Tsubaki couldn’t help glancing at Kurogane at his tone of voice. The two of them probably knew each other better than she knew either of them, but one thing remained constant between that night and this morning: tension, simmering between them. Not entirely the same as it had been in the Head Doctor’s office, not but different, either.
Fai hadn’t wanted to wait and Kurogane hadn’t agreed, that was what she heard. And she was being positioned to take sides. It was a voiceless, wordless understanding, and an equally inherent part of her thought, No, that can’t happen. This can’t happen or we’ll never a the way.
There was a long pause as she looked back at Fai and thought what to say. There was a lot riding on her response, the most obvious a unity between the three of them that she would much prefer to the alternative. The alternative being the start of something potentially destructive down the line. And Fai… Fai pretty much put that potential into words when he insinuated there was a choice to act apart from each other. She didn’t know him well at all, but she hadn’t forgotten his silences, that he had been the first one of them to ask about an incentive, to ask for a way to bring someone back.
She was afraid she already had the answer to her underlying question.
For a moment, Tsubaki just looked into Fai’s face, not with any one emotion, but not shyly. Her hands had been resting in her lap as she’d sat, and she lowered her gaze to the table for a second as her fingers closed gently around her other wrist. "I’m also at fault for not finding out where I could meet you yesterday," she started, then looked back up at the both of them. "I think you were right not to wait when there was a chance of letting time go to waste. But…" and this was only for Fai, spoken over top of his casual gestures in the soft way she had, "Fai-san… You’re not doing anything alone."
Not fighting for that girl, finding Marc, or even obeying the Head Doctor in order to use some of his powers. Not once they’d been called on together. Tsubaki already knew that she might not agree with the reasoning behind accepting, but even so, that didn’t negate those things.
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Tsubaki couldn’t help glancing at Kurogane at his tone of voice. The two of them probably knew each other better than she knew either of them, but one thing remained constant between that night and this morning: tension, simmering between them. Not entirely the same as it had been in the Head Doctor’s office, not but different, either.
Fai hadn’t wanted to wait and Kurogane hadn’t agreed, that was what she heard. And she was being positioned to take sides. It was a voiceless, wordless understanding, and an equally inherent part of her thought, No, that can’t happen. This can’t happen or we’ll never a the way.
There was a long pause as she looked back at Fai and thought what to say. There was a lot riding on her response, the most obvious a unity between the three of them that she would much prefer to the alternative. The alternative being the start of something potentially destructive down the line. And Fai… Fai pretty much put that potential into words when he insinuated there was a choice to act apart from each other. She didn’t know him well at all, but she hadn’t forgotten his silences, that he had been the first one of them to ask about an incentive, to ask for a way to bring someone back.
She was afraid she already had the answer to her underlying question.
For a moment, Tsubaki just looked into Fai’s face, not with any one emotion, but not shyly. Her hands had been resting in her lap as she’d sat, and she lowered her gaze to the table for a second as her fingers closed gently around her other wrist. "I’m also at fault for not finding out where I could meet you yesterday," she started, then looked back up at the both of them. "I think you were right not to wait when there was a chance of letting time go to waste. But…" and this was only for Fai, spoken over top of his casual gestures in the soft way she had, "Fai-san… You’re not doing anything alone."
Not fighting for that girl, finding Marc, or even obeying the Head Doctor in order to use some of his powers. Not once they’d been called on together. Tsubaki already knew that she might not agree with the reasoning behind accepting, but even so, that didn’t negate those things.
It wasn’t an order or a demand, but a reminder.