Day 34: Men's Showers

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Artemis Fowl was, yet again, exceedingly displeased to be naked.

As much as Haku insisted that since he had experienced public bathing before, this time would be easier, the feeling was not mutual. Artemis' body was his own personal business, as far as he was concerned, and no one else's. His only comfort was the fact that he was not hideously tattooed anymore with various and sundry insults branding him a moron.

Still, that did not stop him from taking a towel into the shower area once again, Nurse Hedgerow grudgingly allowing it. She could see no other way of getting the boy to bathe. He was as stubborn as ten teenage boys. And after that lecture on psychological torture through means of public humiliation...

The boy let the water run over his head, the towel clutched firmly around his body. And he thought. July. How was it July when it had been fall just a week previous? It was impossible, logically speaking. But what part of this place fit in with any sort of logic Artemis had ever encountered? No, if he didn't let go of the fact that things would be as insane as people claimed he was, he would lose his mind.

His fingers brushed the burn mark Caleb had given him for what seemed the fortieth time. ...He had to get himself together, or this would only be a small taste of what awaited him in the hallways.

[For Omi]

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"Whatever." If the dumbass wanted to try to pretend he had the moral high ground--like he hadn't been the one insulting people's mothers and shit--Leon was too tired at this point to get into another fight about it. With the showerhead put back where it belonged, Leon turned the water back on so that he could properly rinse off. The fight had started while he still had shampoo in his hair, after all.

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Takaya took the towel from Sousuke with a mumbled 'thanks' and pressed it to the cut. Holding it in place with his body, the Possesser reached out with his aother hand and turned off the tap.

He wasn't going to keep picking on the other kid just because he felt like it. Sousuke was right. He didn't need to get drugged today.

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Sousuke was happy to see that, while the atmosphere was still tense, the urge to fight had been severely diminished. He still wasn't sure how he'd managed to diffuse it, but the important thing was that Takaya and Leon weren't at each other's throats anymore.

With Takaya taken care of, Sousuke turned to the other party. "Are you hurt anywhere?"

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Leon looked at the newcomer through his wet--but thankfully, clean, now--hair and snorted softly. "Nowhere new, anyway." And actually, all his wounds seemed to be pretty well healed. Or, in the case of his hand, as healed as they were going to get.

Which, not-so-amusingly, brought Leon right back around to what had put him in a foul mood in the first place.

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"He wasn't the one throwing around a fucking stool," Takaya grumbled softly, mostly to himself. He was done here, no reason to stay.

Except that when he left,he'd have to deal with a nurse fussing over him and being 'annoyed' and 'disappointed' in his behaviour. At least he hadn't actually punched the guy...