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Trial Run chapter 2: She’s slipping through our fingers

First off, I LIVE. I’m sorry I haven’t been posting lately, finals had me pretty tied up.

I’ve decided Trial Run will be a series of oneshots in no particular order. This one was inspired by “Slipping through my fingers” from Mama Mia and I think it’s good enough to post.

I’ll return to posting my headcannons over my break.

Lots of love and here’s your content!

Lisa was starting to get worried.

She wasn’t sure if anyone else had noticed, but Rose had been acting weird all week, and the current moment had her worrying for his state of mind. While the rest of the group was off doing their usual nightly activities Rose was, strangely, not off tuning and cleaning his instruments before bed like he usually did each night before retiring to his room.

Peering through the door to the kitchen Lisa sighed as she looked at him. He was sitting at the kitchen table, switching from being hunched over a number of pictures to looking at the freezer door and letting out a series of dramatic sighs and moans. It wasn’t too strange that he would go into weird melancholic moods for days at a time, but it wasn’t his usual set of dramatics that had him artistically flopping over couches and spouting poetry. Sometimes he would get in moods like his current one, but usually if he did he would seek her or someone else to talk to so he could sort through his emotions. For the past few days he had been secluding himself and when he was with the group he was constantly getting lost in his own head.

Pinching the bridge of her nose in annoyance, she walked into the kitchen at the most recent of his dramatic sighs, shutting the door to the kitchen behind her as she plopped down at the table.

“Spill.”

“Spill what?” His voice sounded the ‘normal person’ type of hollow as he pulled his head out of where it had been hunched down in his arms.

“Perhaps the reason you’ve been so spacey and isolated? Or perhaps the reason why you’re in the kitchen drinking tea by yourself while looking at pictures and the fridge while listening to sad musical songs on repeat?”

“Meryl Streep understands me.” He made to pillow his head back in his arms, snapping back up as Lisa flicked him in the forehead. “Ouch! What was that for?”

“You’re weirding everyone out and you only get this weird when you’re trying to work around a problem in your head.” She reached out and patted one of his hands. “You can either tell me now or I can send in one of the more socially inept Vizards to talk to you.”

“I’ll talk, but… it's hard to talk about and weird.”

Lisa raised one of her eyebrows, “Weirder than that summer of ‘67 that we all agreed to never speak of again?”

“Not quite, but also yes?” He put his face in his hands and sighed. “You’re gonna think I’m being stupid.”

“Too late for that.”

“Hardy-har Lisa.” He glared at her before turning his gaze to the ceiling. “Is anyone else in earshot of us?” At the shake of her head he continued, “Hiyori hit her head on the fridge door.”

“You mean at breakfast on Monday?” Lisa was truly beginning to believe her other half was getting dumber with each year. “Hachi said she was fine, no concussions or anything if that’s what you’re worried about.” The little turd had been grouchy after Kensei slammed the door into her head, a bag of peas pressed to her forehead while Shinji and Hachi fussed over her.

“It's not that!” He slammed his head into the table. “You remember when we all got this house in the rebuilding after the war and how we had to buy the step stool because she was too little to get into the freezer? How she was able to walk right under the door when it was open?” At her slow nod he threw his arms in the air, “Lisa! Kensei opened the door and it cracked her right in the forehead! She got taller!”

Now that Lisa thought about it, Hiyori’s track pants were looking a tad shorter on her than usual, even the uniform she wore to teach looked a little tighter if she really thought about it. Before she could reply to his questions he kept going.

“Lisa, Hiyori hasn’t aged a day in the nearly 2 centuries we’ve known her, and we became Vizards before she could hit her growth spurt and stopped aging. She’s always been tiny and caught in the beginning of puberty, and now—” he made to rub his temples. “I don’t know when it started, but she’s growing up.”

“Well, if you didn’t know, people tend to do that.” He glared at her comment.

“We haven’t aged since hollowfication, maybe we got an inch and our hair got longer, but Hiyori never did any of that. She’s always stayed the same when the rest of us changed! I just assumed that… she’d be our baby sister forever.” Another dramatic sigh and he was reaching for his mug of tea.

“Remember earlier this week when you and Mashiro went out and it was just her and the guys here?” Before she could reply he reached out to fix her a mug of tea, “Well, guess what day it was for her?”

Memory flitted back and Lisa paused before she could drink the warm brew, “She got her first period on Wednesday.” She had come home to find the boys all worried and Hiyori locked in her room. She managed to get the story out of Shinji and had popped the lock on her door and talked with Hiyori for the rest of the night.

He snorted softly, “She didn’t know where to look for your and Mashiro’s products in your rooms so she had to come downstairs and ask us for help. I don’t think I’ve ever seen her that embarrassed, not even when you forced her to start wearing actual bras.” He traced a finger around the rim of his glass. “Pale as a ghost and looked like she was going to cry her eyes out at any moment. When I went to hug her after we found the stuff she ducked out of my arms and locked herself in her room and blasted music until you two came home.”

“You’re upset she’s going through puberty?” This was weird even for Rose’s usual dramatics. “It was going to happen at some point Rose, it did for everyone else.”

“I know!” He paused to take a deep gulp of tea, not-so-gently placing the cup back onto the saucer. “It's just...she’s gonna change.”

This was going nowhere, “Then we’ll buy more pads and get her new clothes, it's not a big deal.”

“Not just physically changing!” He fingered the corner of a picture of him and Hiyori at a festival, both in Kimono. She had been glittering that day, wearing that furisode and smiling as they hugged in front of the food booth while the sun set in the background. “You remember how most people change during puberty, she’s gonna change too! Maybe she’ll mellow out or get even angrier! But what if she starts thinking differently?” His hands began to tangle into his messy waves. “What if she suddenly breaks up with Shinji and decides to go after a guy we can’t easily beat up? What if she starts wanting to go back to the front lines? Oh gods, what if she gets larger breasts and has to change her entire fighting style?”

“Lets calm down,” Lisa scooted her chair over and wrapped her arms around his shoulders. “We can deal with what comes, we’ve dealt with all those tantrums and wild mood swings, what’s a few fueled by raging hormones?”

His voice was nearly silent, so quiet that even her sensitive Vizard hearing couldn’t pick up what he had said. “Come again?”

“What if we’re not there?” He croaked it out as he pushed her arms off of his shoulders and pulled her into his lap, tightly wrapping her in a hug, “What if she’s like us, when she hits that stage that she’s gonna decide that she doesn’t want or need us anymore? What if she moves out and starts to drift away?” He pushed her head into the crook of his neck. “She’ll grow into a beautiful young woman but she won’t be at home, she’ll be off living a life away from all of us! We all ran from home, straight to the Seireitei, who's to say that she won’t run off somewhere away from us? She can reach the fridge without using a step stool now! Her entire world just opened up!

“I look at her, and there’s so much that I want to do with her before she decides that she wants to go out on her own.” He gestured to the various pictures of her and the other Vizards spread out on the table. “I want more moments like those. I want to wake up knowing that she’ll be sitting half awake at the table in the morning and that we’ll talk over coffee, waiting for the rest of you to get out of bed. I want her to still love spending friday nights watching terrible movies and eating popcorn til we feel sick. I want her to still come to me with her problems and talk them out with me while she practices on the piano.” Tears began to fall. “And it's not just me. What if she doesn’t want to hang out with Love like she always does or decides that Hachi and Mashiro are ‘bad for her rep’? What if she starts trying other...things...with Shinji?”

“Rose.” Lisa hugged him tighter. It was scary, thinking that the little turd could suddenly wake up a woman and one day leave them. Lisa couldn’t remember a day in the past few centuries that she hadn’t spoken to or spent time with Hiyori. She and Nanao were the little sisters she never had, and Hiyori may had been small but she was Lisa’s rock. If it wasn’t for her, they all never would have beaten their hollows and had solved many of their problems. It hadn’t hit her when she had spent time on wednesday talking about what to do about her monthly, but Hiyori was indeed getting older and would one day grow into a beautiful woman.

“I want her to stay. I hated being a dimension away from you guys for all those years, and now we’re finally all settled in and happy again! I can’t lose her.”

Lisa for once didn’t know what to say. The baby was growing up. Soon she wouldn’t be easily pulled into hugs and laps, she’d grow distant and just like everyone she knew she’d probably end up just like them. Sure Hiyori was very much so a grown woman in her age and mentally, but the rest of her still had to catch up to that. Hiyori had a hard enough time coming to term with her emotions towards dating a boy, Lisa couldn’t imagine having to help her work through all those teenager leveled emotions.

“We’ll….” What was there to say? That it would be okay?

“We’ll find a way to work through it. For now she’s ours and we’ll make sure she remembers that.” He nodded into her neck, warm tears falling gently onto her skin as she pulled him closer and tried to hold back those raging emotions in her heart.

“We’re just gonna have to try our best.”

That would have to do for now

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