May 20, 2008 08:37
Sanosuke hadn't quite been ready to part ways from Kenshin, but his nurse was insistent, and she was offering food. That second thing was what really got Sano off the couch and headed to the cafeteria. And at the very least, the thing about Okita had been settled, which meant the fighter could focus on his meal
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star dragon sword,
zelos,
qui-gon jinn,
anya,
kagura,
edward elric,
yuna,
tyler,
nia,
melissa,
danny phantom,
wolfram,
jade,
allen,
naminé,
seiya,
demyx,
clark kent,
zex,
angel,
zelnick,
claire bennet,
misa,
leon kennedy,
shana,
peter parker,
kurogane,
artemis,
mello,
aya,
ion,
xellos,
usopp,
nakago,
heiji,
peter petrelli,
yohji,
fwiffo,
archer,
zuko,
sync,
matt,
farfarello,
zoro,
takaya,
sanosuke,
haku,
tyki,
wolverine,
esmeralda,
kratos,
lia,
willow,
haseo,
bridget,
rubedo,
sanji,
toboe,
rhode,
shito,
glados,
homura,
nami,
bella,
kaito,
elle,
fayt,
alexander conklin,
sora,
momo (xenosaga),
luffy,
leon (so2),
albel,
reno,
renamon,
claude,
amelia,
oriya,
rukia,
mark,
edgeworth,
zexion,
harry osborn,
max,
sousuke,
dean winchester,
peony,
brook,
chopper,
ren,
argilla,
sakura,
kenren,
hanyuu,
yuber,
guy,
kimbley,
kairi,
armand,
reid,
vlad,
allelujah,
roy,
frey,
cloud,
fai,
sai,
leon magnus,
yue,
sasuke,
daemon,
edward cullen,
brooklyn,
eddie brock,
rangiku,
omi,
gin,
scar (tlk),
subaru
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A couple slices of cheese pizza found his plate, and they looked surprisingly edible enough that he added a couple bread sticks too.
"The nurse wouldn't tell me how long I'd been here," he continued in the same tone. "You'll have to enlighten me. I'm not even scarred." Either he'd been here a while, or this was some state of the art hospital. Though he was willing to guess this anyway, simply because he was still alive to begin with.
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"What's the last thing you remember?" he asked. His voice was quiet. He hadn't recognized anyone in the cafeteria yet, but just because he didn't recognize people didn't mean they didn't recognize him. There was no reason to risk an eavesdropper.
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He raised a hand to his head again, just as he had back in his room, as though expecting to feel something off there. Blood? A wound of some sort? A gaping hole? Nothing. There was nothing there, no change from before, and Matt looked slightly dazed as he led them both to an empty table.
"You didn't go to a hospital, idiot," Matt muttered, trying to take his mind off the previous imagery. "It might not have scarred up so bad if you had."
The fact that Mello hadn't seen him didn't mean anything. If he was unconscious and no one had told the blond he was there as well it could have been any length of time. "How did it go?" he finally asked, assuming that his friend would know what he meant.
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He hadn't known Takada's men would fire on him, and yet things had gone as planned. Just on Mello's end, he supposed. Still, if everything had gone according to plan, how had the blond managed to live through it? Sure, his friend was resourceful, but...
"Am I hallucinating you, then?" he asked blandly. "You owe me a better explanation than that."
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"You're not hallucinating," he said, then narrowed his eyes in thought. If half of the people here seemed to be fictional characters, he couldn't dismiss the idea of mass hallucination. "Well, it's unlikely," he added.
An explanation. That wouldn't be easy. "You want to know what happened, or do you want to know where you are?" His annoyed expression wasn't meant for Matt, but it was clear from his mood that he'd probably only answer one of the questions.
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"I want to know why the two of us are sitting here eating pizza in the middle of some sort of hospital wearing ugly gray and yellow nightclothes. If explaining that to me answers either, then I'm all ears." It was odd seeing Mello without the usual chocolate bar. Had he not been able to get connections in this place in order to secure some? Probably not, judging by the fact that he was also in a similar outfit. (One which, if he did say so himself, Matt wore far better.)
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"It's gonna take a long time to explain everything." He scooped up a slice of pizza, then slid back into the chair. "What I know so far: this place claims to be in New Jersey, but it's not. Something supernatural's tweaking the languages so that we can all communicate, and monsters come out at night. That's why so many people are bandaged up. There are dead people here. There are people from other worlds and other times."
He watched Matt's expression closely. His friend had dealt with paradigm shifts before, so Mello was optimistic about his ability to handle the facts.
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"Or..." the other man finally muttered, "I haven't actually woken up yet, and whatever gas they have me on is giving me loopy dreams about crazy supernatural hospitals." Because Mello wouldn't say anything like that unless he actually meant it. "Or they've got you on something that's messing with your head ( ... )
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"If I was going to hallucinate I'd come up with something a little less cliche than this shit," he snapped, glaring again. As unlikely as the institute seemed, he'd only questioned his sanity briefly before introspection reminded him that he sure as hell wasn't weak enough to be manipulated by the type of person who would create something so juvenile-horror-novelesque. His outburst of anger was gone as soon as it appeared, and he yawned as he folded his arms behind his head.
"What the hell," he said with a nod. "I know. But we can't reject evidence because its improbable. I've spent two days gathering info about this place, and I'm telling you, that's how it is. Being wrong isn't my style."
Aside from the whole 'getting you killed' thing.
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There were monsters here. Dead people. Other worlds and times. Dead... "You got us both killed, didn't you?" he started quietly. "You got us both killed, and whatever crazy shit was involved with that fucking book dragged us both here, right??" He should have known. He should have known. You didn't mess with the supernatural like that and expect to come out unscathed.
And there was no chocolate for Mello. The man had taken to chewing on his nails, of which there wasn't much left now that he got a better look. So chances of him getting a cigarette or three were probably next to nil. And his games... "Fuck, Mello. FUCK."
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He stabbed a breadstick into a puddle of sauce and bit off the tip, his nose wrinkled in annoyance and disgust.
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Maybe Mello hadn't been directly responsible for Matt's death, but if he hadn't gotten into this whole mess with him it wouldn't have happened. Mello should know that as well as he did.
"Sorry if I've hurt your pride."
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After another moment of silence he resumed eating the breadstick with slightly less aggression, though he was far from pleased. "It might have to do with the book, in our case," he said. "The book didn't send us here, but when people show up in groups they're always connected by some important event."
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