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DAY 55: Sun Room [2nd Shift]

Mar 13, 2011 03:36

[ from here ]Either she was the only unlucky person to experience a freezing shower, or she just hadn't built up the tolerance for it that the more seasoned patients had. Whichever it was, she was the first person into the sun room and while normally she wouldn't mind that, the soldiers were majorly creepy and she was kind of hoping for some kind ( Read more... )

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gald_digger March 13 2011, 15:34:58 UTC

[from here]The soldier told her that she could go anywhere she wanted, but at the moment, Anise just wanted to be around people, so she decided to stay in the Sun Room. She was happy to have had a chance to check in with her friends over the bulletin board, but what she really wanted was to see some familiar faces in person ( ... )

deathandgin March 15 2011, 02:17:52 UTC

Mopping up the damn floor sure hadn't worked any wonders on Alaric's head, which was still pounding even as he cradled it in one hand, following the next soldier in an almost unidentifiable lineup. He hadn't gotten the chance to break off into the nearest bathroom to take a look at it, but there was a definite lump that was hard and tender at the same time. He'd made his first mistake by asking for a bag of ice. Apparently new patients weren't the ones getting the most glamorous treatment.

The guy couldn't even say a simple no. It was like a petulant teenager, slowly turning his head back to glare at him before turning back around ( ... )

gald_digger March 15 2011, 03:03:34 UTC

Anise looked up in surprise and sat up straight when someone sat down next to her without any greeting. He looked like he had a headache, so maybe he was just in a hurry to get off his feet. When the man turned to stare at her, however, she realized they'd met before, and when he gave that accusatory greeting, Anise's eyes widened with realization.

Right, this was Rick, the new guy she met yesterday. He hadn't been eating at lunch, so Anise assured him the food was fine, and then...

...

Ah!!The girl's eyes grew even wider the moment it all came together, and her body stiffened. It had taken a few extra seconds to connect the events from yesterday to events that took place when her memory was gone, but she remembered now that the guy on the radio said there was something weird about the food... and then all that weird stuff happened to Anise and her friends. Did something happen to Rick, too? Ack... it was almost like it was her fault ( ... )

deathandgin March 16 2011, 05:19:29 UTC

Nothing big, you know. I happen to have a habit of dying so it was just another night.

At least she was acting like a kid caught with their hand in the cookie jar. He didn't want to think someone her age was a good actor, but he knew better than to trust kids immediately just because they were kids. Sure, most were inherently good, but...

Okay, Alaric could admit he was maybe being really paranoid about a - what, thirteen, fourteen year old? - girl trying to intentionally poison him, if that's what that crap last night had been. Considering he could jump and run and not fall down or break his bed today (well, maybe less on the running and jumping since his head was killing him), Alaric was going to go with thinking it was a one-time deal. He wasn't the smoothest guy out there, but he was by no means clumsy. Last night had been ridiculous.

"Bad luck," he said, sighing. His gaze dropped from her to the shoes he was wearing now, which he could have definitely used last night. "I mean, a lot. I wouldn't have thought anything of it but ( ... )

gald_digger March 16 2011, 05:47:08 UTC

Whew. Looked like he wasn't going to blame Anise for what happened. Now she could relax a little ( ... )

deathandgin March 16 2011, 21:01:50 UTC

He probably would have found that joke somewhat humorous if it didn't hit way too close to home. "Sure, being here is bad enough, but usually standing up and breathing isn't a health hazard. It was bad luck like a slapstick comedy. No sense of gravity, everything kept breaking or not working or trying to kill me. It wasn't just me, either. It was happening to someone else with me."

It... really sounded stupid in his head, trying to blame those sorts of things on food. But it just didn't happen to him. Sure, his life had kind of been sucked into a black hole for the last two years, but this was a whole new level. Hell, if he wasn't so intimate with a few members of the supernatural, he probably would have shrugged it off as one of those days. Except for the killing himself on a door, as he was starting to suspect had happened. The lingering confusion about his last moments last night were just like when he'd woken up with a giant hole in his lung. Also, the fact that the same thing was happening to Elena ( ... )

gald_digger March 17 2011, 01:12:15 UTC

Huh... so it really was a weird sort of bad luck. Hearing Rick describe it, it sounded kind of funny, actually. But since Rick was the poor sap who had to go through it, Anise was careful not to let her grin get too wide. That would just be rude ( ... )

deathandgin March 18 2011, 04:26:29 UTC

The teacher wasn't exactly pleased with the even the semblance of the grin, and his face made it obvious. Maybe she wouldn't think it was so funny knowing that he'd had bad luck around a vampire with a tendency to kill people when he was annoyed. Actually, now that he thought about it, maybe it wasn't the fall that had killed him...

What a way to think of your friend, he thought sardonically. Of course, calling Damon his friend to his face right now might just get him laughed out of the room. Or given one of Damon's typical lectures. Something like I don't have friends, I don't need them, loner bad boy vampire, blah blah blah...Alaric at least thought they had that back home. Even he had been surprised Damon had listened to him when he'd told him to stay home in order to avoid Jules "marked" thing. And after all of the saving Stefan operations and the sheer number of vervain darts he'd lost in the past couple of weeks ( ... )

gald_digger March 18 2011, 05:45:56 UTC

When she noticed Rick making a face at her, Anise frowned back with the sort of guilty-but-not-really look a mischievous child might make. She was immediately back to her cheerful self when Rick went on to comment on the events, however ( ... )

deathandgin March 21 2011, 08:05:26 UTC

Cute little Anise. Right. Was she trying to seem more suspicious? Because if that was the case, it was working.

Or she had no sense of empathy, which put her on the same level as about 60% of teenagers.

"Do you have some kind of newbie guide all set up and ready to go?" he asked, lifting his head to look at her with a raised eyebrow. It wasn't actually a sarcastic question; maybe he hadn't been too willing to go with this whole mental institution thing, but now he had his own little adventure as experience on how this place was Not Quite Right. There were monsters apparently (he trusted Damon enough to believe that special story) and he'd seen the limp, which was definitely something Damon would not have faked. Even the way the vampire barrier had affected Damon in the abandoned room was weird. Nothing seemed to fit with the rules that applied back home.

"I mean, I don't know much outside of this bad luck thing... and monsters, I guess. And screwing with memories. Is there a point in letting everyone out at night?"

gald_digger March 23 2011, 01:34:09 UTC

"Eheh... not exactly," Anise answered with a meek grin. "They used to have that kind of thing on the bulletin board, but the nurses started taking it down." Getting information passed around had been pretty tough since then. Making creative messages to get around the censors was fun sometimes, but there were some things that just couldn't be explained without being direct and specific.

Unfortunately, while Rick's other question was a really common one, it was also a really hard one to answer.

"Mm... I don't think anyone really knows why they do all the weird stuff they do here. I mean, some people think they're running some big experiment on everyone, and some people think they're trying to make people into super-soldiers..." As she mulled over the different theories she'd heard over the weeks, Anise looked around at the other uniformed patients in the room. "... I guess that last one doesn't seem so weird, now that everything's like this."

deathandgin March 25 2011, 02:53:50 UTC

Crap. Well, at least he was used to things never going his way so the lack of a newbie guide wasn't exactly surprising. Actually, it was more surprising to hear there had actually been a newbie guide. That meant there were enough to warrant a guide, right? It was good that the institution as a whole was looking out for anyone new, though. A kind of weird sense of community... assuming the whole reason was to help them newer patients out ( ... )

gald_digger March 25 2011, 23:43:16 UTC

Anise had to agree that it sounded pretty... out there. She wasn't sure what 'sci-fi' was, but if Rick was relating it to a movie, he was probably talking about some of Earth's tales of bizarre, impossible happenings.

"Well... fighting lots of monsters is a pretty good way to get stronger fast," she offered, playing devil's advocate for the weird theory. Anise was speaking from experience, though. It had certainly helped her and her friends get stronger during their journey. Maybe the staff here used monsters to weed out the weak, and make the survivors strong?

"But... I guess some things still don't make sense. Like why they kidnap little kids, or people who are frail and sickly..." If it was soldiers they wanted, why abduct someone like Ion, whose body was too weak for that kind of work? There was a part of Anise that was glad the Fon Master wasn't with her at the moment... if only so he wouldn't have to keep suffering through the torture and tricks the institute kept inflicting on everyone.

deathandgin March 28 2011, 03:57:35 UTC

He watched her for a moment, trying to measure in his mind how a girl her age could be so nonchalant about fighting monsters... and, with a kind of sick curiosity, how she did it in the first place. She spoke with the air of someone who was used to it. Even if she had been stuck in this institute a while... (and what could even constitue a while for that sort of thing? How long did it take for anyone to get used to fighting freaking monsters?) He was thirty-two and was still trying to adjust to vampires being real. To be that age ( ... )

gald_digger March 28 2011, 05:58:48 UTC

Ooh, now there was a question Anise actually had an answer for! Anise brightened instantly, eager to show off the knowledge she'd acquired during her time in the institute.

"If you want a good weapon, you might be out of luck. There used to be some people called alchemists around here, who could make ordinary hunks of metal into swords and stuff, but I think most of them are gone now. You could try asking on the bulletin board, but I wouldn't expect much," Anise explained. It was a shame that the Cooking Club seemed to have vanished... Anise even had a big bag of metal supplies to bring to them, and now they were just going to waste. Or... the military had them now, she guessed, since everything was confiscated ( ... )

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