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.

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[personal profile] lighthearted 2009-12-23 11:02 am (UTC)(link)
Shibuya? Was it just him, or had someone else told him that they were from there? Sora felt like the name was familiar, and yet he couldn't actually place it now. It was kind of annoying, but he was soon distracted by Neku's explanation.

The idea of different planes was hardly the same as the physical worlds that Sora traveled to in his Gummi ship, but one thing that stood out to the boy was when Neku mentioned "bad vibes in someone's heart." If the Noise had anything to do with people's hearts, then it meant they really were similar to the Heartless in more ways than he'd expected.

In fact, the Noise actually sounded like they were even more trouble, what with having to fight them on "different planes" or however it worked. Sora scrunched up his face. At least he usually knew when all the Heartless were gone, if only because they stopped trying to attack him. He had to admit that it was nice having the Keyblade as a beacon that just drew the things to him.

As for how Neku fought, that was completely different from what Sora was used to. If anything, it was more like the magic that Merlin and Donald had taught him, so it didn't exactly fit.

When the other boy stopped and checked to see if Sora had gotten everything, he gave a small nod. "Yeah, well... enough of it, anyway. There are some obvious differences between all of that and what I've done, but a lot of it is the same, too. Especially what you said about bad stuff in people's hearts..." That was probably obvious, seeing how the things he fought were called Heartless.