Day 52: Sun Room
If she were honest, Yukari would have said she had no idea what a "sun room" was supposed to entail. She didn't ask, though, because by the time she had finished asking all the more important questions (which still weren't getting answered in any way that made sense), Yukari was getting rather fed up with all the nonsense her accompanying nurse was
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And yet... There was something different from the usual cheerfulness that played inside Fai's uncovered eye caught Sechs' attention. Something about the way his single blue eye seemed to dart in rapid thought, a distant calculating look that was uncharacteristic for someone like Fai, at least from Sechs' impression of him so far. But that unnerving glint in the blond's eye was gone just as quickly as it had flashed by. Did that air-headed pest know more than he had let on? Or maybe Fai was just scrambling to catch up with the new information?
It all happened too quickly for the Replica to figure out right then. Sechs decided not to pursue his observation, as Fai's concern was a big enough distraction to throw him completely off his thoughts.
"Yeah, yeah! I'm fine!" Sechs grumpily answered, moving away slightly from any touchy-feely hands that may come his way, "Just busted a couple of ribs from a fight last night, which I happened to win by the way! You don't have to check me either, Kibitoshin already did that..."
Giving his ribs another tender rub, Sechs' eyes locked onto the eye-patch beneath Fai's flowing hair. "Speaking of which..." Sechs said, cocking his head towards the black patch, "Your eye still healing from getting hit by that baseball or what?"
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But it sounded like that was all there was to it, even if Sechs had paid a pretty heavy price for the information. It wasn't that he didn't feel guilty about passing it along, the it didn't give him a cold feeling in the pit of his stomach, but there were greater things at stake.
He gave a few light-hearted claps as praise, when he heard about Sechs' exploits, "Hyuu! Hyuu! I never doubted you for a moment. I'm sure you were amazing Sechsy!"
The other comments were harder to ignore. Sechs wasn't the only one he'd lied to about his new eyepatch and given how quickly people here healed from their injuries, it would get harder to hide the fact that the injury was much more serious than he'd originally let on. Did he continue the lie? Or give the other some small piece of the truth, in exchange for the information he'd provided. Friends would do that, friends who trusted one another...
He let out a quiet sigh, smile fading slightly, even if it never left his lips entirely. Yuuhi untied the patch, his single blue eye glancing away as the other became visible. Where his eye used to be, there was now just an empty socket, the tender tissue around it having healed over more or less, but it didn't make the injury any less startling. Once he was sure Sechs had gotten a decent look at it, he replaced the patch with a shrug, "I guess it was a little worse than I thought."
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"Yeah, yeah, yeah..." Sechs grumbled, waving nonchalantly at Fai's praise, (although a hint of a proud smirk briefly emerged in the corner of his lips), "I showed that monster son of a bitch not to screw with me!"
Fai's answer (or lack thereof) at first sent one of Sechs' eyebrows perking up slightly; the faint smile that barely survived on the tips of Fai's lips seemed more foreboding than friendly. Sechs watched silently, the skin on his neck tingling with caution, as Fai began to slowly unravel the eye patch before him. The Replica tilted his head. Just how bad was this injury? Didn't people mysteriously heal faster here? Yet once the eye patch was stripped off the blond's fair face, the grumpy curve in Sechs' lips immediately gave way to a slack-jawed expression of surprise.
"Wah...?" Sechs stammered, blinking at the empty socket that marred Fai's face like a crater on a once pristine planet's surface. As Fai covered the injury, Sechs' shock turned into indignation. Had Fai lied to him about his injury? "Baseball my ass!" he growled, "What happened to ya, man? Did some monster do that?"
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It was almost cute to see how easily a compliment could boost the other man's ego. Of course, the atmosphere immediately changed as soon as he revealed the injury. He'd expected surprise, even anger, so he didn't flinch as Sechs growled at him.
"It's nothing really! I hardly even remember it," he smiled, shrugging his shoulders as if he were just explaining how he'd skinned his knee or gotten a new boo-boo on his elbow. It wasn't a complete lie. Waking up after his match with Yue in the coliseum, still bleeding and broken, stuck in that metal drawer with his eye suddenly missing and no idea how he'd been revived or why...
"Don't even worry about it!"
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