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Jasmine wasn't sure how long she had been watching Ban pace around the room. Long enough for a normal person to pass out from exhaustion, at least. But she had known Ban long enough to know that he was anything but normal.
Still, she couldn't just leave him like this. So, with a mug of Swan-san's famous coffee in hand, she approached him carefully. "Hoji's going to be okay," she said as she handed him the mug. "In fact, he should be waking up in a couple of hours. So why don't we…" she was cut off as Ban angrily downed the coffee in one gulp (luckily, it'd gone cold while she was watching him brood), and then stalked off to punch a wall. Hard enough to make his knuckles bleed.
"Ban!" Jasmine closed the distance between them and yanked the injured hand away from the wall. She could understand why he was acting like this, she could even sympathize, but sympathy only went so far. "Breaking your hand isn't going to help Hoji!"
"I know that!" Ban's tone was unusually harsh as he pulled away from Jasmine. "It's just…" Ban paused, pacing some more. "How the hell am I supposed to act?!"
"What do you mean?"
Ban stalked over to a window, glaring out at the grey sky. "He was just so still, Jasmine. No yelling at me for being late, no insisting he could get up himself, he… was barely breathing." Ban rested his forehead against the window pane. "How am I supposed to act after seeing my partner like that?"
Jasmine's first reaction was to remind Ban that whether they liked or not, that was part of being of being a Deka… then she realized that he really hadn't dealt with this before. Before, it had always been Ban rushing in, nearly getting himself killed, leaving Hoji to fume and worry endlessly. But now, after this…
Gently, Jasmine rested a hand against Ban's back. The tension didn't fade, but at least he didn't pull away this time. "Hoji will understand."
"But--"
"Hoji will understand. Ask him yourself if you don't believe me." Jasmine smiled and shrugged. "You're not the first Deka to get worried sick over a teammate, after all. And it's not like you did anything panicky and kissed him when you found him, right?"
"Uh, yeah, right." Jasmine raised an eyebrow as Ban scratched his head, smiling just a little too brightly before he made a break for a door… but she decided to let it go. Whatever Ban had done in the desperate moments before they'd gotten Hoji home safe, it was between the two of them.