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Post by Calw Walker on Feb 23, 2012 16:12:21 GMT -5
Allen had been stuck in the quarantine ward for almost 5 days now. He had eaten almost nothing due to the food being cold, raw, and flat out disgusting. He hadn't seen Mana since the day before was starting to lose his spirit again. On top of it all, he had hardly slept since he arrive due to someone across the hall from him making a lot of noise during all hours of the day and night. It was pissing him off. Allen wasn't a violent type of person but at this point had it not been for the fact that a guard was outside his own room, as well as everyone other room in the Q-ward he would have seriously gone over to that person and forced him to quiet down. Within the five days there, he still hadn't grown used to everything. In the Q-ward you weren't allowed to have anything in your room, not even your clothes. All Allen had with him was his bed, pillow, and blanket that the doctors had provided him with. he had been told he would get some of his stuff back once he was assigned a cell. Plus, given his tiredness and lack of windows in his room, he had no perception of what time of day it was. Gensu floated in from the hallway and landed on his should. He petted it and whispered "Hey Gensu, where ya been?" As usual, the golem didn't answer. Allen just chuckled as he pulled his bed sheet up to cover up to his neck.
((Note: I don't mean to label Godelieve as the one making all the racket. You in the end can decide if he is, or if it's someone else. Also, the thing about not having anything in the Q-ward was an actual detail for the modern era in the book. That's why I added it.))
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Philomela
Bloody Leech
William, Mercy, Godelieve. Crazy, crazier, craziest.
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Post by Philomela on Feb 23, 2012 16:25:39 GMT -5
Like Chinese water torture, this racket ebbed & flowed. Now the screaming had mellowed into a sweet little voice, singing just above a library voice. "To-morrow is Saint Valentine's day, all in the morning betime, & I a maid at your window to be your Valenti-i-IIIIIUHNNH!" Godelieve thrashed his fist against his cell wall at the end of his shriek. "DON'T you pigs KNOW that I need my CORSET to look PRESENTABLE." He bellowed at nobody at all. He hunkered on his bed, blankets in a makeshift dress to hide his concave torso. Each rib was defined, either collarbone stretching out against his sallow skin. All of the food that had been presented to him had been flung against the opposite wall to make a grimy Rorschach test, those beloved ink blobs that so reminded him of his father. With Godelieve's knuckles bloodied from striking the wall, he smeared the blood on his cheeks for rouge & on his lips for paint. "Oh, I am so unloved." With no one to perform to, this was a matter-of-fact mutter instead of a theatrical wail. "I am unloved & unliked & unbeautiful." He pawed at his eyes, so tired, so tired, but he couldn't bear to sleep when he looked so ugly.
[Oh, no, thanks so much for the opening.]
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Post by Calw Walker on Feb 23, 2012 16:42:25 GMT -5
Allen had had enough at this point. At his limit break he finally shouted back "Shut up! You're not the only one with problems in this building!" He paused to catch his breath. "Unlike you, I want to go to sleep!" he barked back. Gensu jumped off his shoulder and started hovering around Allen's head. The guard by Allen's door stepped in. "Keep it down," he said. Allen felt his mind snap with anger.
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Philomela
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William, Mercy, Godelieve. Crazy, crazier, craziest.
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Post by Philomela on Feb 23, 2012 16:51:04 GMT -5
"Ah-boo-hoo-hoo, Monsieur Morpheus, with your sleeptalk & your problems!" Godelieve sing-songed back, going up to the bars of his temporary home in his shabby blanket toga. He craned his head at a grotesque angle to stare up one way down the hall, trying to spot the source of the voice. "Mister Guard here is right; you should watch your tone!"
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Post by Calw Walker on Feb 23, 2012 17:11:08 GMT -5
Allen felt himself snap in his mind again as his rage took over his body. "ME?! I need to quiet down?!" Allen jumped off his body with his bed sheet tried around his chest to cover his whole body as he marched towards the door. Gensu followed him. "I've been here for 5 days and hardly said a single word yet the minute I open my mouth, I am the one who needs to remain quiet instead of the guy shouting and singing every moment of the day?!!!" Allen took a step outside his door and the guard grabbed his wrist. "You're not going anywhere!" the guard said more adamantly. Allen turned around and slapped the guard across the face with his free hand. His other hand was released and he bolted to the door way across from his and stared, angrily up at the one who had kept him from sleeping. To his surprise, he thought he was looking at a sickly girl. Had it not been for the extremely flat chest, Allen would have been fooled. still, he put his guard back up. "Shut the hell up, or I'll make you!"
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Philomela
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William, Mercy, Godelieve. Crazy, crazier, craziest.
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Post by Philomela on Feb 23, 2012 17:19:19 GMT -5
"Oh my." Godelieve stated as Allen struck an officer of the asylum. He blinked back hard at the other boy. "I've been told it isn't my fault I'm utterly unbearable." Very little inflection seeped into his words as he put his face as close to the barrier as he could. He surveyed Allen quietly, large eyes zig-zagging from his toes to kneecaps to shoulders & to his face, what a nice face & a lovely face. & then he smiled, like a doll smile with a receding gum line from malnutrition. "I'll be as quiet as I can be, but even church mice squeak, sir."
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Post by Calw Walker on Feb 23, 2012 17:28:31 GMT -5
Allen scalded at him. "Thank you...." Without another word he walked back into his own room and lay back down on his bed with Gensu resting on his lap. The little golem flew up and rubbed himself against Allen's cheek. "Yeah, I'm fine, Gensu," he whispered with a small grin. A few hours and distasteful meal passed by....
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Philomela
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William, Mercy, Godelieve. Crazy, crazier, craziest.
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Post by Philomela on Feb 29, 2012 12:29:53 GMT -5
Godelieve whispered sleeplessly through the last few hours, taking great care not to raise his voice above a murmur for fear of angering his asylum brother. Every half-hour he would go to the door to peer towards Allen's cell, stand motionless for a minute or two, sit back down, lie down, sit up, count the hairs on his scalp. He began plucking them out & winding them around his finger. It came easily from his head.
"I just wonder what I am to do, because I wouldn't like to wake him." His voice was hushed as he spoke to the corner of his cell. "But I am so bored that I may scream soon. It has been such a long time, I think, or maybe only an hour." Godelieve paced & finally sat himself down in the middle of his cell. Waiting.
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Post by Calw Walker on Feb 29, 2012 13:01:01 GMT -5
Allen was finally getting the sleep that he needed, at least he was.... Gensu kept rubbing against his face throughout the night until finally Allen's eyes creeked open, feeling a slight sting from his eye lids being stretched. "What is it, Gensu?" he muttered. The little golem floated to the other side of the room by the floor where it was almost to dark to see. Allen groaned but pulled his sheet over him as he tossed himself out of bed and slowly began dragging himself across the floor. About half way to Gensu he heard it, a hissing sound followed by a rattle coming over from under Gensu. He froze, suddnely wide awake and focused. He saw it, a rattle snake coiled up in the corner, eyeing him ficiously. It's just an illusion. There's no way a rattle snake could be in England, let alone here in this hospital, he told himself. The snake kept hissing at him and finally began to uncoil itslef and creep closer. Allen took a step back. "Go away, he said, his body begninning to skake. The snake pressed forward. "Make it stop...make it stop..." he started to repeat. He back up until he fell down onto his bed and stil the snake slithered over to him, keeping up the bed post. Allen began to shout. "Get away from me! Snake! Snake!! Someone help!!"
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Philomela
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William, Mercy, Godelieve. Crazy, crazier, craziest.
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Post by Philomela on Feb 29, 2012 14:58:18 GMT -5
Godelieve's raccoon-ringed eyes leaned out into the hall, knobby knuckles clutching his blanket to his skeletal body. Whatever could be the matter that a strong boy was shrieking for help like a maiden? "You're allowed to shout?" He sounded only slightly put-out, then a bit concerned. "Oh, Mister, why do you scream thus?"
[Wait, so they can leave their cells, or did Allen just break out earlier?]
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Post by Calw Walker on Mar 4, 2012 11:19:52 GMT -5
[[They can leave, yes. But guards are station outside each room. Imagine the Q-ward as one giant hallway with open rooms and guards standing beside each door. That's basically what I've been imagining.]]
Allen ignored Godelieve's taunts; he was too focused on the poisonous beast the was chasing him across his room and now sitting at the foot of his bed, rattling. "Someone...SOMEONE HELP! MAKE IT STOP!"
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Philomela
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William, Mercy, Godelieve. Crazy, crazier, craziest.
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Post by Philomela on Mar 4, 2012 15:27:51 GMT -5
Godelieve gathered his skirt in one hand & held it over himself with the other (modesty is a very important quality, naturally). He skittered into the hall. "Boy? Oh, boy??" He burst into Allen's room, looking to him & then around. "Where is it & what is it & how do I stop it?"
[Okily dokily, thank ya.]
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Post by Calw Walker on Mar 6, 2012 17:38:13 GMT -5
Allen looked up to see Godelieve and a shimmer of hope sparkled in his eyes. "Please, please, just swat it! It's right there in front of you!" Allen pointed at the foot of his bed where the snake was sitting. Nothing was really there. "I know you can't see it but please...just smash you hand there!" he begged.
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Philomela
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William, Mercy, Godelieve. Crazy, crazier, craziest.
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Post by Philomela on Mar 6, 2012 17:57:35 GMT -5
Godelieve's brow creased only for a moment. No, he did not see anything. But who was he to argue with the reality of someone else? Godelieve knew how painful it could be to be in a nightmare Wonderland with White Rabbit to believe in him.
He breathed in deep, braced himself, & leapt up to bring his heels down hard on the concrete where Allen had indicated.
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Post by Calw Walker on Mar 7, 2012 0:36:36 GMT -5
The snake's body morphed into dust and quickly evaporated away upon Godelieve's foot coming into contact with it. Allen's body began to relax as the illusion faded. he chuckled. "Th-thank you! Thank you!" he shouted, jumping off the bed, his sheet falling off him as he embraced Godelieve in a hug. "It's gone now...you really saved me!"
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