Day 41: Women's Showers

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Utena was very, very glad that the patients were finally being allowed to go to the showers. Even for a girl more used to sweating than many in her gender, two days without a shower was definitely enough to make her feel stickier and stinkier than she preferred to be. Especially after all the running around and tearing apart of rooms she, Celes and Edward had done the night before.

I really hope those rooms magically turned clean this morning or something, like every other place in here seems to, Utena thought at that, hoping that no patients had awoken to the rather desperate-looking remains of a break-and-enter.

Taking a wash towel from one of the baskets, Utena headed for a free showerhead.

[Free. Limit: Any]

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The first shift ended unexpectedly soon, and Naoto was quite irritated about it. They hadn't finished talking! Kanji was here and she needed to finish explaining what was going on, and relay all the imperative information he needed to know, and--

But her nurse would have none of that. It would have been easy enough to accompany each other into whatever room they were being pushed to next, but this time, it was different. Mostly because, as the nurse decided to inform her, it was time to clean up in the showers. And not just any kind of showers, no; it was the open kind where everyone was in it at the same time with absolutely zero covering whatsoever, which meant anyone in it could see you, and...

It was impressive and record breaking just how quickly Naoto's face paled when she learned of this, making tiny steps backwards away from the showers and towards the exit. Ohhhh no, she wasn't doing this, she couldn't do this, it was utterly embarrassing amongst every other similar adjective she could think of. "I- I'll have to do this some other time," Naoto stammered at her nurse, unable to keep up with the usual low-pitch in her voice she used, complete with holding her hands up in front of her.

"Jaden, there isn't anything to worry about--"

"I absolutely cannot!" she insisted further, wrapping her arms around herself protectively.

"I'll help you get your bandages off, that way you can--"

"N- no, please." Naoto almost began to sound desperate and refused to budge where she stood, but her pleading went ineffective as far as convincing the nurse went. The hassling didn't last for very long, as somewhere between it and finally ending up underneath a shower head, Naoto cracked under the pressure with simply wanting out. But even once there, Naoto had frozen underneath the running water while covering herself the best she could with her arms alone, completely forgetting for a long while what she was supposed to be doing or that the sooner she did it, the faster she'd be out. She didn't even have the luxury of covering up with a towel, she had to be exposed for all to see, and while to most this would only be extremely humiliating, this was almost like walking into some terrible nightmare for Naoto.

Eventually, she got to what she deemed well enough clean while trying to be very hasty about it. The nurse seemed to frown at her actions some, but after replacing the bandages for the injury on her side, Naoto was able to get her clothes back on and exit right away.

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