the_brightest_sun | Appointment Post

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Appointment Post

✉ Ⓐppointment Ⓟost ✉

☏ CALL JOURNAL
✍ WRITTEN MESSAGE
⇄ ACTION

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[Action, March 11th]
[Voice, September 8th]
[Written, June 10th]

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[Ever since she learned from Ryoga about Ukyo's disappearance, Rydia's been meaning to check up on Goku. She'll pass by the restaurant, but if that's closed or he's not there, then she will try Ukyo's -well, now his?- apartment. Because she can, she's also brought a treat from the bakery/Welcome Center; apple cinnamon muffins. Pausing at the door, the green-haired woman knocks.]

[The restaurant is closed, but only partially. It's closed to the public but there's someone inside. Even if Ukyo isn't there anymore, Goku wants to keep the restaurant working for when she returns... If she does. This and the books and toys she got him are the only things he has left of her after all. So he wants to open it, and with Hakkai there to help him he can probably even keep the menu as it was.

But it's still too soon. Even though he can enter the restaurant and prepare it for opening, he can't bring himself to open it yet. He just can't shake the feeling that she will arrive at any moment, or come out from the storage room, even as he walks preparing everything he could swear he can see her from the corner of his eye, working on the kitchen. And he ends just not opening, sitting there, crying, until he leaves, closes the restaurant and returns home with Hakkai.

So when Rydia checks the restaurant, the kid is currently inside, a crying mess... Until he hears the knocking. His mind can't think of who could be coming here, Ryoga announced that Ukyo had left and he hasn't said a word about the restaurant so... They should think that the place is closed. It could be someone who comes to check the place to set their own business, but the thought doesn't cross his mind. In his mind hope sets the idea that she's back, and so the the kid runs to the door and opens it wide, hoping to see Ukyo, a hopeful smile on his face which vanishes instantly when he sees that it's not her. And despite the green hair it's not Terra either, Goku then proceeds to stare at Rydia with wide eyes, too busy trying to not keep crying to be able to say anything.]

[That vanishing smile breaks her heart, and she can guess without asking that he hoped to see Ukyo at the door instead of her. He doesn't have to hold in those tears, though, and she tries to make that clear when she steps in to give him a warm hug, if he'll let her.]

Hey, Goku....

[He tenses a bit but soon gives in. He needs a hug, he has them, sure, but... It's not the same. And he feels he needs them more often than ever now. So he hugs back and buries his face against her body, still trying to hold the tears, he wants to be strong, he has to. Still he sobs lightly.]

We're not open yet, Rydia-neesan.

[Though he knows she's probably not her to get food. He still says it. Of course it's also his way of saying that he still can't bring himself to open it.]

[She gives him a gentle squeeze, reaching up to stroke his hair.]

That's okay. I wasn't sure if anyone would be here, but I just came to see you.

[He nods slowly, he had assumed so, why else would anyone come here? He's not going to give away this place for anyone to put something else here... Even if it hurts to be here, specially because they were here when she vanished right in front of his eyes.]

I'm... Here. Hi.

[He can't say he's fine, he's not. He hurts, deep inside, just as it hurt when Hakkai left. But this time it seems to hurt even more, to have scared him even. It was better when he decided to think that Hakkai had just got up and left.]

[She's silent for a moment, just holding him. When she speaks up, her voice is even softer.]

I know it hurts. I lost people, too. One of them very recently. People say they're better off at home, but...it's painful to be without them, even so. It's okay to cry, Goku. If it were the other way around, I'm sure they would be missing you, too.

I know... I know Ucchan would miss me for sure, she would.

[At times he's not sure about his own friends from home but he doesn't want to think of that. If it was Ukyo she would notice it and miss him, because they were family, she had been his mama.]

I'm sorry Rydia-neesan lost someone too. Terra-nee left too... Feels like if everyone is leaving. It's scary.

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