Coffee and Nicorette [Kureno, Asuka]
Two weeks, Rin said. Two weeks working with the new team, without cigarettes, and see how she did before he'd decide whether or not to let her start smoking again. It was a matter of life or death, she'd said, theirs or hers or more likely both, but he still wanted her to wait two weeks.
So she had.
And now she couldn't find hide nor hair of the bastard to beg him for her cigarettes. He was probably on a mission. Jerk.
That Asuka had gone so long without a cigarette - over a year! - was nothing short of a miracle, she thought. The cravings never went away, really, they had just been muted by pain and satiated by narcotics back when she'd still needed pills to keep said pain under control. But now her chest didn't hurt any more, and even if she had pills left she wouldn't need them, and now she had a TEAM again and a fancy date in which she had no idea what she would be doing coming up, and her nerves were kicking in big time, and Rin was missing so she couldn't have a cigarette.
Desperate times call for desperate measures. And that's why she found herself in front of the Nicorette display by the pharmacy of the grocery store downtown, hands on her hips and deciding whether or not she should get the fruit or the cinnamon flavored gum, when she spotted Kureno over by the... condoms?
What?
So she had.
And now she couldn't find hide nor hair of the bastard to beg him for her cigarettes. He was probably on a mission. Jerk.
That Asuka had gone so long without a cigarette - over a year! - was nothing short of a miracle, she thought. The cravings never went away, really, they had just been muted by pain and satiated by narcotics back when she'd still needed pills to keep said pain under control. But now her chest didn't hurt any more, and even if she had pills left she wouldn't need them, and now she had a TEAM again and a fancy date in which she had no idea what she would be doing coming up, and her nerves were kicking in big time, and Rin was missing so she couldn't have a cigarette.
Desperate times call for desperate measures. And that's why she found herself in front of the Nicorette display by the pharmacy of the grocery store downtown, hands on her hips and deciding whether or not she should get the fruit or the cinnamon flavored gum, when she spotted Kureno over by the... condoms?
What?