Mar 02, 2009 04:24
The Head Doctor seemed a little rushed as he spoke on the intercom, not taking as much pleasure as he usually did in describing the delicious food that would soon be served
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Following the nurse into the open door, he froze at the sight of the other boy in the room. His eyes narrowed automatically, and he drew the notebook to his chest. The nurse was leaving so there was no escape for him. He had noticed the two beds before, and had come to the obvious conclusion, but a roommate that wasn't family was not something Albedo was interested in at all ( ... )
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After about five minutes, he looked up again to see the boy still drawing.
"Hey," he said as gently as he could. "Uh...your dinner's getting cold. Don't you want any?"
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He was halfway through the page when he noticed the other person in the room speaking to him. He looked up sharply, watching warily as he weighed the reasons that the other was speaking to him. His brain backtracked as he went over what his roommate had said. Your dinner's getting cold.Oh. Food. He hadn't ate since the few bites at breakfast, and then that was interupted by Albedo slamming into Nigredo, and then he missed lunch altogether when he was sleeping off his sedation. True, as a child soldier, he was used to going without food for awhile, but if there was an option ( ... )
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He noticed the kid's rather enthusiastic response to the dessert and decided it was time for another grand gesture of goodwill. He grabbed his pie and deposited it on the boy's tray. "Here, want mine? I could do without." Hikaru grinned. "Gotta keep my girlish figure, and all that. What's your name, anyway?"
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So he had been sedated. So Rubedo had been spending time with Nigredo. The shift after, Rubedo spent time with him, and stayed with him, talking to him and even being affectionate. He learned more about his surroundings from Meche, Angel gave him a notebook, he had his own... And there was dessert here.
Yeah. This was pretty much one of the best days he had had.
Caught in thought, Albedo had paused, the fork in his mouth as he went over the day. When his new roommate plunked another pie on his plate, Albedo's eyes widened exponentially. A notebook was one thing, and now someone was freely giving his own dessert? How could ( ... )
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Oh, good.
"You're welcome," Hikaru replied with a laugh. "Never seen somebody so enthusiastic about pie before. Don't get much at home?" Probably, given the crazy places some of these people seemed to be from. For all Hikaru knew, the white-haired boy could've been from the fair land of Oogledy Poogldey, where the consumption of dessert-like foodstuffs was a crime punishable by the forcible removal of one's toenails.
Stranger things had happened.
"I'm Hikaru, by the way," he prompted, wondering if that would get the kid to offer up his name so that he could stop calling him 'the kid.' "I guess we're stuck together for the long-haul, huh?" That was open to interpretation. This little boy was Hikaru's ( ... )
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Or sweets. Or anything like that for that matter. But it didn't matter now. That was behind him. Whether or not Albedo left this playground, he was not returning to the Yuriev Institute. That place was gone from his life. Like other things surely were.
A twinge of rememberance, some kind of drifting thought that asked how he was so thoroughly distracted. He had a brother here, and a twin as well. One to torment and one to torture (but was that really what he--), and he had planning to do. He glanced back at the notebooks with something like longing for a brief second. He wished he could spend the night going through Angel's notebook, and filling up space in his own ( ... )
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"Nice to meet you, Albedo. Or...well, not exactly nice, but you know what I mean." He gave the kid a self-deprecating grimace. "It's nice meeting you. Just not under these circumstances. I wouldn't wish this place on anybody, which is saying something. I've been here...almost a month, I think. Longer than a lot of people. I hate it here. My brother and I...we're trapped here, and we're useless. Nothing we ever did before we came here could've prepared us for this place."
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He would have continued asking more detailed questions here, but again something pulled him short, making him draw his brows together. "You have family here, too?"
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Hikaru rubbed the back of his neck awkwardly. "Uh...yeah. My twin brother, Kaoru. You too, huh?"
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"Twin brother?!" Albedo blurted. "My... I have a twin, too. He's... here. And my..." The boy made a face. "Little brother, too." He hadn't ever met anyone that was a twin before. Albedo had thought that Rubedo and him were the only ones.... Like everything else today, it filled him with excitement. Someone else knew what it was like.
Maybe. Maybe the kind of bond that was between them was amphlified by being a URTV. He couldn't know. But just the same, maybe Hikaru understood.
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Right?
...Oh, that was a coincidence. Hikaru blinked, wondering if they'd planned it like that. Two different twins, forced to room together. "I'm sorry," he said genuinely. "I'm sorry that your brothers have to be here too. I'd give anything to see Kaoru get back home, even if it means I stay here." Why was he opening up so much to this kid? It seemed so odd. And yet, he needed to talk. And Albedo was a twin too, so he'd know what Hikaru was talking about, right?
The Host smiled a little. "Are you two identical or fraternal? You and your twin, I mean."
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And here the two differed. Albedo was estatic his brothers were here. It meant he would have oppertunities with them that he would have otherwise missed--for good or bad. He was always a selfish creature--especially when it came to his twin. "I'm not sorry. We were separated. Now I can see them again." See them, play with them, torment and torture. Maybe Rubedo would come around, admit his wrongs if Nigredo was out of the picture. But should Albedo forgive him even so? Probably not. He should try to stick with his original plan ( ... )
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Twelve. Hikaru sighed, staring down at his lap. Albedo was twelve, and he was acting like he was perfectly calm here and talking about war like it was nothing. What was wrong with the kid? What had happened to him to make him so blase about it all?
"Separated? I...I'm sorry." Hikaru knew what that was like. Sort of. It was his biggest fear, being separated from Kaoru. It was bad enough that they hardly ever saw each other in this place. He couldn't imagine what it would be like to be separated full time...
"Uh...we're identical too. How can you be identical, if your hair and eyes are different colors? I'm sorry, but the definition of identical twins is that they're...you know, identical."
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