"Onl - mmhmh - only sometimmmmmmmmhhhhhnnnnnn" yeah she's not finishing that sentence if he's going to keep scratching her like this. 

Yeah he's gonna.

Then he's going to have a wiggling floppy Cara drooped on him until he decides to stop! 

"hhhmnbmb...." 

Eventually he will stop probably. ...there, he's stopping. He smooths her hair back down. "Did I get your surreptitious itch?"

-She giggles. She'd actually completely forgotten about that. "If you did, we won't really know until tomorrow night, I think? But either way, that was really nice." 

She nuzzles him happily. 

"I await with bated breath your unbacklashed review of how well I have done at looking after you."

D'awww he is so sweet

"I think my review should count for something too, even if she doesn't see things the same way!" Kiss. "I'm pretty sure she'll be on the same page, though." 

"I do think I get some points for you spending your awakening not apparently suffering horribly the entire time! But I cannot get full marks till I hear it from Tomorrow Cara."

Petpet. "I'll put in a good word for you." 

Thursday is similarly uneventful (Cara finishes the first season of Gundam AGE and sighs deeply at the twist, but finds the next episode intriguing enough to not swear off watching the rest), but as the evening draws out, it's getting hard for her to contain her excitement. 

"I think it started around 11 pm, so any minute now..." She leans into Haru. 

"Sometimes it isn't seven days exactly, once in a great while someone will wind up closer to eight, but almost certainly, yeah. You want to stay up for it?"

She nods. "-if that's okay?" 

"Sure. I stayed up for mine and it was at like two in the morning or something."

Awwww. She nuzzles him. "Was Ren or Charlie on shift at the time? Oh, and did the backlash fall off all at once or was it gradual?" 

"Charlie was, since he was going to fly a few hours west anyway. And it was gradual."

It doesn't take much longer.

He starts to feel it before she does, through their contact - her backlash stops fighting against the guiding, then starts dropping on its own. 

Haru holds her to speed it up.

She holds on tight, trembling only a little. 

And then - 

It all comes rushing back  and she feels - whole again, fully back in the driver's seat, like regaining control of your character after a video game cutscene, like waking up from a lucid dream. Sensations long-muddied come bubbling up to the front of her brain. 

It's exhilarating, almost overwhelming. But she has an important first task. 

She pulls herself back a bit to stare him in the eyes, making an effort not to get lost in his face as she smiles gently at him.

 "Haru. You did an incredibly good job of taking care of me, this week. I'm so unbelievably lucky you found me. Thank you." 

"I'm delighted to hear it."

She kisses him on the forehead. 

"I want to poke at my powers a bit, if that's okay with you?" 

"Of course it is. Do you wanna register an advance directive for if they turn out to be really expensive?"

Ohhhh she's so glad he's here.

"Makeouts if you're comfortable with that, snuggles otherwise?" 

"I have surely established over the course of this week my profound and irreconcilable distaste for makeouts."

  "Well, I appreciate your sacrifice in these trying times." She giggles and gives him a peck.

"Here goes nothing."