Day 19 - Breakfast

[repolarization]

As Ginji was ushered through the halls towards the cafeteria he felt a little dizzy. He felt like something was very, very wrong but he wasn't sure what. It wasn't just the fact that he had woken up in the middle of some strange place, or the fact that Ban was no where to be found. Something else was wrong. Something important. Something that he

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[red_dragon_mode]

(( Sorry. ^^'' Forgot something. ))

Junior was still trying to figure out what was going on when he found himself waking up in his room. Last he remembered, the hall had gotten a bit crowded and before that there was fighting and...Albedo. He was there, Junior had seen him. But he had also seen his brother die. He'd wanted to run after him, but his mind was still saying that it couldn't possibly be him, and that the heartbeat he'd felt was a memory. Not to mention running around alone without a weapon probably wasn't a good idea, considering what he'd been told.

But...he'd woken up. He wasn't sure if he'd really dreamt that or not. How could his twin be in this hell hole? It just didn't make sense.

Well, no surprise there, the redhead thought to himself. Since he'd woken up in this place, it had only served to confuse him and screw with his brain

[kukai]

It was then that the doors to the cafeteria swung open, and a slim young nurse with an immensely irritating smile sauntered through the doorway, followed shortly by one rather disheveled-looking Gaignun Kukai. He stared blankly at the back of her head as they walked together, his deep green eyes narrowed, both contemplative and baffled. Several places on his arms were wrapped in a thick layer of gauze

[red_dragon_mode]

Junior had been scanning the people that were trickling in so intently for a head of white hair that he wrote the other familiar face off as just someone who looked like the black-haired variant. That is, until he heard the voice. With the exception of the lady he'd talked to when he first arrived and maybe that asshole with the goatee, most everyone else he'd had a conversation with had been a teenager, and he didn't remember any of their voices being that deep. Or that familiar, for that matter.

"Gaignun?" he asked, turning to face the other. He allowed his jaw to hang open for a second before repeating himself. "Gaignun? How the hell--" he broke off, shaking his head. Irony was a cruel thing. "I guess Fifth Jerusalem is about as safe as the Durandal, huh?" he finally said, giving the man a look that was a mix between a smile and a grimace and shrugging. "You look like crap. What happened

[kukai]

Gaignun knew that he should be feeling some measure of regret that Jr. was trapped in this place alongside him, but after the initial shock faded, all he could find was relief at sighting a familiar face. Familiarity was something he took great comfort in, and it showed in his face, which had taken on a slightly less grim expression the moment he had spotted his redheaded companion

[red_dragon_mode]

"You were one of the ones that the bastard over the intercom announced last night?" Damn! If he'd known, maybe he could have found Gaignun and been able to help him out a bit. At least he was here now, and somewhat safe. He gave his brother a disbelieving look when he said he'd be fine, but he could always push the issue later

[kukai]

"Albedo?" Gaignun's normally collected tone betrayed more than just a hint of surprise. "That's impossible. How could he...?"

But as he continued to listen to Jr.'s warnings, he wondered if it really was. Cat monsters, things worse than cat monsters, ability suppression, being kidnapped (so to speak) by a mental institution... those seemed fairly unlikely, too, and yet there they were. Who was to say that Albedo couldn't be trapped in this place as well, laws of the universe be damned?

Gaignun sighed inwardly, chiding himself for such thoughts. Of course Albedo couldn't be here. Gaignun himself had not seen, not heard, but felt him die. This was not the time to be questioning physics. He needed all the constants he could get, at least for then; doubting the few he had was not going to get him anywhere. And besides that, there were other things in Jr.'s short speech that deserved equal attention. The information about this strange building, for instance

[red_dragon_mode]

"I don't know how he could be here," Junior replied, a bit surprised that Gaignun reacted as he did. Guess he did know when it happened. At least I don't have to try and explain it to him. The redhead was comforted a bit by that knowledge, since he didn't really want to relive that moment anytime soon. "It sure seems impossible, at the very least." And he left it at that, hoping that the topic would only be brought up again if the white-haired variant decided to show himself

[kukai]

"Yes. I came to a similar conclusion last night," Gaignun replied in regards to U-TIC, gliding smoothly over Jr.'s inquiry with the faintest suggestion of a smirk. He hadn't meant the comment the way it had been taken, but it would've been a shame to miss the chance to push the redhead's buttons. "I believe mine had something more to do with the furnishings, though. I doubt that U-TIC's holding cells would be so... pleasant

[red_dragon_mode]

"Yeah," Junior agreed, chuckling. "If it was U-TIC's soldiers, I really doubt that anyone would be trapped in this place for long, whether they have their powers or not. Besides...if it was U-TIC, I don't think that the pajamas they make us wear would look so bad on you. Or maybe they'd be more appropriate because it'd be more like prison. Gray sweats and a smiley face doesn't really suit you," the redhead said, pointing at the face on his brother's shirt and grinning. After a moment, though, he was serious again.

"I think that the power's more with those needles, though, and the orderlies are more for intimidation. Getting drugged and sitting there so out of it really doesn't seem like a good plan, so they try to get you to behave that way." Junior shrugged and he frowned a bit as he remembered how he'd gotten carried around on his first day. "They're pretty strong, though. I guess they'd have to be. But they can lift people pretty easily."

[kukai]

Gaignun blinked once, looking more surprised than he probably should've. It was somewhat silly of him, he knew, but it really hadn't occurred to him that he was wearing the same clothes as everyone else in the hospital. Jr.'s words took him rather off guard. He glanced down at the bright, beaming smiley face on his chest and frowned slightly, noting with some disapproval that the redhead's appraisal of his current clothing was quite accurate, both in the fact that he was wearing the uniform and in the fact that it did not suit him. Grey was fine and well, if not his first choice, but that yellow smiley

[red_dragon_mode]

He couldn't help but chuckle slightly at Gaignun's reaction to the uniform. The man was in a suit so much that seeing him in anything casual - or a bit less than, as the case was - was quite the occasion. And really funny.

Then came the question. "Let's just say I wasn't the best of patients when I first got here," he replied, narrowing his eyes at his brother's smile. Of course Gaignun would have known; how could he not have? But he didn't have to think it was funny. But then, that probably worked both ways, what with the asylum's uniform looking funny to the redhead so long as it wasn't on him. Which it was, but he tried to ignore that.