Grrrr ffdotnet ate the extra stuff I wrote in, so now I have to redo it all. Stupid thing. I swear ffdotnet is friends with msn, and both are absolutely evil. Gotta work in the morning, long shift. Blaaaaah. Let's see here, what else... I need to stop being lazy and stockpile more drabbles, as I am out of my stockpile; I've been writing every day again whether I'm totally exhausted or not, ick.

Thanks to: blackteaplease, Blueberry Absinth, Akane-Higabana, LilyGirl101, Solar Kitty, cy-grl, Beautiful Nightmare07, Care Bear on Fire (sorry, but if dialogue in the manga is highly revelant it's just going to end up being included, just the way it is), and PunkRockHolly

Also, holy crap, I'm almost to 500 reviews. 500th reviewer gets a one-shot of their choice, so long as it's Bleach and not a pairing I abhor. I'm pretty liberal with pairings too. Just gotta be patient with me, as I'm still working on Solar Kitty's one-shot for 100 reviews.


74. Bitter Silences

After Rangiku's drunken night and once she had sobered up once more, Rangiku put her smile back on. It was not just for her captain, her friends, her squad she put it on for, she wore it when she was alone too.

She had noticed it was much harder to cry if she was smiling. She did not want to waste tears on Gin, not when he had betrayed her so deeply.

But there were times, late nights when she laid in bed and there was no sake to keep her mind from thinking. Then Rangiku remembered him, and conversations rolled around and around in her mind.

There were so many answers from him that were shaded looks and quirks, shrugs and twisted smiles that went with no words. Before, they had seemed to be normal silences for Gin, with no hidden meaning, just Gin being Gin, mysterious and a little strange.

Now, Rangiku realized there were so many silences that probably dealt with Gin's betrayal that it felt like ice and acid were being thrown against her stomach in a crazy storm set on sending her to the bottom of the ocean. Those bitter silences haunted Rangiku when the world slowed down and there was nothing to take her away from it. Rangiku began keeping a few more sake bottles on hand as the days wore on.


Grrr, I want to smack Gin.