Day 52: Doctor's Office 8 (Dr. Disraeli) [Second Shift]

[adoptingmylove]

It felt like ages since he'd been in his office. Such a long weekend did that, as did the lack of a need to familiarize himself with the patients he saw to. They came and went so regularly now that he'd long since given up on building any rapport with them, save for a few. And those few, he learned, had vanished from his roster this week. One sent

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[oftemptation]

The single word 'doctor' had become terrifying to Endrance over the course of a very, very short time. It brought up memories that he didn't particularly want to think about, memories of one particular night and how that had changed so much...

But the nurse insisted he come along. "The doctor is nice. He's not trying to hurt you, didn't you hear the intercom? Come along now." She followed him until he actually entered the room.

"Oh, doctor? Please see what's going on with him refusing to eat anything? We can't have anyone just wasting away on us."

[adoptingmylove]

Dr. Disraeli greeted his patient with a smile and thanked the nurse for bringing him, but his expression fell when she mentioned the man had not been eating.

"Not eating doesn't sound too good," Dr. Disraeli commented as he placed a mask of concern on, "Has something been bothering you since our last visit, Mr.... ah, but I'm not so sure on your name for the day. Would you prefer Enrance, or Kaoru?"

Thinking a moment he remembered how their last visit had gone and pondered over the possibility that the man was acting. Twice in a row had to account for something, after all. "If I recall correctly, you were not feeling well during out last visit either."

[oftemptation]

"Either works..." Both the name 'Endrance' and the name 'Kaoru' were just as real, and better either of them than the ridiculous false name this place had given him. What kind of name was 'Payton' anyway? It sounded like some strange town in America or something. "I don't really care."

Of course the nurse had to go mention that he hadn't been eating much. It wasn't an act. Couldn't a person just...not be interested in food? Most people would answer that negatively, but...

"I...I'm feeling fine, really. I'm just not a big eater, Doctor. Is that...really the most terrible thing?"

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Jizabel thought a moment on the names, then picked the one he thought most suited the patient and his pretty face. "I'll use Kaoru then," he decided, thinking it the most natural of the names. It at least sounded to be a name, albeit an obviously foreign one. Endrance on the other hand...

"If you are refusing to eat anything at all, that is a bit disconcerting," he explained, "Not being a big eater aside, if you are not eating anything then it is right of your nurse to worry." A starvation tactic was childish, Jizabel had to admit, though he could see where someone mentally disturbed would try for it. In this place it was about the only way to protest without being sedated.