{"id":3186,"date":"2014-09-14T09:04:51","date_gmt":"2014-09-14T09:04:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/2014\/09\/14\/pride-and-obligation-60\/"},"modified":"2014-09-14T09:04:51","modified_gmt":"2014-09-14T09:04:51","slug":"pride-and-obligation-60","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/2014\/09\/14\/pride-and-obligation-60\/","title":{"rendered":"Pride and Obligation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/smokebombsandmirrors.tumblr.com\/post\/97420544400\/pride-and-obligation\">smokebombsandmirrors<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>There was a slight twitch from his thigh. A simple reaction from not being touched in so long. Kaito glanced at him briefly then looked back to the wall but for the most part there was hardly a reaction. If Hakuba held him in the same place as those he randomly helped then that was an answer for Kaito.<\/p>\n<p>Friends? No they couldn\u2019t even be called that. They were acquaintances at best or on that teetering edge of being polite or comfortable. It was unbearable. Especially after wanting this for a couple of years now. Closing his eyes he struggled to accept his fate and loss but \u2026\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>He liked him.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/31.media.tumblr.com\/f15002a5841f978f788e718348d16903\/tumblr_inline_nbvv606Nfq1rms2iz.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Once the bandage was deemed acceptable and his work done, Hakuba pulled back to clean up the supplies on the coffee table. &ldquo;You&rsquo;ll be all right&hellip; but I want you to be careful with your leg for a couple of days. Please don&rsquo;t tear the stitches- I&rsquo;m not a cosmetic surgeon. Actually, I&rsquo;m not a surgeon at all, and I&#8217;m\u00a0<em>assuming<\/em> that you don&rsquo;t wish to go to the hospital&hellip;&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>He laughed, then, tiredly, and pushed the rest of his supplies- sans trash -into the duffel. &ldquo;Where can I dispose of this, incidentally? I don&rsquo;t particularly think that my having your blood in my things would be helpful for preserving your identity&hellip;&quot;\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>When he glanced back to wait for the answer, he frowned. Kuroba really did look miserable&hellip; hiding it or not, it\u00a0<em>felt<\/em> wrong. The detective reached a hand for his shoulder, gently laying it there.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&quot;It&rsquo;s all right&hellip;&rdquo;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>smokebombsandmirrors: There was a slight twitch from his thigh. A simple reaction from not being touched in so long. Kaito glanced at him briefly then looked back to the wall but for the most part there was hardly a reaction. If Hakuba held him in the same place as those he randomly helped then that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[76,2253,75,234,77],"class_list":["post-3186","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-ic","tag-pride-and-obligation","tag-rp","tag-smokebombsandmirrors","tag-thread"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3186"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3186\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3186"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3186"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3186"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}