godbent | 30th: The Study of Haruhi Suzumiya

[Action Part 1: 15th -> 20th]

[Following her break up, Haruhi didn't tell anymore. Not explicitly. She didn't see Winry either, didn't go the Smithy, didn't go the Hughes house, and has yet to use any of the relationship cards she has left (why would she? Most of the ones she has are just inane things anyway... maybe she will in time). Instead, she just hits the books in the library hard. Studying absolutely everything she can find about magic, alchemy, or other superpowers which she hopes/wills to be learnable through effort on her part. She's even trying to practice some of the stuff she finds in there, though with limited success due to how foul her mood is.

This sets the stage for her whole week, really. Wake up, make breakfast out of habit, go the library, study obsessively, and when she can't study anymore (around the actual meeting times in the early afternoon) she goes and hangs out at the SOS-Brigade's HQ, nominally to check out how people are doing with preparations for the cultural festival. But he heart isn't really in it, not yet. She hopes it'll be there again before the day of. Anyway, from there, skip lunch, maybe go to All Passions, then back to the library until she comes home to House 10 quite late. Snack thing at about 10PM, go to sleep, repeat.]

[Action Part 2: 22nd]

[A certain voice message is what totally breaks her out of her stupor. Because frankly (and she knows unfairly) the idea of Winry going out drinking (probably celebrating her singleness with that bitch) while she's stuck with just being frustrated on her day just pisses her off. She doesn't even want to spend her day with Winry right now, which is why despite them agreeing to meet on Sundays she made absolutely no effort to run into her. ...It's not that Haruhi's stupid. She knows Winry is upset too, and she knows that the other girl won't be celebrating. But it's so much easier to be mad than it is to be miserable. It's for that reason she attempts her longest teleportation yet that that night, going all the way from the library up to the roof of House 10. And she's going to just be sitting there on the roof of House 10 all night, looking up at the sky. Trying to be right again.

It's eerily similar, to anyone who has been here long enough to remember, to Haruki's reaction to Kyonko going home, actually. She promises that this is the last night to herself. She'll be better after this. Because moping (yes, she has been moping, hasn't she) like she has been is stupid anyway.]

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['Oy! Shiki! More things you haven't told me! Though I accept this one.']

...Right, you told me that.

['...And I said "I'm sorry it happened to you." But now, I know what I mean is....']

And I'm sorry I left you.

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[...Ah. She hangs her head a bit. She nods. It was painful, then - she'd gotten over it, in time. It had faded, and eventually, home became a nostalgic memory. Even when she was sent back and brought back, the connection was sill distant. And then ... he showed up.]

...It's the way of things. It couldn't be helped.

Yeah, maybe not. But maybe it could be... Maybe I could've chosen home, again, and -- [He pauses. Should he not have said that? But no, it was vague. And in any case, he's carried along on a gust of feeling.] --

Well, Haruhi... In any case, they won't separate the Brigade again. No matter what they do.

[The idealist in her's heart soars. It shows in that for a moment, her eyes widen and she looks about ready to hug him if she were anyone else. But then reality settles back in and-] If that were the case Yuki and Mikuru wouldn't just go home.

Well, they'll be back. And anyway... It doesn't matter so much if they're not here physically.

--In the meantime, as long as we're here, it's still the Brigade.

[Don't say it like I'm hopeful they will be back. but... She nods. Okay, that makes... that makes more sense]

[He sees that nod and nods back.

'That wasn't so bad, I think... But was this something that was bothering her? Those two leaving? That wasn't how she seemed to be phrasing it, and besides, Nagato left a couple weeks ago, and this seemed to be something more recent...

Well, how far do you dig?']

So... How's everything else going with you?

What are you being so nosy for?

[Puffing her cheeks out, pouting. That's a yes]

I don't know. Guess there's nothing else to do. And I haven't checked up with you in a while.

That's such a lame reason.

Don't you check in on people once in a while?

Yeah, and last I checked, I'm still breathing.

Really, that's the extent to which you offer assistance, huh? Respiration?

What?! You people can handle most of your own problems can't you?!

So it should really be called the Heimlich Brigade, I guess.

Shut up. You know what I mean.

... I guess.

Well, if that's all there is, Haruhi, that's all there is.

It is! [Not!]

...

['Yeah, because that tone of voice sounds like nothing's wrong.

I don't know what else to do, just now, though.'

So he just gives her a rather disbelieving look.]

[...Sigh] Even if there was something wrong, it's not like anyone could do anything about it. I'd talk about it when I felt I could and just go from there.

.... Right. Well -- that's fine. As long as, if there was something wrong, you would talk about it if you wanted to.

Do you want a pinky promise or something?

Hey, if that's what it takes.

We're not in kindergarten or anything!

['Which is why we're sulking, putting our heads down, pouting, and not talking about our problems, right?']

I know that. Still, it's a classic.

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