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Day 44: Sun Room, Second Shift

Sep 24, 2009 11:20

[from here]He really had beat the rush. Suzaku found a chair as close to the corner and as far from the bulletin as he could, and turned it to face the wall before curling up in it. His nurse frowned at him again, but she was still being cooperative, and frankly he didn't care what she had to say in the slightest. He didn't care even if he got ( Read more... )

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high_prosecutor September 24 2009, 18:54:40 UTC

[from here]

Edgeworth took a seat by the bulletin board, jotting down some notes on the new information that was coming out that morning. He wasn't entirely sure that he believed that bit of added info on the monster post - but who would go so far as to throw false information into such an important post? Not even the people he knew were murderers back at home would go so far, to his knowledge, unless it was just another attempt to lure someone into a trap. He made a note of it, circling it once.

After that, he set to work on copying out the rough map of where people had wound up the night before and the manner in which they'd passed away, if they had given that much detail. There had to be a method to the madness, and he intended to find it.

[free; he'd love to talk to other investigatory-types.]

unheroed September 24 2009, 22:12:51 UTC

[From here. Harvey can join the prosecutor club?]The first thing Harvey did after getting out of the shower was head over to the bulletin to see if he had any more responses to his post. There wasn't much, either because what there was to say had already been said or because most of the patients were busy showering. Well, half of them were. The point was that no one seemed to know anything useful, and he wasn't sure why he'd expected anything different ( ... )

high_prosecutor September 24 2009, 23:58:40 UTC

[slide on up to our bar, Mr. Dent, we'll pour you a drink. 8D]

Miles nodded, putting his notes down for just a moment in order to offer a hand. This was a good thing, actually - talking over his notes and logic with someone else would help keep it from going down into a slippery-slope argument. There was that, and the fact that talking with someone he didn't know well would make it easier to not think about his own memory of what had happened.

"Miles Edgeworth," he said. "Pleasure to make your acquaintance." That much was true, though it was a wonder anyone could speak so clearly with that many bandages. Whatever it was that had caused the injury had to have been something serious, but his face didn't show that he was thinking about that at all. You became good at such things when you tended to have rather flamboyant people in your courtroom.

"I was just going over the latest bulletin reports," he said, gesturing to the set of notes. "I'm a prosecuting attorney at home. This kind of investigative work is almost second-nature."

unheroed September 25 2009, 01:37:20 UTC

The extended hand shouldn't have been so shocking, but Harvey hadn't realized until now how little people bothered with pleasantries in this place. It did seem sort of ridiculous -- they were stuck in a mental institution from Hell, after all -- but some people just couldn't lose their politeness. It was somewhat awkward to handshake when he was standing and the other man was seated, so Harvey made it short and then went to sit in the other chair.

"Harvey Dent," he returned as he sat down, doubting that the man would recognize the name. He hardly ever posted with it on the bulletin board (come to think of it, he never had -- a certain someone would have seen), and he hadn't been here that long compared to some of the other patients. Speaking of which, Harvey had definitely seen Edgeworth around a few times. He had to wonder how many days he had under his belt.

He nodded when the man explained what he had been doing, but he was forced to pause when Edgeworth mentioned that he was a prosecutor. Another one? Harvey couldn't stop ( ... )

high_prosecutor September 25 2009, 03:21:20 UTC

"There certainly do seem to be a lot of us around," Edgeworth answered, raising an eyebrow. "That's five, myself included, that are here." Never mind the fact that one of them was a convicted murderer who should have been dead. The number still counted. "That fact combined with the number of police officers that are here makes me wonder sometimes if there's a conspiracy against the police and district attorneys' offices," he remarked, dryly.

"Though it is rather odd," he said, continuing on. "Counting my former roommate, that would be six prosecutors. I know of three defense attorneys, and at least two police officers, as well as a young man who had worked with the police on several occasions. I don't really know what to make of it, considering that another large portion of the patient population consists of people from Japan, and a lot of them teenagers ( ... )

unheroed September 25 2009, 03:56:37 UTC

Five? Himself, Edgeworth, and Franziska made three, but that meant there were two more that Harvey hadn't stumbled across yet. When Edgeworth mentioned the police officers, Harvey's thoughts immediately jumped to his new roommate. He was more or less a police officer, though probably in a higher rank than the usual grunt. Still, it sounded like there was a real trend for this, which did make him wonder. He doubted most of them had abandoned their positions the way he had, so it wasn't like there was even a pattern ( ... )

high_prosecutor September 26 2009, 17:59:47 UTC

"Maybe," Edgeworth snorted. It wasn't that any of this was funny, but it was interesting, the smaller patterns that were there. There were a lot of those, when he thought about it - small clusters of data that might not mean anything in the long run, but were still worth noting. It wasn't so much that he was trying to put the puzzle together with the small pieces. No, that wasn't it. It was a matter of determining whether the pieces were part of the whole, or whether they were a set of puzzles that turned into the whole only when constructed separately.

Miles realized that he was getting off-track again. Is this how it's going to be for me now? Latching on to any small piece that is going to distract me from the truth of what happened last night?No. He wasn't going to let that happen. Last night was something that never should have happened, but it shouldn't be the only thing in this place that he was intentionally overlooking ( ... )

unheroed September 26 2009, 19:38:56 UTC

At least the guy could take a joke. While he hadn't burst into laughter, he also hadn't sent Harvey a look that said that he needed to be more serious about all this. While it was true that there was nothing funny about their situation when it came down to it, they knew so little that sometimes the only thing Harvey could think of to do was make ridiculous claims like that.

Still, when it came down to it, he was no joker, and so he moved on to study the counts that the man was showing him. Eighteen was already a lot, but Harvey got the feeling that there were way more than that. As Edgeworth pointed out, a lot of people weren't fessing up -- hell, he wasn't. He realized that his little tally was missing from Edgeworth's map, mainly because he hadn't died ( ... )

high_prosecutor September 26 2009, 21:44:39 UTC

"That's true, and there's also the fact that there are very likely people who have seen illusions and haven't said anything about them, either." There was something else, too. Edgeworth had noted that no one had commented to Javert's question about the 'sleep studies'. That meant one of two things: either no one was admitting to having undergone them, or they didn't happen at all. He was leaning towards the latter, but that meant the schedule was off ( ... )

unheroed September 26 2009, 22:13:16 UTC

Even though Edgeworth went ahead and referred to the exact thing that Harvey was doing, his half-expression didn't falter. He knew a thing or two about lying, as all lawyers did. So far this Edgeworth seemed pretty open and straightforward, which Harvey also liked, but he wouldn't be surprised if the man was also completely capable of lying through his teeth ( ... )

high_prosecutor September 26 2009, 23:15:31 UTC

Edgeworth caught the slight hesitation, and paused, going back to the prior subject for just a moment. "May I ask a question, Mr. Dent? What do you make of that 'IRIS' and 'Next-Wave' talk that was over the intercom before our esteemed former colleague, Alec Doyle, spoke? Alec Doyle being the former voice on the radios, until a few weeks ago. He was supposedly killed, a fact that the Head Doctor broadcast over the intercom. I find that, combined with what someone helpfully translated for us over the bulletin, interesting."

He hummed quietly, then pointed to the underlined quote: The dead can be more alive for us, more powerful, more scary, than the living. It is the question of ghosts. -- J. Derrida.

"And I agree. I don't know that the zombie thing was necessarily planned, but it seems to be a strange coincidence. It happened, and then the next day, Dr. Landel was conspicuously absent, and today things go back to normal. I'm not sure what to make of it all. Maybe it is just as simple as making up for the lost time."

unheroed September 27 2009, 00:04:19 UTC

While Harvey did like the feeling of importance that he garnered from being asked his opinion (but what was he, some mutt looking for scraps?), he didn't want to admit that he hadn't paid much attention to last night's announcements. Most of it had been strings of numbers, unintelligible words, and screaming. After that, he'd been so distracted by seeing Rachel and then hearing her voice that he hadn't been able to focus on the announcements at all ( ... )

high_prosecutor September 27 2009, 01:51:26 UTC

Miles nodded. It made sense, really - while he was too polite to ask, he could definitely understand why someone would tune out the intercom in that situation. He had lost track of it himself somewhere in the chaos after Doyle's announcement. He had been too focused on what he was sure would be his dying words to even care about the screaming overhead.

"It's definitely not a possibility anyone can easily rule out. All his past claims to really be on the same side of these things as the patients could have been a ruse to get people to trust him. It wouldn't be the first time someone ever pulled a stunt like that, and it certainly won't be the last."

It wasn't a possibility he liked, because it meant things really were up to a patient population that was nigh-impossible to manage, let alone get on the same side, but such was life.

unheroed September 27 2009, 21:04:10 UTC

If anything, this new knowledge that Doyle had been trying to act like the nice guy who was supporting the patients just made Harvey more suspicious of the man. It was the people who tried to sidle up to you and play nice that were usually looking to stab you in the back. At least Landel was open about it during his nighttime ramblings ( ... )

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