Title: Listen to me, listen to your heart

Characters/Pairing: Rukia, references to Gin
Style: Drabble
Genre: General
Rating: PG
Theme: November 01, 2006, 'the heart asks pleasure first'
Spoilers: For all DUB watchers, please be aware this contains end of Soul Society 'arc' spoilers.


It was now, in moments after her hopes had risen by Gin, that Rukia realised how much her heart had clamoured to be heard. How much it had tried to attract her attention, to draw her awareness towards it.
How much it wanted to be part of her persona and conscience. How it wanted, needed, things she had denied it.

That moment hadn't made her resolve shatter, but told her that her heart had always been there.

And had it wanted that hope Gin gave her that she would be saved, that her friends would be there for her. It had wanted that simple hope before she even knew that was what she wanted as well.

Hearts were supposed to be human things, and she was a death god. Her heart shouldn't be important to her.
But it knew what it, what she wanted.

So she let it.