no_dont_go
in
damned
Nightshift 54: F21-F30 Hallway
[F21]
If Aigis hadn't been there to see it herself she would not have believed it. Martin Landel, the bane of her existence for the past week, was now gone. Replaced. And she didn't know what to make of the new authority put in place. She told herself it was her inaction that filled her with unease. For a moment, he had been there right where she wanted him. She could have made him pay for all he had done. She could have avenged Heat or repaid him for the time he had returned her body along with a mission of violence. But she didn't. For some reason she had remained rooted in the spot, staring at the spectacle. Now that dinner had passed she wondered to herself, why had remained so unmoved? When she finally had her chance why had she uselessly let it go to waste?
Foolish. How foolish. Aigis berated herself as she prepared for the night. She should have made him pay while she had the chance but instead she had left it to those uniformed men and women. People she still had no real opinion of had taken the matter out of her hands. And now she was in their care. She didn't relish Landel's disappearance if only for the fact that nothing had changed. Not yet.
That I.R.I.S. system struck a chord with the android. Maybe it was the automated voice or the cold issue of information. She trembled but put the information I.R.I.S. supplied to the back of her mind for analyzing later. Project 2911 would no doubt affect her along with the other patients; a punishment for their transgressions early that morning. She was responsible for this. Just as well she hadn't gotten her hopes up these new captors would treat them better. She had become too wise to do that.
She couldn't let the fear of punishment slow her. She had plans tonight. She could only hope they wouldn't impede her progress with Taura. But before that, she needed to pass off a weapon or two to Yukari. She retrieved her unused bat from the closet then assembled it along with the Evoker, Heat's claws, her flashlight and Schrodinger on the bed. As much as she hated parting with an Evoker with her powers as limited as they were, she understood that Yukari was more helpless than herself at the moment. And she had possessed the Evoker from the beginning, so it was rightfully hers.
Deep in thought, Aigis reached to shut the drawer from her desk and somehow managed to get her finger caught. Yanking it back and sucking in a surprised hiss of air, she stared at the smarting digit with puzzlement. She was normally more careful than that. It showed just how distracted she was tonight. She shook her head and forced herself to ignore the dull, throbbing pain. Yukari would be arriving any moment. She had to put on a strong front for her sake if nothing else.
If Aigis hadn't been there to see it herself she would not have believed it. Martin Landel, the bane of her existence for the past week, was now gone. Replaced. And she didn't know what to make of the new authority put in place. She told herself it was her inaction that filled her with unease. For a moment, he had been there right where she wanted him. She could have made him pay for all he had done. She could have avenged Heat or repaid him for the time he had returned her body along with a mission of violence. But she didn't. For some reason she had remained rooted in the spot, staring at the spectacle. Now that dinner had passed she wondered to herself, why had remained so unmoved? When she finally had her chance why had she uselessly let it go to waste?
Foolish. How foolish. Aigis berated herself as she prepared for the night. She should have made him pay while she had the chance but instead she had left it to those uniformed men and women. People she still had no real opinion of had taken the matter out of her hands. And now she was in their care. She didn't relish Landel's disappearance if only for the fact that nothing had changed. Not yet.
That I.R.I.S. system struck a chord with the android. Maybe it was the automated voice or the cold issue of information. She trembled but put the information I.R.I.S. supplied to the back of her mind for analyzing later. Project 2911 would no doubt affect her along with the other patients; a punishment for their transgressions early that morning. She was responsible for this. Just as well she hadn't gotten her hopes up these new captors would treat them better. She had become too wise to do that.
She couldn't let the fear of punishment slow her. She had plans tonight. She could only hope they wouldn't impede her progress with Taura. But before that, she needed to pass off a weapon or two to Yukari. She retrieved her unused bat from the closet then assembled it along with the Evoker, Heat's claws, her flashlight and Schrodinger on the bed. As much as she hated parting with an Evoker with her powers as limited as they were, she understood that Yukari was more helpless than herself at the moment. And she had possessed the Evoker from the beginning, so it was rightfully hers.
Deep in thought, Aigis reached to shut the drawer from her desk and somehow managed to get her finger caught. Yanking it back and sucking in a surprised hiss of air, she stared at the smarting digit with puzzlement. She was normally more careful than that. It showed just how distracted she was tonight. She shook her head and forced herself to ignore the dull, throbbing pain. Yukari would be arriving any moment. She had to put on a strong front for her sake if nothing else.