A meeting on Matsue base

[Yaoquizque]

She absent mindedly walked in the corridor after her meeting with Takahashi, thinking about what she should do now.

She hated to admit it, but she certainly owed apologies to him for all this.
However, doing so would be to acknowledge the reasons of her behaviour. Such a thing was in her eyes a confession of weakness and she certainly wasn't ready to give any man a hold over her.

She sighed quite sound fully and stopped for a short while.
Why did the old wounds never heal?

She eventually started to walk again. The Admiral asked him to ensure that criminal would eat something.
They were certainly in one of the mess of the station.

Reluctantly, she started to head towards one of them. She -really- didn't want to cross the path of that Dragon again.

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"You're done?"
Ishikawa turned around and saw her standing right behind him.
"Hm. Almost." he replied, turning back to face his tray meal.

Without saying anything, she walked to the other side of the table and sat in front of him.
"I hope you're happy. Because of you, i was told off by Takahashi-san."

Ishikawa didn't raise his head, concentrating on his plate. He however mumbled.
"Hardly see how it is my fault, though."

She didn't reply and leaned forward to pick some food from his plate.
"You can order something if you're hungry. We're not in hurry, are we?"
"No. I'm watching my figure", replied the woman between two mouthful.

He let her raid her plate.
Gazing quickly at her skinny body, he would assume she was once again hiding behind some irony mask. But one could never be sure with her.
He however refrained to make any remark regarding how much she needed or didn't need to be that careful.

Finally, he leaned back, and watching her finishing the plate, asked.
"So... Junko. Do you believe me now when i say nothing happened between the Dragon and i?"

She raised her head and considered him during a short while.
Finally, she replied.

"Oh don't worry. I'm sure you didn't enjoy to peek at her almost naked body."
The woman quickly stood up, seemingly ignoring his sigh. He had the feeling it would be the only 'excuses' he would ever get from her for all this.

"Come on, let's go. We need to visit the armoury before leaving that boring place, in order to get you one of those guns you will feel so manly with." said Junko, reaching out and offering him her hand.

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