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[keepsthefire]

"Yo. Okumura here. Missed your call, so leave a message or whatever..."

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[openminded]

Should I come over and check?

[keepsthefire]

noooo

zombies still out there

[openminded]

Zombies don't scare me.

[keepsthefire]

even gross human ones

cause i know wehad ghouls in japan but they were mostly animals

plus one of those guys punched me through two walls and tried to crush me

[openminded]

Well now I have to come over and make sure you're in one piece after hearing that!

[keepsthefire]

im fine mom it was a while ago i healed long before i got here

im jus worn out because i spent the whole week not sleeping and hiding in random places

[openminded]

...... Did you just call me Mom

[keepsthefire]

youre acting like a mom

[openminded]

I would hope so, I AM a Mom. Not just a Mom, but your Mom.

[keepsthefire]

i know

i should probably feel weirder about it but this place doesnt really throw things that surprise me anymore

[openminded]

It's a bit of a surprise. With how things have happened here and how awkward things have been, I thought it'd be a lot longer before I got called 'Mom,' if it ever happened at all.

It's kind of nice.

[keepsthefire]

i calld shiro dad

i mean we were getting attacked and i was freaked out but it still happened

idk i just spent the past week hiding from these hungry bastards not knowing where my friends or anyone else were not eating, sleeping or even getting a damn shower

maybe im still exhausted or something but right now id rather think i have famil here than being stuck in this hell alne

[openminded]

You do have family here, sweetheart. And I know things are very strange with Shiro right now, but I also know he cares about you and your brother very much.

Besides, if he makes a huge deal about you calling him 'Dad,' I'll just kick him or something. Might not change much, but it'll give him a small bit of what he'd deserve for that!

[keepsthefire]

he was a little more worried about the zombie that was trying to chew on us so he didnt say anything but

... thanks

im guessing if youre all worried about me you managed to get out of reverything okay?

[openminded]

Yeah, I'm fine. I'm worried about you and Yukio more than myself right now. I can't get a hold of Yukio ...

... There's probably something else you should know, though.

[keepsthefire]

the techs took him...

idk if hes gonna come back

maybe its better if he doesnt


what is it?

1/2 (she pressed send too soon in her freakout)

[openminded]

... Are the techs going do to anything to him??? What if they're torturing him or something?! Rin, maybe we should try to fi

2/2

[openminded]

[ and then, instead of finishing her freakout ... ]

... Shiro is dead.

[keepsthefire]

[Wow what the hell just happened...]

what he

fuck

fuckfuckfuck me

he got bit he got fucking bit and was hiding it from me goddamnit

[openminded]

Sweetheart, don't blame yourself! Shiro's always like that, always prioritizing others over himself. He was going to hide it from you anyway.

He'll be back, though. He will be. You can kick his ass for it when he's back.

[keepsthefire]

oh im gonna kick his ass for that

he saved my ass from that zombie and got bit for it!!!



also yukio will be fine when the techs nab people they never do anything to them they just toss them back after a week or whatever

[openminded]

You're free to kick his ass. I won't stop you. I'll stand by and look the other way and just let you do your thing.


Well, you would know better than I would about that, but I'm still going to check and make sure he's got all his limbs and a still-beating heart when he gets back, mark my words!!

[keepsthefire]

feel free im gonna be making sure of that too

hopefully hes actually able to find us since we had to leave the house...

[openminded]

Well, you've said it yourself. Yukio's smart. I'm sure he'll find a way.

Is everyone else in the household safe, too?

[keepsthefire]

i got separated from anna...

but i found kohaku and armin

ichigo moved out a while ago though so hes got his own strays to worry about