3th floor girl's restrooms - Early afternoon

[first-guardian.livejournal.com]

Ichigo had said his goodbyes to Rukia after their short conversation while she healed his injuries. What she'd told him preoccupied him enough that it wasn't until he returned to the dorms that he remembered exactly where they'd left his body.

Going inside the restrooms wasn't so much the problem. He was in shinigami form and the most anyone would see was the door opening and closing for nothing. It was getting out that would be harder. Ichigo wasn't sure why he was tiptoeing inside. He headed straight for the stall which luckily was still locked and crawled over it.

His injuries were mild enough, only bruises and a mostly healed cut over his eye, so it didn't hurt too badly to move back inside his body. What would hurt was getting caught and Ichigo listened carefully before he unlocked the stall's door. The faster he moved, the less chance he got caught.

[[Open if anyone does want to catch him.]]

Comments

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

Trouble with moving fast, was that it made it an awful lot more difficult to miss people coming the other way.

People like Effy, for instance, who was concentrating more on balancing bottles of shampoo and conditioner, than she was on the possibility of people trying to escape from the bathroom.

[first-guardian.livejournal.com]

Which would be just his luck as he barrelled right into her and it was reflex to start uttering apologies on first impact (right after he stopped swearing). Just like it was instinct to try and catch the bottles.

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

"Jesus." And that was at least one of those bottles rolling away down the corridor. Just great. "What the fuck?"

Effy was less prone to start muttering apologies.

[first-guardian.livejournal.com]

"Sorry!" he was using the bottle as excuse to quickly dodge by her and grab it from the floor. "I didn't see you coming." Obviously. He held the bottle out while looking the other way.

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

"Obviously," she said, grabbing her shampoo back. "Confused or just perving?" Well, he had been in the girls bathroom. Relevant question!

[first-guardian.livejournal.com]

"I don't perve!" he objected. He didn't! He was too flaily to perve. "I have a girlfriend! And..." He didn't need to give that much information. "I just took a wrong turn!"

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

"Sure," Effy said dryly, and rolled her eyes. "That's what they all say. Might want to work on your internal compass."

[first-guardian.livejournal.com]

"I'll do that!" he was way too jumpy to start arguing and he was subtly backing up, ready to make a run for it.

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

"Sure you don't want to stick around, now there's actually going to be someone in there?" she said, full of smirking sarcasm. Just can't help herself.

[first-guardian.livejournal.com]

Oh sure. That was enough to make him stumble over his own feet. "Girlfriend!"

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

Effy shrugged. "Just saying." In case he was lying and really was a perv.

And she loved to wind people up.

[first-guardian.livejournal.com]

"No no, I'm good," he held up his hands and he'd backed up so far that his back hit the wall on the other side of the hall.

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

Effy raised a slight eyebrow at the idiocy of backing into a wall, and rolled her eyes.

"If you say so." He was still there. Begged the question of why.

[first-guardian.livejournal.com]

He wasn't sure either which was why he pointed down the hallway.

"I'm gonna go now."

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

"It's been lovely meeting you." Oh look, still with the sarcasm. Can't switch it off.

He'll be labeled in her head as 'bathroom perv' for the rest of his days.

[first-guardian.livejournal.com]

"Awesome!"

It was amazing how fast he could move down the hall and out of sight.

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

Effy rolled her eyes, and finally wandered into the bathroom.

Weirdo.