who: adachi and yosuke
where: prison
when: post-sympathy crime
what: working on the assumption that sympathy crime will end with adachi's imprisonment and souji and yosuke have a moderately happy ending, yosuke gets the courage to confront adachi in prison, after souji has gone back home to city, and stand before him to tell him - to show him - the
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"Get dressed, Adachi," the guard growls. "You've got a visitor."
I don't want to see them, whoever it is, he thinks, and he rolls over in bed.
The guard sighs. "You got five minutes to clean your ass up and come down to the visitors' area."
After the guard leaves, Adachi reluctantly dresses himself in the only clothes he was allowed to keep from home - his white shirt and his dark pants, full of creases from not being used in months, smelling like his musty drawer of prison wear. Before he exits his room, he passes the mirror - and he almost doesn't look in it, but curiosity gets the better of him, and he stops to look at his face.
His eyes have always been this ugly, grayish-brown, almost like the color of dirt, but they always used to carry a glint within, whether it was one of false kindness or hateful deviance. They were ugly, but they weren't dull. And now they're dull. There's no light, ( ... )
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Hanamura's the last person Adachi expected to show up here. To give him a little credit, he'd finally stood up for himself in their final battle, but it was only mildly impressive. He could smell the kid's hesitation, the desire to shrink away and hide like a mouse in its cage. He could sense Yosuke's skin crawling in Adachi's presence, like he was in the room with doom and death itself. And still, to this day, it's almost an empowering feeling; he could find that spark of hatred that drove him through the year in Inaba and run with it again if he wanted.
But the guard leads him over to Yosuke's cubicle, and as Adachi sits down in front of him, he demands Yosuke's eye contact immediately. Don't drop it, Hanamura ( ... )
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