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

[gangrene]

[ some of us are more civilized and prefer brains--

but yeah, likewise, rhea is going to find this guy in the gym as well, hard at work at the benchpress ]

[archboxer]

[Rhea is at the punching bags, even in her pure white gown because man. That was some stuff. She notices him and--stops for a moment. As if she's trying to save her image or something.]

...Ah. Sorry. I did not notice you there.

[gangrene]

It's fine, wouldn't be the first time. [ normally pretty quite and slips by most of the time

but he catches sight of her in her gown ]

--Still wearing that?

[archboxer]

It is not the first time I have exercised in it. [At home, anyway.] I needed to get my aggression out... a tear or stain can be fixed later.

[gangrene]

I suppose when you get the urge.

[ sets his barbell back on the rack ] You get aggressive a lot?

[archboxer]

Only once in a great while, normally.

[Normally.] This situation is not at all normal.

[gangrene]

I'm used to a lotta weird shit.

But this is definitely the weirdest.

[archboxer]

I would not, perhaps, put it in those words but I certainly agree with them.