Day 37: Men's Showers

I wouldn't really call this a locker room. More like a bathroom with lockers. The place was uncomfortably crowded, with almost every adult male patient being hustled into the showers at once, but Phoenix wasn't as annoyed by the claustrophobic, milling throng of bodies as he might have otherwise been. Every extra person was one more person who might end up standing between himself and Edgeworth.

He knew that the prosecutor would have a fit if he found out about this. He'd known since he'd tacked that first response up on the bulletin board. And in a way, he couldn't blame him. Phoenix knew that he jumped into things all-or-nothing more often than most people. At the same time, he had some kind of reality testing. He wasn't going to learn the basics of how to defend himself and suddenly decide that he was Rambo.

He found an unoccupied locker in the southwest corner and glanced around, trying to gauge how long he could possibly stall in a locker room, looking as if he was expecting something, before people started looking at him strangely. It would have been easier if he'd known something of the description of the man he was supposed to be meeting. As it was, all he had was handwriting and a military rank, neither of which guaranteed any particular appearance.

It's not as if there was a better way to plan this, though. "Yeah, meet me by the lockers. I'll be wearing gray and a smiley face, just like about a hundred other guys."

[for Hughes]

[identity profile] contentincloset.livejournal.com 2008-11-26 01:10 am (UTC)(link)
Kurogane tilted his head but left his eyes on the other. Weird guy, especially with that kind of question. "Looks more like you're the one who needs help."

Not that Kurogane was offering. It was only an observation. In any event, shifting the excuse back took away from the subject of Kurogane's own injuries. As he'd thought, that had been the reason for the man's wandering eyes, but his injuries weren't anyone else's business. He'd handle them on his own.
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[personal profile] nobleman 2008-11-26 03:15 am (UTC)(link)
"That's... probably true," Guy admitted, knowing that there was no point in trying to deny that. Still, he was managing on his own so far, and he just had to keep reminding himself that he would be fully functional pretty soon.

He didn't spend too much time trying to wash his body, mainly because he didn't want to accidentally hurt himself by pulling his arm the wrong way, and so soon he was busy gathering some shampoo into his hand.

The attempts at conversation hadn't gone over very well, and so Guy figured he'd just focus on getting himself clean for now.

[identity profile] contentincloset.livejournal.com 2008-11-26 08:28 pm (UTC)(link)
If "probably" meant "actually", then yes. Kurogane didn't take the man's half-admittance to mean that he wanted help, so he also turned back to his own washing. His injuries were fine enough, so he went about the task of getting whatever remained of Fai's orange juice out of his hair. As much as the stickiness hadn't bugged him, it was nice to finally be rid of the stuff. He shouldn't have had it in his hair to begin with!