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Day 54: Intercom, Dawn

Jan 09, 2011 23:52

The sun rose steadily across the sky, as it always did, but what seemed to move with even more clock-like rigidness were the uniformed personnel who marched alongside the Institute's usual staff as they made their morning rounds. The nurses and even the burliest of the orderlies seemed nervous at the uncharacteristic additions, shooting glances at ( Read more... )

byrne, miku, ippo, intercom, hijikata

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terriblehaiku January 11 2011, 02:37:17 UTC

Hijikata woke up disorientated. It happened occasionally, when he fell asleep while working or had been pushing himself for too long. But even when that happened, he tended to recognize the room he was in ( ... )

corvus_veritas January 11 2011, 04:57:47 UTC

It was the strangest awakening the middle-aged prosecutor ever had.

But stranger still was how he'd blacked out in the first place. Byrne must've fainted or passed out, there was no way he fell asleep at the bench with all that drama going on. Fainted from an accusation? Was he really that weak at heart? No no no, no way. He'd wanted to pummel Mack Rell to the ground, not faint. But as much as his pride hated to admit it, he found himself in darkness as soon as he heard the judge's gavel ( ... )

M?? rolling_go January 11 2011, 07:43:23 UTC

Ippo's eyes opened easily and adjusted to the low lighting in the room. He lay rather passively as he stared up at an unfamiliar ceiling. It wasn't his room. The young man wondered if he was still waiting in the locker room, but that didn't make much sense. After how many hits he took in the title match, Ippo was certain he shouldn't be able to do more than groan and lose consciousness again.

Strangely enough, Ippo felt rather refreshed and neither of his eyes were swollen shut. That was his biggest tip off that something wasn't correct. His right eye was almost always swollen shut when he woke up the next day after a match. Nothing felt puffy or achy once he took quick stock of himself. He turned his head and saw the clinical and sterile white of a hospital. Had he slept so long that he was already healed? Had he slipped into a coma? It was common enough in his profession, but the thought had never really thought he would be one of those statistics until now. Oh man, his mother was probably worried sick ( ... )

Re: M?? rolling_go January 11 2011, 07:43:54 UTC

The nurse's trained face never wavered. "Well, you had an accident. You jumped in front of a bus, and a friend of yours called for an ambulance. But everything is alright. Your mother was informed and she thought this would be the best place for you. We'll take good care of you, Hiro. We've treated former athletes before ( ... )

F? rope_victim January 14 2011, 03:58:21 UTC

The cry of alarm came bubbling up out of Miku’s throat uncontrolled. Here, she was here again. Here where the nightmares roamed freely and where every day was slow, mind-numbing torture (sometimes with rice). She didn’t want to be back in the Institute again, and yet, there she was, lying on scratchy, thin sheets, staring up at the white, smooth ceiling and without everything all over again.

Again, she didn’t remember how she got here. She didn’t remember when she’d left, either, only that she knew that she’d gone to sleep after a night once and was waking up during the day, but there was nothing there. No middle to tell her that maybe she’d just slept over long, or was recovering from some horrible injury. Even her wrist scar looked old. Miku clapped a hand over her mouth to muffle the sob.

She wanted to be free! She wanted to go home!

Calm down, calm down, she told herself. Calm down, this is just a dream, and you’re going to pinch yourself and wake up. It’s okay, it’s okay. Miku reached over and dutifully pinched her arm. The ( ... )