http://human-sponge.livejournal.com/ ([identity profile] human-sponge.livejournal.com) wrote in [community profile] damned_institute2009-12-16 12:12 am

Day 46: Sun Room

Peter woke up suddenly, his body twisting in the bed and then forcing him to catch his breath in pain. Pain, which was coming from his middle because of the thing that had scratched him last night, and after that...

After that, Zach had jumped in front of him like some kind of martyr, like the exact opposite of everything Sylar stood for, to take the next hit for him. It got pretty fuzzy after that, so night must have ended right around then.

The man let out a pained grunt as he straightened himself up in bed. For some reason, he got the feeling that he'd slept in. There was no way for him to really tell without a window in the room, but he just knew. The fact that Sam's bed looked long since vacated was another clue.

Sam, but was he Sam again? Had the brainwashing worn off, as he and Roland had hoped, or was he going to have to go through this nightmare for even longer? He didn't know how long he could handle "Zach" and "Harrison" before he started going batty himself.

Pulling himself out of bed, Peter lifted his shirt and saw that he was tightly bandaged. The scratch most likely wasn't nearly as bad as the bite that "Zach" had received, but it still smarted. He let his shirt fall and then had to deal with a nurse chiding him for sleeping through the morning announcements. Not that Peter really cared at the moment. He was too busy thinking about last night and the fact that in a way, he now owed something to Sylar. Except it hadn't been Sylar. That was something he was sure of now.

Lost in his thoughts, Peter reached the Sun Room right as the rest of the patient populace was trickling in from breakfast. Sighing to himself, he headed over to the bulletin board and then saw a note written in familiar yet unpleasant handwriting. Holding his pen in a vice grip, Peter scribbled out a reply and then stalked over to an armchair and fell into it with a huff.

While Sylar was maddeningly frustrating, there was one good thing about the fact that he was himself again. It meant that Nathan was too.

[For Spock!]

[identity profile] i-dont-paint.livejournal.com 2009-12-19 05:54 am (UTC)(link)
The new censorship policy, Tony decided after a few minutes spent examining the bulletin board upon being herded into the sun room for the morning, was going to be remarkably annoying. The messages made it obvious enough that something had happened during the previous day, but what it was, he couldn't begin to guess. Even the theories regarding linkages to other of the recent disturbing occurrences weren't enough to puzzle it out.

The one note that both stood out and was intelligible was little more heartening; after nearly two weeks, he knew better than to think 'gone' meant 'escaped' in even the most optimistic situations. It shouldn't have bothered him, he only barely knew one of the men Peter mentioned, and hadn't even met the other, but 'shouldn't' and 'didn't' were becoming two very different things.

Lost in thought, he nodded abstracted acknowledgment to HK-47 as he took a seat nearby.

[identity profile] arc-wrench.livejournal.com 2009-12-19 05:59 am (UTC)(link)
HK looked up to track the approaching meatbag. Ooh, this one was thinking (or trying to, meatbags were so funny that way) about something. Perfect target, especially if they didn't want to be bothered.

"Greeting: Hello, meatbag!" HK said with a slight cheery note to his voice that was completely incongruous with the emotional blank of his face. Let's see how they react to that designation. He'd had some rather dramatic varieties of first responses to that, from appreciation of the turn to a sudden kick to the squishy bits.