Prompt .1: Linger
She doesn't know why she does it.
The war's over. Been over for seventeen months, Rukia can still count the days, the hours - in human speak mind you. The time of the dead moves slower. Much slower. So slow, she wonders if it's been a day or a year since the pale form on the bed was found.
Urahara's been over the vitals every while.
No fighting.
No motion in the almost empty-seeming shell of a being.
She was only too glad the day when her Lieutenant duties took her to Hueco Mundo to deliver a warning to Kurotsuchi from a higher up. The Captain of Twelfth frightens her, still does when his fury would be great if realizing a very valuable specimen - a survivor of the winter war had been found in the endless desert.
She stops by every once in a while.
Byakuya reminds her every time before she leaves that her job is to monitor the activities of the Substitute Soul Reaper - her friend.
Is this rebelling then?
Rukia doesn't like to think so.
How can it be when she walks into the shoten and lingers beside the bedside of former Espada, waiting for the day when he awakens?
-Fin-
Disclaimer: I do not own Bleach.
AN: taken from the 64 damn prompts community on LJ. For yaoi fans/readers, I suggest you check out black.. Hers are very good.
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