damned_institute | 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.

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How could he not falter when Robin clung to him that way, desperate and pleading? Aaron understood it, of course, but there was nothing to be done. He could only push the nurses so hard, after all, could only make so many demands before they began to wonder, or perhaps made a mistake, and released Robin too early.

He couldn't have that. Robin's sanity had to be unquestionable. It had been all too easy to fool everyone in the first place, which was why his stay was necessary at all. "I will see if I can convince them. But to be released, you must fully accept the truth. You must know without doubt that you are Robin Cross."

He had to know exactly what he had seen that day.

Slowly, reluctantly, Aaron took a step back. It pained him to do so, to separate himself from this adult. But it was necessary, so necessary, and there was that waiting at home for him.

"Good bye, Robin. I'll come again." His mask was perfect, not a trace of the disease that ate away at him, that surged as he thought of what he had planned for that day. "Unfortunately for us both, I have a guest to...entertain at home. I can't keep her waiting any longer."

Careless. So careless, and even cruel. Yet he knew that this was something he had to do, and with that same gentle smile, Aaron Cross took his leave.

So even Ashura still suspected he wasn't telling the whole truth. And unless he picked a side and stayed with it, things weren't going to change. That much he knew, though to see the truth of the situation laid bare was difficult to face.

When the king pulled away, Yuuhi tried to stand, to go after him, but the nurses held his shoulders down in his seat. He would have been content to stay and simply watch his back as he left, but that last thought Ashura left him with... Yuuhi knew exactly what the dark truth behind it was, and he tried frantically to go after him.

"Wait!" he cried out, squirming in his chair, though it made the room spin around him. "Stop! You can't! Please!"

A few moments struggle was all it took before he fell back weakly into his chair, barely able to sit up, and utterly defeated.

Day 36: Waiting Room/Lobby 2

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