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He grimaced before forcing a smile.

Right. How many kids did Xav have–

“Uh. Hey there.” Was he… supposed to be… getting to know her? Sure, they had been dating for two months now and he had briefly spoken with Tomoe and Aerin, but… was this really the ‘meet your kids’ point?

“I’m…. Zach.” And I bang your dad-

Rebecca stared for a good minute or so before signing a quick hello, before holding up a finger in a ‘wait a moment please’. She reached up to her ears to turn on her hearing aids so she could actually respond at a normal volume.

“Hi, I’m Rebecca. You’re going out with Dad?”

This was the guy who was making her dad really happy? Well, she’d definitely never rib him for his taste in dudes ever again. Somehow though she thought the other probably wouldn’t appreciate that she thought he looked cool.

Absently, she wondered if he’d let her braid his hair… It looked soft.

“Hey babygirl…” A slight knock against her doorframe as he stands awkwardly, waiting to see if he was allowed to enter her room. An equally awkward smile, one that reached his eyes — but his eyes seemed red-rimmed from the crying fits he had been struggling with for the past day. “… miss me?”

Rebecca blinked and let her violin down, looking over to the doorframe. She stared for a moment before her hands started shaking, putting down her violin. Her face scrunched up as tears pricked the edges of her eyes.

Then she burst into sobs and clung to him, nodding in response.

It seemed everything that happened was hitting her all at once now Zero was no longer emotionally blocked.

“I missed you, Papa…”

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“You want food? Water?

“To come out and talk about it?”

There was quiet for a moment before a clunk, and the vent lifted up, letting her come out. Or rather climb out.

“Okay. Papa, there was a person who hugged me earlier and I had no idea who they were. They gave me a clover pin and it seems to be safe? I scanned it.”

She held out the pin in case he wanted to run his own scans.

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“I’m fine.”

A blatant lie.

His knee wasn’t the only injury that Zero had received from Velvet. Three slashes ran down the side of his face, barely missing his eyes and curving along his chin, stain dark with coolant and exposed wires. The same had happened to his abdomen and his right arm, not to mention the impact craters left from where she had kicked him.

“I’m fine. Everything’s going to be fine.”

A lie. A lie. But he had to keep on repeating it, if only because he needed Rebecca to believe it.

He didn’t know what else to say – and allowed himself to fall into silence as he carried her to the repairbay.

Half of her wanted to squint at him at that, seeing what his face and body looked like, but the other half was protesting at the idea. She didn’t want him to get angry at her for calling him out about that…

Then again, she was too exhausted to try anyway. Maybe she could tell X later. She made a mental note of it.

“Okay… You get looked over after me though, just in case please…?”

Oh, they were almost at the med bay. Sapphire eyes looked over at the door and seemed to mentally calculate something before she bent her knees a bit more, bending her back a bit to bring her head in, so none of her would whack the door frame.

The tips of her toes would probably still clip it, but that she didn’t mind as opposed to the entirety of her feet and ankles. It was a much better option at the very least.

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He parked his bike carefully and waited a moment for Rebecca to slip off before doing the same. Zero glanced back before letting out a small snort of laughter at the sight of her disheveled hairstyle, barely held together in a ponytail. With practiced ease he slipped his own hair back out, letting it uncurl as it fell down his back. “Yup.”

His own order was simple – just a plain vanilla cone, and even getting that was solely so that Rebecca didn’t feel singled out eating ice cream by herself. After paying, Zero took a seat off to the side of the small store as he waited for Rebecca.

An odd sense of… strange, for lack of a better word, seeped over him as he watched her. Watching himself. Here he was, Class-S Hunter and demon to mavericks and hunters alike, sitting in an ice cream shop with a girl who viewed him as her father. It was surreal.

“… Thank you.”

“Maybe I should’ve put my hair up before the ride here.”

She huffed in response to his snort, sticking out her tongue before going to make her order.

A strawberry-vanilla soft serve cone, and several napkins to share, and she plopped down in another chair by his. She offered him a couple napkins before starting to eat her own ice cream.

“Here you go.”

Then, she blinked in surprise before her expression slowly formed into a bright grin.

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She didn’t think she knew what he was thanking her for, but it made her feel warm and fuzzy inside anyway.

“You’re welcome, Papa.”