Day 57: Sun Room [Third Shift]

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Brunch had tasted delicious as usual, but he still felt guilty for enjoying it when so many other patients weren't as fortunate as him and Ritsuka. Still, he'd be lying if he said he wasn't grateful for his meals. His appetite had been pretty spotty during the week after his "sleep study", so Claude wanted to think he was making up for lost time

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Prussia wasn't sure what to make of the upcoming movie, especially since they hadn't announced what had won the vote. He'd only recognized All Quiet on the Western Front, and that had been enough to leave him feeling a little awkward (though only for as long as it look him to fight past it, which was only a moment).

He took a seat in a chair with a good view of the screen of the cobbled-together theater, hoping the one called The Great Escape would be the one they'd be showing today. It sounded like something that would be exciting, at least-and maybe it'd even have a couple of tips for getting out of this place for good. Even if Prussia was confident in his ability to escape on his own (and he was confident, really), it wouldn't hurt to get a couple of ideas.

Waiting for the movie to get started, Prussia settled in. Even if a different movie had been picked in the end, at least this would be a good way to kill time until dinner-and to stop him from wondering if Hungary was going to come visit him again.

[Come bother him, England]

[hat_einen_vogel]

Prussia's eyes had been focused on the screen as he waited for it to start, so he hadn't paid much attention to someone joining him until he heard England's voice. He hid a grimace; he hadn't exactly been avoiding England, but the other nation wasn't exactly someone he'd been in a hurry to see lately. His saving grace was that hopefully it had been long enough since that night when he'd forgotten the entirety of history that maybe England had forgotten about it too. If it didn't get mentioned, all the better.

So far, so good. England had said something about the film instead of that night.

"Why's that?" he asked. All Quiet on the Western Front was one thing, but the rest of the titles were complete mysteries to him. There was that one that was (presumably) about a Stalag (but the title alone was barely anything to go on), and that Dr. Strangelove one sounded kind of weird. "Have you seen them in the future or something?"

[hat_einen_vogel]

...What was with this slant towards films about him and his brother? If both this Stalag 17 and The Great Escape were made by America (which they probably were, all things considered), that meant that they were going to be portrayed as the villains. Maybe that Dr. Strangelove one would have been the best choice, if Russia would be the villain in it.

Prussia felt his interest in the movie waning rapidly, and by the time he glanced at the screen-it was based on a true story, it said-he was noticeably paler than before. A true story? It couldn't be that the 'Great Escape' of the title was going to be about....

He laughed nervously, the sound contrasting harshly against the opening of the film.

"W-why are people making movies about those kinds of things?" he asked, turning his eyes back towards the screen to confirm his suspicions about the subject of the movie. He had a bad feeling about this.

[hat_einen_vogel]

He may have only heard bits and pieces about the future, but it sounded awful, in Prussia's opinion. As if being about to lose his land (if he hadn't already, given this unsettling feeling of isolation that had haunted him for over a week now) wasn't already bad enough...

"Yeah, I guess," Prussia muttered, looking pointedly away from the screen. He glanced around with unusual discreteness to check whether there were any other nations here-or people like Dr Jones, who were from before the war. The only familiar faces he could make out in the darkened room were Claude's and Carter's-and Carter was already from around the time of the war, anyway.

If this was about Stalag Luft III like he was pretty damn sure it was, he really didn't feel like sticking around... He stood up, and his posture was positively when he turned towards England. "I don't want to watch this after all," he said, as boldly as he could manage-and a little too loud. "It's boring if I already know how it goes."

[hat_einen_vogel]

England was going to follow him? Butchered or not, he could've stayed to watch the movie... Or-wait. Since England was from the future, maybe getting him away from the movie about the past would be a good thing.

Prussia shrugged, trying to act nonchalant about the whole thing. "They said we could go anywhere, right?" Going outside would probably require finding out of the guards to escort them at this point, but the rooms that were attached to the Sun Room were easily accessible. But of those, there was only one that came to mind as being half-way decent right now. "I guess the game room. It's a good place to kill time."

Anything was better than here right now. Without waiting to see if England was really going to follow him after all, Prussia started across the sun room, headed for the game room's door.