They can keep you company and play with you during those off days. You have me too, you know. For games, or... [He steals some of the ice-cream with a finger and speaks before sucking it.] -just as a snack provider too.
[Get used to his weirdness, Hibiki. He enters Big Brother mode when he's with children, but if he gets more or less comfortable the usual idiot will slip every now and then.]
Everyone needs a break. Since you like playing nurse so much, think of it as giving them fun therapy. [He pokes her head gently. If you think he sounds like an old man, well, you'd be right.] Some cure to keep the mind healthy.
[Well, it isn't as though she hasn't had chunks of her food stolen before... Although that was by someone even younger than herself. But she reacts more or less the same, obligingly going along with it. At least Jack won't get a scolding on accounts of being older than her!]
Th-therapy? [She hears that word sometimes, but she's never exactly sure what the actual definition is.]
[Being older than Jack isn't an easy thing to do, so it seems they'll be fine. But huh, that question. How to even explain.]
Yeah, it's like... a treatment? But for your mind. A doctor that studied how people think and feel and all that stuff sits down with you and listen to you, guides you... that sort of thing.
Exactly! It makes you feel better here. [He pokes her chest, above the heart area.] You got it. You're a smart girl, Hibiki. [Here, let him ruffle her hair again. He's liking it.]
no subject
As long as we aren't in wartime, it's usually okay if I take more days off. Even some of the nurses told me so.
[Though when it came to actual times of danger, nurses or not, of course she would throw herself right back into healing again.]
no subject
[Don't worry Jack, Hibiki. He's the only one who allowed to do stupid stuff around here.]
Are you friends with the other kids from the city?
no subject
no subject
no subject
They have jobs and things to deal with too, but... Sometimes we spend time together when we're free.
no subject
Everyone needs a break. Since you like playing nurse so much, think of it as giving them fun therapy. [He pokes her head gently. If you think he sounds like an old man, well, you'd be right.] Some cure to keep the mind healthy.
no subject
Th-therapy? [She hears that word sometimes, but she's never exactly sure what the actual definition is.]
no subject
Yeah, it's like... a treatment? But for your mind. A doctor that studied how people think and feel and all that stuff sits down with you and listen to you, guides you... that sort of thing.
no subject
I-I don't think I could do something complicated like that!
[Hibiki you're taking this a little too seriously here.]
no subject
I'm not telling you to do that. I'm telling you that playing and taking a break is a good medicine for the mind, do you understand?
no subject
[Okay, that makes a little more sense.]
So... even though we don't have someone treating us, playing is good because it makes you feel better?
[She always thought that playing was a sort of frivolous thing that only children did. Maybe it's good after all?]
no subject
no subject
[He had to explain that one to her before she got it, after all. But hair ruffles are always welcome!]
I just thought that playing was what kids do. [Herself included, here.] I didn't know it did any good.
no subject
[Jack is teaching her ALL THE RIGHT LESSONS.]
no subject
[SHE'S LEARNING SO MUCH TODAY WHOAAA.]
no subject
[HE HAS FAITH IN YOU GIRL]
no subject
Cute?
[Where did that come from?]
But... Um, I'll try my best! [At having fun, yes.]