Day 51: Breakfast

[thatdamnedninja.livejournal.com]

Yuffie Kisaragi, indomitable bouncing ball of sunshine and unfathomable ebullience, was tired. It'd been a long night full of gibberish and getting nowhere fast.

"Can't I—"

Plucky, who had been busily loading a plate full of French toast and bacon, tittered. "I'm afraid not, Hanna, darling. A chat over a nice, hearty breakfast would do you a world of good, don't you think?"

"Aaaaactually—"

"Come on, let's find you a seat. Plenty to choose from this morning!"

For a long moment, Yuffie seriously considered doing something—anything—to act out. Punch her nurse, rub jam in an orderly's face, climb a wall and hang off the ceiling, jump on a table and parody Loveless… A ruckus like that would definitely jolt her back into gear, right? Sedation aside. And it'd turn Plucky's good day right on its head, which was always a bonus worth shooting for.

But, by the time she'd reached a decision—and it was an epic decision, a really awesome one; everybody'd appreciate the genius, she was sure—she was already alone. Her breakfast tray had been set down neatly by the nurse, who had left with an infuriatingly winsome smile.

"Wow," Yuffie muttered. Shaking her head, she picked a chair at random and threw herself into it. She kicked back, one arm slung across her eyes, to wait. For what, she wasn't totally sure. Some moron to decide that she looked like good company? That was how it usually went.

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[brooklynisangry.livejournal.com]

"Last I checked I'd gotten over that, yeah." And he was not going back to being like that again. That was over. Finis--whatever, he wasn't gonna think about it.

Oookay. Sounded like Guardromon, except with less sense. "How'dya steal the truth? Someone get left with lies or somethin'?"

[stealthetruth.livejournal.com]

"Last time you checked?" Okay, yeah, that was really reassuring. "Is this something else I should know about? Are there a lot of crazy people here?"

Kay scrunched her nose for a moment, and answered, "Nooooot really. It's more that I track down evidence of crimes, crimes committed by people the police can't touch-- so super-powerful businessmen and politicians and stuff like that." She grinned, a little, and had the fingers of one hand at the wrist of the other before she realized she wasn't wearing her gloves, and couldn't tug them down. Drat, that was like super-irritating. "Well, theoretically, at least. I've only caught a couple criminals so far."

[brooklynisangry.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I am, no there ain't, and nah. Some're kinda weird, but not too bad." Of course, his standards for being normal were set a lot lower than most.

"Well, that's cool." Sounded like some sorta TV show or something that he'd seen through people's windows when he'd gotten bored. "And 's long as you're just goin' after bad guys, I don't have a problem with it." Like how he only shot bad guys now.

[stealthetruth.livejournal.com]

"If you're sure about that, buddy." Kay didn't sound so sure herself, but there were tons of other people around-- she could talk to them later, she guessed, and get the whole story about this place from someone who seemed a little less nutty.

"Oh, man, it is totally cool!" She grinned at him, perking right up. "And of course! The Yatagarasu only pursues those who would hide from justice, those who deserve no respect or pity." Like the smuggling ring that had taken her dad away from her.

[brooklynisangry.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I am," Beelzemon growled, leaning back in his chair. "I know what crazy feels like, and I ain't never going back to that again."

Slightly pissed off or not, at least the human seemed decent. "Don't deal much with humans doing stuff they shouldn't, so I guess it's good someone is."

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[stealthetruth.livejournal.com]

"Okay, okay! Y'don't need to get all defensive about it, jeeze." Kay was still going to talk to other people about the weirdness, but he didn't have to know that, probably (and it wasn't lying if she just omitted a bit, right?).

"Yeah, someone has to do it," she agreed. "My dad used to, too, and my Uncle Badd, but... it's kinda a risky business." To say the least. Not that that was any kind of deterrence for Kay; Truth and Justice and revealing the first and bringing criminals to the other were important, both as a birthright (even if Daddy hadn't started it until she was seven) and because it was the right thing to do.

[brooklynisangry.livejournal.com]

"Anyway, I got a friend here, she'd tell if I was going nuts," Beelzemon continued, half-ignoring what the human said, looking over at Renamon again. He still felt bad that she was banged up, even though he didn't have anything to do with how it'd happened... whatever the hell had made it happened, Renamon had been as mysterious and cryptic as usual. Guess that meant things weren't too bad.

"Yeah, you humans can't even Digivolve or anything," Beelzemon agreed. "Well, not really." That bit was complicated and weird and didn't make one lick of difference unless this human was a Tamer. He was glad he didn't have to deal with biomerging, it kept Ai and Mako far enough away from any fight that he didn't have to worry about them getting hurt.