Day 36: Waiting Room/Lobby 2

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Okita hadn't been expecting it when his nurse suddenly appeared in the Game Room. He'd expected to be left alone like last week, but instead she gently took him by the arm and told him he needed to say goodbye to Kaden for now. Okita assumed it was time for his visitor and waved goodbye to him, only to be led off himself. The swordsman had

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[notaghostreally]

"You're very lucky, Danny, to have two visitors in a row!"

Danny wasn't sure what to make of the statement. He didn't know whether to be glad to see familiar faces who weren't Vlad, or to be anxious in case they might've been brainwashed or clueless or whatever was up with Jazz last week.

Once he stepped into the waiting room, he began to wonder who would be visiting him. Tucker? Sam? His parents? Not like it really mattered, since Danny had no idea what he would say anyway. "Help, I'm stuck in a crazy house that's trying to kill me" hadn't gone over so well last time.

Sitting up straight in his seat, unintentionally on alert, he waited for his visitor, praying that they wouldn't act the same way Jazz did.

[notaghostreally]

Danny followed Vikky's gaze, realizing that the girl she was talking about was Shiki. In all honesty, he hadn't paid much attention to her hair. After all, his hair was white, of all things, and not in an old-person kind of way.

Whatever happened at the "Tasty Burger," it must have been bad. Real bad. Valerie was normally pretty blunt, so for her to try and steer the conversation away from the topic at hand was a pretty big sign.

"Vikky." He gave her an expectant look. "I want to know what happened at the Tasty Burger." What could convince her more? "It's so I can...get out of here sooner and go back home!"

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So he could get out of here sooner? How was traumatizing him again going to get him out sooner? Unless it was the serious denial that was keeping him there in the first place, in which case it probably would be better if he knew, but...

This was just too difficult. "Look, it was... real unfortunate." She sighed. No one wanted to hear that someone close to them had died in a Tasty Burger explosion of all things. "Your two best friends were there, and the former Vice Principal."

[notaghostreally]

It was what he had been expecting. Whatever happened in that alternate timeline...was it true? Obviously Jazz and his parents were still alive, but then what about the rest? Did the rest of it come true? And how did it even happen, if Dan didn't exist?

"Sam and Tuck and Mr. Lancer were in the explosion?" he said, his posture suddenly weakening. He was unsure how to react to the news. So in some alternate timeline or other world or something, this was what happened to him? "But...how? What happened?"

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They weren't the right names, but Vikky was pretty sure they were the right people. It wasn't the time for correcting, either, so she just nodded sadly.

"I don't know! I wasn't there. You were all just... staying around to work on some project or other, I think." It wasn't as though there was anyone left to ask. "Something shattered in one of the pipes and BOOM."

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"A project? It wasn't a parent-teacher conference? We weren't taking the CATs?" Danny wasn't even sure what to make of this anymore. From what Vikky was saying, all of this was happening in this world (it had to be this world, right? Or else she personally travelled here from some other world, and he didn't think she had the means to do that). Did that mean there was another Danny around here? And if that was true, where was the kid, if Danny himself was here?

"Vikky, what town do we live in? What's the name of our school?"

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[Holy crap! I'm so sorry! I forgot it was my turn! ;_;]

The what? "Taking the cats... where?" Vikky shook her head. It wasn't time to be trying to understand some of Danny's nonsense. He remembered something, it looked like, but he'd covered it up with falsehoods.

And now he was asking more questions. Should she even answer them? Had she said too much? Surely he was going to get upset now, and that wouldn't be any good for his rehabilitation.

"Look... I should go..." she glanced towards the exit, noticing (thankfully) that there were others leaving as well. "I'm sorry. I didn't want to bring this up with you. It was a terrible accident."

[notaghostreally]

So this was a completely different situation. But it still bothered him that even in this world, the Nasty Burger (or rather, Tasty Burger) boiler had been blown sky high. If it happened in two worlds, what was that saying? Furthermore, did that mean his future self could come back? The idea made him shudder.

When Vikky began leaving, he objected. "No, wait, I still want to talk to you!" He had more questions for her! Despite this, though, he felt helpless and fully expected Vikky to leave anyway.

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"I... I can't, Danny. I'm sorry!" Maybe on her next visit... or when he was better. When she could word things more properly and not worry about sending him off the deep end again.

"I'll talk to you later, okay? Really." She stopped just long enough to give him a quick hug before backing away. Later, when he was better...