#teammagmatabitha

“Tabs! It’s been forever since I’ve seen you!”, the grunt beamed as she approached the admin. 

“No.. Team Plasma disbanded a long time ago, I havent been affiliated with them since. Are you from here? I wasnt aware that team plasma was that famous anymore.”

[ooc.] i may or may not make an ORAS archie soon!!!

Tabitha was asleep.Snoozing on some paperwork Maxie had probably given him--what an ass.Leaning up against the wall just behind the younger man, Aogiri cocked his head, studying the violet-haired admin from where he had settled himself. He had been standing there for some time now, but even if Tabitha were to finally stir and glance up, he wouldn't see him.No, it'd just be that same wall, same paint, same shit that he probably stared at every day.When he had stepped through the doorway, incapable of setting free his living habits so promptly after death, Aogiri had expected to see a diligent Magma at the desk.Instead, he saw the same idiot he deemed worthy of sexual encounters who would always conk out right before he would, if Aogiri just so happened to settle that staying the night was worthwhile.Sometimes it was.The kid was admittedly kinda cute--stupid, brainless, but a little bit worthy of his attention.A little bit."... I wanted to thank you for tryin' to save me."His voice rang out softly, and when Tabitha twitched, Aogiri froze, wondering if his voice had woken him up.Had he heard him?But Tabitha quieted, and Aogiri let out a soft sigh of relief, believing the admin to still be snoozing on the job."And sorry for shovin' you away. Didn't need the both of us to get hit by that stupid fuckin' truck--better to have one of us die than both of us, yeah?"Aogiri fell silent, recalling the agonizing last few moments of his death.He could still feel the pain of his bones being crushed, splintering and digging into his internal organs.He remembered the shattered glass of the truck's windshield had bitten into his flesh, had sliced up his face beyond repair and left him bleeding out, internally and externally.But he also remembered Tabitha reaching out for him, trying to pull him back--and how he had kicked him away just in time for him to narrowly avoid a similar fate.Aogiri thumped his head against the wall.It made no sound."I can't sleep with how I still hurt. I can still feel it--the crash, the last few hours in the hospital. It hurt so bad that it is embedded in my memory like some sort of fuckin' phantom pain. How stupid is it that I have to be dealing with this bull, even when I'm dead?"He gave a dry chuckle, but it was hard to work out, his eyes just focused on the back of Tabitha's head."... But I'm grateful. For, uh, you tryin'. As much of a shithead as you can be, you haven't been nearly as shitty as other people. And... I saw that you cared, even if a tiny bit. Just enough to not want me to die."And silence washed over him again, studying Tabitha for a moment before he slowly meandered over.He was careful, even if Tabitha could not hear his footsteps, and he leaned over him, surveying what work he had laid out.Sighing, he delicately moved around the paperwork, reorganizing it so that the admin wouldn't end up drooling on it in his sleep, and fixing up the desk space.A pause, and he was looking to Tabitha again, the gears cranking in his head."You're such a stupid fuck," he muttered, settling a hand on Tabitha's shoulder and leaning down, pressing his lips against the admin's temple.He'd perhaps feel a chill, if he was conscious enough to even be that aware, and nothing more than that.Either way, Aogiri was gone, disappearing into thin air before he could be discovered.He would keep an eye on this one.