Day 48: Courtyard

"I could tell you some stories," Yuffie suggested brightly, "of unquestionable legality." Illegality, that was. Petty little things like the law didn't usually mean very much to her, except for the times when she had to uphold it. Always fun for the breaking, though, the law, and messy for the clean-up. Just the way she liked it.

Her nurse looked like she wanted to rub her temples. With sandpaper. "No, thank you," she said instead. "Why don't you run along, now?" Please!, was the unspoken request. Before I spontaneously combust. Or commit various acts of violence that would have me arrested, or placed in a loony bin. Like this one. Yuffie had quite a bit of fun filling in the blanks other people left. Sometimes she did it outloud, just to see the reaction; sometimes she kept it to herself. It really, really depended.

"Don't mind if I do!"

She took off, bolting out into the Courtyard. The weather was dour, overcast and threatening rain, but Yuffie didn't care. She'd refused a coat on principle, and had found herself bargaining: Fine, fine, Plucky had conced she could go without a coat, but unless she had at least a sweatshirt on, there'd be no outside-time for her. She ran a little ways down the dirt path, then toppled herself into a series of cartwheels. Straighten, run. Cartwheel. Straighten, run, just for the sheer sake of movement, and the whip of the wind. She laughed a little giddily, checking her gait down to a jog. Gawd, Leviathan, she'd needed this. Right from the get-go, she'd needed this. Every day she spent cooped up in side, the more nervous energy she had.

Nanaki had helped, she realized. Sort of. He'd…helped. In a way. His presence and everything that was wrong with it weighed on her, for sure, but he was still Nanaki. He didn't deserve to be here, didn't deserve to be stuck in a body that he hated and couldn't use, but all the same, she found herself glad to have him.

Yuffie started to hum, as she jogged leisurely around the Courtyard. A cheery little tune, one of her favorites; no, it was her favorite. A Wutaian walking song, with the roughly translated title of Pathway After the Rain. The pace stayed even but the tune picked up, and she found herself half-singing snatches of the lyrics to herself. It felt like ages since she'd last said anything in her native tongue, at least outloud; she wrote in it all the time.

[The Doctor]
dualistic: (the d.a. is dressed to the nines.)

[personal profile] dualistic 2010-03-08 06:03 am (UTC)(link)
Speaking to Jones was usually a good way to level out Harvey's mood. While things weren't necessarily going well (there was still no sign of the Bat, for instance), they weren't as bad as they'd been in the past. He'd gathered a decent amount of supplies over his time here. With a metal pipe, a syringe, a scalpel, and a handgun to choose from now, he thought he was getting to the point where he was set.

The downside, though, was that he still didn't have much of an idea of how to get out of here. Part of him knew that there wasn't any sort of good life waiting for him back in Gotham, but Gordon was there, Ramirez was there. The longer he was here, the longer they got to go unpunished, untested by his coin.

Harvey fingered the silver dollar in his pocket as he took the coat a nurse offered him, pulled it on, and then headed out into the courtyard. He preferred the cloudy weather. The cold felt good on the half of his face that was exposed, and the sun wasn't out enough to make it feel like he was sizzling all over again.

The man found a bench and sat down, glancing around for anyone worth talking to, which more or less boiled down to Jason at the moment. There was also Drake, who he could have toyed with a bit more, but Harvey was fairly certain they were split up by age for this shift.

Which meant he'd have to deal with taking a shower later. He would appreciate being clean, but his physical state made it such a hassle that sometimes it didn't feel like it was worth the effort. Sighing, the man watched the other patients in the courtyard and let himself rest for this spare moment.

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