A different kind of IC intro

[papadojima]

Who: Dojima and OPEN
Where: Caduceus Hospital, Leo District
Summary: Dojima doesn't arrive quite as planned.
Warnings: None so far.

Today, after being silent for a few days, the HORUS system beeps back to life, indicating a new arrival... at Caduceus Hospital in the Leo district. Not at all where Visitors usually arrive...

Dojima opens his eyes after a strange dream. Persona... must be because of what his nephew told him. He groans as nurses get to work around him, hooking him up to machines, giving him oxygen and dialing different departments for a head to toe examination of the new patient who was visibly in bad shape. Shit, why had they unhooked him in the first place?

"Sir? Sir, what is your name?" the youngest nurse asks, writing pad in hand.

He hisses in pain before repying "Dojima... Ryotaro."

"Okay. Do you know where you are?"

"Inaba."

From the look the nurse gives him, Dojima understands this was not the right answer. But, if he's not in Inaba... where is he???

Comments

[disconinjafrog]

When Yosuke got a ping of a new arrival on his COMP, he was in the Virgo district, just getting out of Junes with a bag of things for a certain someone's birthday later that day. Usually he ignored these kinds of pings either for being too far away or simply because he didn't think he'd be the best one to handle new arrivals to the city...

But this one was conveniently close, and... And it was in the hospital? Did one of the arrivals show up and get injured, had they been injured already? Maybe it wasn't really his business but... he had a nagging feeling to just go check it out. He wasn't late anyway, he had plenty of time to get everything set for his friend's birthday.

So the teen decides to turn his bike around and head out in the opposite direction, to the Caduceus Hospital, chaining it up outside and running up the steps to the front desk. A quick question with the nurse had confirmed his fears: an arrival did just show up, pretty mangled and lying in a hospital bed. What he hadn't expecting though, was the name of the patient...

"Dojima-san?!" Yosuke's eyes widened and he nearly dropped the grocery bag he was holding. "What, you have to let me see him!!" He started protesting with the nurse who seemed to want to refuse admittance to see him. "No... I'm not family but he's my best friend's uncle, he knows me!!"

It takes several minutes of arguing before the stubborn nurse finally complies and takes Yosuke up to his room, ordering him to be careful and be quiet and not to disturb the patient too much.

Poking his head in nervously, Yosuke looks around and notices.... Wow... he looked just like how he did back in November, after that accident...

"Dojima-san?" The teen was a little bit quiet, and was seriously debating on whether or not he should have just contacted Yu right away with the news that his uncle was in the city, and hurt.

[papadojima]

Dojima opens his eyes at the call of his name, slowly. He turns his head towards the door and spots... oh, it's one of Yu's friends. "Hanamura?" he whispers. "I had the strangest dream..."

Suddenly he sits straight up, the gesturing tearing a scream of pain out of him. "NANAKO! Did you find Nanako...!" Two nurses come immediately at the scream, scolding Yosuke and Dojima, the first for disturbing the patient, the second for having opened his surgical wound on his chest again.

[disconinjafrog]

Yosuke shrinks back, taking one step backward in terror from his sudden screaming, and he doesn't even notice the nurses yelling at him as they try to calm Dojima down and get him to relax. His knuckles turn white as he drops the grocery back on the floor by his feet and clenches his fists, trying to brace himself.

"Dojima-san, Nanako-chan is fine!!" Goddamnit, he should've contacted Yu first, he's such an idiot... The frightened teen approaches slowly. "What happened to you?? Why are you injured like this??"

[papadojima]

It took a moment for Dojima to be able to speak again. "Car accident... weren't you there? Argh!" A nurse pressed hard on his wound while another went to get suture thread and a needle.

"Where's Nanako?"

[disconinjafrog]

"Car accident??" Wait... wait so he was... oh shit. "You mean you just got out of the car accident from chasing down Namatame?? Shit..."

He shakes his head and holds his hands out to try and make a 'stay calm' gesture. "Nanako-chan is fine, she's safe and sound with Yu right now, you don't need to worry." The nurse offhandedly informs Yosuke that Yu Narukami had already been contacted, so there was no need to panic and try to get a hold of him.

"They'll be on their way, okay? You don't need to worry, Dojima-san!"