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Characters: Himura Kenshin and Himura Tomoe
Location: Horrorspital
Rating: PG?
Time: Dec. 22, evening
Description: A rurouni and his dead wife have a long overdue conversation.
Until Kaoru and Tomoe were released from the hospital, Kenshin did not plan on leaving the building of white-washed walls and cold, unfamiliar medicine any more than he would allow himself a few snatched moments of dozing sleep while he waited with them. He'd spent most of his time with Kaoru, determined to be there when she woke up--though he knew the worst of her injuries was exhaustion--but at word from the doctors that Tomoe was almost ready to be released, he pulled himself away from the younger woman's bed without a second thought.
He was exhausted, and it showed in his eyes (when he let his guard down) and his step as he walked down the hall to her room. But the experience with the madness wavelength, and the process of his recovery from it, had also made things clearer. For the first time since he had seen a wife who died years ago alive again in Death City, Kenshin felt ready to talk to her in full: not muttered apologies, not vague promises nor tension, but to calmly discuss the nature of their relationship as it stood then--and to thank her for her part in, once more, sheathing his madness.
He hesitated for a moment outside her door, then took a breath and entered, eyes immediately falling to where she lay bandaged and surrounded by strange medicine--but alive.
"Tomoe."
Location: Horrorspital
Rating: PG?
Time: Dec. 22, evening
Description: A rurouni and his dead wife have a long overdue conversation.
Until Kaoru and Tomoe were released from the hospital, Kenshin did not plan on leaving the building of white-washed walls and cold, unfamiliar medicine any more than he would allow himself a few snatched moments of dozing sleep while he waited with them. He'd spent most of his time with Kaoru, determined to be there when she woke up--though he knew the worst of her injuries was exhaustion--but at word from the doctors that Tomoe was almost ready to be released, he pulled himself away from the younger woman's bed without a second thought.
He was exhausted, and it showed in his eyes (when he let his guard down) and his step as he walked down the hall to her room. But the experience with the madness wavelength, and the process of his recovery from it, had also made things clearer. For the first time since he had seen a wife who died years ago alive again in Death City, Kenshin felt ready to talk to her in full: not muttered apologies, not vague promises nor tension, but to calmly discuss the nature of their relationship as it stood then--and to thank her for her part in, once more, sheathing his madness.
He hesitated for a moment outside her door, then took a breath and entered, eyes immediately falling to where she lay bandaged and surrounded by strange medicine--but alive.
"Tomoe."