our bones, underfoot

by Aiko Isari

It makes it all so much worse, the knowing, the caring, the recognition, and the acknowledgment. Because he can't really save her partner no matter where and when but he can save her and he's going to try.

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Warnings: past character death, reincarnation, trauma.

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Juri smiles, gaptoothed and cute and shows him what a plotmon is on a card, and he's not looking at the card at all. He's looking at red hair and seeing the same pair of eyes and trying not to cry.

He's looking at bandaged palms that curl around the handlebars of a bike as they go down their favorite hill together screaming and sneaking antiseptic out of boxes.

He's looking her eyes rimmed red as she sobs hard and hefty against him.

He's looking at her and seeing Maki and Takato is trying not to cry because Daigo had missed her, his best friend, so so much but this wasn't the world he wanted to see her in again.

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A/N: Because I can, darn it.

Challenges: Interseason Mini-Fic Masterclass 2, mega prompts word prompt 1