note: post-deicide arc, everyone feels shitty.
prompt: 047. heart
characters: hitsugaya, rangiku, maybe a ship
genre: angst/drama
word count: 100
moving on
The 10th Division's been quiet since Aizen's imprisonment (Hitsugaya doesn't consider it a victory; if anything, it feels like a loss). Its members had respectfully left their top two seats space and privacy: space for Matsumoto to mourn lost love and to nurse the wound in her heart, and privacy for Hitsugaya to calculate his losses and to count his shortcomings.
She stood by him, as always, dependable and stoic in the worst of times. Sweat dripped down his brow as he swung his sword again, releasing a cascade of ice.
He'd keep her heart together and she'd keep his.
18/07/11