ext_202008 ([identity profile] notachick.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] damned_institute2008-10-21 11:15 pm

Day 36: Waiting Room/Lobby 2

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.

[identity profile] brightlyshine.livejournal.com 2008-10-26 07:32 am (UTC)(link)
"I'm sorry... I think I need to leave now," Elena insisted, refusing to make eye contact with this fake Tseng. Whatever he was before, he certainly wasn't her boss now. Not in this state. And it tore her up inside to look at him.

The nurses seemed to be about ready to end the meeting as it was, and she didn't try to resist as one offered to take her back to her room now.

She wouldn't let Tseng see her crying over this.