[fic] Desolation Angel - Chapter 1
Title : Desolation Angel - Chapter 1
Pairing : akame, more pairings will be informed later.
Genre : AU, Angst, a little bit fluffy.
Rating : PG.
Warning : girl!Kame, character death.
Beta : none
Disclaimer: it's a pure fiction
a/n : Hello! This is the first chapter, hope you can enjoy~
It’s been almost two years since the last time he visited this place, all memories that came rush into his brain make him wants to just turn around and leave. However, it will be such a waste if he just turn and leave because he has prepared for this day, to visit a certain nurse who works here to say thanks for all her kindness during his stay at this place. He still remembers vividly where to find her, so he doesn’t need to ask the receptionist.
On his way to the nurse room, he pass a room with the door opened. Somehow, it makes him feel curious so he peek inside the room and there is a young lady and a nurse, who seem trying hard to cheer her up or to make her talk. But all of the nurse’s attempts seem to be futile, the young lady still sit motionless on her bed while staring at an empty space in front of her. The young lady looks so depressed though, it makes him even more curious what has happened to her.
He is too engrossed on staring at the young lady he doesn’t realize that he is already inside the room. The nurse get startled by his sudden appearance, so he quickly apologizing to her as he drags his feet towards the door. When he is about to close the door, he sees the young lady turning her head to his way, and for a fleeting moment he can see a deep sadness on her eyes. Ignoring the weird sensation that suddenly appearing inside his chest, he decides to just closing the door and continue his way to the nurse room.
He feels a huge disappointment when he get to the nurse room, because the nurse he wanted to see already retired from her job since a year ago. If only he visited her last year, he would’ve probably already delivered his gratitude directly to her. Sighing, he decides to go home, maybe he will come again tomorrow to ask for her address to the hospital staffs.
On his way back, he pass that room again, but this time the door is closed. He doesn’t really get it why he so wanting to open the door to see if the young lady will be still inside the room. It's as if his hand had its own brain because when he realized, the door has already been opened by him. This time, he only see the young lady, still sitting on her bed like how he found her before, the only difference is she holding a doll.
Curiosity led him to walk closer to that young lady, to see that the doll she’s holding is a shabby baby doll. The lady doesn't seem to be bothered by his presence, she keeps humming a lullaby while stroking the doll’s hair gently, as if the doll is her real baby. As he see that, he feels the surge of weird sensation inside his chest come again, there is something in that lady that bug his mind. He feels like he ever seen her before, but he can't remember when and where. Doesn't know what to do he decides to come back here again tomorrow, with that thought he walks back to the door and close it, leaving the young lady with what looks like her precious baby doll.
The next day, he comes again as he planned yesterday. He wants to know about that lady. Because, even after one sleepless night thinking about when and where he met that lady before, he still can’t find anything in his memory related to the young lady, yet he feels strongly attached to her.
Feeling frustrated, he just walks straight to that young lady’s room. When he arrives in front of her room, the door isn't closed and he notices that she isn't alone this time. There is the nurse whom he saw was trying to cheer her up the day before, the nurse is brushing her hair this time. However, just like the other day, the young lady still pays no attention to the nurse. The fact that the young lady seems to be unresponsive to her surrounding irks him.
He musters up courage to approach the nurse who is brushing her hair. He taps the nurse’s shoulder lightly, not wanting to startle the young lady. “Uhm.. excuse me,” he says to the nurse who turns her head with puzzled expression. “Can I talk with you for a few minutes?” he continues. The nurse who seems to recognize him as the same guy who came to this room yesterday nods then following him to walk a little bit further from that young lady.
“Is there anything I can do to help you?” The nurse asks when they’re far enough for the young lady, she is still holding the comb she used to brush that young lady’s hair.
“Uhm.. I’ve been wondering, what has happened to her?” Aware of what will come next, he continues, “Don’t get me wrong, I have no bad intention to her, just curious, because it looks like she doesn’t even care about her surrounding anymore.”
“Do you know her?”
“No, I don’t.”
The nurse looks disappointed by his answer. “Ah.. I thought you know her,” says the nurse. “She came here seven months ago. Well, actually it’s more like, she was brought here by police officers. She was unconscious when they brought her here.”
“Seven months? And she’s been like that since seven months ago?”
“Yes. It looks like she had experienced a very bad thing before she was found unconscious by police at warehouse near the port. She screamed and cried after she woke up and realized where she was. We need to give her sedative to calm her down because she was so hysterical that time,” the nurse continues her story about that young lady.
“Then what happened afterwards?” He asks again.
“She has a severe stress and depression since then, the police couldn’t ask her anything because of that. Even us, some nurse who were assigned to take care of her, haven’t really managed to get her to talk. She never respond every time we ask her name, so we know nothing about her.”
Can't contain his shock after hearing the nurse's story about the young lady, he can only gaping at that. Seven months is quite a long time, then another question comes to his brain, “So she doesn’t have any visitor?”
“No, no one. The police entrusted her to this hospital while they’re investigating her case with a hope that they will find her family or maybe friends, yet there’s still no news about a family or friend of her who is looking for her. So we remain clueless about her identity. That’s why when you showed up yesterday, I thought we finally found a person who knows her.”
Out of nowhere, he feels surge of sympathy towards her. Without thinking, he approaches the young lady who is still staring at the floor with that empty look, “Hello..” He begins, hoping that his greeting will at least make her to look at him, however the young lady remains in her position without even moving her gaze.
“Hey.. I’m Jin, Akanishi Jin. May I know your name?” The lady is still ignoring him, the only change attitude of her is she knotting the corner of her pajama after Jin asks her name. Still not looking at him, the lady seems to be bothered by Jin’s presence though. Afraid of the reaction he might triggered out of the lady, Jin decides to take this matter slowly.
“Can I be her regular visitor?” he walks to the nurse as he asks that, “I know a person who ever been at her state, depressed. I think I can help.” He doesn't know why he should feel burdened by this young lady mental state, one thing he understands that he really wants to help her. Besides, he still has this feeling that he ever met this young lady somewhere before, maybe he can regain his memory about her while helping her. Such a nice plan, isn't it? He also hasn't been very busy lately so it won’t be a problem to come to visit her here on a daily basis.
He's too deep in thought, he doesn’t realize the nurse is still there and he needs her answer.“That’s alright, I guess. You as her regular visitor. Maybe it really could help her, having a friend will never be a bad thing. She’s not the only patient here so we can’t really take care of her other than helping her to take a shower, changing her clothes, and deliver her meal.”
“So, Mr. Akanishi Jin, right? Please come visit her anytime you want. I think you can start now.” With that said, the nurse leaves the room. After the nurse leaves the room, the atmosphere has turned to be kind of awkward for him. The young lady still sits like a statue, while he doesn't know what he should do to make her talk.
Sighing, this is going to be difficult, he thinks. But something in this young lady makes him really wants to help her no matter what it takes. The thought makes him shiver, he has never felt this way before. Whatever, he tries to push that thought away. The first thing he has to do is to find out the name of this young lady. Because he doesn’t want to call her with ‘hey you’ or ‘hey girl’, that would be impolite. When he looks at her, she already fell asleep. Sighing for the nth time that day, he tucks her into bed, put a blanket over her, he walks towards the door then closing it quietly. Tomorrow, he will definitely come again.
Chapter 2
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a/n : Hi! Hope this chapter didn't make you feel bored. I'm sure there are a lot of questions popping up on your mind right now XD Don't worry, you'll find the answer very slowly in each chapter. Thank you for reading, comments are loved and appreciated~♥♥ see you on the next chapter! :)