http://dawning-dreams.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] dawning-dreams.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] damned_institute2007-02-23 03:34 am

Day 22: Brunch

Cid usually liked sleeping in, especially in a place as messed up and uninviting as this, but this happened to be one situation where he really wished he hadn't.

Right there, on the bulletin board. The Head Doctor and he'd fucking missed it? Some part of him wished he'd been there to take his eye out and another part of him knew he wouldn't have been able to. No man that powerful who hid for so long went to dangerous places without some kind of entourage.

Brunch sounded like it'd be filling, at least, though he nearly stopped in his tracks when the bastard announced TEA. TEA. It'd been a damn long while since he'd had some fucking tea, though with all the stress this place had found fit to rain down on his fucking head, it hadn't really been the first priority on his mind. Kinda nice, even if Cid was sure this was just some game the mother fucker was playing to get them all stuck neck-deep in Stockholm Syndrome.

He scanned the mostly-empty room for any sign of a familiar face once he'd piled waffles and sausages and syrup on his plate, though the person he really wanted to talk to was that Reynolds guy. "Spaceship" was the last word he remembered clearly before waking up in his bed, and dammit if he wasn't going to keep it stuck like glue in his mind.

He found a table where he could watch people come into the cafeteria and grabbed for his mug. The steam rising from his drink and the bag of herbs in it was nearly enough to make him grin despite it all, and it was with marked leisure and a little relief that he drank his goddamn tea.

[identity profile] godsgift2man.livejournal.com 2007-02-27 08:24 pm (UTC)(link)
"I've no idea, but the staff seems to believe I am him and no amount of protests will convince them otherwise." Waka tapped his flute absently against his chin. "I was wondering if he was someone I ought to know about."

Waka turned and smiled at the boy. "Well, Ari, my little friend, I suppose further conversation will have to wait for another time. I believe the staff are coming to take us elsewhere." The statement was made a full minute before the announcement for shift change was made, but who was keeping track?

[identity profile] not-classified.livejournal.com 2007-02-28 03:29 am (UTC)(link)
Ari shrugged. Didn't everyone have weird names here? Well, names that they weren't supposed to be called, anyway. Not necessarily weird. The boy didn't know an 'Anthony Hopkins', but the staff insisted that person was him...

At the mention of the staff coming to take them elsewhere, Ari glanced from side to side, looking for the approaching nurses...but there was none. He frowned, a confused look as he turned his head to look up at Waka again. "What do you mean?" he asked, only to be answered by the announcement calling for the change of shift.

Ari blinked, surprised. Did Waka know that was going to happen? It was hard to believe, but he did say he was a prophet, right? He just didn't think prophets, well...prophesied the little stuff...

"I guess I'll see you later, then..." the boy said as his nurse came over to usher him to the next room. He didn't want to leave his new friend, but he'd already seen the results of too many fights today. And he had no urge to be sedated any time soon...