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Written for Day 22 of Harumichi Angstober. Done in @sittingoverheredreaming and I’s Haruka Dies! Doc and Dreaming’s Angstober Fun! AU. This takes place after this and this, but before this. 1,087 words

Michiru leaned against the too-white wall in a move that
might have been mistaken for casualness by those who did not know her. But Rei
saw the exhaustion on her face, the energy practically dripping from her limbs
as she stood across from the room where the last moments of Haruka’s life would
be lived.

Inside, Mina spoke softly to Haruka’s unnaturally quiet
form, the only movement the rhythmic rise and fall of her chest, powered by
machines. Michiru had never imagined that she would miss the way Haruka used to
sleep—twitchy, tangled up in blankets, her body always busy. She used to tease
Haruka so. Now she would give anything to get accidentally kicked in the middle
of the night.

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