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fakefairfolk:

[???][ Turn around.]

[Watching the dog barrel towards him.][Life flash before his eyes as he tried to remember if St. Bernards were hunting dogs.]

[Nope, just very friendly.][Walk back and around Rina, and offers a hand] You okay there, lass?

[she takes it and hoists herself back up] I’m alright, the snow stopped me falling a little. I’m sorry about my dog, her name is Rina, and she gets overexcited sometimes.

[she tightens her grip on the leash, guiding her dog firmly but gently back to her side] [she should be used to this by now, but how do you get used to having your dog that’s half your height suddenly run? She makes a mental note to be more firm in training]

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santiphaph:

This was weird. 

  “Mizuki, are you alright?” 

It wasnt an odd thing for Sanun to be concerned about his subordinates, he was a man who deeply cared for everyone’s well being. Mizuki didn’t seem to be fine, at least from his point of view. Eyes red (was she crying? could be…) and the look on her face.

He was worried about her. 

    “Mizuki,” he tried to get her attention again, placing a hand on her shoulder. “Are you alright? Do you need a break?”

She flinched as she felt Sanun’s hand on her shoulder, and Mizuki hurriedly wiped her eyes with her wrist as she plastered on a smile.

‘I...’ she hesitated for a moment. Should she tell him? No, it would be best not to worry her boss with personal things. ‘I-I’m fine, Sanun-sama. I’m sorry about these cases, but they should be done soon!’

She pushed away the images of the past as she tried to make eye contact with her boss, and without her realising, her smile fell. She placed her hand on the letter on her desk and tried to casually slide it out of view. ‘I’m fine...’ she repeated, almost as if she was trying to tell herself that as well as Sanun.

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[Mizuki’s walking her behemoth of a St. Bernard that’s half her height aka Rina in the snow, wondering why she didn’t properly appreciate it sooner]

It’s beautiful today, Rina-chan-

[Rina’s spotted something, or rather someone, with antlers, and before Mizuki can begin to wonder, the dog begins to boof loudly, and starts on the chase, only to slip and fall a little bit after starting, bringing Mizuki down with her] Aaaaaaaaaaaahhh!

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gwittulami:

“You’re welcome Mimi! I’m so glad you like it~ I hope Rina likes it too.” He wears an indelible smile as he watched her light up with delight, his heart throbbing just a little bit (Fuck she’s so cute). In the back of his mind, he suspected that she is the kind of person that would be happy with any gift, so long as the thought was there, but he is still put at ease by her warm reception of his gift. He breathes a small sigh of relief.

“I have another gift for you, but it didn’t come in the mail just yet!”

‘...Oh,’ she said, masking her internal thoughts, ‘Well, I’m sure it’s going to  be great because it’s you, Baeoo-san! You’ve already given me such a good gift after all!’

She glanced at the work on her desk and slammed her hand on it, a little more forcefully than intended, and slid it away. ‘I’m hungry, do you want to, um... eat food? I mean, have lunch and talk?’ She clearly seemed a little stressed, but that was only the tip of the iceberg for her internally suppressed feelings. Looks like she was gonna work late again tonight.

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On top of Mizuki's desk was a box, and inside the box was three smaller boxes in gift wrap. One box had macaroons, one had melonpan, and the last box had a stuffed spotted turtle plush. Of course accompanied by a Christmas card from Samiri.

Mizuki saw the box out of the corner of her eye as she was walking to her desk, and instinctively went for the card to see who it was from.

‘Samiri-san...?’ she murmured to herself, instantly feeling bad that she hadn’t gotten anything for him for Christmas. She would have to fix that, but how?

She opened the box and found the smaller boxes, with the respective items inside. She smiled to herself as she held the plush close to herself. ‘Thank you, Samiri-san,’ she whispered.‘You’re such a good friend...’

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gengfaayuen:

Now Vanessa was extra worried. From what she knew of Mizuki, she was typically fairly amicable, and outbursts like this weren’t entirely in character. At the very least, Mizuki hadn’t caused trouble the same way certain members of the Agency had.

Mizuki wasn’t well, evidently. That much was obvious. But Vanessa could sympathize with the frustration of being asked to stop working when a case was nearly finished. A compromise, perhaps, could work here.

“I do sincerely think you need a break, however. Falling asleep while working isn’t beneficial to anyone, be it yourself or the Agency. How about this: you can finish off the work you have today, and take a vacation day tomorrow. How much do you have left to do?”

“When am I ever beneficial?” Mizuki caught herself thinking, and visible flinched, though not enough to make it that obvious. She pushed the thought away (she would likely dwell on that later), and thought about Vanessa’s offer. She was certainly being stubborn. “She’s trying to distract you from your work,’ she thought to herself, “if you take a vacation day tomorrow, you know you won’t do anything productive at all.”

She feigned another smile and nodded. ‘はい,’ she said, ‘I will take the day off tomorrow.’ In reality, she was still going to sneak into the Agency offices somehow, and just avoid Vanessa. ‘On most of the cases I have I have between two or three people, but one is taking a little longer. They’re already late, and I have already apologized to Sanun-sama for making them late, so I cannot make them any later.’

Mizuki knew deep down that she wasn’t well, but it was easier, she thought, to work through it and deal with it on her own, rather than make other people concerned about her and risk ruining their own productivity.

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gwittulami:

Baeoo nods his head rapidly. He had hidden the gift from his roommates since he hadn’t gotten them anything for Christmas. He is already getting plenty of flak from them about his run-in with Reagan, and wasn’t about to let them subject him to more torment. 

“Oh, absolutely! I didn’t know what to get you, but I think you’ll like it~” He notes that he didn’t ask permission to open her gift and feels a small twinge of guilt as a result. He pushes it away as he waits for her to open the gift. He had spent a pretty considerable amount of time looking for something that he thought she would like, but was decently confident. 

“It’s just how I was raised, it’s still a habit to ask.” Pushing aside thoughts of “get back to work” for just a little longer, she carefully opened the package to reveal the teddy smiling up at her. She gasped happily, and smiled as she lifted it from the wrapping and held it fairly close, humming appreciatively.

‘I love it, it’s so cute!’ she said, looking up at him with a big smile on her face, her heart involuntarily skipping a beat... Wait, what? This time, she placed the bear sitting up on her desk, and gave him a hug of her own, slightly firmer than he had been with her. ‘Thank you very much, Baeoo-san!’

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invisiblegoldhand:

“Certainly, don’t go telling everybody- What?” He felt one of his phones ringing, and dug his hand into his pocket to check the messages.

Fuck, fuck, fuck, fuck- “I definitely need to leave now-” Standing up rather quickly, bumping the table, and chair scraping against the floor. “I am sorry for having to leave so abruptly. Thank you for the date- coffee break. There are no dates here. No fruit of that type.”

“This should pay for my drink and yours.” Cramming his phone back into his pocket while grabbing his wallet out. He slammed the first bill he saw in his wallet: a twenty. ”And if you want anything else it’s on me. Make sure to leave a tip-”

He stopped as his he saw his ride passing by the window, and Samiri scrambled out the door sending well wishes Mizuki’s way.

‘Um-’ Mizuki simply sat there, confused. ‘Have a nice day, Samiri-san...’ she trailed off, knowing full well that Samiri wouldn’t hear her. She understood that he had been in a rush, but still, why did he seem so flustered?

Shrugging it off, she paid for the drinks, and a blueberry muffin, left the rest as a tip, and left the cafe.

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gwittulami:

Baeoo’s face lights up at the sight of the small package. He leans over and gingerly plucks the package up and upwraps it, his smile growing even wider as he sees what it is.

“I love it! It’s so cute~~ Thank you so much Mizuki, It’s fantastic.” He leans in and givers her a really gently hug (pfffttt as if he could hurt her with those twigs he calls arms). He had taken into account the fact that it was gift giving day, and thus wore his nice perfume (that he definitely didn’t “borrow” from Emily). 

Mizuki managed a genuine smile when she saw Baeoo light up, and happily returned his hug, forgetting for a minute all the stress of her work and studies and just enjoying seeing people happy.

‘You’re welcome, Baeoo-san,’ she said, and her attention diverted back to the present she had received. ‘Can I open it?’ she asked, remembering that she still had to be polite. She had always been raised to ask before opening a present, she had no explanation as to why, it had always just been a thing.

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This one Dakota delivered personally. He set a wrapped package next to Mimi's door and rang the doorbell before shuffling away. When she unwraps it she will find an antique edition of The Tale of Genji in worn green leather.

Mizuki jumped slightly at the doorbell, and walked to open the door. She saw nobody there, but at the bottom of her vision saw a package titled to her. She brought it inside and opened it to find the book. Tears of gratitude immediately welled in her eyes as she held it close but carefully, and took in the scent of the antique novel.

‘Thank you so much, Dakota-san. Merry Christmas.’

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“Wait... How did he know where I live?”

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It was a few days late, but Mizuki had finally gotten her results from her latest exams. A welcome change frrom her work, which she finally decided she needed at least two minutes away from, she opened her results. When she read the grades and checked the deadline for rescheduling resits, her facce paled. She hadn’t done nearly as good as she had wanted to, and furthermore, the date to resit had already passed.

She sniffed and loosely refolded the paper, and tried to return to her work, wiping away tears every so often and trying to not get them on her paperwork. She tried to focus on her breathing while also focusing on solving the three remaining cases she had to piece together clues for, not noticing someone trying to call out to her.

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gengfaayuen:

Oh boy, Mizuki was tearing up. This isn’t Vanessa’s forte, thanks. She’s no good with emotional support. Thankfully Mizuki seemed to be keeping it mostly under control, meaning that Vanessa wouldn’t have to attempt comforting yet.

Hm. Vanessa knew well the frustration of being so close on a case but being not quite there yet. However, perfectly healthy people did not fall asleep at their desks, and it would be detrimental for Mizuki to keep working as she was. Vanessa hoped that appealing to logic would work here; otherwise, she’d be at a loss for what to do.

“I understand it’s frustrating, but it won’t do anyone any good to keep working when you aren’t well. You might miss important details in your cases because you’re too tired, or you might get others in the Agency sick.” That is, assuming Mizuki was sick and wasn’t staying up all night doing gosh knows what. “It’d be best, I think, if you got some rest before resuming on your cases”

‘I’m not sick though!’ She half-snapped, then realised how she had spoken. ‘I’m sorry, I shouldn’t have spoken like that. I’m not sick, I promise. If it makes you feel better though, I have a face mask in my-’

As she dug around in her bag, she frowned at the absence of the face mask she usually kept with her just in case. ‘I thought it was in here,’ she muttered to herself, then turned to Vanessa again. ‘Anyway, I need to finish these today, I told Sanun-sama that they would be finished at the end of today.’ She smiled hoping it would reassure her, and mask her feelings of desperation and need to “fix her failures to the Agency”.

‘I’m fine, Vanessa-san. Please, believe me.’

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invisiblegoldhand:

“That was probably it, I was rather selective on who I told myself.” He took another sip of his coffee.

“I used it to try to check up with Sanun in the first round of investigations, but Poe replied. I threw it at- at my friend, but he ignored it. Sort of.” Annoyance crossed his face and he was disinclined to namedrop Viktor right now given all the fuckshit that happened during the second event. Idly tapping on the edges of the mug, trying to think of how to describe what happened. “You know those video games where you end up going through a wall? Completely unintentionally of course. But it was like that, we found a glitch, and I got out, but I was immediately put back in and then the corner was sealed.”

Mizuki nodded along as Samiri explained. ‘Ohhh, I understand now,’ she said, ‘I’ve never used a spirit board, so I probably would have been a little useless because I wouldn’t know what to do.’ She laughed as if to diffuse the negative connotations of her sentence, pushing another thought away. ‘I’m happy you could tell me though, about the “being a ghost” thing.’

Suddenly, she thought she heard a phone go off. She knew it wasn’t hers, so it had to be Samiri. ‘Samiri-san, is your phone ringing?’ she asked.

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[she nods in acknowledgement of his comment, but decides to drop the subject for now, she doesn’t quite know how much more she can convince him to not worry and that she’s “fine”]

Oh, don’t worry about buying me anything, I can pay for myself. [she steps through the door, smiling as thanks] Thank you, um... Oh, I don’t remember if you have told me your name.

ladypurple-ada:

Don’t worry about me, I’m fine. The only thing I will be “passing out” is solved cases to Sanun-sama! 

Oh, sure! I am a little hungry. [if by “a little hungry” you mean “haven’t eaten since breakfast and worked through lunch” then sure, Mizuki] I don’t remember if we’ve ever met officially, but if we haven’t, I’m Mizuki, or Mimi for short. But if we have, then, at least you will remember my name, right? [she laughs somewhat uncomfortably] [My memory has been worse recently, she thinks to herself]

[ he attempts not to cringe at that pun but he just barely hides it ] I mean, sure, but you can still take a break every once in a while in between. You do worse tired, its just a bodily fact.

[ with that he opens the door and steps back ] Then ladies first. Just a warning, I’d totally offer to buy for you but I’m a broke high school student living on an allowance.

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gwittulami:

“I got you a Christmas present!!” 

Baeoo slams a box down on Mizuki’s desk, clearly anxious. His face is a nice festive shade of red and he fumbles his fingers while intermittently looking from her face to the floor. 

“I-uhm, I hope you like it!!”

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Mizuki jumped at the sudden voice and slam on the desk and whipped her head around to the source, only finding Baeoo looking anxious and fiddling, and a box on her desk.

‘Aww, that’s so sweet, thank you so much, Baeoo-san,’ she said, thankful that she looked somewhat decent that day, the concealer she had remembered to put under her eyes had been doing a good job so far. ‘I got you a Christmas present as well, I wasn’t planning on giving it until later, but I have it now so I can give it to you.’ She reached into her desk drawer and pulled out a small wrapped package. ‘It’s not much, but I hope it at least makes you laugh.’

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zhaohun:

“I guess it is nice knowing you helped someone.” Sure he was glad he could make someone’s life easier, but he was working at the agency for money. He couldn’t consider himself as pure-hearted as Mizuki (which not gonna lie, seems suspicious to him. This ain’t no anime! No girl can be this sweet!), but he didn’t consider himself a bad person exactly.

Okay he might be a little insensitive here. “You’re not talking too much, don’t worry. Listen, I don’t mind hearing you talk since it seems to keep you awake.. but like, don’t tell someone that. If you feel like you’re talking too much then try to switch the topic to them instead of doing… that!” Gah, he can’t explain it well.

“Ugh, anyways I dance. Kind of, just a hobby really.”

‘I’m sorry, it’s just... a habit,’ she said. She wasn’t sure whether or not to go into detail about constantly being told to be quiet as a child, but decided to save it for potentially another time.

‘Oh, dance is fun!’ she said, ‘I was in dance club in junior high school, but when I got to high school I stopped, so I could focus on school more. I was at the top of my class when I finished, but... I wish I kept doing dance, I really like dance, and music. Oh, we should probably keep walking,’ she said, as she noticed a couple of civilians walking around with somewhat disapproving looks at the young people standing in the middle of the footpath.

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heukjangmi:

[ (???) he’s very confused at this point to what she could be hiding, he had a legit point but not enough to the point she had to hide anything, like, he was just pointing out that she might be over-exaggerating things, or something like that… Baeoo had the habit of doing that so… also, he could get brownie points for helping out a coworker like this ]

Uh, okay ? Good luck with that, and get some rest or something. My phone is low on battery, so if you pass out from hunger or something like that I probably can’t respond immediately, or something. [ raises a brow and moves to leave when he hears the growl ]

[ glances at her as he ponders… he had meant to stop by a convenience store to buy that American ramen or something like that, but he hated walking around at night alone since he’s a very cute young boy and who looks very frail and he could get mugged or something… even though he could probably defend it off but just-in-case– ] …Want to come with me to eat something ? Its just to the nearby convenience store.

Don’t worry about me, I’m fine. The only thing I will be “passing out” is solved cases to Sanun-sama! 

Oh, sure! I am a little hungry. [if by “a little hungry” you mean “haven’t eaten since breakfast and worked through lunch” then sure, Mizuki] I don’t remember if we’ve ever met officially, but if we haven’t, I’m Mizuki, or Mimi for short. But if we have, then, at least you will remember my name, right? [she laughs somewhat uncomfortably] [My memory has been worse recently, she thinks to herself]