An Angel & A Shinigami Walk Into a Bar † Audio

[wingsofsilver]

[The audio, like so many things, begins abruptly.]

-should’ve figured one of you guys would show up. I was just about to put the word out. [The first to speak is Gin, his voice getting increasingly louder as he comes back to where he left the guide. Contrary to his usually dry tone, he sounds rather somber at the moment.]

[The answering voice is

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[curious_copycat]

[She'd noticed a hole, so to speak, in the telepathic fabric of the Thor... A mind she'd been used to, relied on... But it doesn't make hearing it any easier.]

He's...

Mr. Jushiro's really gone...?

[wingsofsilver]

[Crap.

Gin heaves a sigh.] Yeah, it looks like it.

[curious_copycat]

[She heaves in a breath, and it's a little shivery, as if it's trying to become a sob.]

He's right--the other person talking... Jushiro's strong. He'll be okay.

...

I'll miss him...

[wingsofsilver]

[Oh god, nope. Nope. He cannot handle this. Crying women is his absolute limit because he just cannot deal with them. This is Gin falling silent and putting a hand over his face because he has now been reduced to an awkward lump of social failure.]

[curious_copycat]

[Biting her lip, she manages not to outright cry. There is a long, and likely awkward silence as she collects herself.]

I'm sorry...

So... What are you going to do about Halloween?

[Lame question, but it takes her mind off of Jushiro until she can find someplace private where her reaction won't bother anyone. She doesn't want to break down in the middle of the hallway any more than she wants to break down in front of Gin.]

[wingsofsilver]

[Gin seizes the topic change like a drowning man to a lifesaver. He's sorry that Polly's hurt, he really is, but he has no fucking clue how to possibly make it better. So, instead, he goes with the easy answer of bailing ship.]

Probably do the old man thing and pretend I'm not home. Or work overtime. ... fuck, I don't know.

[curious_copycat]

Old man thing..?

[Her frown deepens just a little.]

Mr. Jushiro was very old, and he wouldn't have done that... He would've given them candy.

[trickstermentor]

Well said; it would be a disservice to him if Gin-san were not to enter into the spirit of the occasion in Ukitake-san's place.

Lemme... try that again with the right journal... >_>

[curious_copycat]

[Oh! Someone else who knows her sometime-mentor and not!papa. Polly brightens a bit.]

I think so, too!

/patpat

[trickstermentor]

[Indeed, knows him extremely well and misses him terribly already :(]

He would be positively aghast if he knew that candy he procured for the occasion wasn't being distributed fairly to the trick or treaters.

:-}

[curious_copycat]

[She does, too, even if she's only known him for about two years... T_T]

He would! Someone should make sure it gets handed out!

[trickstermentor]

[It's the magic of Captain Daddy ;A;]

You are absolutely right, and Gin-san will of course carry out Ukitake-san's wishes.

[curious_copycat]

[It issss :-{]

[But his assurance makes her feel a bit better.]

I hope so!

[trickstermentor]

I will made sure he does, even if it means watching him like a hawk~

[curious_copycat]

[She grins, at that. It's only right, after all... Jushiro would've wanted the kids to have candy!]

Okay--I think you'll need to, anyway. Gin says he won't do it.

[trickstermentor]

I already plan to, as well an making sure that candy is readily available both at my home and at the workplace. The children of the Thor shall not find themselves short of candy on my part, I assure you.