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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.]
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.]
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Date: 2018-04-21 03:40 pm (UTC)"I know, but that's what happened," Ino said, a bit plaintively.
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Date: 2018-04-21 03:43 pm (UTC)"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.
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Date: 2018-04-21 03:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-04-21 03:50 pm (UTC)"Well," he said, after a long silence, "I guess I'm gonna have to get training."
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Date: 2018-04-21 03:56 pm (UTC)It'd fuck them all over but--he was. And that mattered.
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Date: 2018-04-21 03:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-04-21 04:04 pm (UTC)"Normally, I'd smack you for that," she said, smiling. "But in this case--I really do need you to be my hero."
Against Sephiroth, there was nothing she could do.
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Date: 2018-04-21 04:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2018-04-21 04:12 pm (UTC)"I'm sorry."
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Date: 2018-04-21 04:24 pm (UTC)"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."
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Date: 2018-04-21 04:32 pm (UTC)"I know," she said, sighing. "I just--I knew it weren't over, but this is... it ain't nothing like what I were thinkin' we'd be dealing with."
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Date: 2018-04-21 04:34 pm (UTC)Even if time kept on ticking ahead with or without them.
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Date: 2018-04-21 06:03 pm (UTC)"We can do that--we will do that," Ino said, resting her head against him. "The shape of the future ain't yet determined."
Which was good, since Ino didn't mind the idea of dying, but she'd rather not.