http://superdynamic.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] superdynamic.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] damned_institute2009-09-24 11:20 am

Day 44: Sun Room, Second Shift

[from here]

He really had beat the rush. Suzaku found a chair as close to the corner and as far from the bulletin as he could, and turned it to face the wall before curling up in it. His nurse frowned at him again, but she was still being cooperative, and frankly he didn't care what she had to say in the slightest. He didn't care even if he got sedated. All he cared about was finally having a few moments to himself, to sort out what Euphie's love meant and what the hell Lelouch's problem was.

It felt like he had all the pieces of a puzzle and was just too stupid to figure out how they fit together. What Lelouch had said about Shirley at breakfast and the tone he'd taken with Euphie on the board, Lelouch asking how Suzaku was, Lelouch dying. . . "All we can do is move forward and look out for the ones we care about." Euphie struggling to get out her last words, pain overtaking Suzaku's consciousness while he fought pathetically to carry out Lelouch's order. . . The last couple days, when he'd felt like he was finally figuring this out, seemed so far away now.

There were a couple things that were certain, at least: he hated what Lelouch had done, he always would. But he -- he didn't hate Lelouch, and he hadn't for a while now, and that wasn't going to change. And he didn't have much time, because everyone but Suzaku was terrifyingly mortal. And Lelouch was an idiot, but he still wasn't sure about the how and why of that one yet.

[for the Saucinator]
dualistic: (make you comprehend.)

[personal profile] dualistic 2009-09-27 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
If anything, this new knowledge that Doyle had been trying to act like the nice guy who was supporting the patients just made Harvey more suspicious of the man. It was the people who tried to sidle up to you and play nice that were usually looking to stab you in the back. At least Landel was open about it during his nighttime ramblings.

"That's probably exactly what it was," he said, narrowing his one freed eye as he crossed his arms firmly over his chest.

"Hell, for all we know those two are actually working together," he tossed out, knowing that it was unfounded. The point was that there was no one they should feel as if they could trust in this place, not even each other in most cases.

While Harvey had never felt like "one of the patients," meeting like-minded people like this Edgeworth man did make him wonder. He wasn't here to make friends like the nurses kept harping on about, but he was open to talking to people who actually had something interesting to say. If anything, it got his mind off of unpleasant topics and let him shove back his anticipation for the coming night.