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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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[Rin sleeps a lot, partly by natural inclination, and partly for the relief of it. So she's fast asleep when he comes knocking at the door and it takes a bit to roust her. When she comes, her hair is loose as it rarely (never) is in public, she's shuffling with bare feet, wearing shorts and a t-shirt.

She wasn't expecting to see Jack. Rin blinks at him blarily and then clearly tries to lever herself further into wakefulness.]

What's wrong?

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Nothin'. I just, um--

[He rubs the back of his neck.]

'S all right if I sleep with you? I mean, not-- we don't gotta share a bed or nothin', I know people don't like that a lot, but-- I mean-- could I crash on the floor? Only I keep wakin' up, and it's . . . I mean, they're nice, but they don't understand about nightmares.

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[Rin scratches her head. PRocessing, processing. It's kind of weird but - Jack is like her brother. Kind of. Her brother who must be carefully handled. Beyond her (normal, standard) slightly taken aback reaction she has little real problem with the notion.]

D'you remember Sasuke...? [A pause then a shake of the head. No, never mind. She steps aside.] C'mon in.

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[With a grateful glance he slips in-- and just like that, he goes a little calmer. Another person, someone he trusts, someone he can sleep calmly around-- and maybe someone with whom he can share a bed. He won't make her, he knows people don't like that, but god, he misses sharing beds with people.]

I-- no. But I bet if you described him, I'd remember the . . . the figure. The person behind the name. Why?

[A beat, and then:]

Thanks.

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He wanted to too... one time. [Shake shake again.] He was mad. He had black hair. His family was in the Port with us, you won't remember Madara either... they had strange eyes. [Absently Rin reaches for his hand.] Are you hungry?

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A little.

[He lets her take it, and is all the happier for it-- physical affection is hard, now, but it's different with Rin.]

He . . . I did therapy with him once. Didn't I?

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I think so. That was a long time ago... [For her. She gives his hand a squeeze.] He was our friend. The whole family I guess would have said that.

Want some tea?

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Better not. I'll sit if you want some, though.

[He threats their fingers together, though, keeping her close for the time being.]

I like my roommate. The woman. She's . . . strange. I can't tell what she's thinkin'. But she's nice. She wakes me up from nightmares and she doesn't ask no questions.

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Nn. Let's go to bed. It'll be just like old times... [Pauses; she doesn't want to think about sharing a bed in St.Edelweiss too much. Not that that was with Jack anyway.]

What's her name?

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Galadriel.

[He leads them back toward her bedroom, twining their fingers together-- it doesn't even occur to him to remark wryly on the situation, to tease about going to bed or something like that.]