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Night 57: M61-M70 Hallway

Sep 07, 2011 23:10

[M64]Hijikata finished his meal just as the doors unlocked themselves. Strange, that there were none of the usual announcements, but he wasn't going to take the time to dwell on it. He had a mission to accomplish. Setting the lighter down on the desk for the time being, he went back to his box and began pulling out the few things he was certain to ( Read more... )

kirk, claude, zex, guy, hijikata, peter petrelli

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M66 wantsyourzex September 14 2011, 23:19:10 UTC

Oh god. Night had fallen and he was still awake. He wasn't sure if he was happy for it or not. It was better than being dragged off and tortured, sure, and he had to admit, with each time night fell he felt a surge of panic and fear that it might happen again, but even when he wasn't dragged off for unspeakable tortures, he wasn't exactly happy about nighttime. Maybe ZEX would have felt more confident, but as it was, Max felt frightened and alone. He didn't have much chance to ask Kirk if maybe he felt like sticking around either before he left.

Well, his room was always safe, right? He remembered that much... although, he reminded himself, safe from what exactly? He was sane now, he knew who he was and there were no... monsters or whatever roaming the halls eating people. That was insane. And there was no way his little mental hallucinations would manifest again and he'd start getting those cuts and scrapes out of nowhere... right? He was better now. Right? He shouldn't be scared of things that didn't exist ( ... )

M66 [sorry for the delay!] human_sponge September 15 2011, 18:51:54 UTC

[From here.]

Peter moved about halfway down the hall, using his flashlight to illuminate the numbers over each door. It wasn't hard to locate M66. He paused in front of the room for a moment, listening to see if there was any sign of Max inside, but it was fairly quiet. That didn't mean that he wasn't there, of course, but at least there weren't any worrying sounds like screaming or frightened breathing. He didn't like the thought that Max might have been sitting there scared and alone for a long time because of him.

Only one way to find out, of course. Adjusting the duffel bag of supplies that was hanging from his right shoulder once more (the uneven weight was kind of annoying, but he knew he'd get used to it), Peter reached out to knock on the door two times.

"Max? Are you in there? It's me, Peter." He wasn't going to barge in on the guy and so once that was done, he waited patiently.

Re: M66 [sorry for the delay!] wantsyourzex September 17 2011, 04:58:18 UTC

Max started at the sound in spite of himself. It was fine, it was fine, it wasn't the staff coming to take him away again, it was just Peter. The surge of relief was nice, although the increasing frequency of the flickers in his peripheral vision was not. He was not seeing things, and even if he was, they couldn't hurt him, right? He was sane now, wasn't he? God, if it started happening again to him now he was going to freak out or something.

He got up to go open the door, hoping he didn't look too strung out. "Yeah, I'm here!" At least having someone else in here would make him less likely to get lost in his own thoughts. "Let me just get that..."

He opened the door, hoping his sigh of relief wasn't too dramatic. But really, it was nice to see someone! When he spent too much time alone he had a tendency to make bad decisions. He caught sight of the bag on Peter's shoulder, and tilted his head quizzically. "What do you have there?"

M66 human_sponge September 17 2011, 06:57:58 UTC

Peter sighed almost in unison with Max, glad to see that he was still here and seemed to be doing relatively well. It was hard to say just from a first glance and Peter could tell that he looked a little worn down, but weren't they all? The cuts on Max's face were still there, though that was no surprise. Peter figured they would have been healing a little faster, but ( ... )

Re: M66 wantsyourzex September 17 2011, 12:06:38 UTC

Peter seemed happy to see him, which was always a plus. Far better than weary sighs or rolls of the eyes. Possibly concerned? The loss of his eye had really done a number on his vision... among other things, but no need to think about that right now ( ... )

Re: M66 human_sponge September 17 2011, 22:47:00 UTC

Did they really sting that much? Peter figured that they were shallow enough that they shouldn't have been giving the man that much trouble after the initial injury, but maybe he was wrong. Or maybe he was just particularly sensitive. Peter had to admit that Max was the type, and he'd certainly come across enough patients with low pain tolerances to know how to be patient with them ( ... )

Re: M66 wantsyourzex September 18 2011, 21:27:34 UTC

Max was happy to watch Peter move about in the dark. He was, at least, very solid and very real, and he didn't disappear whenever he blinked. It was nice to be able to see something that wouldn't just vanish when he looked at it more closely.

"Yeah, that's fine." Max looked up towards the ceiling, down around the room. Nothing, of course. There was that everpresent feeling of being hunted, that something was watching him... it was just nerves no doubt, just him being nervous in this place, even after all this time. Who wouldn't be, after what had happened to him? It was very reasonable, really.

"Uh... did you see anything on your way here?" Maybe it wasn't just Max this time, maybe something was going on tonight that'd explain the constant ghosts of motion he could never quite see. He'd feel a lot better if that was the case.

A sudden stinging on his back, below his clothes, and he winced slightly but didn't say anything. He was just sitting strangely, that was all. A muscle twinge. Nothing more.

Re: M66 human_sponge September 19 2011, 17:35:03 UTC

The question came out of nowhere as far as Peter could tell. Probably just paranoia seeping through again, and while his instinct was to answer "no," he realized that that would be a lie. There had been that strange gas that he'd seen, but it had been for a split second. Honestly, he could have hallucinated that ( ... )

Re: M66 wantsyourzex September 20 2011, 22:33:14 UTC

So Peter hadn't seen anything lately... he wasn't sure if he felt relieved at that news or not. If Max was seeing things, and he shouldn't be, then that definitely wasn't a sign of anything good. If they both were, then maybe it was just the institute playing tricks, but as it was... well, maybe Peter just hadn't seen anything yet. That must be it ( ... )

Re: M66 human_sponge September 21 2011, 01:39:35 UTC

It seemed that Max wasn't any more trusting of Aguilar than the rest of them, which Peter was glad to see. His talk with Sam had made him more and more sure of the fact that Max was suffering from those brainwashing effects, so it wouldn't have surprised him if he'd thought that the general and his men were really trying to help them underneath it all. Trying to tiptop around that would have been pretty tough ( ... )

Re: M66 wantsyourzex September 22 2011, 04:36:46 UTC

"Well... I think they'll probably be okay." Max actually wasn't sure he thought that at all; he really knew very little about the situation. Still, them being okay seemed to be the better option. "Aguilar's always got problems to deal with, so he can't be that great at fixing them, right?" That didn't make a lot of sense when it came out of his mouth, but it was too late to take it back now. Hopefully Peter would get what he meant... whatever it was ( ... )

Re: M66 human_sponge September 22 2011, 17:08:36 UTC

Honestly, that logic didn't seem particularly sound. Just because Aguilar had a lot on his hands didn't mean that he was going to have a difficult time sniffing out the bad egg in his ranks. Peter had learned by now to never underestimate the people who were keeping them here, and yet he didn't have the heart to argue with Max. The guy was probably just trying to make himself feel better about the whole thing and so Peter decided to keep quiet and let him believe what he wanted ( ... )

Re: M66 wantsyourzex September 25 2011, 04:35:09 UTC

"Yeah, I guess... I didn't have a lot of time to look around in there. We got distracted by the drugs." A moment. "Not the medical ones, the ones the army was talking about last night, you know..." Not that that probably made anything any better. "I hope Gant is okay... I should have asked if he was okay on the board... I can't believe I forgot..." Max did feel legitimately guilty about that. He'd have to follow-up on him tomorrow ( ... )

Re: M66 human_sponge September 25 2011, 20:02:42 UTC

Max's thoughts were really all over the place. Peter couldn't tell if that was just his personality or if it had something to do with the fact that his mind had been tampered with (which still wasn't for sure, but it seemed likely). Either way, he had to sort through the jumble of words and pick out the important parts.

The fact that Max had tried out those drugs last night was both worrying and telling. What if that was what had caused this whole thing? It was impossible for Peter to know when he'd only met the man earlier today, but he had to wonder if this was going to be permanent. He was going to check on Max tomorrow over the bulletin, that was for sure.

Peter didn't think he'd touched the man's arm, which meant that he was having sudden pain for no perceivable reason. Not good, in other words. What could be causing such a thing? Unless he had some sort of internal affliction, which was far beyond Peter's ability to deal with ( ... )

Re: M66 wantsyourzex September 27 2011, 09:47:45 UTC

[augh sorry for the delay, i didn't get the notif for this for some reason. D:]

Peter didn't seem disturbed at all, so maybe he hadn't seen it... maybe it was just a muscle twinge. That had to be it. He was not getting torn up by invisible monsters... he was not seeing things. He definitely was not hallucinating because he was sane now. He might have done way too many drugs before he came here, but there were certain things that just did not happen. Invisible monsters were one of those things ( ... )

Re: M66 human_sponge September 28 2011, 01:59:54 UTC

This conversation wouldn't have been too out of the ordinary if it wasn't for the giggling. Max almost seemed like he was on the verge of some kind of nervous breakdown, which wasn't so surprising considering the situation they were in and the fact that he might be brainwashed into thinking he was a mental patient with a tenuous hold on reality ( ... )

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