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

[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]