freewill: (stains of false pride)
Castiel ([personal profile] freewill) wrote in [community profile] damned_institute2011-05-29 02:26 pm

Night 56: Main Hallway, 1-West

[From here.]

He had reached the meeting point in less than a few minutes and there was still not another patient to be seen. Castiel paused, standing near the wall as he moved his flashlight up and down the corridor. There was nothing, not the sound of a shadow slipping through the dark; not the whisper of something less than human.

The only sound was the static that periodically came from his radio. He couldn't seem to get it to let up, and he wondered if it was reacting to him or if he'd been given a faulty one.

He would have preferred the former option, but he had been knocked down too many notches when it came to the loss of his abilities, his divinity, the very things that made him him.

Castiel let out a breath that had been caught in his chest and then lowered his flashlight. He wondered how long this whole process would take, but he supposed that all depended on how well he did as a student. He fashioned himself a fast learner, but he had never been able to grasp things like popular culture.

He imagined he would do a bit better with lockpicking, though. Leaning himself against the wall, Castiel stood there quietly, waiting for Orihara to show himself.

[For Izaya.]
sainted: (this aching pain to hear your voice.)

[personal profile] sainted 2011-06-04 09:07 am (UTC)(link)
[from here]

Stefan caught the flashlight without thinking. Honestly, he would've caught it even if he was thinking — it was too ingrained in him to counter Damon's chaos with order, and the sound of a flashlight clattering on the tiled floor by itself went against a vampire's natural desire for quiet and staying hidden. Well, unless those vampires were Damon, but his brother had always been... exceptional. Either way, no doubt Damon had expected Stefan to do exactly this, and now that he had the flashlight, there was no way his brother was taking it back. So Stefan stopped staring at his hand and didn't even waste a second to roll his eyes before following after him.

"What happened last night, anyway? I talked to both Alaric and Wally, and it sounded like you ran into something more than the usual super-size animal." Usual, as if they should just expect to run into giant rodents everywhere they went. In truth, that would probably make their lives a lot easier, but the only one Stefan had actually seen so far was one squirrel. He wasn't sure how they'd hunt creatures which didn't even give off a scent (how a bear-sized squirrel didn't give off a scent aside from its blood—?), but between his luck and Damon's, finding trouble was probably the least of their worries.

Stefan glanced over surreptitiously as he walked alongside his brother, wondering how he was doing with his lingering wounds. In the past, having the two of them take down a mountain lion with their bare hands would've been child's play. Now, doing so would be asking for deep scratches and broken bones. "We should find some kind of weapon too... Do you know if there's anything up there?"
saviored: (.you get mistaken for strangers.)

[personal profile] saviored 2011-06-04 07:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[going here]