fired.
Sousuke had been fired. As he walked home in the dark, that thought kept running through his mind.
Mission failed.
Total route.
Strategic loss.
...fired.
Damn.
Entering his apartment, he sat down at the table for a long time. He needed another job. He also needed to tell Kaname. Not something he was looking forward to. Telling her he had failed...
shaking off the thought, he went to her door, and leaned against it, hand pressed flat. It was soothing, somehow. The door opened and he almost fell.
"Kaname, why are you awake?" he asked her, as she stood there, no trace of sleepiness.
"how did it go?" she asked him, voice concerned.
"I..." he tried again " I was..." he just could not get the words out.
"Its okay." she told him, taking him in an embrace. "It's my fault after all, Sosuke, I'm sorry."
"Its not your fault. Sometimes things go wrong for no reason at all on the battlefield." he told her.
"Is that what you told the guys who screwed up so bad you had to lie to them?"
"Its not a problem." he told her.
"I love when you say tell me that." she said, then sniffed. He looked at her, even in the darkness he could see the tears in her eyes. He wiped them away. "Its not a problem." he told her again.
They broke their embrace, and Sosuke went back to the couch, she to her room. He was almost asleep when her door opened again. He started to ask here what as wrong, but she cut him off with a gesture. She walked over to the couch and settled in next to him, her head on his chest. She still smelled of that sweet shampoo she loved. He wanted to say something, but held back, not wanting to break the spell. She just lay there, shifting every once in a while, molding her body into a more comfortable position. Sosuke just lay there, unsure of what he should do. Her weight was somehow comforting, like some essential bit of gear that his life depended on.
What if she was gone?
It was a terrifying though. On that made him wrap his arms around her and hold her tight without thinking. She let out a happy sigh. No matter what was to come, no matter how bad, as long as she was by his side, some how things would be okay.