{"id":3194,"date":"2014-09-13T22:28:36","date_gmt":"2014-09-13T22:28:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/2014\/09\/13\/pride-and-obligation-61\/"},"modified":"2014-09-13T22:28:36","modified_gmt":"2014-09-13T22:28:36","slug":"pride-and-obligation-61","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/2014\/09\/13\/pride-and-obligation-61\/","title":{"rendered":"Pride and Obligation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"tumblr_blog\" href=\"http:\/\/smokebombsandmirrors.tumblr.com\/post\/97414425255\/pride-and-obligation\">smokebombsandmirrors<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>He froze then slowly moved back to lean against the couch.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Right \u2026 it could have been anyone and you would have come them.&rdquo; He smiled at him. It was off not quiet a smile and not quiet a grimace. With his poker face back in place he watched the opposite wall and waited for Hakuba to finish.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/31.media.tumblr.com\/1a5d7f16ef62b8d3c5d1d1e51e350880\/tumblr_inline_nbv2faT1BD1rms2iz.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;That&rsquo;s&hellip; true.&rdquo; \u00a0Hakuba heaved a sigh once Kaito was once again resting, turning to get the sutures ready for sewing. The change in the atmosphere was quite obvious- he thought that even someone as dense as\u00a0<em>Hattori Heiji<\/em> would have noticed.<\/p>\n<p>He didn&rsquo;t know what to do about it, though. Kuroba had been acting so oddly&hellip; it baffled him. But with the lingering effects of alcohol and the adrenaline slowly beginning to give way to his body&rsquo;s exhaustion, the detective kept focused on the work at hand. He could deal with the emotional later.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>His hands worked quickly, threading the needle in and out of the skin, tucking it together under tiny, neat stitches. He cared for Kuroba; far more than he&rsquo;d admit, but to imagine that those feelings might be returned&hellip;? No. No, certainly not. Ridiculous.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The entire procedure only lasted a few minutes; Hakuba was good at getting this sort of thing done in a timely manner. Soon he was applying a bandage over the spot, fingerpads massaging it gently over Kaito&rsquo;s thigh to keep the seal in place.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Just about done&hellip;&quot;\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>smokebombsandmirrors: He froze then slowly moved back to lean against the couch. &ldquo;Right \u2026 it could have been anyone and you would have come them.&rdquo; He smiled at him. It was off not quiet a smile and not quiet a grimace. With his poker face back in place he watched the opposite wall and waited [&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-3194","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\/3194","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=3194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3194\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/archive.gabapple.com\/tumblr\/whiteknighthakuba\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}