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Can You Hear Me [Closed]

Who: Akihiko Sanada & Friends
Where: Caduceus Hospital
Summary: Akihiko Sanada arrives from the Tower of Animus which means he needs a new body.
Warnings: Persona 3 Tear Factory

Sector F Level 4B-Room 2.

The area looked more like a science lab than an actual room. Numerous tubes were surrounding Akihiko, along with monitors of every type and subject. And that was for the medical part. What was more, candles and strange summoning circles and items were surrounding the bed as well, as medical met mystical in a strange array. Hinoto-Ri had perfected their arts, but they still had a long way to go.

"He's still rather weak," a voice above him said, distorted. "Did you send the message to his relatives?"

"Yes. I believe a positive experience may jolt him out of of the vegetative state he's now in."

"I wonder if he hears us. Damn Visitor should appreciate what we're doing."

"Dr.Stein, please remember that we are men of cloth sword to heal and protect as much as we can. This includes Visitor and Demons."

"I know. I know. I'm sorry. Let's leave him be and we can preform most tests later."

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Certain keywords can be heard, and cause Akihiko's consciousness to stir, though he can't quite find the energy to open his eyes and reunite with the world of the living just yet. The others in the Tower had died before, maybe it was finally his turn. It's just as painful as they say.

But his will is strong.

His face scrunches up a little in discomfort, but he doesn't move from his strangely decorated hospital bed.

If Minako or Shinjiro hadn't heard that message, Miki certainly had. Her sleep was usually pretty light in general and she was only a few hours off before her morning job. It was a good thing that the phone system here composed of nanomachines near her face otherwise she probably would have lost a phone to the floor that night. She was...greatly conflicted, her heart racing. While she knew she should be joyful that her brother was here, the fact he was in the hospital worried her greatly. Couldn't they had told them exact what the problem was?

No time for proper anything, she barely fumbled in her outfit, pulling on one sock as she slammed into the room the other two were sleeping in.

"HEY GET UP!" she purposefully didn't look their way in case they were in the nude, but damn she had a massive pair of lungs and she was going to use them. "GET UP RIGHT NOW!" The tone in her voice pretty much said she would not take no for an answer.

What could have seem liked hours later but were only minutes, a nurse came in and began to fill a few tubes with liquids.

"Mr.Sanada, I'm not sure if you can hear me, but I'm pumping liquids into your body to aid your body in recovering easier. Your motor skills with this new body is going to have to take a while. It may sting a little."

With a few hand movements, she created a holding spell on his arms and legs.

"Please don't worry. This is for your own good so you don't get jolted upward from your legs motor movements."

A few seconds later, what probably felt like an electrical shock shook his entire body. The feeling of pins and needles in his legs quickly took over.

Despite his comatose state, he claws his fingers and continues to display his discomfort in half-formed facial expressions, wanting to move but a strange force holding him down. He wants to scream. What was going on now? Apparently the pain wasn't over.

Shinjiro hadn't heard the message. But then again, he misses a lot of things when he's finally able to slide into sleep, and often has to rely on more than just the nagging persistence of a single alarm to get him up, so it's easy to ignore a telling beep of a message coming into the virtual inbox. It doesn't quite pierce his consciousness.

Miki's stressed voice, however, does, and he jolts back into a half-drowsy state of consciousness with a panicked, uncoordinated start, an elbow bumping into the warm body beside him. He's clothed, thankfully—too damn cold to even think of anything else, no matter how relaxed he might be—but he's still unable to string his thoughts together with any degree of coherency, too drowsy to be immediately embarrassed. His is still able to register the idea that something's wrong if she's yelling something at him. His voice is slurred, eyes blurry as he tries to shake the drowsiness off and will his lethargic body to move.

"...What?"

Edited 2013-11-07 06:52 (UTC)

Minako (who is wearing a cute nightshirt and leggings) hadn't awoken to the message either. She can sleep like the dead when she wants to (pun intended.) However, Shinji rolling over dislodges her arm from his chest, so she starts to stir.

"...Senpai?" Is it morning? It definitely doesn't feel like morning. If it is morning, Minako decides that she's going to forget school and slack off today. Sometimes, it's just not worth it.

Just for once, Miki was going to play the leader. Or pretend to be one, as she attempted to convey the message that they both needed to hear.

"We just got a call from the hospital!"

Yes okay good, she lets that sink in for a few seconds before trying to add what's the situation, but it's always hard to talk about her brother.

"It's Aki! He showed up but he's in the hospital, I don't know why, they didn't say and we need to go right now, I don't know what's happening!" The rest of her words were just a slur of attempting to talk some more but just being extremely worried and trying not to cry.

Awake, it's easier to more rapidly shift into a more aware state of consciousness, and he even has the frame of mind to feel suddenly awkward at the situation for a few seconds, until Miki abruptly kills the emerging embarrassment and replaces it with something else, an emotion he's far more accustomed to feeling. He wouldn't call it worry, exactly, but... well some people probably would.

Aki being in the hospital isn't as surprising to Shinjiro as it probably should be. Him being here again is more of a surprise, even after what had happened in October. Aki's been in the hospital enough for Shinjiro not to be completely floored at the revelation, almost always booking a bed in there due to stupid shit that could have probably been prevented if Aki had bothered to use that brain of his he's got that's probably too smart for his reckless emotional wiring to utilize properly. Goddamn idiot.

What the hell is he in the hospital for this time?

He slowly sits up (at least now he doesn't have to debate about whether to wake Minako or not), shoving some of the covers he had been cocooned in away. "...I'll get my coat." Another pause as he sweeps his bangs out of his eyes. "I'm sure he's fine."

"I'm coming too!"

Minako is also sliding out of bed, not caring about appearances anymore. Shinji had better be happy he didn't have to decide not to wake her up, because she would have been pretty angry. As it is, she's already forgotten how early it might be and is heading for the door to grab some warmer clothes from her room. "Miki-chan, wait for us in the lobby!"

"O-okay!"

Good idea, it was definitely better for her to not be there while they get ready. Besides, she realizes looking down, she was missing a sock and probably would need a second layer of clothing with how cold it was getting. She was nervous about the situation, but this would elevate her mind off of it for a few minutes.

"As soon as you're ready, I'll be there!"

And it's easy enough for him to throw on a warmer shirt and jeans, rustle on his coat to ward off the growing cold, and quickly pull on his socks and shoes without much of a second thought, moving halfway on autopilot as he steps out the door and heads down the stairs into the lobby where Miki's waiting, mapping the quickest way to the hospital in his head.

He does, however, check his inbox in the meantime. He doesn't answer the message he finds there—though maybe he should, try to wring out information though that might be impossible—frustrated somewhat with how damn vague the message is. Still, it mentions Aki's in the recovery ward. So on some level, that tells him that whatever Aki's gotten into, he's probably fine. He ain't stuck somewhere he might not come out of.

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Minako had never seriously considered that Akihiko might be injured badly enough to be in danger. This was Aki they're talking about. Doing stupid things is practically who he is. And after seeing the older version of him during their visit to Geartopia, she knows that whatever version of him is in the hospital right now, he'll still always be their Akihiko.

Minako throws on some various clothes, not even bothering to put up her hair properly, and dashes down the stairs as quickly as she can without landing herself in the emergency room as well.

"Let go!"

She doesn't even wait for them to be halfway down the stairs before she takes of. Driving, swimming, taking the subway, relaly, it didn't matter at this point, she just wanted to get there as soon as possible even if she just stupidly ran there to see her brother.

Those two were really peas from the same pod. Someone might have to stop her before she waists more time trying not to waist time.

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It hadn't mattered how long the three of them had taken to get there, it still felt like forever for Miki. Having managed to calm her nerves somewhat before arriving, they simply flared right back up again the minute they were on the level where Akihiko had been taken. There was a lot of strange looking scientific equipment all around. Just what had they been doing?

When they finally got to his room, it was closed. She literally had no idea what was going to happen once she got inside, but still something tugged at her heart.

"...Do you two mind if I go see him alone first? Just for a few short minutes..."

She needed to do this. Shinjiro would probably remember when she was afraid of seeing him the first time they had meet in Hinoto-Ri. This was a very different change of pace for her.

He does remember. It wasn't something he could forget, really, so it takes him by surprise when she asks to see him alone, despite the current events over the past month. This Aki might not even know who she is, but then again, he might. It was hard to decide what to expect anymore. The Akihiko inside the hospital room could be one of the versions of him they saw in Geartopia. Older. Or younger. Or it could even be the old Akihiko from Minato's side of the coin again, having somehow found his way back. Still, he takes the request in stride, after a couple seconds of thought, face softening somewhat as he nods and steps away, leaning agains the wall behind him, trying to ignore the attention-seeking beep of hospital equipment.

"If that's what you wanna do," he says. "You can come and get us when you're done."

It's because she's faced this scenario before that Minako doesn't question Miki's choice. Seeing a Minato who didn't remember her - didn't even know her at all, had really hurt. There's no guarantee that a Minato who returned to the city would be her Minato, the one she'd gotten to know. And if she wasn't sure of what she'd find, it would be easier to start by talking to him alone.

"Yeah! We'll be right here when you need us!" Moral support from afar.

As she steps into the room, Miki is nothing but a bundle of nerves. As brave as she was for leaving Shinjiro and Minako behind, it all melts away the minute she sees that familiar spot of silver hair amongst the covers. Somehow, it feels so wrong to see him here...and there are so many tubes around him.

What the hell happened? Why is he like that?

"Aki.."

She has no idea if he actually knows who she is, but she takes a seat next to him, holding one of his hands with both of hers and just stays next to the bed, hoping he'll wake up.

Akihiko's been poked and prodded ever since he got here. Each touch invokes discomfort and pain, and is not exactly convincing to someone trying to wake up. Whenever it happened, his body didn't react how he wanted it to.

But this time, he gets a different sensation. This one is warm and welcoming, basing at his hand. The grip is reassuring but gentle.

He shifts a little, closing his fingers awkwardly around Miki's hand.

She jumps up at the reaction from him, even if it's just his hand moving against hers for a few brief seconds. The monitors around her beep and show an increase of...something, she has no idea. Miki had never been a fan of hospitals, especially after what had happened.

Her second hand clasps around the first one, and she puts her head against it, her shoulders shaking slightly as she tries to fight back the tears.

"I don't know what happened...But I'm here now, okay? So please Aki, please wake up..."

Motion sensors, no doubt. Akihiko learned when Shinjiro was comatose that even the most subtle movements would set them off. Funny he'd be hooked up to them too, not that he currently realizes it. Miki's warm hands cupped around his make his fingers wriggle even more, until they combs Miki's and weakly hold in place.

Akihiko groans, his eyes fluttering open to a bunch of bright, blobby shapes and colors. Now there's a whole lot of beeping.

A few minutes after Miki went on, a doctor came by, giving them a small bow.

"Mr. Aragaki and....Ms.Sanada?" Well she had a 1/2 chance of getting that right.

That jolts her upright, as she looks over at them thinking she might have accidentally set off some alarms or something or he's entering cardiac arrest and--no she needs to believe in her brother and not assume the worse, as hard as it might be. She tries to give him encouraging words as she claps that hand even tighter.

"Come on you dumbass, get up! Stop making everyone worry!"

Okay, she might have gotten that from Shinjiro.

It's a voice he won't soon forget. Even when she left, it gave him hope in that horrible tower. Tartarus was a cakewalk compared to life there.

He shifts a little more, a shiver running down his back as things begin to take focus. He doesn't know whether to be happy or concerned.

He's in a hospital room. He must have been experimented on somehow. What would it be this time? A mutant arm? Some strange power? Maybe something beyond his comprehension.

But Miki's there. He met her a few weeks ago, in his sense of time, when she was transported there with Shinjiro. Why was she back? Did Ruana do this?

There was no way they were going to experiment on his sister. They may have gotten to him, but he didn't want her to see the same fate.

"Miki, save yourself."

He looks up at the sound of his name, back straightening, arching an eyebrow as he regards the doctor levelly. She's... half right at least. He guesses he can't blame her for making that assumption, even if Minako's hair is a bit to vibrant to fit in with the Sanada line. She's enough of a handful as she is, anyway, is without adding Sanada genes to the mix. His nerves would probably be a bit more frayed by now, if that were the case.

"Yeah. Mostly." His eyes flicker towards the door, mildly concerned. He's not the type to eavesdrop, and has no intention to, but he can't hear Aki's voice at all. Just Miki's every now and then, muffled. Not enough to make out the words. "But his sister's already in the room with him."

That should narrow her guesswork down.

"...!" She lost her voice for a few seconds, unsure how to answer that. He knew her. He knew who was standing over him, but as relief flooded her, so did intense worry. Why was he warning her? What had happened?

"What do you mean, Aki? Who did this to you?"

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Thread 1 - In which Miki runs into an room and awoken the dead (considering who is involved)

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I'll start a new thread for the hospital

PART 2: HOSPITAL HARDER

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PART 3: I RAN OUT OF TITLES

When in doubt use Electric Boogaloo

WOW OKAY THIS SHOULD BE CALLED "BREAKING MY HEART IN A MILLION PIECES"

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