Fan fic Asylum - Chapter 13
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December 1963
“Oguri kun, wait up!” He heard his friend Hiro call. They were both doctors and they had both studied together and they had thought themselves lucky that they had found such a good job and in the same place.
“You’re leaving too? I thought you had to work tonight.”
Hiro repressed a shiver. “I changed with one of the other doctors. I hate working at night and he didn’t seem to mind so…”
“You’ll have to take the night shift sooner or later.”
“I’d rather it be later. I’ll do the night shift when you do, how ‘bout that?”
Oguri chuckled but said nothing. He couldn’t say he liked the night shift, either. Things had always been… eerie, to put it that way but lately… Oguri didn’t even know how to put it. And he had started to note some… things lurking around. He had no other way to put it.
He hadn’t said anything, of course. The last thing he wanted was for the others to think he was crazy. So he kept quiet, even with Hiro.
“So, do you want to go out tonight?”
Oguri hesitated. The small town in which they lived had only one bar, or something close to a bar so it was either that or driving to the next big city a couple of hours away.
“Come on, I really need to get out of here and you know…”
“Okay, we can go out and have a drink.”
“Hey can we tag along?” They both turned around to see Takizawa sensei and Kitayama sensei.
They were at the bar a couple of hours later. It was a slow night, which put Takizawa off. He was the lady’s man of the group which meant he always had Kitayama, who benefited from Takisawa’s expertise on women, with him.
Hiro was not particularly interested. He was married but that was not really the problem. He hadn’t been looking for a night out when he asked Oguri, he wanted to talk. So he was hoping Takizawa would find a couple of girls he liked and Kitagawa to go with him.
He knew Oguri wouldn’t go with them since he was engaged and very much in love and was really not interested.
“So, why aren’t you home with your wife?” Kitayama asked.
“She’s at her mother’s for a week.”
Before anybody could comment on that, Oguri asked: “So, you wanted to talk about something, didn’t you?”
Leave it to Oguri to know exactly was on his mind.
Takizawa went serious then. “You want us to leave? I mean if it’s private.”
Hiro hesitated. He didn’t know the two men very well but they seemed like good men, each had their flaws but who didn’t.
He took a deep breath. “I… you’ll think I’m crazy… but something’s going on… at the hospital.” He saw the other man squirm a little in their seats. “Whenever I’m in there I feel…”
“Watched,” Oguri finished when Hiro couldn’t. The other two men nodded.
“So you guys think so too?”
Again, they simply nodded.
“But so what,” said Kitayama. “We still have to work there and it’s probably just that the building it’s so unnecessarily grand. That’s probably it.”
Hiro was not so sure about that.
“I think it’s more,” Oguri disagreed. “There’s something about Shingo sensei as well…”
“Yes, something is going on with him too. He has changed. He has been changing since we started working…”
They were all silent.
“Again, what can we do? Even if there is really something going on,” Kitayama spoke up, “we either keep working or quit. Can you afford to quit? I can’t. We are all young doctors and we were lucky to get the positions we got. Yes, we are all good at what we do, but we wouldn’t have gotten the positions we got here anywhere else.”
“Maybe there is a reason for that,” Takizawa muttered. He straightened abruptly and slap Kitayama’s back. “But my friend here is right. I can’t quit. Any other hospital’s pay wouldn’t even come close to what we get paid here. And I see the most gorgeous woman I’ve ever seen.”
They all followed Takizawa’s eyes and sure enough the woman was gorgeous and what was better for Kitayama, she had a pretty friend.
The two men went after them and finally left with them.
Oguri and Hiro didn’t speak any more. They finished their beers and left the bar.
Oguri arrived at the empty house. He went into the bedroom and started to change. He felt a prickle at the back of his head, like when someone is staring at you. He turned around to see the open door to an empty bathroom. Of course it was empty; there was no one else in the house.
He brushed his teeth and hurried to bed. He didn’t fall asleep right away. He started to hear murmurs. Again. He had been hearing them for some time now. He used to think it was his neighbors, until he found out the house next door was currently empty.
The murmurs continued all through the night and Oguri could only curl up in bed and cover his ears.
Another update!
What did you think?? Did I lost everybody for taking so long?? Well, I'm trying not to take so long between updates anymore... If I can...
Anyway, please comment so you make me want to write faster xD
December 1963
“Oguri kun, wait up!” He heard his friend Hiro call. They were both doctors and they had both studied together and they had thought themselves lucky that they had found such a good job and in the same place.
“You’re leaving too? I thought you had to work tonight.”
Hiro repressed a shiver. “I changed with one of the other doctors. I hate working at night and he didn’t seem to mind so…”
“You’ll have to take the night shift sooner or later.”
“I’d rather it be later. I’ll do the night shift when you do, how ‘bout that?”
Oguri chuckled but said nothing. He couldn’t say he liked the night shift, either. Things had always been… eerie, to put it that way but lately… Oguri didn’t even know how to put it. And he had started to note some… things lurking around. He had no other way to put it.
He hadn’t said anything, of course. The last thing he wanted was for the others to think he was crazy. So he kept quiet, even with Hiro.
“So, do you want to go out tonight?”
Oguri hesitated. The small town in which they lived had only one bar, or something close to a bar so it was either that or driving to the next big city a couple of hours away.
“Come on, I really need to get out of here and you know…”
“Okay, we can go out and have a drink.”
“Hey can we tag along?” They both turned around to see Takizawa sensei and Kitayama sensei.
They were at the bar a couple of hours later. It was a slow night, which put Takizawa off. He was the lady’s man of the group which meant he always had Kitayama, who benefited from Takisawa’s expertise on women, with him.
Hiro was not particularly interested. He was married but that was not really the problem. He hadn’t been looking for a night out when he asked Oguri, he wanted to talk. So he was hoping Takizawa would find a couple of girls he liked and Kitagawa to go with him.
He knew Oguri wouldn’t go with them since he was engaged and very much in love and was really not interested.
“So, why aren’t you home with your wife?” Kitayama asked.
“She’s at her mother’s for a week.”
Before anybody could comment on that, Oguri asked: “So, you wanted to talk about something, didn’t you?”
Leave it to Oguri to know exactly was on his mind.
Takizawa went serious then. “You want us to leave? I mean if it’s private.”
Hiro hesitated. He didn’t know the two men very well but they seemed like good men, each had their flaws but who didn’t.
He took a deep breath. “I… you’ll think I’m crazy… but something’s going on… at the hospital.” He saw the other man squirm a little in their seats. “Whenever I’m in there I feel…”
“Watched,” Oguri finished when Hiro couldn’t. The other two men nodded.
“So you guys think so too?”
Again, they simply nodded.
“But so what,” said Kitayama. “We still have to work there and it’s probably just that the building it’s so unnecessarily grand. That’s probably it.”
Hiro was not so sure about that.
“I think it’s more,” Oguri disagreed. “There’s something about Shingo sensei as well…”
“Yes, something is going on with him too. He has changed. He has been changing since we started working…”
They were all silent.
“Again, what can we do? Even if there is really something going on,” Kitayama spoke up, “we either keep working or quit. Can you afford to quit? I can’t. We are all young doctors and we were lucky to get the positions we got. Yes, we are all good at what we do, but we wouldn’t have gotten the positions we got here anywhere else.”
“Maybe there is a reason for that,” Takizawa muttered. He straightened abruptly and slap Kitayama’s back. “But my friend here is right. I can’t quit. Any other hospital’s pay wouldn’t even come close to what we get paid here. And I see the most gorgeous woman I’ve ever seen.”
They all followed Takizawa’s eyes and sure enough the woman was gorgeous and what was better for Kitayama, she had a pretty friend.
The two men went after them and finally left with them.
Oguri and Hiro didn’t speak any more. They finished their beers and left the bar.
Oguri arrived at the empty house. He went into the bedroom and started to change. He felt a prickle at the back of his head, like when someone is staring at you. He turned around to see the open door to an empty bathroom. Of course it was empty; there was no one else in the house.
He brushed his teeth and hurried to bed. He didn’t fall asleep right away. He started to hear murmurs. Again. He had been hearing them for some time now. He used to think it was his neighbors, until he found out the house next door was currently empty.
The murmurs continued all through the night and Oguri could only curl up in bed and cover his ears.
Another update!
What did you think?? Did I lost everybody for taking so long?? Well, I'm trying not to take so long between updates anymore... If I can...
Anyway, please comment so you make me want to write faster xD