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DAY 55: Sun Room [2nd Shift]

Mar 13, 2011 03:36

[ from here ]Either she was the only unlucky person to experience a freezing shower, or she just hadn't built up the tolerance for it that the more seasoned patients had. Whichever it was, she was the first person into the sun room and while normally she wouldn't mind that, the soldiers were majorly creepy and she was kind of hoping for some kind ( Read more... )

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human_sponge March 13 2011, 19:51:20 UTC

Peter left the first shift feeling guilty that he hadn't been able to help with the cleaning effort and worried for the newcomer who he'd just met. Firo had definitely started to believe some of his words by the end of their conversation, which was encouraging. Peter felt that he'd explained as much as he could without completely losing the kid, and chances were that he'd have more explained to him as the day went by. He'd done his best ( ... )

composers_proxy March 14 2011, 05:26:25 UTC

[from here]His spikes were still drying so outside didn't seem a great option. To his surprise, the soldiers were okay with letting him into the Sun Room for a while and Neku took full advantage and checked the bulletin first, his stomach sinking a little when he saw that there was a post from the creepy guy with the ballpoint pen from last night. As if he didn't already feel like crap for trying to Erase half the patients, he had crazy murder-you-with-a-pen-in-the-face man looking to ask him a few more questions (in other words, rearrange his face until he talked, right ( ... )

human_sponge March 14 2011, 06:25:54 UTC

Of all the people Peter might have guessed would come to talk to him, this had to be the least likely. He glanced up when he saw the kid from the night before approaching. Even though he knew that he was responsible for the pain he was in right now, all Peter felt as he watched him walk over was pity. He knew exactly what it felt like to be used by this place, after all ( ... )

composers_proxy March 15 2011, 14:51:04 UTC

The guy didn't freak out, but from someone who'd taken a severe beating last night without so much as flinching, Neku didn't really expect it. As for forgiveness... Neku couldn't say he was looking for it, couldn't say he felt like he deserved it, but the guy was surprisingly understanding. For the handful of words Neku had gotten out, this guy had already pretty much summed everything else up. He hadn't wanted to hurt anyone, but what's done was done.

"It's still pretty messed up," he sighed. Even if the guy had been in the same position before, well... all the more reason for him to understand that it sucked. And that just letting something like that go was way harder than it sounded.

"Anyway," he tried, "I thought I could make it up to you, but they took my Psychs this morning too." Even the pins Mr. H had made were gone. He hadn't expected to keep the brand-name clothing or much else, but for everything to be gone? Couldn't he keep his headphones? Were they that heartless?

human_sponge March 15 2011, 18:30:55 UTC

Messed up was an understatement, but Peter realized what the kid was getting at. No matter how many people told him that he didn't need to blame himself, it wasn't going to be that simple. Peter was just as good as heaping all of the blame for an issue onto his own shoulders, so he could relate to that. It was true that he'd been burned badly -- the wheelchair made that obvious without him having to say a thing -- but he'd recover, and faster than if this had happened back home. Even faster if he met up with Claire at night ( ... )

composers_proxy March 16 2011, 21:20:51 UTC

Normally he'd be a little more hesitant to talk about it, but he owed this guy an explanation, whether he'd meant to hurt him and his friends or not. If he'd still had the pins Mr. H left him, at least he'd be able to do something, but without even that, he was pretty useless.

"This morning. They never had a problem with my headphones til these jerks took over," he nodded in the direction of the nearest soldiers. It was annoying enough that he couldn't at least shut out a lot of the noise, whether he listened to music with them or not.

"Psychs. Like how I... last night. Mostly attack stuff, but I had some healing ones too. They look like little round pins. They're like- They help me focus. Like borrowing someone's imagination to make it happen. It's-... complicated."

He kicked the floor a few times before finally looking up again. "I'm Neku. Sakuraba. But just Neku is cool."

human_sponge March 16 2011, 21:46:09 UTC

Of all the things to take, headphones? Peter didn't see what sort of threat those would pose or what the soldiers hoped to accomplish by taking them away, but his guess was that it was all a part of getting them more disciplined -- like they could beat obedience into them if they broke them down enough times. That hadn't worked with the previous setup, and he really doubted it would work now. If anything, it was just going to make them more eager to get the hell out of here.

It sounded like Peter's first guess had been right and this kid had things that would grant him abilities. It was totally different from his own experience, and he had no idea how pins that were based on imagination could cause lightning bolts to be thrown, but he really wasn't in a position to question it. He was apparently some kind of mutant, after all ( ... )

composers_proxy March 21 2011, 04:34:15 UTC

At least he hadn't erased the guy, but Neku still felt guilty for putting him in that chair, no matter how he might try to smile and shrug it off. It was this place's fault, he knew that, but it was still his Psychs, his powers, his body that had been used to hurt other people.

"I didn't get a lot of time to look around, but yeah, it was all gone," he sighed, annoyed, but not with Peter. At least he understood what was going on and that it wasn't some grudge match. It wasn't like he enjoyed hurting everyone who crossed his path.

"Is that what the numbers are for then?" he'd seen a Peter posting on the bulletin sometimes, but most of it wasn't relevant to what he was looking for. And he didn't want to bother asking about the little numbers on the board itself. But if there was more than one, it made sense for them to use some kind of system to tell them apart. "Couldn't you just use your family names?"

human_sponge March 21 2011, 18:20:46 UTC

Maybe the fact that Neku's things had been taken had something to do with his brainwashing stint the night before, but maybe it didn't. It wasn't like Peter had taken inventory after waking up. He'd kind of been distracted by the pain he was in, not to mention all of the changes that the institute was going through. Still, it was something he was going to have to look into when he got back to his room that night. If all those supplies he'd gotten from the pharmacy last night were now gone, he was really going to be kicking himself ( ... )

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