Day 38 -- Doctor's Office 8 [Dr Disraeli] [4th shift]

[damned_doctors]

Lunch had been pleasant enough, although Jizabel had learned of some absences in the staff this time as well. Both patients and staff were hard to keep on here, it seemed. But really, Jizabel wasn't one to talk. He'd be back in Delilah the moment they called for him, and then he too would be missing from the facility. That was just how things went

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[hajike_tobiume]

Momo placed her notice of Arts & Crafts assignments before the nurse led her to therapy. She wondered what Dr. Stegman would have to say today; the two hadn't spoken very much through their last two sessions. She honestly didn't care; she didn't want to talk to any of these people.

That changed a bit when she noted she wasn't going to Dr. Stegman's office. It seemed she'd been reassigned. Unsurprising, given the lack of progress with the other doctor. The nurse seemed to think that Dr. Disraeli may have better means to guide 'Jehna' to full recovery.

Yeah. That was going to happen.

Momo sat in the spot she was indicated and, while the nurse and the man behind the desk started to talk, she traced the new dragon design Hokuto had drawn on her cast. She hated this place.

[damned_doctors]

The person who entered first was certainly not Arnold Brandt unless the young lady he saw instead had been unlucky enough to have some terrible parents. He allowed the girl to take her seat while he rose to have a word with the nurse. She had the patient's file file for him, along with an updated list showing the name of the girl, Jehna Walker. One of Dr. Stegman's patients had fallen through on accident when he'd left, so the reassignment of the girl had been very last minute

[hajike_tobiume]

Momo originally intended to ignore the conversation between the doctor and the nurse, but she ended up catching parts of it. It was hard to ignore something when a woman knew she was being talked about. She looked up when the doctor spoke to her, introducing himself.

Momo was automatically wary of the doctors, given what had happened to Renji when he had his therapy sessions. The shinigami wasn't sure how much she'd resist, to be honest, and a part of her wasn't sure if she cared enough to. She was already broken - maybe this man would get cut on the pieces.

"Alright..."

[damned_doctors]

The girl seemed very calm despite what he'd read, and Jizabel had to wonder for that. It could have something to do with the eye and arm injuries she wore, but he could not be certain of either. It hadn't been in the file or else he'd not seen it as important on his glance through, and the nurse had said nothing. Regardless, Jizabel believed at the moment the session would be just as calm as the girl.

"As this is our first session, how about we start with getting to know each other? Is there anything you would like to discuss with me? Hobbies, likes and dislikes, or something else? I'd be happy to answer any questions you may have of myself as well, to be fair," he offered first. The girl could trust as she would, but that did not mean Jizabel would not continue as he'd been.

[hajike_tobiume]

Momo was indeed very calm, her voice quiet and slightly monotone.

"Very well, doctor. Answer a question for me, please. Do you and the other doctors simply not know about the truth of this place - the things we're told are delusions, though we know they aren't - or are you part of it, trying to make us all believe we're as crazy as you say we are?"

[damned_doctors]

A direct question, but not at all fair

[hajike_tobiume]

She hadn't been expecting an honest answer, so she wasn't surprised when she didn't receive one. She opted to humor this doctor for a moment.

"I doubt you'll believe my words to be truth, even though they are. But I will speak," Momo said, her tone of voice not changing. "Upon the fall of night, all across the institute, the doors to the patient rooms unlock and we're allowed to run the halls of this place without escort or supervision. Creatures, things some would call monsters, roam the halls as well, hunting and attacking the patients. In the morning, we're told by the nurses that our injuries are a result of either us attempting to hurt ourselves, accidents with our dinners or fights with our roommates."

[damned_doctors]

The girl was smart not to expect anything of her Doctor, though the feeling was not a shared one. Jizabel expected plenty from his patient, nothing of which he could rightly share with her however. Too many questions could come up and then where would he be? Killing everyone in the place for being exposed, more than likely. It wasn't that Jizabel would have a problem should he need to dispose of this place, but he was vaguely enjoying himself for the moment, so he wished to make things last a little while longer. No girl would be the one to make him mess up, that was for sure.

"Your arm then?" he motioned a hand towards it, "Was that caused during the evening, by one of these monsters you've mentioned?" He focused his eyes on hers, "Your eye as well?"

If nothing else, Jizabel could at least let her see that he was indeed a doctor and not merely the lunatic she had implied her was.

[hajike_tobiume]

A wry smile touched Momo's lips briefly. The wrist had been caused by Signum while she was under the mind control implied for Special Counseling. In a way, that would have made Signum a monster for the night.

"My wrist, yes," she answered. "My eye was caused by another patient here, though that also occurred at night while outside the Sun Room."

"Tell me, doctor - have you ever been within these walls after dark?"

[damned_doctors]

Despite her attempts at convincing him, the girl had really just contradicted herself by admitting that she'd had an attacker. Patients may not have been hurting themselves, as she said, but that did not stop patients from managing to harm their fellow inmates.

"I have not," he admitted, another truth he saw no reason in hiding, "There is a different staff here for the evening hours." Jizabel had other things to see to when the night came.

[hajike_tobiume]

"I suggest you take the time to spend a night, to understand what we go through each night, before attempting to analyze me or find a way to cure me of my so-called delusions and supposed obsession with death," Momo stated, folding her hands in her lap.

"You give me no valid reason to talk to you."

[damned_doctors]

Honestly? She'd yet to give him a valid reason for him to talk with her. She was uninteresting, ugly, and had terrible conversational skills.

"I'm afraid reason has nothing to do with these sessions. You will be in this room with me for the duration of this session regardless of whatever problems you seem to have with me." And, if the girl continued to prove difficult, Jizabel would simply have to make her comply. His other patients had at least been given to speak, but her... well, she certainly was the woman she appeared to be at least. So difficult.

"Now, what obsession with death might you be speaking of?" he asked, giving one last chance for conversation before he'd take matters into his own, skilled hands.

[hajike_tobiume]

"It is not you, personally, I have a problem with, but this place as a whole," Momo replied, her voice never changing once during this whole conversation. "You are insignificant to me - nothing more than another face, another front, of something I have come to hate."

She slowly blinked her eyes, keeping her temper barely under control. "I never knew hatred until I came here. There's so much of it now, tucked away in every corner of this place."

That wry smile touched her lips again as she decided to answer the doctor bluntly. "I do not have a fascination with death, doctor; I am death. Shinigami is the proper term, but if you understand Japanese at all, you'll know that shinigami are Death Gods."

[damned_doctors]

Being told that he was nothing had never bothered Jizabel before. He'd heard it time and time again, from that Father who only had so much use for him. That a girl was saying such things did not bother him either, as he cared not for her opinion of him. That left them relatively on equal terms, actually, so far as one viewed the other.

There were some words though that Jizabel took issue with, those referencing her relation with Death. Her luck was likely just poor, or perhaps irony was playing some twisted little game, but announcing to the Major Arcana possessing the title of Death that she, a mere child and female, was Death? Now, that was going too far

[hajike_tobiume]

"I am speaking simple truths," Momo stated. "You are the one interpreting them as contradictions. Contradiction or not, I sincerely doubt you will find my word any more truthful than your other patients."

She actually chuckled a little, humorless as it was. "I believe, doctor, you will find I don't care if you believe me or not. You're just another layer of this place and what it represents."

[damned_doctors]

"Then do tell me how my interpretations are incorrect, Ms. Walker," he suggested. As she knew nothing of him or his motives, she had no idea just how he thought or interpreted things. "First you tell me that your injuries are not caused by yourselves as the nurses tell you, however you only answered that another patient injured you, not a monster. Secondly, you claim not to have an obsession with death, a truth perhaps but only so far as you not considering it an actual obsession. After all, to be Death and also obsess over it would be Narcissism, would it not