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damned_institute2009-04-09 05:01 pm
toxicspiderman) wrote in damned_institute2009-04-09 05:01 pm
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Day 40: Greenhouse [Fourth Shift]
Most days, fish and chips (and a cold beer or three) was pretty goddamned high on S.T.'s list of perfect expense-account lunches. Today, the idea of picking at greasy hunks of unidentified bottom-feeder odds-and-ends (politely known as scrod, to the delight of teenagers all across the Northeast) didn't appeal.
He begged off and collapsed into his bed, after using his damp shirt as an excuse to surreptiously check the contents of his closet. Bingo. His nurse watched his little show, unimpressed but (more importantly) unsuspicious. Not that his hairy chest was much of a catch today, pale and sweating from fever. At least she didn't tuck him in.
The intercom woke up up right on schedule, and pulling the sheets back over his head almost won. But a handful of unanswered missives and a vague sense of duty dragged him out to the bulletin, and from there it was easier to stagger over to the greenhouse.
It was warm inside -- a deep, humid warmth that actually penetrated to the aches in more joints and muscles than he could remember the names of. Like a sauna, without the hassle of finding someplace to look that wasn't a mound of pasty middle-management cellulite. Or a sweat lodge, without the opposite hassle of being conscious that he was the only white guy in the room. In fact, besides the nurses in holding patterns, he was the only person in the room.
He located a tray of tomato seedlings going rootbound in their tiny six-packs, and a potting bench whose location was a quick-and-dirty approximation of equidistantly far from anything blooming. He assured his nurse he knew what he was doing, and after a couple of successful repottings, gently sliding the little seedlings out and loosening the tangled roots, she seemed to agree and backed off. It was, by far, the most fucking theraputic thing he'd found in this hellhole so far, and he let himself sink into the rhythm of the task.
[Free!]
He begged off and collapsed into his bed, after using his damp shirt as an excuse to surreptiously check the contents of his closet. Bingo. His nurse watched his little show, unimpressed but (more importantly) unsuspicious. Not that his hairy chest was much of a catch today, pale and sweating from fever. At least she didn't tuck him in.
The intercom woke up up right on schedule, and pulling the sheets back over his head almost won. But a handful of unanswered missives and a vague sense of duty dragged him out to the bulletin, and from there it was easier to stagger over to the greenhouse.
It was warm inside -- a deep, humid warmth that actually penetrated to the aches in more joints and muscles than he could remember the names of. Like a sauna, without the hassle of finding someplace to look that wasn't a mound of pasty middle-management cellulite. Or a sweat lodge, without the opposite hassle of being conscious that he was the only white guy in the room. In fact, besides the nurses in holding patterns, he was the only person in the room.
He located a tray of tomato seedlings going rootbound in their tiny six-packs, and a potting bench whose location was a quick-and-dirty approximation of equidistantly far from anything blooming. He assured his nurse he knew what he was doing, and after a couple of successful repottings, gently sliding the little seedlings out and loosening the tangled roots, she seemed to agree and backed off. It was, by far, the most fucking theraputic thing he'd found in this hellhole so far, and he let himself sink into the rhythm of the task.
[Free!]
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"She draws really well. Maybe she'll do your portrait."
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And for him to have his portrait done... an image of this false self the Institute had crafted for him... As fun as it was to be able to mingle easily among humans, and to be able to walk about in the daylight, this just wasn't who he was.
"That would be... fun," he managed, voice a bit duller.
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"Okay, Brooklyn - pony up. What'd I do or say that's got you all emo?"
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"Oh, you know. The usual." Patrolling the streets of New York for lawbreakers and humans in trouble. That sort of thing. "My brothers and I like to catch movies and concerts when we can. I like to read a bit, and Lex'll sometimes drag us over to play video games with him."
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"Oh, hey, I'm from Iwatodai, Japan. You ever heard of it or are you from one of those weird worlds that don't have ramen?"
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He paused for dramatic suspense. "They don't have ramen. That, my good man, is a crime!"
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Maybe it was a pastry shaped like a horn.
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"Um, well..." The crumpet had changed quite a bit from the period of time he'd grown up in. "It's... kinda like a pancake? Or a biscuit... except not really either... You'd have to ask my brother."
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"Uh... that doesn't sound appetizing," Junpei replied. "Maybe we can find some British person stuck here with us and ask him what a crumpet really is and what poor college kids eat since they don't have ramen."
It sounded like a good plan.
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"Perhaps you should post something to the bulletin," he suggested with another grin. "'Seeking British person for crumpet clarification' or something."
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Oh damn; the nurses were coming. Hmmm... cool guy to hang out with or hot nurse? Well, in this case he'd pick the cool guy. Unfortunately, it wasn't his choice. At least they'd gotten half the flat done.
"Catch you later, Brooklyn!"