Day 36: Waiting Room/Lobby 1
Oh yeah. This was bad. Grabbing a chair and ignoring the woman who had brought him in, Takaya crossed his arms and glared at the wall. He wasn't going to participate in this bullshit. Being told he had 'company' and that he should he happy about it had ruined what was otherwise an okay day
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The nurse deposited her in an uncomfortable chair and asked her politely to wait.
.... Could her dad be coming? Would he? She'd been making up excuses for him not to all day. But the idea that he actually might.... She fidgeted unconsciously at the thought, brushing her bangs over the wound on the side of her head. There was nothing she could do about the arm in a sling, though - he'd see it and know she'd screwed something up.
Waiting, even for a few minutes, galled her. Her toes scraped against the floor and her fingers beat idly against her leg.
Please, please come, Daddy, she thought fiercely, as if he could hear her and ( ... )
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"Jaye," he said levelly, looking down at her through his glasses, "are you ready to stop this game yet?"
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"Daddy," she said quietly, trying to figure out why he was doing this. He loved her; he wouldn't do anything to hurt her. So why this? "Don't make me stay here anymore. Please. I'll be good, I promise. I'll be better." She looked up at him without raising her chin, her eyes pleading. Maybe if she told him about the list she'd been making, of all the people here with abilities, he'd be proud of her and take her home to the facility.
"Peter Petrelli's here," she blurted out before she could stop herself. "I can get him back. I won't mess up this time."
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"Jaye," he said, enunciating her name slowly, "you have to understand that it's not that I don't want you to come back home... it's that I can't let you back until you're ready to perform proper work for the company, which you're unable to do in your current condition."
He tilted his head.
"If you want to get out of here, you're just going to have to try harder."
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As she quickly discovered, however, she didn't have a choice. The calm that had settled over her throughout the day seemed to fade almost as soon as the nurse told her that she had a visitor today, and MOMO wrung her hands as she was led to one of the waiting rooms.
The nurse directed her to a chair and gave her shoulder a pat before moving away, going to fetch whoever it was visiting, she assumed. On that thought, who was she going to see? There were people she wanted to see, yes, but... not here. Not like this ( ... )
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Only she promised. Despite all the stress, Lilian was committed to honoring that request. After all, it was her lack of commitment that landed them in this mess originally.
So she came, doctor's coat and all. The woman paused thoughtfully by the entrance of the lobby, her eyes glossing over the multiple occupants. They finally stopped at the familiar shade of pink, causing the woman to sigh inaudibly. Had they even been feeding her properly?
Lilian drew closer to her daughter's seat. "Elena."
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"It's...good to see you as well, Elena," she answered, lightly patting the girl's back. Dr. Taylor was not the woman for hugs, that much was certain, but she supposed an exception could be made for this moment. Elena appeared eager for affection; she couldn't possibly turn that away.
Until time became a factor. Eventually, she pushed her daughter's arms gently back to her sides. "Why don't we sit down?" Lilian suggested awkwardly before gesturing to the seats. "I'm sure you have a lot of things you would like to tell me."
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Or Brook was letting his imagination run away with him, either or.
The nurse seated him and assured that the visitor was indeed his before leaving to go about her duties. "I wonder..." Brook breathed and looked about for any sign of someone he may recognize. This was his visitor, so it stood that he'd be able to at least recognize the person, didn't it? Somehow it was exciting!
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Yohan took the empty seat next to his friend without feeling the need to ask. Then he gestured at Brook's outfit with a laugh. "Look at that. They actually make those uniforms in size 'String-Bean'?"
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The hat was the first giveaway - not many people wore that style normally - but when Brook saw the face he froze in place. That was who the voice belonged to? But... that was Yorki! But it couldn't be Yorki! Yorki was...! While Brook had entertained the thought that Yorki and the rest of his crew had survived their passage through the Clam Belt, were he to meet his Captain again he'd have to be at least eighty years old, if not older! The young man he was seeing couldn't be Yorki. It just couldn't ( ... )
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"Don't go running away from me after I came up here to see you, damn it!" Keeping his grip on Florien's shirt, he grabbed the man's arm with his other hand - all the while keeping an eye on the nurses to make sure they didn't try an intervene. "Settle down now. Come back and sit, scrawny."
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"I'm fine, thanks," John told the nurse at his side. He shouldn't have too much trouble finding his old friend--this was Wally. Besides his natural exuberance, they ran into each other a lot... enough so John wondered if the Universe was trying to tell him something. Possibly along the lines of "you know SOMEONE needs to keep an eye on him."
Aha, there he was. Considering what had been going on lately, John wondered if he should be glad to see Wally sitting calmly--for him, at least. Honestly, he'd be worried if the guy wasn't fidgeting at least a little; he wasn't sure he wanted to know how Wally had gotten hurt enough to need crutches, though whatever the answer to that was probably wouldn't surprise him all that much...
"Hey." John went over and sat across from him, glancing Wally over to see if he'd managed to acquire any other injuries. "Been doing all right?"
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Wally had been looking around to see if any of the nurses would notice if he snuck away when an all-too-familiar voice brought his attention back to the person in front of him. "John!" he said, both surprised and pleased to see the older man. "Dude, you're a sight for sore eyes, how did you find me?" He didn't want to say that he'd been beginning to think that the League weren't going to show up after all. It was a huge relief to see that he'd been wrong.
He couldn't keep the grin off his face as he impatiently waved John to take a seat, wincing slightly as his knee throbbed again. "I'm okay, but this place could really use some of our brand of pest control, if you know what I mean."
He paused, there was something off about John that he couldn't quite place, something nagging at the back of his mind that was trying to get his attention despite his happiness at seeing his friend again. Wally wasn't sure what it could be though, so did his best to ignore it for the time being.
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Pest control? Was he reminding John he still remembered his friend was a cop? "Huh. There's a few criminal types in there?" That had to be weird, if nothing else... and hey, it was a plus that Wally could still identify what was out of the ordinary. "At least you and I don't technically have any professional connections, I guess.
"So, them aside, this place treating you all right?" It would probably take a while to find the right medication that actually worked on him, Wally being Wally, and his metabolism couldn't help either, but being in-patient was supposed to speed the process up a little. He could imagine hearing the process compared to a sloth versus a snail, but--seriously, Wally needed to learn patience anyway.
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He followed the nurse down the hall, arriving at a room he hadn't been to before. He yawned loudly, feeling somewhat more alert than when she woke him, but not yet fully coherent.
"Take a seat," she told him cheerfully. "Your visitor will join you shortly!"
She bustled off then, and Kaito dropped into one of the chairs, wondering who was supposed to be his 'visitor'… Was it going to be someone he didn't know, but who would insist that he did? Or was it going to be someone he actually knew, dragged into the whole mess? Aoko, maybe, or mom. Hell, he wouldn't be surprised to see Hakuba waltz over (precisely on time, of course, right down to the damn millisecond), just to irritate him.
He crossed his arms, frowning. Ugh. What if it was going to be Hakuba? The ( ... )
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A tired-looking, slightly hassled man was shown into the room by Kaito's nurse. Spotting the one he was visiting, he moved deliberately over to the boy and swept him into a tight hug.
"Kyle," he said, voice overwrought with emotion.
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Even so, Kaito stood when he saw him, the legs of his chair scraping against the floor. And when the man who couldn't possibly be there crossed the room and pulled him into a hug, Kaito's eyes widened. He couldn't have been there, but he felt real enough...
He'd been called by the wrong name, the fake name that he'd been given here, but his voice... It was the same as he remembered, the same as had been on the degraded tape he'd found. He knew better than anyone that a voice and a face was hardly evidence of an identity, but...
"D-dad?"
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"That's right, I'm here. Everything's going to be okay, I'm right here."
At least he was for the time being. This whole mental institution business had caused Thomas to go a little overboard on the affection where Kyle was concerned. He'd convinced himself that this was entirely his fault. If he'd just been there... this wouldn't have happened. Now he was going to make it right.
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