Day 38: Patients' Library

[emotionl4arobot]

The intercom rang out, disrupting what had turned out to be a rather pointless breakfast conversation, at least in Brainiac 5's eyes. He couldn't wait to put more distance between himself and Scar's blather of how logic, of all things, might not work the same way in this dimension. It was almost enough to make him believe that the man may very well

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[scarletspeedstr]

Wally waved goodbye to Skuld and headed out into Sun Room towards the Library, pausing only long enough for the normal check of the bulletin board before continuing. The intercom announcement about therapy sessions was interesting and a little disturbing. While it made sense that they'd have stuff like that here, he doubted it was as harmless as it sounded. Like the visitors they'd gotten the other day and the not-GL who had come to see him then, nothing in this place was really like it seemed to be. Well, except for maybe the food. Or at least, he hoped the food was okay, 'cause if they had to test that by starving someone... for one thing Tony would have to get a lot better at fighting people off for his dinner

[hismastersdance]

Joe came in, having been told he missed breakfast. First lunch yesterday, and now he sleeps through breakfast? This wasn't good at all. Maybe he should sit tight until he could eat again.

In the meantime, he looked around for someone nearby to talk to. He walked over to someone who looked friendly enough, "Yo! I'm Viewtiful Joe."

[scarletspeedstr]

Wally glanced up at the stranger who'd spoken and smiled, setting aside the book. Conversation would be more fun anyway and might teach him something new to boot.

"Hey," he answered the cheery greeting. "I'm Wally West. So what're you in for?"

[hismastersdance]

"I dunno, for being a superhero? I don't think I'm doing a good job here so far."

He found a chair to pull up and sat down. "If I could just find my V-watch, I'd be out of here so fast, and save everyone."

[notaghostreally]

((Iiiiignoring my fail at breakfast! *cough* Also, the boy is free!))

Upon hearing the intercom announcement about therapy, Danny groaned. It wasn't as if he really enjoyed it last time. In fact, Danny didn't really enjoy much of anything the Institute threw at him, much less therapy and visitors.

He headed into the library, the thought of therapy dangling over his head. He was pretty sure that some people didn't go to therapy, at least not last time, so maybe he could avoid it somehow.

He wandered the room, trying to come up with something to preoccupy himself with when he came across a shell of books about ghosts, none of which written by his parents, but that didn't surprise him. They weren't really writers.

But he did find a few books on ghosts that he hadn't seen Sam carrying around before. Ghosts Among Us, huh? Danny pulled the book off the shelf and looked at the cover, and then the back. A dimension that most of us cannot see? Yeah, right. If ghosts weren't visibly terrorizing people all the time, maybe. This guy was a

[promisedawhale]

Breakfast had been excellent, though he hadn't actually spent it with anyone. He'd been moping just slightly over having still not seen hide no hair of his absent roommate, and aside from that he'd been sore as well. Not weak as he'd been in the water, but his neck was still throbbing terrible from teh vampire mermaid's bite. Perhaps it would be better to stay away from that part of teh institute for a while. Just in case. He would have been in trouble had Plasmius not been around.

Not spotting either his roommate (either of them) or Plasmius, Brook simply chose someone at random - there were not many choices anyway - and had a seat across from a young man with black hair. "Good morning to you!" Sore or not, Brook could still have his manners about when he forcibly joined others at breakfast, "Might I join you?" he asked, already seated at the table.

[notaghostreally]

He didn't notice the man coming up to him until he spoke, and his head jerked up sharply. He shut the book for the moment and slid it a bit to the side so that he could gape properly.

Before him was a giant with an afro. Danny thought he had seen everything, but apparently not. They were both sitting, but this guy was still at least a foot taller than him. Even more if one counted the giant mass of hair.

"Hey," he replied, blinking a few times to try and make it seem like he hadn't actually been staring. "Yeah, sure, I don't have any plans or anything." Danny fell silent for a few moments, wondering whether or not he'd seen this guy before. Surely he would've noticed someone as...quirky as this... "How long have you been here?"

[promisedawhale]

[Why, I'm blurring the shifts, aren't I! *baps self* Do ignore my fail!]

It was pretty difficult not to notice Brook, so the boy must have been distracted if it took him that long to realize that a afro'd beanpole of a man had approached him. Brook didn't mind it though, and glanced up at the books. Reading wasn't exactly his thing as music was much more pleasurable, but he supposed he hadn't much choice here.

"Thank you very much. I'm not very used to places like this, with so many books around! Ah, but I forgot to introduce myself didn't I? My name is Brook! Yohohoho! What might your name be?" he laughed, taking his attention away from the books to look at the boy.

[yin_yang_fox]

Last shift had offered more information than Renamon thought, but she still wasn't convinced the girl was fine. She walked from the cafeteria, mulling it over, and vaguely wondering if her social skills were better, would it have made a difference?

Stopping by the bulletin board was... interesting, though it put Renamon in more of a drab mood. This day seemed like it would be longer than the ones before it, and she was already in a hurry for it to be over.

...Then it occured to her that she actually didn't schedule any meetings for this shift. Rollling her shoulders in a loose shrug, she padded off towards the library, to explore what it offered her. She slipped inbetween two shelves fluidly.

[Jiraiya-stalker =P]

[toadally4boobs]

Jiraiya was in a considerably good mood, now that he knew his rather loud student was going to be just fine. Naruto bounced back quickly. And, although Renamon seemed to be aware to some extent that he was a pervert, it hadn't been a deal breaker for their friendship. On top of that, he had a "date" planned tonight--although he had been only kidding about calling it that

[yin_yang_fox]

By an ironic twist, the prior-Digimon had found herself in a sort of children's section; complete with books of fairy tales. She idly eased one off the shelf. Aesop's Fables. The page she turned to showed a fox outsmarting a crow--'My good Crow, your voice is right enough, but your wit is wanting.' Renamon smirked to herself.

Her head tilted as she heard and felt Jiraiya moving towards her. "We do," she agreed. "How is your student?"

[toadally4boobs]

Ah, the children's section. The least likely place his books would be. Unless some prankster reshelved them here, in which case some poor kid was about ready to get an impromptu lesson on the flexibility of human anatomy. ... Maybe it was a good thing he hadn't seen a lot of young children around. And his books probably weren't here, anyways.

"He's bounced back pretty quickly," Jiraiya smiled fondly. "Back to his loud self."

He then frowned a little. ".. but we could only seal the device they put in his eyes in place, not remove it. We don't know what it'll do to him, yet. He'll probably still need time to process what happened, but I left him in a good mood. The kid's got a strong will, and he's one of the most stubborn people I've ever met--he'll survive."

Jiraiya continued frowning, but this time in concern instead of thought. "Did everyone make it out all right?"

[thatdamnedninja]

She was going to die. And it was going to be so worth it.

Yuffie couldn’t quite decide what was better; Sagara’s own reaction, or the fact that people had played along. Well, she was assuming that people had played along - there weren’t two Kenshins in the Institute, after all, and two had responded… the real one had probably been the latter to join in. Even if she was wrong, though, who cared? It had been great.

Actually, it had been the most fun she’d had in days. Why the hell hadn’t she thought of doing that sooner? Laughing to herself, the young ninja sauntered into the room and immediately headed for a corner. Libraries were dusty, dull, and boring, but she could always pass the time by building herself a fort or a pyramid.

[Kenshin?]

[thatdamnedninja]

Yuffie had been adding the twentieth book to her steadily growing fort when she heard footsteps. She glanced up quickly, hair flopping haphazardly over her eyes at the movement, not quite sure who was approaching -- it wouldn’t be Sagara, would it? He’d be yelling already! He wasn’t the type to play nice then go in for the kill, so -- Oh.

Kenshin.

The real one.

At his words, Yuffie dropped the book as though it was a hot coal. “Engagement?!” She yelped. “Wha-- Wh… Sanosuke? Y’mean, Sagara? What?” Her surprise appeared genuine, as did her horror. Eyes wide, she scrambled to her feet - clumsily, almost tripping over her budding creation-in-the-making. “What’re you talking about? I’m not getting engaged! That’d totally cramp my style!” She had no idea whether or not he’d actually believe that she was innocent, but she was nothing if not a great ninja, and, therefore, a great actor.

Besides. She wasn’t really lying, was she? Sure, she was pretending she didn’t have a clue what he was talking about, but it was true that she wasn’t

[tyki_pon]

There wasn't a place where a hobo couldn't be more out of his element than a library. Most hobos couldn't even read, and even if they could they had other things to worry about than reading interesting novels. But Tyki was different. He was probably the only hobo to ever walk the planet that actually enjoyed reading a book once in a while.

But he admit, he probably wasn't just your regular neighborhood hobo.

Even if both of his lives were separate, most of the more simple pleasures still overlapped. Smoking, playing cards and even reading books. It just so happened his black side was more suitable for such a thing, but it didn't stop the Noah to keep himself occupied right now.

He looked at the various books on the shelves, actually recognizing some of the titles as something he had read at some point, before finally pulling out 'The Picture of Dorian Gray' by Oscar Wilde.

Good thing his friends weren't here to see him, even though their shocked expressions of seeing the Tyki they knew with a book would be amusing enough. Maybe he

[mind_the_sukima]

Breakfast had left Yukari in a fairly good mood. There really were all sorts of interesting people here. She'd seen the Sun Room and Arts and Crafts yesterday, so when given the choice, she decided to go to the Library

[tyki_pon]

Tyki hadn't gotten much further than the second page when a woman sat down and, so he noticed when he looked up from his book, watched him curiously. The smile she gave him was an interesting one, though. People who smiled mischievously were usually interesting people.

"What's up, lady?" he greeted while grinning back at her.

[mind_the_sukima]

"Nothing much," she replied. So, he was game for a little company. Good to see not everyone was too busy being horribly trapped in space and time to smile once in a while. "Just people-watching, lazing about, being trapped in an inter-dimensional institute of hell, the usual. Well, I guess I should say person-watching."

She paused then. It would be fairly pointless to ask what he was doing, as it was obvious that consisted of either "being interrupted while reading" or, more likely, considering his good humor, "chatting up a fellow patient".

"I guess this is the part where I'm supposed to say, 'My name's Violet, Violet Cloud,' and we become great buddies that help us through whatever mental delusions they have us locked away for," she said flippantly. "But I prefer 'Yukari Yakumo', the name that makes the nurses frown and click their tongues. You don't mind, do you?"

She still found this whole "fake lives" thing very amusing and wasn't about to pass up any opportunities to poke fun at it.