731/Crying into a Gull's Feathers

Crying into a Gull's Feathers
Date of Scene:	19 December 2015
Location:	Mitakihara - Infinity University
Synopsis:	Hannah is crushed over the loss of Mamoru, and after several sleepless nights, needs a dear friend.
Cast of Characters:	Hannah Sharpe, Haruna Kurosawa

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Hannah Sharpe has posed:
A text goes out to Haruna. It's short, and the spelling is /awful/, as if someone's hands were trembling while they typed.

"Cn we met hruna? At apartmnt"

When Haruna arrives at Hannah's abode, the door is already cracked partially open, and the tv is on. Hannah herself is curled up on the couch, wearing a bath robe with a stained labcoat over it. Her cheeks are red, tears dried there, and her eyes are bloodshot and bags sit under her eyes from sleeplessness. Boris is nowhere to be found. A half-eaten tv dinner is right on the table.

Hannah /hates/ tv dinners.

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa has been trying to get ahold of Hannah since well.

Things.

Really, by the end of today, either Hannah was going to willingly finally get back to her or she was going to henshin and Gull Windy Chop her way into Hannah's apartment and give her a justice speech. Luckily, the first happens before the second.

She is over SUPER quick. She does, afterall, live in the same building, technically.

She just walks in and closes the door behind her. She doesn't look much better- but she's also actually seen sleep.

This feeling of loss is not something new to her. She knows what happened the last time she let it rule her life. Never again.

She has something in her hands. It is a container. She softly places it on the table. She sits down besides Hannah and doesn't say a thing. She just leans over and gives Hannah an amazingly careful hug. Corvus is not with her because Corvus knows there's somethings you do not mascot follow to. This is one of those things.

"It's okay... I miss him too." she finally says softly. "...I won't ask if you're okay Hannah-chan. I know your're not. I wish I could make this better, but the last time I wished something like that... well. You were there." she says tersely. She peeks at the TV dinner. She looks back up to Hannah.

"...that must had tasted like garbage..." she mutters.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Hannah looks amazingly fragile for someone so scrappy and strong right now, easily pulled into that gentle hug. Arms tremble and cling to Haruna as she buries her face into the other girl's shoulder and neck, just happy to have another to cling to. Gull's words are only half-heard as she quivers, the PreCure acting like a rock to cling to as she tries to work through the loss of someone she'd never imagine actually dieing, and by the hand of his love at that.

"Why him, Haruna!? Why him and not someone like me!? I hate it! I hate this world and how it takes from the people who don't deserve it! /She/ didn't deserve to see that!" Rambles Hannah as she finds her voice, already breaking down into the sobs. It lasts a good five minutes, before Haruna's joke finally has her smiling just a little.

"...Awful, but...I couldn't work the stove. Been...been too busy...working on...on bringing him back."

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa lets herself be clung to, and cried into and closes her eyes. She secretly wishes she had someone like this two years ago. Maybe things would had been different then. But she doesn't think too hard about that. Right now, all she can think about is... Hannah and Chiba-san and that's where most of her thoughts lie as she pats Hannah's back closing her eyes a moment.

"The first time I met him..." she says softly. "He was there helping Sailor Mercury and Jupiter---and I hit him with something bad---I mean...I was... Scorn at the time...." she mutters....

"...but he still came in and busted into that room when Nephrite tried to--- take me away--- because Corvus tried to trick me into getting in with people who'd brainwash me to make his job easier. You did too. You were there, too." she says.

"..and when Corvus was sealed away the first time- he was there to help me, too."

"...and when I was taken and brainwashed... he was there too." she says softly. "...and after all this...."

"...I still didn't get to introduce him to Aki..." she mutters.

"So you're right. He didn't deserve that. He deserved a lot better than that. But..."

"It isn't your fault Hannah-chan...! I promise you that." Oh, then that comment on bring him back. She blinks. "...don't make wishes to strange animals in tablets?" she asks a little innocently.

She finally lets go, hesitantly and picks up the container. "Beef Stew.. um. American style! Aki.. bought me a proper portable stove for Christmas and---- um some cookbooks! So, I can practice..."

"...and I don't need to break into your apartment to cook for you!" she says, a little lighthearted, but not as upbeat as usual. She's not trying to dismiss the bad stuff. She is trying to make it easy to deal with.

"...the first week is always the worse. You haven't slept yet have you?" she says. "Hannah---I.. um. I want you to sleep tonight okay? No matter what. If I have to, I'll call Riventon to come down there and he can .. I dunno evil science at whatever you're doing for a bit while you sleep!" she insists. The threat seems more silly- she knows full well that's a horrible idea and Hannah could see it on her face, though the point is clear.

"Not really!" she finally says. "But... I do mean it about the sleep..." she mutters.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Hannah smiles just a little more. "That's the kind of guy he's always been. It's never been about himself. Always forgiving, always /helping/!" She mutters against Haruna, clinging tight. Only her presence is keeping her from a true breakdown at this point.

She bites her lip. "I should've realized that something had been done to him. Should've just knocked him out and taken him to the lab to figure it out! I...I thought he could be purified like you do!" A shake of the head. She can't not blame herself.

Tch. "No. I'm doing this my own way." She adds stubbornly. A little pride and fire burning back in her once more.

"Thank you, Haruna. Yeah...I've been working for...three, no...four days? I can't remember when I last..."

A nod. "Okay. Okay. No Riventon, but...hey. Stay tonight? Please?"

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa smiles. "I can stay! Aki knows this is a big deal and she didn't even cop an attitude when I said I was coming over today!" she beams wide as best she can. It's not as wide as it usually is. She crosses her arms. "Corvus is dealing with it hard too because he'd still be dealing with being a big jerk if people like Chiba-san didn't help me..." she says. "...but Corvus is also really old and has seen lots of people come and go, so maybe not as hard as you and me." she says.

"I know he meant a lot to you, Hannah-chan. If... there's a way to bring him back and----"

"It isn't horrible..." she asides.

"I'm sure you can find it, Hannah-chan. You found a way to help rescue my sister and--- even a /god/ told you it was going to be nearly impossible!" she says throwing her arms up.

She looks down. "I'm sorry I wasn't there... there was... well. Pretty Cure duties..." she mutters. "I wish I had a better excuse but... Oresky kind of singled Aki out as Tide and there was a Terribad Duo of twins. By the time we'd finished..." she looks down.

She goes back to leaning against Hannah and closes her eyes.

"I'll stay as long as you need me too. A night.. a few days.. a month.. months... whatever you want Hannah-chan." she smiles wide. "I can even cook while I'm here! So you can just work and work because lord knows I'm not useful with the stuff like the research. Unless you want to know how something I can do personally, works I mean. I can sit there and purify a thing or something for you. I'll even do it off the clock!" she insists.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Hannah actually relaxes a little. "Heh. Your sister's a good girl." She'd never thought she'd hear that, really!

"Still. Give the little pidgeon a pet for me."

Eyes close, and she nods. "We'll see. It's...most of the methods aren't things even I'd consider, from my research. He'd hate me for doing some of them, so I won't go that far." She promises.

A wave of the hand. "You...I wouldn't want you to have seen that anyway." She shudders, remembering her best friend reduced to ash.

"Yeah. We can start that later. Right now, I just want my girlfriend and my friend right here." Her stomach growls.

"Erm. After dinner, anyway."

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa beams and takes the container of beef stew she brought and walks to the kitchen and heats it up on the stove top. The smell wafts around the kitchen and she returns with heated stew in proper bowl and places it Hannah's hands. "There! Um..."

"If it's too thick lemme know. I.. didn't want it too thin because the cookbook said it should be thick- but it's not like glue either?" she beams.

Indeed, the gravy in the stew is juuuust a little thick. Then again. Hannah might like that. She takes away the TV dinner and goes to toss it in the trash. Where it belongs. Because it's garbage. :I.

Even at her worse Haruna never sunk to the depths of the frozen TV dinner. It was takeout for her for like two years.

Haruna returns with her own bowl. "I tasted it earlier. I think it's good! Aki and Corvus thought it was good at least. But they don't eat this a lot. I don't even eat this a lot! American cooking is weird but I'm going to become the /best/ at it!" she insists.

She pauses.

"...Do I need to learn to cook an entire pig?" she asks, remembering the BBQ.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Hannah can't help but smile as food is placed before her. The ravenous magical girl devours it in a minute flat. She leans back, and sighs, her stomach sated at least.

"Thanks Haruna. It's good." A small chuckle.

"You've been practicing."

Then Hannah just laughs. "No, at least not at first. But make me some japanese cooking too! I want to know what you like to make, or at least, what you like from your home." She adds.

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa ughs. "Good cuz I'm not looking forward to cooking a whole pig so Instead I am going to make some /proper/ Teriyaki! Not the stuff america has cuz i read that in the cookbook and it's not like we do it here!" she insists. She places her bowl down.

She then blushes. "Kinda..nervous about meeting your parents still..." she mutters. "I mean I met them before but.. this is different. You know?" she says wide eyed.

"I bet your mom or dad is going to give me some speech... like in the movies... 'Don't hurt our Hannah-chan! No untoward actions!'" she blushes a little.

"Like I'm even capable of any of that..." she mutters.

She sort of collapses in her own fluff as she gets her mind off 'things' and onto other 'stuff'. Things and Stuff. That's what Katsu-chan said when she invited Suzuki over to her dorm. She was wondering if it was code for 'snog one another'. She taps her chin. Wait- why is she even trying to imagine that!? Suzuki hardly seems the type! She just ends up making herself blush again.

Ugh- sometimes your mind goes to weird places when you're trying to get your mind off grief. Luckily she isn't sharing any of that with Hannah so she can go blab about it later.

"But eventually, you're gonna want a pig...and I bet your parents can teach me how to do that!" she insists.

"Maybe I can teriyaki the pig...."

She thinks on this.

She just sighs and keeps her head rested on Hannah's shoulder. "So. Sleep soon. Tommrow. You can get back to work!" she insists.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
"I'll look forward to it!" It sounds delicious! But no full-pig cooking yet though!

A shake of her head. "You'll do fine. They're good people. Mom's tough, and Dad...well, uhh...yeah. Get ready." She remembers Mamoru's own little talk with her dad! Sigh.

Then she's grinning like a wolf.

"You should be more worried about me after all!" What is she talking about!?

Reeeach. Then she's rubbing Haruna's hair.

"We'll work up to that. It'll be delicious!"

Gently leaning against Haruna, she smiles, enjoying contact and comfort. Her eyes close, slowly.

"Okay Haruna. Okay. Thank you so much." A squeeze, and then, she's just relaxing against her dear friend.

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa is just a mess of blushing and wild thoughts but eventually she settles down as she leans against Hannah-chan. Worried about her!? Wha!?

Regardless she just enjoys being close to someone right now. "I had a nightmare the other night..." she finally softly says with her eyes closed. "I used to have the nightmare a lot. I was kind of walking through doors---the fire department chief, telling me they were giving up trying to find Aki... the memorial service but--- the last door led to.. the roof. That rooftop across from Clover Tower. You know the one..." she mutters.

"And everyone... was there! But they were shadowy and---not saying... very nice things. Then... I felt.. Tuxedo Kamen's cape around me... but instead of slowing down whatever was happening to me, it sped it up...and then I feel into the cape. Then I was in that graveyard... but all the mirrors were filled with ichor and-- my reflecting kept changing in everyone and.... something grabbed me from one of the mirrors and grabbed me in and----I felt like where that's where I belonged... because I was worthless.." she mutters softly.

"Your shadow in the dream said I was a waste of time..." she softly says. "You sounded annoyed like you could had better spent your time doing something else then... saving me from myself..." she said softly.

She opens her eyes. "Don't apologize for that because I know it was just a dream...and if you did think I was a waste of time well.. I wouldn't be here right now, right!?" she smiles softly.

"But... I.. it really made me feel sick inside to think of those things." she says softly. "Even if it didn't happen." she says softly. She just kind of clings closer to Hannah.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Hannah listens to the nightmare, a frown appearing on her face.

She's no psychologist, but she's had a nightmare or two in her time! "It sounds like it was just all of this stress and everything happening piling upp, Haruna. You always beat up on yourself for everything. Shades of people you love criticizing you must be your worst fear."

A smile, and then she leans in to smooch Haruna's forehead. "You're amazing. Not worthless at all. If you were, I wouldn't have become your friend, wouldn't have helped you all this time."

Squeeeeze. "It was just a dream. I'm here, and I love you, and I will not let anyone call you worthless tongiht. If they do, I'll punch them right in the jaw!" Airpunch!

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa sighs. "Yeah, I know. I just..." she looks down. "Maybe just all the stress of the past days yeah." she says. She listens to Hannah's words and blushes.

"Amazing!? I dunno if I'd go that far Hannah..." she blushes. "Maybe adorable. Let's go with that." she smiles. Wait, is she fishing for compliments and praise!? Maybe. Maybe this once. "Oh..right.. I have to get a picture of us.. for Madoka-chan. She came over to meet Aki the other night and I asked how that thing with the guy's been going- and Corvus told Madoka to... ask how I was doing with Hannah-chan and Aki joined in the teasing..." she mutters 'silly bird' underneath her breath.

"..and Madoka brought up the 'smouldering hot jerk' and I had to explain that to Aki and she teased me relentlessly about it."

"But yes..picture. I said we were adorable n' I'm gonna prove it! But not now. Too tired. I look tired. You look tired." she mutters. "Not even a little adorable."

"You better let me know when you're ready for bed cuz Imma gonna do something I've wanted to do forever!" she insists.

Oh, then Hannah says she loves her. Then she just sort of turns red in her face completely.

"I love you, too Hannah." she says closing her eyes again. "I just want you to be okay after all this. I..." she looks down again at the floor. "...I know how hard it is to loose someone you care about it and feels like the world is ending and you want it to end, but it doesn't---so you just hide and..." she sighs. She shakes her head. "I refuse to let that happen to me again and...I'm not going to let it happen to you!" she insists.

Hannah Sharpe has posed:
Hannah hangs her head. "We both really do look pretty bad right now, huh? If we gave her a picture, we'd just worry Madoka-chan. Ugh, I need to visit that little sweetheart. She's good at making you feel better." A warm smile here. Madoka is jsut the best!

Reeeach! Then she pinches poor Haruna's nose!

"When you're not deathly tired, you are as cute as a pomeranian!" That's the best she's got right now, sue her! She'll sick the youma-lawyers on you!

She can feel that flush, and it makes her happy. "Haruna..." She's being protected, and right now, it's exactly what she needs. Hannah does just that, hiding right against Haruna, enjoying the warmth and presence of a friend.

"I...I guess sometimes I can afford to be weak." She mutters to herself. Yaaaaaawn.

"I need to sleep. Carry me away, my guardian knight PreCure." From the way she's slumping, she might mean very literally!

Haruna Kurosawa has posed:
Haruna Kurosawa grins. "Yessss, that's it!" she stands up and scoooooops Hannah up into her arms. This takes a moment, because she's underestimating her strength so she ommphs! But she can still do it. "I've always wanted to princess carry someone into bed!" she insists. "It's...romantic. you know?" she says with a smile.

So she does that dropping Hannah into bed. Then she also collapses because she is also tired.

It's now time to go to sleep, snuggle and hopefully not have terrible nightmares. Maybe just for a night.

Or all of them at once. Who knows!