[ She doesn't let go. She's never been the sort of person who's predisposed to be particularly quick to let go when she hugs someone in the first place and she's less so here, now with her Yukio, hers. The very same she'd come for little more than a month ago with so much hatred, for whom she has so much love.
He hugs her tight and she hugs him tighter, almost clinging, but not enough to hurt. To be as sure that she can that he's real and here and him -- she just needs a minute to feel him, sense him.
And beneath it, she isn't at all faintly trembling. ]
Setsura-san-- [He shot her, turned those cursed black fire guns against her and pulled the trigger in a moment of impulsive anger. He doesn't know if there are side effects, if it permanently damaged her, if he did something he can never take back.]
[I'll be fine, she says, which means I'm not all right. It means he hurt her. He lets go of her, tries to step back, he hurt her and he shouldn't be here, she shouldn't want anything to do with him right now, or ever again.]
I'm so sorry. [He says, and if she's let go of him he'll bow, deep and apologetic.]
[ She releases him, her arms falling to her sides. Trembling hands are balled up and shoved into her pockets in the moment she realizes them. What's she supposed to say to that? The idea of apologizing almost sees her recoil. Those black flames, what he'd done -- she needs to turn her mind from it. Her gaze remains dropped, silence hanging over her like a thick, weighted blanket. ]
[He's released, and he doesn't run but he does bow, deeply apologetic.]
What I did was inexcusable. I'm sorry. I understand if you never want to speak to me again.
[He hurt her. More than hurt her. He pulled those guns on her, in the middle of a crowded street, with no real provocation other than his own bad mood. A dangerous loss of control, the horrible temper and cruelty he pretends he can hide breaking through to hurt someone innocent.]
[ He isn't the first. He won't be the last and perhaps it says something, that she's so accustomed to the idea.
She'd told Lewin when they'd first met. It doesn't tend to end well when people try to exorcise her, but then, she'd never thought she'd count Yukio among those people.
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He hugs her tight and she hugs him tighter, almost clinging, but not enough to hurt. To be as sure that she can that he's real and here and him -- she just needs a minute to feel him, sense him.
And beneath it, she isn't at all faintly trembling. ]
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Setsura-san-- [He shot her, turned those cursed black fire guns against her and pulled the trigger in a moment of impulsive anger. He doesn't know if there are side effects, if it permanently damaged her, if he did something he can never take back.]
Are you all right?
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I'll be fine.
[ Because she isn't partial to lying. She doesn't pull back. ]
What about you?
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I'm so sorry. [He says, and if she's let go of him he'll bow, deep and apologetic.]
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Then make it up to me.
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I can't make that up to you, I-- I did something terrible to you!
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[ She says quietly, unable to find it in herself to let him go because if he leaves -- ]
Please don't run away, Yukio-chan.
[ Even as she says it, it's odd. It almost, almost feels like there's some weakness in her hands. ]
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He pulls back, still trying to get out of her grip.]
Please don't apologize.
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What I did was inexcusable. I'm sorry. I understand if you never want to speak to me again.
[He hurt her. More than hurt her. He pulled those guns on her, in the middle of a crowded street, with no real provocation other than his own bad mood. A dangerous loss of control, the horrible temper and cruelty he pretends he can hide breaking through to hurt someone innocent.]
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[ She exhales the words after a moment. ]
Yukio-chan, please stand up.
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He straightens up, doesn't look her in the eyes, stays slightly bowed.]
You don't have to say it.
I could have killed you.
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[ She says as if those words weren't heavy with meaning. ]
I'm still here and so are you. Learn from this and move forward. That's all
there is to do.
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You shouldn't have survived a shot from those guns. The only reason you did is because they harm humans in a different way from how they harm demons.
I was trying to exorcise you.
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She'd told Lewin when they'd first met. It doesn't tend to end well when people try to exorcise her, but then, she'd never thought she'd count Yukio among those people.
She takes a quiet breath. ]
Do you intend to do so again, knowing who I am?
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[He can't promise anything.]
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