Heartache and tough decisions are still heartache and tough decisions, no matter what colour the wrapping paper is.

[ she could bring up the future-issue of satsu. or the clump of awkwardness that is spike. or how she already talked to winry about the marriage prediction but...what could she even offer the girl other than evidence that hard things stay hard and apparently almost all of it ends with being left behind and watching someone choose to walk away from you.

buffy gives a shallow shrug of her shoulders. ] All those misgivings? You already answered them. [ haruhi had used the l-word twice, after all. despite her hard-line emotional armour, buffy is a big time sucker for the did it for love argument.

but she is walking back to the door. ]