A soldier will fight long and hard [OPEN]

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Characters: OPEN
Location: Horrorspital
Rating: PG?
Time: August 23rd-August 25th
Description: A place for all those injured from the mission and frog invasion to be healed
Note: Set up is complete!

Medics/Helpers:

Winry Rockbell
John Watson
Sakura Kinomoto
China
Aerith Gainsborough
Shibuya Yuuri
Miranda Lotto
Lacus Clyne
Naomi

Patients:

Nataku
Gaara
Joshua Kiryuu
Namine
Edward Elric
Kida
Mifune

This is simply a reference chart. You don't have to participate in the log if your name is listed, and if you think you should be added/taken out, please let me now in the ooc post. If you are confused please reference the previous visitation log here

The Clinic is a fairly large, several rooms with a number of beds partitioned by curtains your muses can open or close as they see fit.

Comments

[dyingames.livejournal.com]

"I just have to sleep off the bloodloss." He huffs, eying Neku right on back. He's been complaining more than pretty much anyone else, of course.

"And your partner?"

Someone's been reading the network.

[gotphones.livejournal.com]

"You should do that after eating," he said pointedly, making himself comfortable. It might help the poor staff anyway. His partner could be a pain to be with.

"He's fine, resting," all matter-of-fact, but with some relief. Figures that Joshua knew about that. What didn't he know?

[dyingames.livejournal.com]

"But I'm not sleepy." Joshua exclaimed, dramatically. Pretty much cementing the whole pain in the ass thing.

"Good. Wouldn't want to have caused a casualty, after all." He's also done some research.

[gotphones.livejournal.com]

"I'm sure they have something in this room to help that." A pointed glance at the medicine cabinet; Neku has rummaged through it to know where they kept the sleeping meds.

He flinched and then started, lifting his head up to stare at the other boy. "... what do you mean, caused a casualty." What did he do this time?

[dyingames.livejournal.com]

"And lose the pleasure of my company? No way." They'd been saving them for the more needy patients.

"Well, you know how you turned up out of nowhere?"

[gotphones.livejournal.com]

"I have to do other stuff." Please, no. One week of straight Joshua attention was bad enough, and that was forced.

No, he didn't. He had asked around, but there was nothing that should have sent him back to the city. Unless... he stared at Joshua suspiciously. "... What did you do, Josh?"

[dyingames.livejournal.com]

"Nobody's making you come back, Neku." The smirk says it all.

"...It wasn't me, what are you talking about? So quick to blame, dear." Yeah, Josh totally knows.

[gotphones.livejournal.com]

His spine stiffened and he was quick to look away, gripping his shorts under his fists. Calm. He needed calm. "And then what? Leave you on your lonesome? You'll be bored."

But you were right there, he thought heatedly, glaring back at him. And even before, wasn't his guess right? Joshua was the one who killed him, even though Neku himself wasn't sure about it. "Maybe I got this one right, like the last time."

[dyingames.livejournal.com]

"I'm bored a lot lately, that's less likely to kill me than frogs are." He almost shrugs again, but aborts at the last second with a mocking tilt of his head.

"Last time? I could have sworn you thought it was Minamimoto for a while there, last time." Just going to be rubbing that in, yes.

[gotphones.livejournal.com]

No, you might just end up bugging people until they finally decide to give you a whack. Right.

"And whose fault was that?!" His voice raised higher and he gestured wide, hitting one of the dividers. "You lied to me!" Lying by omission was still lying.

[dyingames.livejournal.com]

"You might want to quiet down, Neku."

He doesn't address the issue, merely goes back to nibbling on his food. Omission is not lying, in his book, and it wasn't like he'd denied it.

[gotphones.livejournal.com]

A quick glance assured him that yes, there were some people looking their way and he quieted down with a small, almost inaudible growl.

And again, silence. Why was he so surprised that Joshua wasn't going to answer him? He never did.

[dyingames.livejournal.com]

He doesn't bother to justify his actions to this boy, not when Neku already knows he had his reasons for what he did.

"Do you even know what you want?" This is a subject that will only be brought up at awkward times.

[gotphones.livejournal.com]

Nice timing, Josh. Just. Nice timing.

"I want to go home," he said, deliberately changing the topic.

[dyingames.livejournal.com]

Home came to him, really, and Josh almost cracks a joke about it. Almost.

"You aren't the only one."

[gotphones.livejournal.com]

"..." He sighed, looking away. That was the whole reason why he was fighting again. Entry fee: everything he's ever known.

"We should get you a partner," or an umbrella. In the end, though, Joshua was still Neku's... "... I found a hedgehog that can change into a shield. How about that?"

[dyingames.livejournal.com]

Joshua blinks.

"If I wanted a partner, Neku, I would have one by now. Matchmaking isn't exactly your sort of thing."

He pauses, then raises an eyebrow.

"A hedgehog?"

[gotphones.livejournal.com]

"How can I forget?" Dry, but the truth. He recalls the flash of light and the feeling of being connected to someone else that he couldn't see, couldn't feel, only to find Joshua. Who just "helped himself."

Shaymin was practically a hedgehog, if a talking, flowery bush type. "She likes people who appreciate her. You might get along."

He slipped his hands into his pockets and flinched when he felt the cool jar inside.

[dyingames.livejournal.com]

Joshua doesn't bother pointing out that he can't force a partnership here, is no more powerful than anyone else. It isn't as if Neku isn't aware of that, after all.

"Hm, I wonder." And then his eyes follow Neku's hands, and Josh tilts his head at a curious angle.

"Is there something in your pockets, or are you trying to keep your hands busy in new and interesting ways?"

[gotphones.livejournal.com]

Even if Joshua couldn't do it here in the same manner, Neku didn't doubt that Joshua was going to find some way. Somehow.

"She lives in the clinic, last I checked." Speaking of, he hasn't seen her at all lately. Did a frog get to her...?

"Huh?" He stared at Joshua and glanced down at his hands, inside his pockets. "Of course not, why would I-" He stiffened and colored, lifting both hands from his pockets, jar clenched in one. "Ugh. Gross! No. I'm not you!"

[dyingames.livejournal.com]

Joshua smoothly drops the subject of the hedgehog, in favor of enjoying Neku's reaction.

"Do you-" Until he sees the contents of the jar, that is, and freezes before even properly starting a snarky comment.

He knows what souls look like, even without being able to hear its music. It's not like they could be anything else, really.

[gotphones.livejournal.com]

Of course he would. Like attracted to like. Neku readied himself for another inane argument only to find Joshua's reaction interesting.

"... What?" He asked, lifting the jar for him to see, glancing down at the five souls inside and waved it a little to see if Joshua's eyes followed.

[dyingames.livejournal.com]

Joshua's eyes remained fixed to the jar, even as ridiculous as it may seem.

It's a few seconds before he answers, and it's very indirect when he does.

"I dislike this place." It's also a very dry response.

[gotphones.livejournal.com]

He glanced at the jar and back at his partner, wondering what it was about it that caught his attention.

"I think I got that part," he said, lowering it to his lap before using his other hand to snap his fingers at his face. "... and you're stating the obvious why?"

[dyingames.livejournal.com]

"Because there are souls in that jar, given as a prize for fighting in their war." He almost snaps, practically bristling. He is not cool with this, not in the least.