been more useful to Hojo alive.

Date: 2018-04-21 03:50 pm (UTC)
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Zack peered down at the report, too.

"Well," he said, after a long silence, "I guess I'm gonna have to get training."

Date: 2018-04-21 03:57 pm (UTC)
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"I know," Zack replied, and then turned a tired smile toward her. "But what kind of hero would I be if I can't even save my most precious person?"

Date: 2018-04-21 04:06 pm (UTC)
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"You can smack me anyway," Zack replied, an attempt at a playful note in his voice falling just short of its mark. "We'll consider it part of my training."

Date: 2018-04-21 04:24 pm (UTC)
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Zack's own smile faded, too. And then he leaned forward to wrap his arms around her.

"Don't be. We'll make this work. And... I mean... this started because I was supposed to die, right? So we've just traded off for now. It's not over yet."

Date: 2018-04-21 04:34 pm (UTC)
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"But we have the benefit of knowing," Zack murmured. "Like we know there'll be a meteor. I guess now we just have to dig a little deeper. We can do that."

Even if time kept on ticking ahead with or without them.

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