Day 46: Lunch

The mere fact that she'd been susceptible to whatever hold the Institute had had on her yesterday was sufficient to leave Ayumu both upset and angry - no, not angry, downright furious, both at herself and whoever was responsible for that. But there was also the fact that because of it, she'd lost out on an entire day of work, and in several ways had ruined some of what she'd done already. That little conversation with Himura the day before, for instance, was something she'd sincerely prefer not to remember if she'd had any choice in the matter.

Unless the man was a complete moron, which, unfortunately, was one thing she couldn't believe of him, he had to have realized just who her brother was. After all the effort to keep that fact quiet (not exactly a secret, but certainly not advertised; half the Shinsengumi probably never even realized it because there was no reason to) she'd gone and chatted about it with him. Told him all about it, practically painted a bright target around a weakness that shouldn't have existed in the first place.

She'd spent the shift in the Sun Room pretending to sleep, while in truth forcing herself into calm. After years of practice she could shunt away the useless and distracting emotions, focusing only on what was important and needed to be at the forefront of her mind, and by the time the intercom signaled the lunch period she was feeling considerably calmer. The time to silently observe others had, as well, alerted her to something she probably should have noticed earlier: Mello was back. Would her previous objective be reinstated now? He seemed to have far less of a bulletin presence this time, so perhaps not. Still, though, it bore investigating.

None of her thoughts were visible, of course, as she moved through the line, examining the lunch selection somewhat dubiously. Now with the benefit of Yuuko's memories she might recognize the food, but she certainly didn't share the enthusiasm for it that her imaginary self apparently had. Ayumu skipped past that part and settled for the salad bar and some bread, then positioned herself in a place where she could watch both the door and the rest of the room, setting her journal open in front of herself as though planning to write something. There was far too much that she'd missed, too much work to do now.

[for Okita]

[identity profile] brooklynisangry.livejournal.com 2010-01-03 03:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Beelzemon winced, running a hand through his hair. "I don' do it anymore, but... If a Digimon gets killed, then any Digimon there can load their data. Makes ya stronger, or gives ya their abilities." Sure, at the time if he hadn't done that, he would've been dead. About six times. But if he hadn't been acting so crazy, he wouldn't have caused all that mess to begin with...

"I don' do that anymore. Feels good, but 'm not gonna do it." Not after what happened to Leomon. Everything else that had come after that was his fault.
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[personal profile] darwinism 2010-01-07 10:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Scratch Peter. This all sounded familiar in a much more interesting way, and just as Sylar was about to cut in with some question about how exactly the process worked or what the hell that 'data' thing had to do with it, the man went into territory that Sylar hadn't exactly expected.

The tone, the words, the hand through his hair... this man felt deep remorse over what he'd done, and as Sylar found his teeth grinding against each other inside his mouth and his hand cracking a chip between its fingers, he realized just how much that fact bothered him. If this man had a chance to be more than he was, why wasn't he taking it? The moron Poké-Man was scared, probably, and pathetic. For a second, Sylar wondered if he should just let the subject go like Zachary Blaine would, but then he realized he wasn't using that name anymore. He didn't need to act like it.

"Really?" he asked slowly as he dropped the pieces of chip from his fingers and flicked them back onto his plate. "Because if anything, I'd figure you could... help people if you had more abilities."

He glanced up, expression open.

"Or is it something else you're avoiding?"
Edited 2010-01-07 22:44 (UTC)