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[reveilation]

Tsubomi Kido

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(uhh, insert whatever message Terry had on his phone last)

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[overstrain]

[ Terry laughs a little before getting up. ]

I'll go return the skates. Wait here.

[ He picks up Kido's skates and goes to return them at the stall. He's hoping she doesn't look around and freak out about a dick chariot and a sheet ghost on ice. ]

[reveilation]

[ Kido probably looks around in boredom and accidentally makes eye contact with 45 or Minato at some point and immediately looks mortified enough to draw her legs up on the bench so she can hug her legs and bury her face against her knees. Crisis averted and she doesn't see Mara, but this is how Terry's going to find her, just sort of huddled there on the bench. ]

[overstrain]

[ Terry comes back with Kido's shoes after returning the skates and finds her curled up into a ball.

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??? ]

Kido, what's wrong?

[reveilation]

[ She's probably like half faded away at this point too, lifting her face off her knees when she heads Terry returning. ]

I remembered why I hate being like this in public. Itsuki's going to tease me later, I can already tell.

[ Living with Kano was tough, when every single little sign of weakness gets her laughed at. ]

[overstrain]

[ Oh. That other girl. Terry glances over in that direction and smiles at Kido. ]

I can get her to stop if you want me to.

[ He'll kill her. ]

[reveilation]

You don't stand a chance against her. She'll just call you a boy toy again.

[ If it's 45 vs Terry, Kido knows who'll win. ]

[overstrain]

So?

[ She can't talk if she's dead. ]

I never really cared about that.

[reveilation]

[ He should care??? ]

I care about it. You're not that to me, and I don't want anybody to misunderstand our relationship.

[overstrain]

Doesn't that mean you should correct them?

[ Instead of, you know, keeping it a secret? ]

[reveilation]

I did! I told her we weren't like that!

[ She yelled at 45 a lot!! And just never explicitly corrected her, because it shouldn't have been anybody else's business. Kido is the only one who's still hanging onto the idea of it being a secret anyways. ]

[overstrain]

I know we're not like that, so that's all that matters to me.

[ Terry holds out Kido's shoes to her. ]

[reveilation]

Thanks.

[ She's glad to finally get her shoes back and laces up her sneakers in silence. That's all that should matter but! But!!! She can't stand being teased. No wonder Akira got pissed off at her for doing the same... she wonders if it's not too late to ask Terry to kill 45. ]

[overstrain]

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Wanna head back home? It looks like you had enough of being outside already.

[reveilation]

Yeah. I'm ready to hibernate for the rest of winter. Let's go home.

[ Gestures at the rest of December. It's going to be really tempting to just hibernate under the kotatsu for the rest of the month, but she still has to go out and destroy the hospital before she's allowed to rest. ]

[overstrain]

Yeah, let's go home.

[ Terry holds out his right hand this time to hold Kido's left. ]