May 11, 2008 06:29
Sylar's gears were still turning as the nurse and a burly orderly escorted him down long halls and through a strange, sunlit room. He'd been forced to drop his pen when the orderly had seen it, and since then, he'd realized that this place had better security than he'd originally anticipated, as well as a large population of patients. It looked
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diva,
raine,
zelos,
axel,
anya,
edward elric,
xigbar,
skuld,
nia,
danny phantom,
ken amada,
wolfram,
mason,
miku,
clark kent,
zex,
tamaki,
angel,
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hiei,
misa,
leon kennedy,
peter parker,
luxord,
kurogane,
signum,
mello,
rena,
hikaru,
roxas,
xellos,
usopp,
nakago,
peter petrelli,
yohji,
archer,
zuko,
farfarello,
zoro,
okita,
takaya,
sanosuke,
kadaj,
yukari,
wolverine,
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kratos,
alec,
nathan petrelli,
l,
willow,
haseo,
kunzite,
renji,
sanji,
rhode,
shito,
glados,
homura,
kenshin,
dairine,
bella,
adelheid,
siegfried,
kaito,
gumshoe,
elle,
sora,
usagi,
luffy,
leon (so2),
river,
reno,
albel,
keman,
amelia,
rukia,
edgeworth,
itachi,
zexion,
harry osborn,
roland,
dean winchester,
peony,
brook,
ren,
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kenren,
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ling,
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heat,
kairi,
hinamori momo,
reid,
soubi,
allelujah,
roy,
naomi,
frey,
valyn,
sylar,
sai,
leon magnus,
sasuke,
aidou,
falis,
beatrix,
edward cullen,
ururu,
brooklyn,
kaoru,
john connor,
eddie brock,
shadow,
scar (tlk),
omi,
rangiku,
subaru
Not long after he had fled the room (of which its purpose still remained unclear to him) with Mozenrath, Scar awoke in his bed.
The result of last night's exploring-trip had been rather disappointing to put it lightly, as he had only been able to explore a single area. But at least it had been entertaining. With the exclusion of the woman with the poker, of course.
After climbing out of bed and hiding his steel pipe, his nurse arrived to escort the feline to the cafeteria. He followed quietly, more occupied with trying to walk decently than trying to uphold some sort of conversation with the woman. The nurse didn't leave him alone until his breakfast had safely arrived on the table.
The cafeteria was rather empty still, an opportunity Scar intended to use to try and eat without any audience to watch his clumsiness. As he chewed on his first bite, he couldn't help but to find the taste of these 'waffles' odd. It somehow reminded him of the food he had on his first day in the Institute, but not entirely the same. He munched on his next bite as he watched the doors once in a while, curious to see who would get in.
New patients, hmmm?
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And she couldn't feel the darkness anymore.
That simple fact, after a few minutes of refusing to believe it, filled Willow with incomparable relief. She sat down heavily on her bed, looking down at her hands. She wasn't sure if she was actually safe, but... she was willing to bet her eyes were no longer black. There was no mirror to check up on that, but... thank God it was over.
She needed to find Hokuto later to make sure she was okay, and that their last-minute companion made it back alright as well.
The nurse came in shortly afterwards, and Willow actually tried to listen to some of her speech as she was led down to the cafeteria. These nurses had to know what was really going on, last night proved that much. And even though this nurse wasn't actually the one, Willow couldn't help but regard her with suspicious caution. Especially since the nurse seemed very intent on making Willow socialize, pushing her and a tray stacked with waffles towards a man sitting alone at a table. "Come on, Leslie, you need to make some friends!"
Willow smiled awkwardly at the man as the nurse left. "Hi. Sorry about that. I didn't exactly have a choice."
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"These nurses can be rather pushy indeed." He answered to the girl's statement, a polite smile appearing on his face. The King was rather proper, after all. Especially to people he had just met and had yet to make a fool out of themselves.
Speaking of manners...
"My name is Scar." he introduced. "Considering the habit to give us fake names, I take it your name isn't Leslie?"
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Something nagged at the back of her mind, though. Scar's voice sounded incredibly familiar. She couldn't quite remember from where, and she certainly didn't recognize him. Or at least she thought she didn't. To her knowledge, she didn't know anyone with a goatee like that or a scar over his eye and....
Scar.
Oh.
No. He couldn't possibly be. He was human. But the voice fit perfectly, and... just... wow.
Willow didn't ask him outright if he'd ever been a lion. She'd learned, after her experience with Trevelyan, and certainly after her experience with Bella, that not everyone appreciated meeting people who knew almost everything about their lives and claimed they were fictional. So she searched for a roundabout way to ask, still not quite certain that this was the Scar she was thinking about.
"Um... what kind of world did you come from?" she asked, trying to sound mildly curious. "Feel free not to answer if you... don't want to."
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"How about you?" he asked, somewhat curious to hear about other worlds. The information could be useful in one way or another, after all.
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Willow tried not to stare at the human form in front of her, which was a little bit easier than it sounded, since she was busy trying to figure out exactly what kind of magic could... put a lion in human form at all. But Willow did have to remember that this was Scar. She'd have to be careful around him.
"Um... yeah. I don't live in one, but we do have them in my world." She hoped he interpreted her pause before answering his second question as thought about how to answer, when it was really wonder at having to explain her world and her life to a real flesh-and-blood Disney character. A Lion King character.
Now she knew how Bella felt.
"Well, we have monsters and stuff like that, too. But demon monsters, not... giant scorpion monsters. And my friend is someone who has to spend her life fighting them. We're not supposed to reveal their existence to other people." God, this felt so strange.
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"Wouldn't other people simply notice the presence of those monsters?" Scar asked. Unless they were as ignorant as the nurses around here, of course.
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"Humans are... complicated," she added softly. Oh, how true that was. A fact she frequently enjoyed annoying Anya with on a good day.
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"That would be an understatement, I suppose." he answered, having already concluded so on his first day. If his presence in Landels was anything to go by, at the very least. Even human food was complicated.
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"So, what are the Pride Lands? A Savannah?" She bit her lip to keep from smiling, trying to sound genuinely curious. What would Buffy say if she knew Willow was talking to Scar like this? Learning about the Pride Lands first-hand from him? Willow could still scarcely believe it herself.
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"Indeed." he answered, pausing for a moment to think of what else he could tell about his home. "I suppose you know the general scenery of a savannah, so there is no sense in going there. My home land is bordered by a desert, a wasteland and an elephant graveyard." Not quite the most pleasant of places, in his humble opinion, though he had frequently visited the latter before claiming his rightful place as the King of the Pride Lands.
"There are no humans present in my world." Something he didn't really mind. "Naturally, I wasn't before arriving here, either. If you are familiar with a savannah, I take it you are familiar with lions too." There was no sense in denying it. His walking and eating habits made such more than obvious.
"And what of your world? Aside from the demonic abominations, what is it like?"
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"My world's actually almost exactly like this. We have mental hospitals like this one. Except they really are mental hospitals." She couldn't really think of much more to say if she wanted to steer clear of the fictional worlds thing - not for Scar's sake, but for her own. So instead, she asked, "how long have you been here?" Which was a perfectly valid question, considering Scar seemed somewhat used to a human body already.
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"This would be my sixth day." he answered. Well, well...that was nearly a week already...
The only reason he seemed 'somewhat used' to his body was simply because he wasn't walking or currently trying to eat anything; he had stopped doing so as soon as he got company. His bungling that was supposed to be 'eating a meal' was simply too embarrassing. Not much could go wrong when you were simply sitting on a chair, after all.
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Instead, she decided to try and find out how much Scar remembered from his own world. After all, didn't Bella say that Willow and Anya came from different points in time?
"Um. If you were a lion, then were you... leader of the pride, or...?" She didn't want to push too hard in case he did remember Simba coming back and was still angry or sore about it. If he looked even a little bit angry, she was going to drop it.
God, she still couldn't believe she was talking to Scar. Wait until Buffy heard about this.
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"Ah, yes I was." he answered, a hint of pride in his voice as he admitted his more than rightful place in the Pride. "Until I came here of course." It was more than frustrating to be prisoned within this human facility, while claiming the throne had been so much work. He hadn't disposed of his brother and nephew only to waste it here.
He still had no idea of how much Willow actually knew about him or his world, but that might have been for the best.
[ooc; I can't count XD he's actually in Landels for five days XD. I fail XD]
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Once again, she realized what it must have been like for Bella, knowing the full story but not getting to tell it. Well, unless Anya made good on her oath and went to go find her again.
[no worries. XD]
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