I have died every day waiting for you

[lovelikeyou]

[That was, in Rose's opinion, even worse than last week. Any loss of life is an awful waste, but for it all to come of some horrible accident...

This week, she doesn't retreat back to her room. She knows now that the people here, or at least enough of them, like to gather after these experiences. Many of the Crystal Gems were the same way; she remembers their post-battle huddles well. It's not a party, really, but...it's good to be together. To have friends around. Maybe, to remember those who were lost.

So this time, she'll go to the cafeteria herself and request some food for everyone. It's just basic snacks, the kind of human food she knows well enough to ask for. There's some hot chocolate provided, too. She definitely knows people enjoy that. It doesn't take too long, since she isn't making most of it, and then she goes to invite everybody she can find.

She doesn't slip any notes underneath doors, for the people she doesn't happen across. Some Crystal Gems didn't join the groups, or maybe did after one battle but not another. Sometimes they wanted to be alone. She never really understood that...but it wasn't her place to tell them otherwise. Weren't they all about freedom?

Everybody probably knows something like this is going to happen again, anyway. It's their choice to come.]

Comments

cw: more drunk Nira

[ladygeryon]

[Nira flops down across from him, Aria nowhere to be seen by her side as she stares at the origami he's making for a long time before speaking up.]

Wasn't even mad for her in specific, y'know....mad 'bout the fuckin bullshit coincidence. he jusssst so happened to be bleeding jusssssst as she walked by and now he's gone. the end! noooooo moral!

[fivestagegod]

[He's folding a few different things out of red and white, and while he doesn't look up right away at Nira when she sits down he definitely does at the words.]

Yeah. The whole situation was an experience, to put it one way.

...Are you going to be able to make it back to your room before you pass out? We've got a rule against sleeping outside them.

[ladygeryon]

I w-walked over here din't I? [She tries to tap her hand on the table but slams it harder than expected.] I c'n walk back jus'fine. B'sides, Aria c'n drag me back if she realllly needs to. [It's worth noting that said Pokemon isn't actually by her side.]

Srrrrrrry f'r cussing ex-exsessively at'cha, bytheway. yer an ass some times but ackshully I still like ya. but ch'know one fuck never hurt nobody. [She lifts a finger, blinks, frowns, puts it down, frowns again, and puts her whole hand back down.]

[fivestagegod]

[...Okay, this is kind of.]

I'm not mad at you, and I don't hate you or anything. But come talk to me when you've slept it off, okay?

[ladygeryon]

y'don, I know. but'cha think of me as sssome ssstupid tantrrrrum bitch who can't back up what she sayssss which is fuckin' worse. [She actually manages to point at him for a moment before dropping her hand back down.] Y'think I don'wanna do more than jusssss "point ma ssstick"? We ssssaw what happens iffya try!

[fivestagegod]

I never said that. But go on, keep putting words in my mouth.

[ladygeryon]

sssso....then y'tell me whacha mean. t'mr'w. or sunday, whatever comes firsssst. [She lets out a short, barking laugh at her own bad joke before moving to stand up.]

[fivestagegod]

...Take it easy, Nira.

[ladygeryon]

y'too...w...b...wilbir. [Apparently that's her compromise between "mad enough to not use your first name" and "still likes you enough to use your first name."]