Nightshift 33: M21-M30 Hallway

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[from dinner post]

... the doctor sounded tired. Shawn wasn't sure if he preferred that voice or the more youthful one in the second announcement but either way, he figured, this guy's still fucking nuts.

Talk about Sci-Fi gone wrong. Gus would've loved this, even if Shawn knew the other wouldn't have been able to stop shaking in his slippers long enough to go into full dweeb mode. Shawn committed both announcements to memory-- just because authenticity sounded verified, it didn't mean he could trust anything that was being said especially when it involved so-called advanced technology, a "shield", and some kind of super hacker. Hackers, honestly. If the act didn't involve Angelina Jolie in any way Shawn just wasn't interested.

He held pushed at the prematurely opened door, looking out into the dark hallway warily. Pulling back in, he cast an almost-cautious grin at Peter. "After you...?"

Like he was going to go out there first. Yeah. Right.

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Shan himself was a little disappointed that conversation with his roommate never went very far. Peter seemed like a nice enough guy, all things considered. Also, interrogating the person physically closest to him should have been the first thing he got done though with things the way they were in the daytime...

"Yeah, you... you too." Shawn dropped one hand, leaving the other up in a half-wave. What else could he say to that? "Have fun!" Cheerful tone. Bafflingly cheerful.

Shawn waited a few beats, just until he was sure his roommate was mostly gone. Questions were all well and good but investigation was the theme of tonight's romp and Shawn was going to do his damnedest to make the most of it.

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As Shawn had headed down the hall, Peter had gone the opposite direction, stopping in front of Nathan's door as usual. He knocked, but when he got no response he decided to just head inside. Nathan's roommate knew who he was now, so it wouldn't be so awkward.

He spotted said roommate passed out on the bed -- as for Nathan, there was no sign of him. Peter searched the room just in case, but it wasn't like there was much to it, and he couldn't deny the fact that his brother was gone.

Well, not gone, necessarily, but he certainly wasn't here now. Peter tried to avoid the thought that he probably would have noticed if Nathan had passed him in the hallway. There was still a chance that he had gone off on his own to take care of something. It wasn't like they had coordinated a real plan during the day, after all.

It only occurred to him as he was leaving the room that he might have been taking for experimentation or brainwashing, like he'd heard about. Even if that was the case, though, what could he do? Peter didn't know where patients were taken or where they were placed when that happened. His only hope was that he might run into Nathan and be able to snap him out of the brainwashing somehow.

Either way, checking on him in the morning would be a first priority. For now, he needed to get to the women's bathrooms to make sure he wasn't late for his meeting with Xelloss.

Hopefully he would find it without any problem. Letting out a breath, Peter started down the hall.

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