Set ten-ish days after Aizen's defeat. Manga-centric.
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Hinamori Momo – Hanging On
Hinamori Momo's eyes are closed and her breathing is slow and even, but she isn't peaceful and she doesn't sleep. Instead, she drifts in and out of consciousness so often that she no longer can tell a dream from a dream; but, apparently, they are trying to regenerate her organs, and it sounds so awfully big and complicated that she wishes (in her more lucid moments, she thinks, though she isn't really sure of anything anymore) that they wouldn't try so hard to put her back together. Shattering into a million little pieces, over and over, is all she was ever good at, anyway; and mending was difficult enough the first time.
But she hangs on, somehow, because sometimes she thinks that she sees (granted, through her eyelids and despite whatever it is that makes her sluggish and dull and not-in-pain), short glimpses of the people who care about her the most.
So she hangs on (again) with all the strength and all the skill of someone already half-broken.