[from here]The room across from Professor Stein’s old office was furnished, if only sparsely. That made Tsubaki think there had to be a doctor using it, which gave her hope ( Read more... )

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What was inside was… essentially nothing. An empty room waiting to be filled by a future therapist.

Tsubaki had expected as much, but it was almost lonely seeing his office cleared out, the smell of cigarettes now long gone. At least he’s not using you anymore, she thought. But the Head Doctor was still manipulating the rest of the ( Read more... )

[from here]Tsubaki hadn’t spent a lot of time around the doctor’s offices since, well… since Professor Stein had left. Disappeared. Quit. She didn’t really know. Thinking about it too hard threatened to let in a lot of distracting feelings that neither of them could afford, so Tsubaki worked to remember the task at hand ( Read more... )

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"Just this next hall?" she asked as they neared the far end of the main hall. Rapunzel hadn't been out to this wing of the Institute in a few days, not since she and Ippo had gone out to the Greenhouse yard. Agh, I should probably check in on him tomorrow. I don't think I did today, Rapunzel thought with a wince. Clueless flirt or not ( Read more... )

[From here]Looked like she was the first one out this way. Utena stopped just short of the Sun Room, turning her light back to see if anyone she knew was coming up the hall behind her. No one so far ( Read more... )

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Taura pondered the announcement she'd just heard as she jogged down another empty hallway. Who was she? Jill? Who he'd tortured himself, though that could have been an act on her part as well? Whose side had she been on? And what could have happened to her that would be permanent ( Read more... )

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Now that Ilia had left, there was plenty of room to pace, and Lana took it. It would help keep her muscles loose, too. Ilia had been a help, but the most important point was getting the basics to Ema -- including the part about running away being the best thing to do if she couldn't help. She would hold onto that guilt; Lana knew ( Read more... )

After handling two conversations that had been difficult for completely different reasons, Castiel had to admit that he felt weary. It was not a sensation that was new to him; between Izaya showing far too much interest in his kind and Ruby simply being who she was, some peace and quiet was what he craved ( Read more... )

And so it seemed that everything had gone back to normal ( Read more... )

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Kirk ran into the main hallway and found nothing there except more pink light coating everything. His gut feeling said that if something was happening, it should've happened already, but he was a loss to explain what was going on. The system (if he could call it that, vague as it was to describe the whole Landel's torture/ ( Read more... )