subnautica | pulse, and other, open mingle (12-7 to whenever)

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pulse, and other, open mingle (12-7 to whenever)

[Wowee! We get hit with a pulse on the seventh! Isn't that fun! Also, a ship crashed, and baby it's cold inside. Some prompts.

A: Pulse: A pulse hit the planet! Life support went out, and that super sucks, but it will only last for an hour. Maybe more sucky: some or all of your powers may or may not have died! That's awkward. Are you disappointed you can't walk through walls now? Has nothing changed for you? Are you now a dead girl because you made a deal some aliens? Are you a sword? Have fun kids, and try not to hold a Class Trial.

B: Salvage: That sure was a ship that went down! URSULA identified it as the Narcissus which is apparently a human military ship so obviously this will be safe and no one is going to come across any type of trouble salvaging the ship. Maybe someone should text Naoko to tell her what's going on. Everything is fine.

C: Blanket-sharing meme: You know what you're here for.

D: ETC: Roxy is putting up mistletoe, there are flowers, people keep building stupid things. Do whatever!]

[ooc: OOC post here??]

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[He closes his eyes when she places his hand over her chest, just focusing on the gentle feeling of her heart beating beneath his palm as his teeth grit tightly together. He's trying to keep up a cool facade, he really is, but he was just so scared... he can't even deny it, not to her.]

I-it's not your fault... [he says finally, without opening his eyes, once he trusts his voice to be steady enough.] I'll... I'll find out what happened. And I'll make sure it doesn't happen again.

That shouldn't be just your job.

[ it echoes what she had told him before, when she was scolding him for risking himself to prove some point to komaeda. if everyone worked together to figure this out, that's one thing. but hajime would prefer that hinata didn't make this some mission of his own that he might take too far? ]

...

[He only squeezes her hand more tightly before nodding, accepting what she's saying. He doesn't want to get scolded again, and he knows she's right. He wants to do it all himself, he knows he's capable of doing it all himself, but the cost is... probably too high. He doesn't want to calculate it out precisely.]

Y-you're right. Sorry.

You wouldn't be able to do anything to my NOTE either.

[ it's said less like he isn't capable of doing it, and more like her just flat out forbidding him to. she loves her bullshit power notebook a lot, and while a lot of people may classify her as reckless, hajime is... well, she's very calculative with her recklessness. ]

How long have you been waiting here?

But-- there has to be a way to protect it from interference...

[He just wants to help? Why is she like this.

As for her other question, he avoids her eyes, looking down at their joined hands instead.]

Since Milla told me you were passed out. I'd just.. I went to get some books from the library to get some more ideas, I didn't...

[His voice is getting shaky again, holy fuck. Keep it together dude. Just because he didn't think she'd wake up again is no reason to get all sobby??]

[ hinata that is a perfect reason to get all sobby. ]

Thank you for taking care of me.

[ she doesn't touch the other topic for now. there is a lot about her NOTE that she doesn't really understand since she, admittedly, did not listen to at least half of the explanations that were thrown at her so maybe she missed some vital info. ]

[NO HE'S COOL RUB SOME NO MORE TEARS IN HIS EYES!!

He huffs a quiet laugh through his nose, keeping his grip on her hand.]

You don't have to thank me for something like that... we're friends, Number Two. It's not like I did anything, anyway.

I feel a lot better knowing that you were here for me!

[ hajime is actually concerned about the dead thing even if that concern lies more with the NOTE malfunctioning than her own actual death? so it's nice that someone was there for her. ]

I...

[Always want to be there for you. But he knows that it's not a claim he can honestly make.]

...I'll look out for you as much as I can. That's what friends do.

[Not exactly the romantic sentiment that had first come to mind, but it'll have to do. God he's bad at this.]

How do you feel...?

I'm fine. It didn't hurt!

[ she sounds very surprised as she says that last part, as if she fully expected whatever went down with her NOTE to be a painful experience?

instead of elaborating (implying she ever elaborates), hajime just grabs hinata's other hand. ]

Okay!

That's good, at least.

["Okay" is so vague. He gives her a bit of an exasperated stare.]

No, I mean it. Your heart or... I don't know, everything feels right? I'd rather run some more tests and make sure there's nothing lingering that might make you collapse again. And-- your brain, none of this makes sense.

Do we have to?

[ that is 100% said in the bratty, ten year old child way who does not want to clean their room? pout and everything.

but she will try this again. ] And. Okay!

[ just repeating the word isn't going to make him understand any better, hajime, especially when that word goes with the previous thing you just said? ]

Yeah? It's important to get as much information as we can in case this happens again.

[He tries to pull his hands free, meaning to move back over to the bed she'd been dead in not too long ago.]

C'mon, it won't take long.

[Yeah no he still doesn't get it.]

I don't think it's needed, but if you say so, Hajime!

[ LOOK SHE JUST SAID YOUR FIRST NAME AND DROPPED THE HONORIFIC hinata pls

it'll just be easier if she flat out said it but hajime continues to not. ]

...?

[Yeah, he can't not notice that? But he also doesn't have any context. Also her accepting his confession is the furthest thing from his mind right now, in the face of her no longer being dead.]

Uh, okay. Sit down, then, I'm going to just run a quick scan...

[With some kind of futuristic something or other probably. It's sci-fi and the future.]

[ ugh. she'll try again in a minute then. hajime does sit down, still pouting because she doesn't think this is needed, but also the dude did just go through a period of time where he had to deal with her being dead. so she'll give him this, at least. ]

How am I, doc?

Alive.

[He eventually just leans down to look her in the eye, still looking puzzled, if relieved.]

I can't find anything wrong. I'm glad, but... I can't explain it, either.

Hm. [ she's probably going to have to ask around after this then. hinata said something about a pulse knocking out the life support, and hajime remembers all of the lights going out before... well. if it was the pulse's fault, then that may be inconvenient if she drops dead every time it occurs? it would be slightly inconvenient if she was out swimming instead of being in the base, for example. ]

I'll figure it out. Or try to!

I'll help.

[He leans in further, just a little, pressing his forehead against her shoulder and exhaling a sigh.]

I'm just... really glad you're okay.

You really are such a good boy.

[ a pause. ]

Friend.

...Huh?

[Wait. wait.

He glances up, hardly daring to believe it.]

Eh?

Okay?

[ she assumes this means he finally gets it. it would have gone a lot easier if she was actually specific and explained what the heck she was referring to, but hey. ]

That's okay, right?

Y-yeah!

[He can't believe this. How does he always get so much whiplash when he talks to her.]

If you want, o-of course!

I wouldn't say okay if I didn't want to.

[ hajime isn't the type to do that. it's too much trouble. ]

...

[He's close enough already, so he just wraps her up in a tight hug, burying his nose against her shoulder again.]

Thanks... thanks for coming back, Number... H-hajime.

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