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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The smile began to dawn on her face again -- ingenuous and sincere. Of course, his feeling that he didn't have a brain in his head was just a symptom left over from his illness, right?

"I can't help but worry about you. I guess you have to take as much time as you need, but I wish it would go faster. Do you think it might go faster if you listen to the nurses?"

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"I suppose it would," he said. "I've honestly not talked much to the nurses- just to the other patients. It can't hurt to try, though." He had yet to see any of the doctors he'd heard about as well, but he was now interested in what they would have to say about his life in Kansas.

"I'll try real hard to remember some stuff on my own," he promised with a nod and a smile, elated to see her smiling again. "I won't let you down! You just take care of your family and promise me that you'll not to get into any trouble while I'm away. You've got good folks to take care of you, I trust."

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She nodded in return, maintaining her smile.

"Write it down if you have to, or get someone else to write it down for you. I remember they have notebooks here for you to write in."

At the suggestion that she might get in trouble, her eyes widened. "'Course I won't get in trouble! Everyone's lookin' after me. I'm doing well in school now, too... I'll be done with middle school soon." She hoped he would be proud of her. Everyone else at the farm was.

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"That's wonderful news!" he said with a grin. "A good amount of knowledge will get you far in life, and will help you stay out of sticky situations. And if you do get into any trouble, it'll surely help you get out of it. That's been my experience, at least."

He tried to think of where his journal was- he'd left it in the room today, on his desk if he recalled correctly. He'd only written in it a few times. That was going to have to change.

He reached across the table, taking both her hands and clasping them in his own. "I'm honestly relieved to hear you're doing okay. Being here without any people I know left me worrying about my friends, you know?"

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Dorothy squeezed his hands, and grinned.

"Don't you worry about us. We'll all be just fine."

She was able to forget, for a moment, how the farm struggled and how her aunt and uncle worried, how little money there was, and how much work. It didn't matter as much as the idea that Hunk might recover and come home soon. But what was soon?

"We have each other. We just want you back."