Characters: Hitsugaya, Hinamori
Summary: The heart monitor's beeping grows fainter and fainter.
Pairings: HitsuHina
Warnings/Spoilers: Spoilers for Fake Karakura Town arc.
Timeline: Post-Deicide arc
Author's Note: Nothing to report. Feedback would be appreciated, and I hope you guys enjoy the show, for however long it lasts.
Word Count: 100
Disclaimer: I don't own Bleach.

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She's cold and unresponsive, marbled and solid as a block of ice. The fire's been put out.

A heart monitor beeps bleakly in the shadows of the room, its beats hard, few and far-between. A chasm of time opens between each sounding of the whistle.

The room is tomb-white, prematurely sepulchral, with a cold, arctic wind.

Hitsugaya leans down and rubs a small, soft, clammy hand. He murmurs his soft words, speaking of anything that's going on, faltering, repenting, asking, begging her to come back, if only so he can tell her he's sorry.

And, as ever, Hinamori doesn't respond.