destinystrings | A different kind of IC intro

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???

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It was about twenty minutes after the nurses had finished hooking Ryotaro up that one of the doctors managed to personally bustle his way in to the room directly. The man looked a little haggard, but put on his best smile when he saw the man lying in the hospital bed.

"Mister, Dojima was it?" He smoothly crossed the room, eyeing the (much smaller) amount of machines set up in the room. Geez louise, they really lucked out catching this guy so fast. "My name is Dr. Abi. Are you able to answer questions? I need to know if the pain medication has kicked in properly."

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.

Yu was trying very hard not to panic, for Nanako's sake. He was also trying very hard not to break out into a full out run as he entered the hospital, the sterile smell hitting him in the face and bringing back bad memories of pain and painful recoveries. His hand was wrapped around Nanako's as he went up to the front desk, told where to go and who to speak to, and again it was difficult for him not to break out into a full on run, trying to keep his long strides short, trying not to panic.

His uncle was here... his uncle was here in Hinoto-Ri, in the hospital. Just... dammit. Dammit, Philemon, why did he have to do this?!

Yu paused as they waited for an elevator to arrive to take them to the floor Dojima was on, turning down to his little cousin. He gave her hand a squeeze, quietly hoping that she would be okay too... the last time her father had been in the hospital, she had been as well, and hadn't had the chance to worry about him. He knew she was strong, but...

"Are you okay, Nanako?"

Well, shit. Well shit, well shit, well shit, well shit.

Naturally, aside from family, when an officer showed up in this state, the immediate next people they call for are the police. Well, they called the police period, but this was an extra special case. They also called on the officer's partner, if they were present. Hahahaa, well...

"Dojima-san!?" Adachi was present. It was disorienting as all hell, but he was present. Why, why, why, what was with the timing--

Well, wasn't this just surreal. Nanako was okay and Dojima was the one injured... Maybe he should start becoming bitter to all this stuff. Nothing ever happened as 'usual' here, so... Still, he uneasily stepped inside Dojima's room, wary of the nurses. Seemed like some of them still didn't like him, what with what happened around a month and a half ago. Whatever, too bad for them.

But who knew how Dojima even saw him, though? He could go off saying some stupid stuff like Yu had... So he had to do this carefully as he stopped by Dojima's bed. Judging by the injuries, though, he had a damn good idea of when Dojima had come here, so maybe, just maybe he was okay. Still, it wasn't a definite thing.

"Wow, Dojima-san, it's..." Was it bad that he wanted Dojima to stay sick for a while so he didn't find out about him ditching a certain hour? "Ha, they said you came in pretty bad, but I think they were underselling it!" Yeah. Probably.

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