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[closed] spending a week dead for tax reasons

Jan 04, 2010 18:21

Characters: Orihime (power_of_heart), Ichigo (flight_15), and Hughes (fatherofcute)
Content: The Winding Way has one less thing to grieve over now.
Setting: For now, the room on the Winding Way Hughes is being kept in.
Time: Backdated heavily to some time before the Winding Way went after Grita.
Warnings: Possible medical squick.

( wake up )

≠ orihime inoue, kurosaki ichigo, ≠ maes hughes

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flight_15 January 6 2010, 03:13:11 UTC

The waiting was the worst part. Inoue had told him she could bring people back from the dead, but Ichigo wasn't the kind of guy who believed things before he saw them. On top of this, he was afraid of getting his hopes up, only for them to be dashed. That was why he hadn't told anybody about the possibility of Hughes being resurrected: it would only hurt them twice as much if this didn't work ( ... )

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power_of_heart January 8 2010, 04:05:00 UTC

Orihime followed a moment behind Ichigo, anticipation building in her stomach at every step. "You don't have to thank me. You help your friends out when they need you, and we're still friends, right?" She decided to keep her concerns to herself until they were in private: Ichigo deserved to know, but no one needed to hear.

One question couldn't hurt, though. "Have you checked up on him at all? In case, well... you know..." She fixed her eyes on her steps as she asked.

flight_15 January 9 2010, 00:05:39 UTC

"Right," Ichigo replied firmly. He'd come running if she needed a hand in a heartbeat.

"I haven't," he answered, turning a corner. "The captain's got him locked in his cabin under some kind of preservation charm." He stopped in front of L's door and tried the handle.

"Locked," he said. "Figures."

He hadn't told L what he was planning, and didn't intend to. Ichigo stuck his hands in his pockets and considered his next move. He could probably break in, if he had to.... He glanced at Orihime, hesitating a moment.

well I'm sorry I can't just reject the lock open :P power_of_heart January 12 2010, 19:28:11 UTC

Orihime nodded, trying to not give away a slight disappointment. He didn't really get what she was getting at after all. He'd have felt if things were going wrong with Mr. Hughes, though, so she shouldn't have worried.

Her eyes darted over to him when she saw him struggle with the door. "So the captain has the key?" That was a stupid question even before she asked it. Ichigo hadn't seemed to want anyone to know why she was there, not even the captain. Finding him would be the most reasonable course even so, and she knew Ichigo knew that as well, but...

"I guess we can try to pick it, or we can break the door down. We could both do it together: give it the shoulder and maybe it'll cave right in!"

lol it's okay, property damage is always best flight_15 January 13 2010, 04:27:08 UTC

Ichigo hadn't felt Hughes' ghost at all. Honestly, he'd figured the man had just passed on.

As for opening the door, Ryuzaki would understand. Probably. It'd be worth it if they got Hughes back. "I don't know the first thing about picking locks," he admitted, scratching the back of his neck. "Okay, let's try to break it down. On the count of three. One--two--

"Three!"

Ichigo kicked out, aiming for the hinges. it'd be easier to rip nails out of the wood and detach the door from the metal hinge than break the lock clean out of the doorframe. It'd probably be easier to repair, too.

power_of_heart January 13 2010, 23:58:40 UTC

"Three!" Orihime's shoulder slammed the door at the same moment as Ichigo's kick, sending dust and a few splinters flying as the door crashed inside L's cabin with a noise that she hoped wouldn't draw attention. She couldn't suppress a slight grin and a fistpump in Ichigo's direction.

She picked her way over the door and looked around the room. The captain wasn't there, thankfully: the only other person present, if you could call it a person, was a corpse with a towel covering its face and neck. Ichigo had told her how Mr. Hughes had died, but even so it was going to take her a moment to be willing to look at him. This wasn't a patient, it was almost family.

flight_15 January 14 2010, 00:06:47 UTC

Ichigo let out a breath of air, looking at the broken door with a strange sense of pride. There was something deeply satisfying about kicking a door down.

He sobered quickly, though, as Orihime approached the body. "It's not pretty," he warned her, hanging back a few feet.

power_of_heart January 14 2010, 17:58:33 UTC

Ichigo was right. It wasn't pretty. Orihime still left Hughes' face uncovered as she bent over his sliced throat.

Her brows had twisted in one of her transparently confused looks, and the hand that wasn't probing moved from her side to over the body to her mouth in an evolution of complete bafflement. No one could survive having their carotid severed unless they had immediate medical attention, and the state of Mr. Hughes' face was evidence enough that nothing like that had happened. At one point, he had obviously been completely dead. But she could still sense something not herself or Ichigo in the corpse right below her. It was only the slightest flickering wisp, but it wasn't a ghost, and certainly not a Hollow. She didn't know much about preservation charms, but maybe they also reversed decay a little? Maybe somehow it had been keeping him alive, or something else ( ... )

flight_15 January 14 2010, 18:22:03 UTC

Ichigo nodded. He had no idea what to expect here, since he'd never seen her use her powers before. How did you go about bringing someone back to life? Was she going to do some kinda chant or something?

However she was going to do it, though, he hoped this worked. Ichigo desperately hoped this worked. He tried not to get his expectations too high, but he couldn't help it. For the sake of everyone on the Winding Way...for the sake of the kidnapped prisoners who would have to come home to a dead body, he hoped this worked.

power_of_heart January 14 2010, 23:44:47 UTC

Orihime exhaled and wiggled her fingers in the air, forcing herself into full concentration. Her fairies were silent, but she expected that. There was nothing to put her in danger that would awaken them, and she had never tried to rouse them deliberately until now. Come on. Come out. If he doesn't come back, a lot of people are going to suffer.

She heard no response from Shuno, but could feel a reaction whose nature she couldn't sense. It was no compliance, but not a refusal either. The best "Souten Kisshun. I reject," she whispered, the volume belying the force she shoved into her command.

Out of each of her hairpins, a point of light darted and materialized into a small spirit on each side of the corpse, the space between them an aura. She could feel her spirit flowing out of her and into the fairies, but as yet the only sign of life was the life she felt in the "dead" man becoming steady.

/can has life nao? \o/!! fatherofcute January 15 2010, 00:02:07 UTC

At first it was like floating, then the world felt like it was spinning, and finally a heavy weight holding him down like gravity had suddenly intensified. Everything was dark, then fuzzy, then almost painful as life seeped back into a body that had lain nearly dead for far too long.

Hughes felt his lips part and a shallow breath fill his lungs. He could feel his heart beating against his ribs, slow and steady and his chest slowly rising and falling as he started breathing again. He couldn't quite convince himself to open his eyes yet.

/Use --> Item --> Phoenix Down (also, gdi, do not have a smile icon big enough so this will do) flight_15 January 15 2010, 00:48:26 UTC

Ichigo waited for what felt like forever before he cleared his mouth and spoke up. "Well?" he said. "Did it work?" He saw Hughes' injuries heal, but....was he really back?

He braced himself for bad news, reaching out to feel for a pulse on Hughes' wrist (touching his neck would have felt wrong, somehow) and waited.

...

...

...!!!

"Inoue! Inoue, he's alive! I've got a pulse!" Ichigo cried. "Hughes! Hughes, can you hear me?!"

here, share this one power_of_heart January 15 2010, 01:51:08 UTC

Orihime sighed in relief and fatigue when she saw the skin on Hughes' neck finally knitting itself together and the blood flowing back into his face. It had worked after all. She couldn't disengage herself from Mr. Hughes quite yet, but she threw a delighted grin at Ichigo before fixing her concentration again. "Wait a little, just a little longer..."

And then there was nothing left to heal. The man on the table was breathing and seemingly conscious, with a body as whole as if he had been formed that day.

The spirits dematerialized and flew back into her hair, and she collapsed into a half-kneeling crouch against the edge of the table, shuddering for breath and life to come back into her. She pulled herself up a few inches to look at the gentleman lying there breathing and hopefully conscious.

Re: here, share this one fatherofcute January 15 2010, 02:09:44 UTC

Voices? Who was there? Alive? Wait they were talking about him? He was alive again?!

Hughes concentrated on getting his eyes open and was surprised when it didn't take much effort at all. His eyes blinked open and scanned the ceiling. His head lulled to the side with ease to blink at the young lady half-knelt half-leaning on the table and Ichigo standing over him. His heart for others pushed questions concerning himself out of his mind for the moment and he reached over to touch Inoue's hand as she shifted to sit up a little. "Are you all right, miss?"

flight_15 January 15 2010, 02:18:03 UTC

"Inoue!" Ichigo glanced towards Hughes, almost unable to believe his eyes -- but Orihime had just collapsed. "Hey, Inoue! You ok?" he asked, taking her by a shoulder.

Bringing someone back to life must have taken a lot out of her, he realized. It made sense that it would take a lot of magic. She'd better be okay, though. If there was a side-effect to bringing people back to life that was dangerous to her, well...Ichigo would be ticked off, to say the least.

But even with that -- Hughes was alive! It would have been impossible to describe his feelings right now. With Hughes back, Ichigo felt so much more hopeful about defeating Grita. She couldn't keep them down for long. The kids had their dad back. That daughter of his had her dad back. She wouldn't have to grow up forever missing a parent...

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