VOICE MAIL

[inspirethefire]

"This is Hajime Tanaka. I'm sorry to have missed you. Leave a message. Call for me if necessary!"

((Voice mail or texts. His phone is deliberately cheap and low-tech; he doesn't do e-mail, and generally prefers face-to-face whenever possible.))

Comments

[inspirethefire]

[WHAT]

I...Ishi...maru...?

[completeamalgam]

[What a rush. He felt more alive than he had in days-- no, since even before the revolution. This was the feeling he remembered from Hope's Peak, like a phoenix rising from the ashes. And he would rise again here, burning brighter than ever! Gone were the days of fretting over duties and public appearances. He had nothing more to lose.

He really was free, and it felt great.]

You're right!! What am I doing wasting my time moping around?!

[inspirethefire]

Y...yes, right, but...

[Holy balls, he's never seen a spirit go nuclear like that. Hajime squints a moment against the sheer blinding brightness of the insane inferno before him. That... that's definitely not supposed to happen, what's... going on...]

Maybe you should... compose yourself, a moment, I, uh....

[completeamalgam]

What're you talking about?! I'm composed... The exact picture of composition!!

Now get outta my way. I've got this freedom to explore, just like you said!

[inspirethefire]

[Hajime steps in front of the door on reflex.]

N-no, I... think we should definitely sit and talk a little longer, Ishimaru.

[completeamalgam]

[Hajime that is pretty much the opposite of what he just told you to do. Come on, man, get it together.]

There's nothing left to talk about! Move your ass!

[inspirethefire]

[He is so not getting it together he is freaking out real bad]

There are so many things to talk about, we can talk for a long time! About our feelings. I'm interested in your feelings, Ishimaru, they're so much... not like the ones you had a moment ago.

[completeamalgam]

Feelings?! You're going soft! Those never got anybody anywhere!

[inspirethefire]

That, that's definitely not true, like at all. What--

[ Okay no time to get serious. Deep breath, straight back. ]

You're talking like a completely different person! Come to your senses!

[completeamalgam]

From now on, I am a different person! A man who defines myself, right?! I'm not an embodiment of duty anymore! I'm me!

[He's just gotta figure out who 'me' is. EXCUSE HIM, HAJIME, but his patience is gone now so he's just gonna. Shove his way to the door.]

[inspirethefire]

[Hajime's too stunned by the shove to try and get in his way again. It all feels too surreal, too messed up to be something that actually is happening. No one had ever warned him against something like this happening.

Ishimaru was surely the most stable and strong spirit he'd ever seen, and Hajime had barely touched it. What had he missed? How could he have screwed up so badly?!]

[completeamalgam]

[He jerks the door open with almost enough force to rip it off its hinges, or at least it seems like it. On the way out, he leans on the doorframe and tosses a grin over his shoulder.]

Thanks for the pick-me-up!

[AAAND... HE'S.... GONE. Brace yourself for the sexual tension of the days to come, Hajime.]

[inspirethefire]

[And then Hajime had the weirdest boner]

You don't have a visualosities for me to spam, so

[completeamalgam]