Day 44: breakfast

Yuffie had died.

No, really. Seriously. She had actually died. Bleeding all over the place, making a horrid, sticky mess and scaring the hell out of Suzaku; she remembered it clearly. Kind of. Sort of. Through the blood loss, the pain, and the visions. Through Aerith's voice whispering in her ear, Cloud's stricken eyes, and her own panic. As bad nights went, it had been Bad, capital B and all the trimmings, and oh, god. She sat, trembling on the edge of her bed, eyes closed and hands pressed hard over her racing heart. The by-play between Landel—Landel!—and Lydia barely even sunk in. There was nothing in the whole world, any world, that could prepare you for something like…

Had it all been some kind of hallucination?

Had she imagined the whole thing?

No… She didn't think so. Nightmarish or not, Yuffie knew reality. But if it had been real, how was she alive now? That kind of pain wasn't something you could just cook up, was it? She thought about it all the way to the cafeteria, drifting behind her nurse without focus or intent. Maybe if she tried to stay clinical, tried to step back… But she'd never been good at that when things got personal. And every time she closed her eyes or blinked, she swore that the scenes played back to her, like an overused commercial on a crappy channel on a crappy TV, in a run-down dump of an inn that smelled like mothballs and yesterday's breakfast.

The scent of blood and damp, rotted wood clogged her nose. Disgusted, Yuffie shoved her bowl of cereal—handed to her by a clucking Plucky—off to the side so that she could melt into her chair, palm heels scrubbing against her eyes. Too much. This was… Too much. She couldn't even paste a plastic smile on her face to make herself feel better. Her usual shield, the white noise of inane babble that could filter out almost any crisis, was in tatters all around her. Five minutes, she gave herself.

Five minutes (not) to think, five minutes to get her act together, because there was no way she could let herself shatter here. No way…

[Closed to Sheena]

Re: M108

[identity profile] damned-nurses.livejournal.com 2009-09-20 05:33 pm (UTC)(link)
"What are you -- " She turned then, just in time to avoid that hit, but only just. It knocked her to the floor, not quite hard enough to make her lose consciousness, but definitely hard enough to make her see stars "I need backup out here!," she called into the hallway, and a pair of orderlies came running.

Re: M108

[identity profile] gundamned.livejournal.com 2009-09-20 05:49 pm (UTC)(link)
He gave her the briefest glance of alarm as he rushed outside the door; he hadn't expected her to dodge that fast. He swiftly turned his attention back to the approaching orderlies and a cry escaped is lips as he charged towards one of them, aiming the back of the flashlight at the orderly's gut.

Re: M108

[identity profile] damned-nurses.livejournal.com 2009-09-20 05:56 pm (UTC)(link)
The flashlight hit the orderly's gut, just as planned, knocking the wind out of him. But that was all right; the other orderly was still able to get hold of Setsuna's arms. It wasn't as tight a hold as he would have liked, as the boy was determined to struggle, but that was enough time for the nurse to get to her feet and take out a syringe. She injected him quickly, before he could break out of the orderly's grip and attack again.

Re: M108

[identity profile] gundamned.livejournal.com 2009-09-20 06:04 pm (UTC)(link)
He grunted as he felt the needle prick through his skin, and even then he continued to thrash about, determined to break free from the other one's grip. But he quickly lost his strength as the effects of the sedative kicked in, and eventually he stopped struggling completely, his chest rising and falling in a steady pattern of breathing.