Day 54: Doctor's Office 8 (Dr. Disraeli) [Second Shift]

[adoptingmylove]

Normally Jizabel was one to brush off any and all nurse gossip fluttering through the hallways, but with so much clear excitement, not to mention the presence of what he could only assume was some organization's military, he left his ears open to what would catch in them. Talks of a patient riot and subsequent tear gassing piqued his curiosity to

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[blood_and_pocky]

Aidou hadn’t thought he’d ever think so, but in some ways he was actually grateful to be up for therapy just so that he could get away from the cafeteria and the Sun Room and not have some goon get in his way.

What a disaster! Having had another night drift past in failure, he’d been expecting… well, not that. The military presence had immediately piqued his worst suspicions (and instincts), but to have another riot? Perhaps it wasn’t so surprising. Most of those who’d been around to witness in person what could happen if the staff was threatened en masse were probably no longer around, and he couldn’t be the only one who wanted to shed blood…

He was disgusted with the state of affairs, so much so that he thought he could choke some days, but he hadn’t been swept into violence by his frustration, which had come as a surprise to at least one part of him, the part roused by the tense atmosphere, the chance to break the daytime’s façade of normalcy. The slim, illusory chance, anyway. The cold calculation was what had kept him on the

[adoptingmylove]

"Only insofar as what I've gleaned off the chattering nurses," the Doctor readily admitted, just in case the boy was inclined to speak on the matter.

Fortunately for Jizabel, the patient seemed rather fine. Better, in fact, than even those nurses rushing about. Composure was a good thing, and much more appreciated than a sedated and apparently gassed stupor that Jizabel could have been dealing with. Part of Jizabel wondered if Mr. Fairbairn had been fortunate enough to avoid breakfast entirely as the young man looked unfrazzled by even the subsequent gassing he'd heard tell of.

May as well make a point of it. The boy had brought it up himself, after all. "You look remarkably unscathed if I'm to take what I've heard as fact, I must say."

[blood_and_pocky]

If the staff categorized as therapists were a bodily threat, it was difficult to tell when they were rarely near conflict. But on the matter of principle, it was better that they hadn’t been present on top of all the other foes. Sedation was perhaps the least detrimental punishment--in comparison to 'solitary' where who knew what could go on, or another case of inexplicable weakness where one was virtually immobilized--but it was still a disabling one, and those connected to the hospital were always too eager to wield their syringes

[adoptingmylove]

A hand went up as the Doctor gave a casual shrug. "I've simply been told to tolerate them for now," he explained, though Jizabel was only inferring that much