Day 36: Waiting Room/Lobby 2

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Okita hadn't been expecting it when his nurse suddenly appeared in the Game Room. He'd expected to be left alone like last week, but instead she gently took him by the arm and told him he needed to say goodbye to Kaden for now. Okita assumed it was time for his visitor and waved goodbye to him, only to be led off himself. The swordsman had followed obediently into the Sun Room, but when he tried to go off to another room, she stopped him. "Not today, Julian."

Not today? Something about his nurse's demeanor seemed off, almost as if she were worried about something. It wasn't until she led him out of the Sun Room that he understood what was going on. He had a visitor. There were only so many people that would come to visit him in a place like this. His sisters, Tetsu, Kondou or... Okita didn't want to think about the last option.

Taking a step into the waiting room, he stopped at the door and turned to look at his nurse. "Are you sure you're not mistaken?" he asked, feeling actual fear for the first time in a long while. If this wasn't some strange punishment/joke for behaving poorly in the chapel, he didn't know what to do. Badou's graffiti was still on his hand and he quickly slipped that hand into his pocket. He could feel the pen there, clipped to the inside of his waistband. The nurse shook her head and moved to the side of the room, keeping a close watch on him as he stayed by the door, trying to hide his anxiety by feigning interest in the strange magazines on a table nearby.

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The look on Reiko's face hurt -- too much for Rika to be anything but more angry, brow furrowed even more deeply, hands clenching more tightly. What the girl finally said in response made her even angrier: did Reiko think she was going to tell Rika what to do?

After forgetting who they even were?

Rika was about to shout something else when Reiko turned around again and surprised her by dropping onto one knee. The words made Rika's frown soften slightly, replaced by a more genuine pain.

"... I know you, too," she said softly, finally. She wanted badly to hug Reiko, almost did, but instead hugged her arms to herself, tense. Things were too weird to complicate further. "I know you," she said again, more confidently. "I know you'll come back to me. I'm sure of it."

She paused again, and then abruptly, voice somewhere between imperious and pleading: "You'd better!"

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The nurses were taking a more active role now, escorting patients and visitors alike to the door. She almost wanted to fight them here and now; take Rika and leave, but she knew there were some things at this current point that she couldn't fight.

So she would wait, and learn, and then find Rika, and make her see.

"I will, Rika. You're the first thing on my mind." She stood from her position, thinking of something else to say when Rika spoke again. Renamon smirked. "Of course I will." She softened it into a genuine smile. "I'll always come for you. Don't forget me."

Renamon was never one for goodbyes. With that said, she moved her hand in what could be interpheted as a wave, and walked towards the incoming nurse. This time she wasn't walking away from Rika. She was walking towards her. The only way to her, to the real Rika and the real Renamon, was in this place, and Renamon would find it.

Because Rika was waiting for her.