Dayshift 43: Waiting Room / Lobby 2 [4th Shift]

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"Now you just have a seat and wait for your visitor like everyone else."

As the nurse went away from him, Kurogane huffed out some agitation but refused to have a seat. Hearing that he had a visitor had been one of the last things he'd expected. It was always the magician who got one, not him. And who the hell would want to visit him anyway?

During his first protests, the nurse had been telling him to behave since it wasn't nice to be sour to girls, so he knew it had to be a girl that was visiting. There were a few of those Kurogane knew could show up as a "visitor" for him, all of which were annoying. Some were worse than others too. He could probably handle if Sohma showed up, and maybe Amaterasu, but when it came to Tomoyo-hime... she was already hard to handle normally, no matter what world she came from. The Piffle version had been pretty much the same, just raised differently. If he saw her, even a fake her, she would probably be just the same and he'd have to at put up with it no matter what.

Eventually he chose to take a seat, knowing that he would not be leaving any time soon. Of course, he picked the one that was furthest into the corner to avoid unwanted conversations. He would already have to deal with a visitor; he shouldn't have to deal with anything more.

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[fencing-captain.livejournal.com]

Juri was hoping finally to get to the recreation field. She was heading that way on her own--it wasn't like she didn't know the way--when a nurse caught up with her. She braced herself for getting scolded for moving around without an escort, but the nurse only asked her to come with her to the waiting room, because she had a visitor. What?

She was too stunned to protest, but she sat as indicated and tried to guess who was coming. She wasn't at all certain. One of her teachers? Someone from the student council? Her parents or sister perhaps? Juri hunched over and then bent to retie the shoelaces of her sneakers. Why did she have to have a visitor when she was dressed for sports?

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By the time she arrived in the second lobby, her visitor was already waiting for her. A young boy with short hair and a small, lithe body sat in a chair looking at his watch, wondering how much longer it would take for her to be brought in. His cheeks flushed a faint red when he caught sight of his schoolmate, but he managed to smile at her easily enough.

"There you are," said James Mirabel with as much good cheer as he could manage, inviting Penny to sit across from him. "Um, I know we didn't last see each other on the best of terms, but it's still really good to see you," he went on, wincing a little as he thought about the break-up not a few weeks prior. Even if them dating had been more Penny's idea than his, that had still hurt. "I've missed you a lot. Everyone at school has."

[fencing-captain.livejournal.com]

Juri halted in the middle of the room to stare at Miki. That answered her question, didn't it? Student council it was, and the one she felt closest to as well. She finally suspected the cunning of the people who ran this place. "Mickey," she said, reverting to the westernized nickname to see how he'd react, "what are you talking about?"

The nurse pushed gently at her shoulder, but even that kindly touched annoyed Juri. She jerked away, tossed her head and strode over to sit near Miki. "How long do you think it's been since we last talked?" It actually worried her to see Miki inside the walls of this creepy Institute. He was such an innocent.