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Manfred von Karma ([personal profile] lawful_perfect) wrote in [community profile] damned_institute2010-03-07 11:32 am

Day 48: Sun Room [Second Shift]

Hmph. While this Rude was the proverbial "man of few words," von Karma found more potential use from him than a number of the other patients he had met put together. He would still ask Franziska about the man... as well as the other people he had learned that she had been spending time around. Many of them were utter fools, especially that Kibitoshin.

He ignored the nurse as she insisted that he stay indoors, lest he "catch his death of pneumonia." Already having planned to meet his daughter in the Sun Room, the prosecutor had no intention of spending the cold, gloomy morning in the Courtyard anyway.

It appeared that he was the first to arrive in the spacious room. Gray light from the overcast sky filtered in through the glass windows high above, making it somewhat more difficult for von Karma to peruse the notes on the bulletin board as he awaited Franziska's arrival.

The lines in his forehead furrowed as he saw Kibitoshin's note to her, asking her whether she was "feeling better." What made that blasted oaf think that it was any of his business how she was doing or to worry about her?! She had been raised to take care of herself, damn it! ...Did Franziska say or do something that would lead the clumsy idiot to think otherwise? This, among other things, von Karma would ask her.

After removing his daughter's response to his original note from the board -- and noting that Ms. Taura had yet to reply to his other note -- he sat down at a table in a remote corner of the room, claiming this space that would afford him and his daughter the most privacy.

Mew?

What was that noise? And what was that tugging sensation at the leg of his pants? He peered down in the direction from which the irritating sound had come and was greeted by a tiny orange kitten that had the mistaken notion that his leg was a climbing post. Infernal creature! One glance at his face, and the furry little nuisance was suddenly at the other end of the room, having cleared it within several skittish bounds. Good riddance!

[Waiting for his Dear Daughter]

[identity profile] donetakinorders.livejournal.com 2010-04-08 12:57 pm (UTC)(link)
"If you ask me, with all the messin' 'round the clubs an' groups do without gettin' nothing done, you're better off on your own anyway. Maybe get a friend or someone to watch your back, but otherwise? I ain't seen any of 'em do much of anythin'. 'Sides, better when you know if everyone can fight an' take care of 'emselves, right?" At least that was easier when he was with his brothers. Sure, Raph kept an eye on his brothers since, well, they were family, but he knew they could all fight and fight well, even if Mikey might do better if he kept his mouth shut for a while. A bunch of strangers? Raph wouldn't know if he could trust them to watch his back as much as he could someone like Leo.

He shook his head, coming back to the conversation at the mention of the fake name the nurses called him, and grinned wryly. "Nah, they do that with everyone, from what I hear. Fake names, fake lives. All that kinda bullshit. I ignore what they introduce people as, since it ain't ever been right."