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❝If you're looking for me you found me. Asano Rin. I'll get back to you.❞

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action; backdated to a week ago!

[allucinator]

[It's been a while since he and Rin have simply hung out. Mahdi's been giving him cooking lessons; the last, at Jack's request, was how to bake cookies. His own turned out rather . . . well, they weren't that great. So the ones Jack's carrying on a plate are actually Mahdi's, and thus far more delicious.

He knocks at her door twice before opening it and ducking his head in.]

It's me! Rin?

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[She sits up from her bunk - apparently she was just skimming something on the communicator - and scrapes her hair out of her face.]

I'm here... hi there. Whatcha got?

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Sweets!

[He clambers onto her bunk without much prelude and sets the plate between them.]

And me, but, you know, mostly sweets. They're good! I helped bake em.

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[She glances down at the plate and then takes a cookie and smiles at him. Sweets are always a way to butter Rin up; she has a real weakness for chocolate.]

Oh yeah? Good for you, Jack. [She nibbles at a corner and then nods appreciatively.] Thanks!

How are you doing?

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Pretty good. I, uh, I found a pretty good way to keep nightmares. Me and him-- Mahdi, the guy who taught me to cook-- we share a bed. So that's good.

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[Her eyebrows rise, and her smile remains constant. She's going to let him explain himself at his own time. But she will say:]

Oh, really?

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[He shrugs.]

It helps with the nightmares.

[A beat, and then:]

And he likes kissin' me. So. There's that.

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[She glances down, playing with a cookie - slowly squishing it along one side until it starts to break in half.]

A guy, huh?

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Yeah.

[He wrinkles his nose and stares fixedly down at the bed.]

Sorry. I know it's weird, I know it's-- it's, it's fuckin' weird as hell--

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[Let's head that off now. She looks up again, the same small smile coming back into rexistence.]

I just didn't know you... wanted that. People at home do that. And Hisoka, do you remember him? He was like that.

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[He still can't meet her gaze, though. His ears have gone red.]

I don't. 'S just-- different, with Mahdi.

[A beat-- and then, rushed:]

We all right?

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Yeah. Of course, Jack. [A pause. She's thinking of, oh, before: him and Alice. Him and Sirius. He loved them and he doesn't even know he should miss them. He never met them to miss them.]

I just want you to be happy.

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You're sure?

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As long as you're not hurting anyone or doing something terribly stupid, I'm not going to get mad...