thebastion | [day 191] "It's very unfortunate I have to say this, But the world is going to end today" [closed]

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[day 191] "It's very unfortunate I have to say this, But the world is going to end today" [closed]

Who: Haruka, Takane, Colin, Ryu (4)
Open: Closed
When: Day 191
Where: Skyway -> Bastion
What:

It was an extremely average day,
Without a single obstacle in my path
Until I was bored, listening to the radio,
And I heard this voice that said:
"It's very unfortunate I have to say this,
But the world is going to end today"

Format: action
Warnings: STUPID SICK TEENAGERS

[ She stood there, frozen, eyes wide and breathing heavy.

Takane didn't know what had happened. One moment, she was turning around to make her way out of the school. The next ... she was here.

In a place she didn't recognize.

In a place that was ...

She didn't even know how to describe it.

Takane slowly turned around, eyes scanning the area she now found herself in. Did she fall asleep again? Was she dreaming?

No, she had to wake up. Haruka was at the hospital. She needed to go see him! She had to find him and tell him-- ]

AUGH! Wake up, wake up, wake up, wake up, WAKE UUUUUUP!

[ ... But clearly, that wasn't working. Takane frowned. Okay. She started walking, looking around. Maybe if she walked around long enough, she'd wake up.

Or figure out what was going on.

No way this wasn't a dream or something, though. She'd have to wake up sometime.

Takane walked for a while, keeping an eye out for anything that might clue her in as to what was going on. She didn't find one.

But she did find something else.

The moment she saw him, her eyes widened again and she could have sworn her heart stopped. She rushed over to the limp, unmoving form of her ~~love~~ friend, placing a hand on his arm and shaking him a little.

He couldn't be here. Not really. This was just a dream, right? Haruka was in the hospital.

Still, her emotions at seeing him like this were very real. ]

H-Hey ... Hey, Haruka ... Haruka, wake up ...

[ Tears welled up in her eyes again, and she roughly took him into her arms, shaking him a little more. ]

Haruka ... Haruka! Hey! Wake up, Haruka!

[ Those tears rolled down her cheeks. No, nonono. He wasn't waking up. This was a dream, and she still couldn't do anything. She was totally useless. ]

HELP!

[ She screamed out the word, looking around to see if maybe anyone was around to hear it. ]

HELP! WE NEED HELP! SOMEONE, ANYONE, PLEASE! P-Please ...

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[Well it's Haruka who decides, for some reason, that he's had enough of this unconscious crap.

Only it's more like he's finally rousing from what would have been about his normal rest from the surgery had all of this not happened.

He groans softly, calling for Takane in his half-awake state, eyes starting to open very slowly.]

[Between the two patients in their beds and the two visitors lingering nearby, the room feels a little crowded, but Yukio's not complaining. He (like pretty much everyone else who arrives in the Bastion) knows what it's like to wake up alone and in a strange place with no idea what's happening. Better that there are people around to help explain what's happening when they actually come around.

Speaking of which...

Yukio moves to the boy's bedside after he starts to stir, checking vitals and speaking calm reassurances.]

It's alright...

They're...

[Haruka's awakening silences him, and he rises from his seat. He glances at Ryu, and gives him a wavering hand gesture, the universal "Maybe, maybe not." He moves to the other side of Haruka's bed then.]

Takane is here, in the bed right next to you. She's still asleep.

[He drops his head, but moves a little closer, not wanting to crowd them but wanting to be comforting.]

You're in a safe place. Just rest.

[Some part of Haruka hears those voices, telling him that he's fine, that Takane is fine. But they're practically background noise to something playing through his more conscious mind.

A hospital bed in a blank, empty room. The body of his online avatar of all things hovering next to him, eyes closed. A woman's voice speaking to him from nowhere and everywhere all at once after he had lamented aloud that he just wanted to be like other teenagers...

"This is the body you wished for."

"No! I didn't mean it like that! All I wanted was to be able to hang out and have fun like everyone else! I just wanted to be normal! I don't... I don't want a body like this!"

And then, suddenly, darkness. Darkness and red, and the woman speaking again. He was fading away. No. Breaking apart.

"If you don't want it, that's fine. You'll simply become a living husk that has lost all memories of you. Send him off."

There were... snakes? Yes. Snakes in that darkness, wrapping that other body up and taking it away. All while Haruka's body continued to break apart in to nothing.

He was panicking in that... dream? Memory? What was it, really? His chest felt so heavy, so tight it hurt to breathe. In his mind he was screaming. Out loud, it was more like whimpering.

"No. Give it back. Give me my body back!"]

Give me... my body back...

[With that pained plea, his eyes shot open the rest of the way, leading in to a surprised gasp. His chest still hurt, enough that he reached a shaking, pale hand up to touch where his stitches were. The ceiling above him was not the one he had woken to in the hospital briefly, nor was it that blank space he had been disintegrating in.

Had that all be a terrible dream... ?

Or had he wished hard enough to stop that terrible thing from happening... ?

He probably shouldn't have been moving at all, but everything hurt even lying down, and he forced himself up in to a somewhat sitting position to look around in tired, groggy confusion at the unfamiliar faces around him.

One blink.

Two.

Three.

Head tilt.]

Uhm... ?

[Yukio frowned and reached out to lay a careful hand on one of the boy's shoulders, gently trying to guide him back down out of that semi-sitting position.]

Try not to move. Your stitches are still fresh.

[Colin smiles, and steps back so as not to crowd Haruka.]

Sorry for the confusion. This is Dr. Okumura, I'm Colin, and this is Ryu.

We can answer any questions you may have, we know you're probably confused as to who the heck all of us are.

[Ryu waves a little, smiling.]

You're safe here. Take all the time you need.

[But he'll step back too, and let the others do more of the talking. He's not very good at the talking thing.]

Ahh...

[It takes him a few seconds to process all this, groggy as he is from everything, but eventually he lifts a hand and... sort of repeats what Colin just said.]

Okumura-sensei... Colin-san... Ryu-san... ?

[Yup, this kid was obviously Japanese.

His hand went back to his chest, wincing once more at the sore, tender stitches.]

Where am I? Is... is Takane okay... ?

[Ah, Haruka. From Japan and polite. Yukio approves of of you already.

He nods and smiles a bit, taking a step to one side so that Haruka can see Takane in the other bed.]

Your friend is here too. She's just sleeping.

Right next to you, in the next bed over.

[He points to bed where Takane is.]

As for where you are, well... That's complicated. You're in a hospital in a place we call The Bastion.

Ah... yeah. This place is kind of a safe spot. Where we found you is out on what we call the Skyway, which has... chunks of other worlds.

[Uh. How does he even explain this...]

[Yukio's words perked Haruka up, and he leaned over past them to see Takane sleeping away. He smiled at that.]

She's alright... I'm so glad...

[He relaxed against the pillows then, looking back at the others.]

The Bastion? Skyway?

[... yup. Confused teenager is utterly confused.]

[Right with Ryu on this one. There isn't really a good way to explain the Bastion, is there? And honestly? He's a little worried about having this conversation with someone who obviously has some sort of heart condition, but it's not as it it can be put off forever. The kid seems fairly calm as of now, so hopefully things will be alright.]

... It's going to be difficult to believe, but the short version is that you've been transported to a different world. Whether you were on Earth or somewhere else, you're here now, and we call this place The Bastion.

[Colin nods in agreement.]

It's a difficult situation to accurately explain, but the important thing is that we found you, and we brought you back here where you should be able to recover.

How are you feeling?

This place brings in people from really different worlds sometimes. So not everyone will know the same kinds of things you do.

[Ryu does not know how to hospital, for example.]

Transported... to a different world... ?

[Well then.

Haruka stares at them, letting out an odd, nervous sounding laugh.]

That's--... but I collapsed again. At school-- ... this is... just a strange dream, right... ?

[Collapsed "again"? Geez, kid. Yuki's definitely going to have to pester him for a proper medical history.]

Unfortunately, no. That's what I thought at first, too.

As he says, it's not a dream. I can pinch you, but I'd rather not harm you further in the name of convincing you this is real.

[Colin gives Yukio a small grin, he knows what the Doctor's thinking.]

Do you and Takane have anything that we should know about since we've got you in the hospital here? I think we can all agree that an unnecesaary surprise would be a "bad thing."

[He adds air quotes to that last one.]

... This isn't a dream, no. We've been here too long for it to be any kind of dream.

[He'll just... go quiet again because he doesn't understand medical stuff.]

[Thank you for covering that, Colin.

Though it makes Haruka frown even more.

Not a dream. What about that woman speaking him to in that void... ?

If this wasn't a dream then that one had to be, right? He certainly didn't feel as though his body was breaking apart. If anything he was far too achy for anything like that.

But that also makes him realize... all of his medical history, all of his files... they're gone now. Not even the doctors that cared for him from his childhood on are around.

He's going to have to start all over.

And he won't have any of his medication.

He is not the type of person to wear worry on his face often, but for once it reads on him clearly, hand rubbing at the stitches on his chest.

Had they even been able to repair what needed to be repaired... ? He didn't know. He had been unconscious when he'd gone under...]

Takane never told me what her condition was called, but it's a type of narcolepsy. She's always tired, even when she sleeps a lot.

[He lifted his head, looking at her in the bed.]

She's never collapsed like I have, though.

[So he has no idea what happened to put her in that state, and it hurts him to see her that way.]

I have coarctation of the aorta. I wasn't diagnosed until I was in middle school, though, so I was on medicinal therapy... I had taken my medication today but... I was having trouble breathing and moving in class. I must have passed out and been taken to the hospital by Tateyama-sensei--

[Oh.

Oh no.]

Was there anyone else out there?!

I'm going to need to know what kind of medications you were on...

[Yukio reaches into his back pocket and starts scribbling some quick notes as Haruka talks. He's already at a major disadvantage in dealing with this sort of condition, and having to start his and Takane's medical records over from scratch is only going to make things more difficult.

Handling these kids is going to take a lot of research that he's not entirely sure how to start, but for Haruka's sake he keeps any anxiety out of his expression.]

I can look it up in a medical textbook if he doesn't remember...

[Colin frowns slightly, and he sighs. Yeah, it's coming down to him, isn't it?]

You two were the only ones we found out there. Heck, you were the only thing we found out there, other than a half-ruined gurney that we had to cannibalize for parts to make a stretcher...

[Ryu nods, and looks up at Colin. He's not sure what to do, since Yukio and Haruka are both using a lot of words he doesn't know. Should he be worried? It sounds like he should be worried, but he's not sure.]

No one... ?

[Haruka's shoulders slump, gaze going to his hands.

Tateyama-sensei... Ayano... Shintaro... all of the students in that school, all of the people in the hospital, and only he and Takane... ?

His fingers curled in to the scratchy blanket, but it only lasted a moment before he sighed and let go, lifting his head up with...

a smile.]

At least Takane is here with me.

[And that was all he was going to say about it. No reaction beyond that.

Well, aside from leaning over to list his medication to Yukio.]

You'll have to ask Takane when she's awake about hers..

Edited 2014-06-02 07:20 (UTC)

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