Janitor/Office log new school year flavor [audio/action]

[whitedeviljack]

[Raiden's voice rings over this post; quiet and raspy... clearly too tired sounding to even make an effort to type. He sounds downright glum. Defeated. Guilty.]

Bunch of new people, huh? Hi. I'm Raiden, the janitor.

I'm taking a couple of days off. ...Just deal with it.

[Even that lacks its usual bitter, vindicated edge and he ends the voice

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Date and Relative time: August 17, early evening
Where: TD-03
Open or Closed?: Open.

Mei Ling knocked on the door of Raiden's room. At first it was just a tiny knock that was just audible. There was no reply, so she ended up knocking harder.

"Raiden? It's me, Mei Ling."

She knocked again, this time a bit harder and louder. Standing next to her was a Pikachu who was just looking curiously at Mei Ling, tail swaying.

"Open the door. Please? Raiden!"

Mei Ling hoped Raiden wasn't angsting. Because amongst all her friends who angst, Raiden was probably the best one out of all of them at doing it.

[whitedeviljack]

This guy had a 4.0 in angstology. Mei Ling would find TD-03 strangely quiet, as if the person inside was still being a mopey mope and not answering the door.

...or, it could have been he was just coming back from his meeting with Nabooru and about to go lie around in his dorm and be a mopey mope, not answering the door. He snuck up behind Mei Ling in the hallway, a questionable look on his face as she knocked on his door.

"Mei Ling?" Was that a Pikachu at her side...?

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Mei Ling turned around, surprised that Raiden managed to sneak up on her like that. The difference between away from your and moping weren't too different, now that she thought about it. Characterised by silence and inertness. 'I guess he was still doing his janitor duties.' she thought.

"Hey." she began after calming down. "You don't look too good. I wanted to check on you, because there was Otacon before and now... well, I don't want you locking yourself up in your room for extended periods of time."

The Pikachu just sat there, still looking curiously at Raiden. Who was this blonde guy, she wondered?

[whitedeviljack]

"What was wrong with Otacon?" He asked, eager to take the subject off of him because ha ha that was precisely what he was doing and planned on to continue doing.

Though, the little yellow Pokemon caught his attention and his traveled down. "Is that a Pikachu?"

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"Pikachu?" Mei Ling looked down and noticed that her Pikachu was waving at Raiden. "Oh, Raimei..."

She picked up her Pikachu and held it out to Raiden as if it were her child.

"This is Raimei."

It took her another moment to realise what was missing in this picture. A portly Squirtle wasn't tagging around at Raiden's heels anymore and it didn't take her long to figure out what the cause of Raiden's worries were. Poor Gamera was either missing or stolen.

"About Otacon, well. He locked himself up in his room after Neris left. He gets traumatised by the outside world."

[whitedeviljack]

"What, was he dating her or something?"

He tried really hard not to glare at Raimei in bitter remorse, keeping his voice to a raspy growl.

"You just got her, didn't you?"