Bah. So much for yet another suggestion of von Karma's. Such priorities this Institute had. They would implement a foolish suggestion to introduce origami lessons and to offer sewing supplies to select patients, yet refused to allow them to cleanse themselves more often than twice a week -- and, of course, without any additional privacy? How
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What was doubly infuriating was the fact that his nurse seemed to look at the showers as a good thing. Yes, he could admit, meatbags had no non-stick surfaces and therefore that meant cleaning was required, and even without having accumulated dirt and no doubt billions of bacterial colonies, human meatbags seemed to think on some evolutionary level that this simply wasn't enough, so their outer surfaces dirtied themselves. Especially the hair. And under the arms. Urgh. He glowered at the nurse meatbag while she made sure he actually removed his clothes and didn't just spend the entire shower doing something less embarrassing like remaining clothed and facing a wall and trying not to think about all of the meatbags being naked.But ( ... )
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Nevertheless, arguing with the nurse over all of this would be slightly less productive than attempting to teach Captain Mako table manners. He therefore removed his clothes without complaint, finding a shower as far from the glare of the lights as he could manage, and started to occupy himself with getting clean.
[Free, if anyone wants an imposing slab of evil beefcake.]
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That Nataku was lucky Sechs hadn't landed anything too damaging on him! Sechs himself was fortunate that the nurses didn't use him as a pin cushion for all their damned sedatives either! That morning seemed to have been full of both the good and bad aspects of luck. He could have made an ally, but because of their seemingly different experiences with the same person, Sechs got himself a new enemy instead. Great, one more bastard to carry on Sechs' hated rival's legacy! Again Sechs couldn't help but mentally bemoan over Will's discharge... He still wanted to kill Will himself, but nooo! Will had to go and disappear without a trace! LOUSY, NO-GOOD...
Sechs had been too busy fuming over the little scuffle over breakfast that he was practically on auto-pilot by the time he was lead to the showers. He took his frustration out on the nurse by throwing his clothes into a puddle of water again and angrily stomped through more little soapy ponds on the tiled floor until he found the nearest vacant shower head ( ... )
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"I take it your morning did not go well after we exchanged notes?" Once again, he was reminded of Mako. The shark mutant's rages could be quite dramatic as well.
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"Ugh...! No!" Sechs snapped, squinting his eyes through the sheet of water at his tall shower mate, "Course I didn't! What's it to you, huh?"
Wait... After they exchanged notes? Frowning, Sechs brushed the water out of his eyes. Hey! It was that big spider guy! It seemed like a long time since he last seen him! What was his name again...? Beefy Six-Arms? Wait, no... It started with an "R"... Really Beefy Six-Arms? Nah... No, it was... Ah, Recluse! Sheesh, he thought he had it with his first guess there ( ... )
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Well, no point in not making the best of it. He stripped down, taking the closest unoccupied shower, feeling unaccountably pleased when he managed to get the water to not come out freezing cold or scalding on the first try as he fiddled with the generally tetchy controls, then started to wash himself down without any further delay, enjoying the warm, clean water.
[Russia!]
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As for leading him into the tiled room and making him undress, it was just insane! It was fine not to have a banya, but there wasn't so much as a bath. Just the spraying faucets. Bathing ought to be a much more enjoyable ritual, not just being hosed down while sprayed with water.
It wasn't even so much that he had a problem being nude. France did that often enough and he didn't even have much to bother about covering up ( ... )
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Still , competence seemed to generally be foiled altogether by the shower controls for everyone. "You turn them to about here, sir," offered, indicating the controls on his own. "It's finicky, but generally gets there in the end."
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Once he was comfortable though, he took a step back, glancing around at the others and the routine way they approached showering, just to be sure he was doing it correctly. It wasn't at all what he was used to, but as it was, there were no other options.
"It seems so impractical. A bath is so much better," he shook his head, mouth downturned in a childish pout.
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He followed his nurse to showers, glad to find the place still fairly empty. It took a bit of fiddling to turn on the spray and adjust it to a good temperature before stepping into it. At least this week there were no open wounds, just a lot of scar tissue beginning to form. Not wearing the medical eyepatch for a while actually felt pretty good, and he scrubbed at the places it'd sat around his scalp, much like a cat without a collar.
There was the town or the areas surrounding it that they hadn't checked yet. The rebels wouldn't be hiding out in the same place they were trying to overthrow, would they? Maybe he should look into getting some maps of the areas near the institute.
[Yuki!]
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