Day 30: Music Room (Third Shift)
The last intercom had spelled out everything.
Misbehavior. Someone had started a riot - quickly quelled from the sounds of it. He didn't want to say it was good thing he'd be stabbed, but from the looks of it, it was probably best he was absent from whatever shift this had happened during. The warning siren, and all of the habub about it; blood ( Read more... )
Misbehavior. Someone had started a riot - quickly quelled from the sounds of it. He didn't want to say it was good thing he'd be stabbed, but from the looks of it, it was probably best he was absent from whatever shift this had happened during. The warning siren, and all of the habub about it; blood ( Read more... )
When she asked Sousuke what he wanted to do, the sergeant found it very easy to decide--which was surprising.
"Music," Music always reminded him of Kaname. He wanted to remember her now. It was uncertain as to whether or not he would see her again, and with all of the terrible memories that had been dredged up last night, he wanted to remember her as she was--happy.
The nurse set him up with a CD player and an assortment of music from classical to soft new age to upbeat pop music. Sousuke liked it all (except for that odd rap music--it just sounded like people talking and intermittent beats...), so pleasing him was easy.
He slipped on the headphones and placed his hand over the right earpiece, gently rocking his head to the beat.
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Eventually the nurse decided to throw Rhode into the music room as it was the closest. Being raised under the Earl had given Rhode both a liking and a loathing for music. She adored humming out her sadistic tunes and hearing him ending the world controlling the Ark, but actually playing instruments wasn't something she particularly enjoyed herself. They took too much practice and got boring fast. Not something that could keep much of Rhode Camelot's focus ( ... )
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"Yes, I was," the sergeant replied awkwardly. "It's good to see you escaped unharmed as well." What was this? Sun Room Male Bathroom Three-Day Reunion?
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Playing pretending was so much fun!
"Only because you guys came and saved me," she purred innocently, "but that one guy was really weird. He wouldn't let me help him." Her bottom lip protruded out into a sad pout. Acting was itself a fun thing to do, especially when the people she acted at bought it so completely. Humans were so dense.
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"Yes, Mousse can be strange sometimes," he stated, picking up one of the pop CDs and looking at it. Evening Sons... he'd never even heard of them. "As for saving you, protecting civilians is my job. Please don't think anything of it."
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The next thing he said caught her interest more than anything else. Oh? Protecting civilians?
She forced back a grin at that and instead gave him a confused look. "Civilians?," she blinked. Rhode was hardly a civilian, but being called one had made her curious. It just brought up so many questions! "Are you in a war where you come from?"
Are you an exorcist would come next.
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"Yes, you are a non-combatant as far as I know, and are therefore designated as a civilian. Unless you are a combatant, and then I will refer to and treat you as such. Until that time, your designation is civilian." There was a crack in this CD case...
Was he in a war? When wasn't he on a mission? But active war, no. He was merely an interloper--no allies to speak of, so no active war-duty.
"No, I am not. I am, however, on active duty and therefore, must comply with the directives set out by my organization--one of which is to protect civilians and non-combatants."
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"I'm Rhode Camelot," she provided, though not as enthusiastically as she had meant. His personality was stifling against her own. Maybe she could change that by making him play. He didn't need to be so stiff! "I'm bored; will you play with me?" she pouted a different way this time. The tactic didn't always work with Tyki even, but it was always worth a try with others.
If he didn't want to play, she had a mind to force him to play somehow. That "protect civilians and non-combatants" thing might come in handy.
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His eyebrows raised when Rhode demanded he play with her. He could barely deal with people his own age--how was he supposed to play with a child? What did children like to do? The sergeant started sweating.
"A-Affirmative. What would you like to play?"
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If she ever let him realize such a thing.
"Mmmmm, what do you play where you're from, Sagara?" she asked, cocking her head. Rhode wasn't necessarily mistaking him for being as young as she looked, but he still couldn't have been much older than her favorite exorcist. That made him "young", at least when compared with her. Kids his age still played games, didn't they?
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What did kids his age play anyway? Kaname played softball and swam, Kazuma played those odd dating simulation games... but those weren't exactly activities he could do whilst inside a mental institution.
"I used to play basketball with my comrades. We used an M9 Gernsback as a goal," He smiled faintly at the memory. "And we'd blindfold each other and see who could reassemble their weapons faster. I almost always won."
Except when Kurz played--it was his job to set up weapons faster than anyone, after all.
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The talk of weapons she knew pretty well. This Sagara person was part of a military of some sort, so weapons would be standard. Innocent little Rhode Camelot wasn't allowed to ask about the weapons though. That would give away too much of her nature, and she couldn't have that happening just yet, not when she was having so much fun!
And she'd not even started playing any real games yet!
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Come to think of it, he never asked the nurses about Arm Slaves. Maybe they were still in use? He'd have to ask someone.
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The basketball wasn't as fun sounding as the elongated explanation for the other thing. "So it's a killing machine?" she asked, devilish nature getting the better of her.
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The thought frightened him. Even though he had learned how to use it before coming here, the idea of a machine that could dictate victory based on feelings was outlandish.
Sousuke began stacking the CDs he'd been looking at. "Yes, it is," He said, his tone curt. "I murder people fighting for their cause in an Arm Slave. Do you find that amusing?"
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Right, asking things like that wasn't necessarily in her job description. Time to backtrack then.
"I thought you did," she recovered, pouting just slightly now. She needed to be more careful in going now if she wanted to keep him thinking what she wanted. "You said it was part of a game." It was all his fault really. He'd made the "innocent girl" think that a killing machine was amusing.
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