Fan fic Asylum - Chapter 19
Title: Asylum
Characters: Kato Shigeaki, OC, Tegoshi Yuya, Masuda Takahisa, Koyama Keichiro, Yamashita Tomohisa, Horikita Maki, Ryo Nishikido, Fujigaya Taisuke, Kimura Takuya, Gackt.
Rating: G13
Disclaimer: I own the story ONLY
Summary: When a group of mentally unstable people are the sanest people in a room, there is something wrong....
Chapter 19
G was back but told Yamashita and Koyama he wasn’t well enough to see them. He had even asked them not to come in, so they were talking through the door. Even if they had decided to all go see him together, it was a good idea for Yamashita and Koyama to go first. G didn’t tell them what had happened to him, but he did sound tired.
“Don’t leave them alone but be careful,” he said through the door once Yamashita put him up to date from the outside since the door had been locked. It was a rare occurrence but it had happened before.
“What is wrong with them? I know you know something,” Yamashita said.
G took a deep breath. “I thought you all wanted to talk to me together.” He sighed. He sounded weary and Yamashita decided to bite his tongue and hold back. “Give me a week to recover and we will talk. If things get much worse come back.”
“Okay,” Yamashita answered disappointed, feeling more and more that they were alone.
“Yamashita, Koyama, I’m sorry I can’t be of more help now, but…” he remained silent for a few seconds. “We will all talk soon,” he finished.
Yamashita and Koyama went back to the rest lost in their own thoughts.
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It was about 9 at night and Masuda was walking down one of the halls. He hated to walk alone in that place, especially at night. He often felt someone behind him and when he turned around there was no one there; sometimes he even thought he heard voices. He shook his head to clear his thoughts. No sense in spooking himself out with something that was merely autosuggestion.
He was on call today and now that there weren’t many people around was the right time to do what he was planning. It had been 2 days since Tegoshi had had his panic attack and he couldn’t stop thinking about it and Kimura sensei’s reaction and everything else he had been noticing.
He wanted to see the records of the people that had been transferred and some of the patients who had died, as well as the records for Tegoshi’s group of friends. Since none of them were his patients Kimura sensei wouldn’t let him see their records, so there he was, with a borrowed… okay, stolen key to the records’ office to see if anything made sense. Something was going on and he wanted to know what. If the patients were being hurt intentionally, he had to do something. Not only for Tegoshi, no, it was more than that. Not the fact that he still thought about how he had fit perfectly against him, when he had comforted and hugged… his patient.
He felt like such a bastard. Especially when he remembered the dreams he had been having…
No, no, that was no good. He put aside those thoughts as he reached the door he was looking for. He opened it. He went to where the files were kept and opened one of many filing cabinets. The records were all digitalized but he had no access to them through a computer, he was lucky that paper records were also kept in case there was a system failure. He read though some of them with his flashlight in hand.
First, he read the files of the people who had died or killed themselves. The diagnoses were varied. They didn’t seem to have much in common. In the cases where it hadn’t been a suicide the cause of dead was always natural causes, always a heart attack or a stroke, even the last man who had died. Masuda knew it couldn’t be right, he had seen the body and it couldn’t have been a heart attack. As for the others, yes, it was possible that they had died of natural causes but there were just too many of them and most were just too young.
He noticed, however, that before they died their doctors had recorded signs of violence and that the patients were having hallucinations, even if hallucinations were not part of their illness. He checked on the patients who had committed suicide and found that they had similar notations on their files.
He moved on to read Koyama’s and then Kato’s files, then, he found Tegoshi’s. He opened it and saw Tegoshi’s picture. He was 12 at the time, all wide eyes with a sad and wild expression.
He felt someone watching him. He felt someone breathing. He tensed up and turned slowly around and jumped back with a little scream.
Ryo laughed from the door. “If you are going to sneak around, at least close the door.”
Masuda just glared at the man while his heart slowed down. “I wasn’t sneaking around. I… I…”
Ryo turned on the lights. “Don’t worry. No one else will come around here.”
“Why are you here?” Masuda asked.
“No, no. Don’t turn this on me,” the other man said and looked at what was in his hand. “Ah, looking for a peek of Tegoshi’s file?” the man chuckled. “You like the little looney toon? And before you deny it, I was around when Kimura sensei opened the door. He had brought me in case he needed help. As soon as I saw things were under control I made myself scarce… and by that I mean I eavesdropped behind the door. Oh wait, he is your patient, why are you sneaking around to look at the file of your own patient.”
Masuda wasn’t sure how to react to all to that. He had first wanted defend Tegoshi for being called “Looney toon,” then, he wanted to deny that he thought of him as anything else that a patient. Then he was appalled that the man had seen them that day, but then again it hadn’t been anything bad. Then, he didn’t know how to explain his presence there. Before he said anything the other man saw the files.
“Not just Tegoshi’s then,” he murmured with a frown. “What are you looking for?”
Masuda took a deep breath. He really couldn’t come up with a good explanation and if the other man talked he was in trouble. He did like Ryo but he had no idea how much he could trust the man.
“Okay.” Since he couldn’t come up with anything he would go with the truth. “I’m looking for some answers. I haven’t been here long but I know something’s wrong. Patients dying, being transferred.”
“These patients are not dead and they haven’t been transferred.” Ryo said pointing at a small pile of files.
“No, but they do get special treatment. They run around and go wherever they want.”
“Well, not wherever they want. They are still here, aren’t they?” Ryo said but he was looking down and rubbing the back of his neck.
“You have helped them, haven’t you? How do they get you to do that?” The other man hesitated. “Look I don’t mean them any harm and I’m not going to cause trouble for you. I just want to understand. Tegoshi… he is scared. I’ve noticed it in the last sessions, the others seem scared too. I’ve been watching them. Kimura sensei has always been a little weird but it has been worse lately. And… I don’t want you to think I’m crazy or a scary cat but this place is getting creepier by the minute.”
Ryo narrowed his eyes. “They have information. All kinds of information.”
“What do you mean and how do they get it?”
“They know where things… valuable things are hidden. Private things about people. They give you the info you need and we help them sneak out once in a while, we turn the other way if we see Yamashita and Maki when they go off together somewhere. It’s never been anything dangerous. I don’t really know where they get the info, but it’s always accurate. And I also know that Kimura sensei is very relaxed with them, although he does keep a very close eye. I don’t know why either.”
“And the other things?”
“That, I have no idea about. But I do know what you mean, this place is been getting worse ever since I got here a year and a half ago. I don’t know what it is but I don’t want to find out and I’m getting out of here as soon as I get my transfer. I only feel bad for them,” Masuda knew who they were so he didn’t need to ask. “Tegoshi’s craziness aside, I always felt they shouldn’t be here, know what I mean? Well, Horikita, maybe, now… she’s not doing so well…”
Masuda nodded. He figured he wouldn’t find much more than what he already had so he everything back with Ryo’s help and they both left the office.
“If I hear anything else, I’ll let you know. I won’t say anything about tonight. But I would get the hell out of here if I were you, but if you want to find out more, I’ll help you… as long as it doesn’t risk my neck, of course. Oh, and look… about Tegoshi… I’m the last person that can give anybody a lecture but…”
“Really, it was nothing! He was having a…”
Ryo lifted a hand to stop him. “Yeah, yeah… fine. But I don’t think Kimura sensei is that relaxed. And well… Nothing, never mind… just… the guy’s been through a lot and I just don’t want you taking advantage of that. You seem a nice guy but I don’t know you and yeah… well see you around.”
Ryo left before Masuda could answer.
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Shige was lying on the rooftop. Summer had sneaked up on him. He couldn’t believe it was already the beginning of summer. It was a hot night but there was a soft breeze that made the un-kept rooftop just perfect. He felt Erika sit up. He opened his eyes and looked at her naked back. They knew it was probably stupid to be alone, especially after the last time they had been alone, but, well, they shut the nagging voice saying that since they didn’t have many opportunities to be alone. They would meet the others later to go see G. The time was coming to leave the rooftop and Shige really didn’t want to leave. It was really quiet and it seemed that they were out on a regular date rather than locked up in an institution where people went even crazier and died.
Erika hugged her legs and rested her check against her knees.
“Maki talked to me.”
“Really? What did she say?”
“Sh-she said that if she weren’t here, sh-she wouldn’t hurt anybody. I’m scared of what she might do.” She reached for her clothes and put them on. Shige put on his pants. They were in a rooftop after all, hardly a private place.
Instead of leaving, they sat back on the blanket. “Maybe…” she started but stopped.
“Maybe what?”
“Maybe Yamashita is right. Maybe we should get out of here. Maybe she and Fujigaya will get better if we leave.”
He didn’t know what to say because he didn’t know how he felt about that. If he left he wouldn’t be able to see his mother again, not that she was visiting him anymore. The visits had been further and further apart after the first couple of months and they had stopped all together on the third month. Two months ago he had called her and she had said that she was fine and happy. Oh yeah and that he would have a little brother or sister and that she had been told that the stress of seeing him there was not good for her. Whatever. His relationship with his mother had always been strained in the best of circumstances, and this was anything but that. He was fine just knowing that she was really okay.
“I know,” she said. “I know how you feel but I’m very scared. I… I think even the g-ghosts are leaving. Something is scaring them or keeping them away.”
Shige got closer to her and put his arm on her shoulders and brought her near.
“A-are their faces…” Erika started to ask.
Shige nodded.
He had eventually told Erika of course, and then Tegoshi and of course they couldn’t keep anything from Yamashita and Koyama but they decided not to tell anything to Maki and Fujigaya. There was nothing they could do; it would just make them feel worse. They just waited and watch them and stayed clear from other patients with similar symptoms.
“We’ll go tonight and see what G has to say and then decide. I’m thinking that it is a good idea to leave, too.”
Erika lifted her head, looked at him and smiled a little.
“Okay,” she said.
It was time to leave but Shige leaned forward and brushed his lips against hers. He kissed her bottom lip and she sighed and Shige deepened the kiss. She kissed him back and wrapped her arms around his neck. He pushed her down and he followed her. He started to run his hands through her stomach under her shirt and she gave out a little groan.
“What is this impropriety?”
Shige really wanted to ignore his roommate. “Go away.” He said against her lips. Erika chuckled.
“I hope that now that you’ve compromised her virtue you will marry her. I can get a shotgun, you know?”
Erika pulled away and started laughing. Shige growled and glared at his annoying roommate.
Tegoshi put his hands up in a soothing gesture. “Fine, fine. Be a couple of sinners. But seriously, we have to get going.”
Shige put on his shirt and they both went with Tegoshi. Fujigaya was waiting inside. He looked like crap. They knew he wasn’t sleeping very well. He said that when he went to sleep, he either had nightmares or he started to hurt. Sometimes it was his head, others some other part would hurt from the inside.
The four of them went to meet the rest and then to talk to G.
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They didn’t go to his room. They went to a room that looked like the offices where board directors meet. It had a long table and some old chairs. I was clean but it still had that empty feeling a room which had not been used in ages gives you. It was not well lighted. Shige looked up and noticed that only one of the lamps was working.
G. turned around when they went in but he wasn’t alone, Shige now noticed. There was another man.
Kimura sensei.
They stopped, looking at the two men. Shige was sure the rest of them were just as shocked.
“Please, come in, sit down. We have a lot to talk about.”
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Next chapter will come with many revelations xD
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