What would she have done, all those weeks ago, if her open arms in the garden had been met with a rebuff? Where would she be now if there wasn't a warm bed, a warm body to sleep next to every night? Yuuri cares for the others so much -- they've all, in their own way, helped her and saved her. But that's different, so different from this sort of warmth and this sort of connection -- from Junpei's arms around her, his hands in her hair, his mouth pressed against hers.
She lets out a shaky breath she hadn't been aware she was holding and nods slowly. ]
I... I promised. Mai-chan, way back then. I promised her that I'd live. And... I--I'll promise you the same thing.
[ It's all that gets her up some days here. That promise: the idea that just surviving this place was not enough when she had looked Mai in the eyes when she'd cast her vote and sworn she was going to live. ]
I won't die. We're going to get out of here together and... and somehow... we'll find a way to live. Properly.
[ There aren't very many of the things or people Yuuri loves left. She's not going to let go of the things, the people that still remain. ]
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What would she have done, all those weeks ago, if her open arms in the garden had been met with a rebuff? Where would she be now if there wasn't a warm bed, a warm body to sleep next to every night? Yuuri cares for the others so much -- they've all, in their own way, helped her and saved her. But that's different, so different from this sort of warmth and this sort of connection -- from Junpei's arms around her, his hands in her hair, his mouth pressed against hers.
She lets out a shaky breath she hadn't been aware she was holding and nods slowly. ]
I... I promised. Mai-chan, way back then. I promised her that I'd live. And... I--I'll promise you the same thing.
[ It's all that gets her up some days here. That promise: the idea that just surviving this place was not enough when she had looked Mai in the eyes when she'd cast her vote and sworn she was going to live. ]
I won't die. We're going to get out of here together and... and somehow... we'll find a way to live. Properly.
[ There aren't very many of the things or people Yuuri loves left. She's not going to let go of the things, the people that still remain. ]