Fan Fic Asylum - Chapter 7
Title: Asylum - Chapter 7
Characters: Kato Shigeaki, OC, Tegoshi Yuya, Masuda Takahisa, Koyama Keichiro, Yamashita Tomohisa, Ryo Nishikido, Fujigaya Taisuke, Kimura Takuya, Gackt.
Rating: N17
Disclaimer: I own the story ONLY
Erika and Maki were walking back to their ward. It hadn’t been easy to convince Yamashita that they would be fine just the two of them; he was a little anxious after talking to G. Erika had to admit she didn’t like walking the halls alone, or even with Maki. However, even if they did enjoy some leave, if they found a man in the women’s ward, there would be consequences.
“Are you going to avoid the new guy for long?” She heard the other woman ask. They were walking very close together and Maki had even grabbed Erika’s arm at some point. Probably Maki really wanted to know, but talking would ease the silence of the unused hallways they usually used to avoid being seen as well.
“I don’t know what you m-mean.”
“You’ve been avoiding him for what? The last week, week and a half.” It had been two, really but who was counting. “None of us care about your scars and I doubt he will either. If he thought anything bad, Tomo would have said something… or be the first in line to beat him up, with Tego second… well no Tego would think in much subtler and meaner ways to make him pay.”
Erika simply laughed. She said nothing but she was still reluctant to face the man. She was self conscious about her scars, how could she not, but it was even harder with Shige. For some reason she didn’t want to think about, she couldn’t face his pity or his disgust.
“It’s because you actually like him.” Maki continued.
Erika’s jaw dropped. “Would you tell your boyfriend to start tuning out my thoughts or at least keep his mouth shut about them.”
Maki just laughed. “He didn’t say anything but my guess was right. Are you afraid he won’t like you? Because he does look at you when you are not looking. And you can always ask Tomo what he thinks.”
“That wouldn’t be right.” Erika was actually scared that Shige wouldn’t like her, and after his reaction when he saw her… She knew he wouldn’t treat her differently and that he wouldn’t make fun but from that to overlooking her looks and liking her were two very different things. Let alone that it took her an hour to get two words when he was around and he probably thought she was an idiot or something.
Lost in her thoughts she didn’t notice, until now, that Maki had stopped walking. Erika turned around and walked back to her. She was staring at one of the doors.
“Maki? What is it?” Her pupils were completely dilated and her voice when she talked had no inflection at all.
“Something’s there. It’s coming… for… us… no, for me?”
A shiver went through Erika. “What’s c-coming? What d-do you see?” She asked with a shaky voice, her stutter back.
Maki shook her head. “What did I say?” Erika just stared at the other woman, who sagged in her arms. “I don’t know what that was. Maybe I’m just tired. I haven’t been sleeping well.” She finished without sounding convinced.
Erika hugged her but only for a few seconds before she gently took Maki by the hand and led them both back to their room. That place was making her nervous and she wanted to get out of there.
After a while they were in their beds. Erika sleeping and Maki having nightmares she wouldn’t remember when she woke up.
******
The next day Tegoshi was walking with Shige down one of the corridors. Shige had been asking questions but never about Tegoshi’s story. Good, he didn’t want to tell him yet.
“Tegoshi,” said the other man “I… Erika is avoiding me, isn’t she?”
“Yep”
“Would you tell her I’m sorry? I didn’t mean to stare. Tell her not to be angry and let me apologize.”
“She’s not mad, stupid! She’s self-conscious. She thinks now all you see is the scar. She is wrong, of course; otherwise I would have to release my inner beast upon thee.”
“So, before you had a girl inside you and now it’s a beast?” said Shige lifting one eyebrow.
“Well it’s neither really, though is closer to the beast.” Then, he sighed dramatically “I am beauty and the beast all in one.”
“Or Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.”
“No! Beauty and the Beast. Trust me, I look cute in a dress and little birds and squirrels follow me when I sing.”
“And you are hairy as well?”
“Okay, you have a point for that one but I’m not really hairy.” Shige laughed with him. “Give her time, she’ll come around. Still, I’ll have to look for someone else for her. Maybe my doctor…”
“Hey! Don’t write me off yet!” Tegoshi smiled slowly and widely.
“So you like her! Got you!”
“I never said that! I mean, I don’t know her…”
Tegoshi stopped in his tracks. There was a loud scream. Both he and Shige started running towards the sound. They got to another hall. There was a man being held by 2 big male nurses. He was screaming “They are coming for us! I saw them!” Kimura sensei was there too.
Tegoshi saw Erika running towards them. What was she doing running about the place alone? Though Tegoshi irritated, he would have to talk with that girl!
“It’s going to be fine. Nothing is coming for you…” Kimura sensei was saying.
“You know, don’t you? Are you one of them? No, I know they are here. They’ve always been here!” Then the man let out another scream, one that made your blood run cold.
“No, no, please, no! No!” He started to convulse and blood started to come out from his nose, his eyes and then his screams started to have a gurgling sound right before blood gushed out of his mouth.
The doctor and the nurses were trying to hold him down but he was convulsing so violently that his arms and legs tensed and moved with apparently amazing strength.
Then, as suddenly as it had started, it stopped. The man lay on the floor like a rag doll. The man was dead.
“Fuck!” said Kimura sensei. He turned around and saw them. At that moment Tegoshi felt a little scared of the doctor. He had never seen that expression on the other man’s eyes. Tegoshi felt Erika’s hand grabbing his and saw Shige get closer to them.
Kimura sensei closed his eyes and pinched the bridge of his nose with his fingers. When he opened his eyes again, he was back to his usual self.
“Are you okay?” he asked. After, the three of them nodded. “I’m sorry you had to see this, we will talk about it to make sure you are okay. Tegoshi-kun, you have a session with Masuda sensei, don’t you? Do you want to have the session?”
He wasn’t sure of his own name at that moment, so he just nodded.
“Good. Erika-chan, Shige-kun, would you go with him? Then go back to your rooms or maybe the garden. Fresh air will do you good. And I don’t think you should be alone right now. I’ll go find you later to talk. And, please, don’t say anything about this yet.”
Even though he had said please, it was an order. Again the three of them nodded and walked away as in a daze.
It had been surreal, to say the least, even in this place. Tegoshi had heard screams, had seen people go crazy… or crazier but, what had happened to that man?
He walked holding Erika’s hand tightly. She was holding just as tightly and Shige was walking really close to them. They finally arrived to Massu’s office.
Tegoshi wanted to see the doctor even if he wasn’t sure he could talk about what he had just seen. The other man had a peaceful and cheerful aura around him.
He stopped in front of the door and turned to Erika.
“You will stay with Shige, right? You won’t stay alone, will you?”
“I’ll st-stay w-with him.” Tegoshi nodded, knocked on the door and went in.
Massu (he knew he shouldn’t call his doctor that, but since when did he care about what he should and shouldn’t do?) was sitting on his chair and was closing his cell phone.
“Hello, Tegoshi-kun. Please sit down”
Tegoshi sat down trying to think something to say but couldn’t. So he just sat there with his arms around his knees. There, that was crazy enough right?
“Kimura sensei just called me. Do you want to talk about what you saw?”
“I don’t know what I saw,” answered Tegoshi.
“Talking about things usually helps. You can say anything; it doesn’t even have to make sense.”
“I know that, I’m crazy, nothing I say has to make sense.” Massu just look at him with kind eyes. He had very kind eyes… pretty eyes. Tegoshi stopped thinking right there.
“How do you feel about what happened?”
“Scared,” Tegoshi answered truthfully.
“Just because he died, or is it something else?”
“It’s something else but you wouldn’t understand.”
“You could try me.” Massu said with a smile. Tegoshi looked away. He had such a nice smile. He heard Massu moving around and then he felt a hand on his shoulder and his heart skipped a beat, but he didn’t want to analyze it. “You can really tell me whatever you want, I won’t judge you.”
Tegoshi laughed at that. “You job is to judge me.”
“The others have already done that. Your record is filled with diagnosis given by doctors who, honestly, have much more experience than me. So what if we try this, we’ll talk about anything you want. You can even ask me questions as long as I can ask you questions and we see how it goes.”
Tegoshi narrowed his eyes. “Okay. Will you tell me how you got stuck with me? Which game did you lose?”
“I honestly didn’t lose any game. Kimura sensei called me and said he was giving me my first patient. And to be honest I have no idea why. Like you said you’ve have more doctors than anyone I’ve heard of and I doubt I have the experience needed and everything I can think of has already been tried. So maybe we can try something new. Things come to worse, you can ask for another doctor for a change.”
Maybe it wouldn’t be so bad… Maybe.
******
Tegoshi went inside and he was left alone with Erika.
“You want to go to your room?” He asked. It was his opportunity to apologize but still he hesitated.
Erika shook her head. “Y-you c-can g-go. Go down that c-corridor, the second d-door, there’ll be p-people there so you won’t b-be alone.” With that she started walking in the other direction.
“Wait.” She kept walking and Shige followed. They ended up outside, in the garden. Erika got out and sat on one of the benches with her head on her hands.
Shige got closer and asked: “Are you okay?”
“Yes, you can g-g-go, you don’t h-have to stay.”
“Okay, I know you are mad at me and you probably don’t want to be around me but we are not supposed to be alone and everyone seems really serious about it so I’m not leaving you alone.”
“I’m not m-mad at you. W-why w-would I b-be?”
“Well, the other day, when you fell…”
Erika shook her head. “It’s ok-kay. I understand, I kn-now how I l-look, not a p-pretty s-sight.” She took a deep breath and again put her head on her hands, she was shaking a little.
“It’s not...”
“He is s-stil sc-creaming.” What was she talking about? He couldn’t hear anything…
“Oh, you mean that guy.” She nodded. Shige put a hand on her back and moved it soothingly up and down. She didn’t pull back.
“H-he k-keeps saying no, no and another word I don’t really understand. He’s g-getting closer and l-louder.” She leaned a little on him. “H-his so l-loud.” Shige put his arms around her and just held her, there was nothing else he could do. All this was way out of his league.
After a while, she stopped trembling. “He’s gone.” She said. For a moment or two Shige didn’t let go and she didn’t move away. Finally they ended embrace.
“Are they always so loud?” Shige asked.
“No, not always. It depends really. My ability is not as bad as the others’”
“Yeah, I guess mine either. I can ignore the faces if I want to, mostly, that’s what I’ve done most of my life.”
“How so?” She asked and like that Shige was telling the story of his life for a second time.
Finally he ended. “So like I said before, I’m stuck here and I don’t know if my mum’s okay or not until next visitation day. And if something happens to her it’ll be my fault for getting locked up. Sorry I ended up talking about myself.”
Erika smiled. “It’s okay. And it’s not your fault. I know how you feel, trust me, but none of it is your fault.” She was looking up at him her hair covering most of her face. Shige unthinkingly reached out to move her hair away but she cowered away and stood up. “We b-better go g-get Tegoshi, his s-session must be almost over by n-now.” She started walking and Shige followed a little disappointed.
When they went inside neither of them saw the almost translucent figure that followed them inside.
Characters: Kato Shigeaki, OC, Tegoshi Yuya, Masuda Takahisa, Koyama Keichiro, Yamashita Tomohisa, Ryo Nishikido, Fujigaya Taisuke, Kimura Takuya, Gackt.
Rating: N17
Disclaimer: I own the story ONLY
Erika and Maki were walking back to their ward. It hadn’t been easy to convince Yamashita that they would be fine just the two of them; he was a little anxious after talking to G. Erika had to admit she didn’t like walking the halls alone, or even with Maki. However, even if they did enjoy some leave, if they found a man in the women’s ward, there would be consequences.
“Are you going to avoid the new guy for long?” She heard the other woman ask. They were walking very close together and Maki had even grabbed Erika’s arm at some point. Probably Maki really wanted to know, but talking would ease the silence of the unused hallways they usually used to avoid being seen as well.
“I don’t know what you m-mean.”
“You’ve been avoiding him for what? The last week, week and a half.” It had been two, really but who was counting. “None of us care about your scars and I doubt he will either. If he thought anything bad, Tomo would have said something… or be the first in line to beat him up, with Tego second… well no Tego would think in much subtler and meaner ways to make him pay.”
Erika simply laughed. She said nothing but she was still reluctant to face the man. She was self conscious about her scars, how could she not, but it was even harder with Shige. For some reason she didn’t want to think about, she couldn’t face his pity or his disgust.
“It’s because you actually like him.” Maki continued.
Erika’s jaw dropped. “Would you tell your boyfriend to start tuning out my thoughts or at least keep his mouth shut about them.”
Maki just laughed. “He didn’t say anything but my guess was right. Are you afraid he won’t like you? Because he does look at you when you are not looking. And you can always ask Tomo what he thinks.”
“That wouldn’t be right.” Erika was actually scared that Shige wouldn’t like her, and after his reaction when he saw her… She knew he wouldn’t treat her differently and that he wouldn’t make fun but from that to overlooking her looks and liking her were two very different things. Let alone that it took her an hour to get two words when he was around and he probably thought she was an idiot or something.
Lost in her thoughts she didn’t notice, until now, that Maki had stopped walking. Erika turned around and walked back to her. She was staring at one of the doors.
“Maki? What is it?” Her pupils were completely dilated and her voice when she talked had no inflection at all.
“Something’s there. It’s coming… for… us… no, for me?”
A shiver went through Erika. “What’s c-coming? What d-do you see?” She asked with a shaky voice, her stutter back.
Maki shook her head. “What did I say?” Erika just stared at the other woman, who sagged in her arms. “I don’t know what that was. Maybe I’m just tired. I haven’t been sleeping well.” She finished without sounding convinced.
Erika hugged her but only for a few seconds before she gently took Maki by the hand and led them both back to their room. That place was making her nervous and she wanted to get out of there.
After a while they were in their beds. Erika sleeping and Maki having nightmares she wouldn’t remember when she woke up.
******
The next day Tegoshi was walking with Shige down one of the corridors. Shige had been asking questions but never about Tegoshi’s story. Good, he didn’t want to tell him yet.
“Tegoshi,” said the other man “I… Erika is avoiding me, isn’t she?”
“Yep”
“Would you tell her I’m sorry? I didn’t mean to stare. Tell her not to be angry and let me apologize.”
“She’s not mad, stupid! She’s self-conscious. She thinks now all you see is the scar. She is wrong, of course; otherwise I would have to release my inner beast upon thee.”
“So, before you had a girl inside you and now it’s a beast?” said Shige lifting one eyebrow.
“Well it’s neither really, though is closer to the beast.” Then, he sighed dramatically “I am beauty and the beast all in one.”
“Or Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde.”
“No! Beauty and the Beast. Trust me, I look cute in a dress and little birds and squirrels follow me when I sing.”
“And you are hairy as well?”
“Okay, you have a point for that one but I’m not really hairy.” Shige laughed with him. “Give her time, she’ll come around. Still, I’ll have to look for someone else for her. Maybe my doctor…”
“Hey! Don’t write me off yet!” Tegoshi smiled slowly and widely.
“So you like her! Got you!”
“I never said that! I mean, I don’t know her…”
Tegoshi stopped in his tracks. There was a loud scream. Both he and Shige started running towards the sound. They got to another hall. There was a man being held by 2 big male nurses. He was screaming “They are coming for us! I saw them!” Kimura sensei was there too.
Tegoshi saw Erika running towards them. What was she doing running about the place alone? Though Tegoshi irritated, he would have to talk with that girl!
“It’s going to be fine. Nothing is coming for you…” Kimura sensei was saying.
“You know, don’t you? Are you one of them? No, I know they are here. They’ve always been here!” Then the man let out another scream, one that made your blood run cold.
“No, no, please, no! No!” He started to convulse and blood started to come out from his nose, his eyes and then his screams started to have a gurgling sound right before blood gushed out of his mouth.
The doctor and the nurses were trying to hold him down but he was convulsing so violently that his arms and legs tensed and moved with apparently amazing strength.
Then, as suddenly as it had started, it stopped. The man lay on the floor like a rag doll. The man was dead.
“Fuck!” said Kimura sensei. He turned around and saw them. At that moment Tegoshi felt a little scared of the doctor. He had never seen that expression on the other man’s eyes. Tegoshi felt Erika’s hand grabbing his and saw Shige get closer to them.
Kimura sensei closed his eyes and pinched the bridge of his nose with his fingers. When he opened his eyes again, he was back to his usual self.
“Are you okay?” he asked. After, the three of them nodded. “I’m sorry you had to see this, we will talk about it to make sure you are okay. Tegoshi-kun, you have a session with Masuda sensei, don’t you? Do you want to have the session?”
He wasn’t sure of his own name at that moment, so he just nodded.
“Good. Erika-chan, Shige-kun, would you go with him? Then go back to your rooms or maybe the garden. Fresh air will do you good. And I don’t think you should be alone right now. I’ll go find you later to talk. And, please, don’t say anything about this yet.”
Even though he had said please, it was an order. Again the three of them nodded and walked away as in a daze.
It had been surreal, to say the least, even in this place. Tegoshi had heard screams, had seen people go crazy… or crazier but, what had happened to that man?
He walked holding Erika’s hand tightly. She was holding just as tightly and Shige was walking really close to them. They finally arrived to Massu’s office.
Tegoshi wanted to see the doctor even if he wasn’t sure he could talk about what he had just seen. The other man had a peaceful and cheerful aura around him.
He stopped in front of the door and turned to Erika.
“You will stay with Shige, right? You won’t stay alone, will you?”
“I’ll st-stay w-with him.” Tegoshi nodded, knocked on the door and went in.
Massu (he knew he shouldn’t call his doctor that, but since when did he care about what he should and shouldn’t do?) was sitting on his chair and was closing his cell phone.
“Hello, Tegoshi-kun. Please sit down”
Tegoshi sat down trying to think something to say but couldn’t. So he just sat there with his arms around his knees. There, that was crazy enough right?
“Kimura sensei just called me. Do you want to talk about what you saw?”
“I don’t know what I saw,” answered Tegoshi.
“Talking about things usually helps. You can say anything; it doesn’t even have to make sense.”
“I know that, I’m crazy, nothing I say has to make sense.” Massu just look at him with kind eyes. He had very kind eyes… pretty eyes. Tegoshi stopped thinking right there.
“How do you feel about what happened?”
“Scared,” Tegoshi answered truthfully.
“Just because he died, or is it something else?”
“It’s something else but you wouldn’t understand.”
“You could try me.” Massu said with a smile. Tegoshi looked away. He had such a nice smile. He heard Massu moving around and then he felt a hand on his shoulder and his heart skipped a beat, but he didn’t want to analyze it. “You can really tell me whatever you want, I won’t judge you.”
Tegoshi laughed at that. “You job is to judge me.”
“The others have already done that. Your record is filled with diagnosis given by doctors who, honestly, have much more experience than me. So what if we try this, we’ll talk about anything you want. You can even ask me questions as long as I can ask you questions and we see how it goes.”
Tegoshi narrowed his eyes. “Okay. Will you tell me how you got stuck with me? Which game did you lose?”
“I honestly didn’t lose any game. Kimura sensei called me and said he was giving me my first patient. And to be honest I have no idea why. Like you said you’ve have more doctors than anyone I’ve heard of and I doubt I have the experience needed and everything I can think of has already been tried. So maybe we can try something new. Things come to worse, you can ask for another doctor for a change.”
Maybe it wouldn’t be so bad… Maybe.
******
Tegoshi went inside and he was left alone with Erika.
“You want to go to your room?” He asked. It was his opportunity to apologize but still he hesitated.
Erika shook her head. “Y-you c-can g-go. Go down that c-corridor, the second d-door, there’ll be p-people there so you won’t b-be alone.” With that she started walking in the other direction.
“Wait.” She kept walking and Shige followed. They ended up outside, in the garden. Erika got out and sat on one of the benches with her head on her hands.
Shige got closer and asked: “Are you okay?”
“Yes, you can g-g-go, you don’t h-have to stay.”
“Okay, I know you are mad at me and you probably don’t want to be around me but we are not supposed to be alone and everyone seems really serious about it so I’m not leaving you alone.”
“I’m not m-mad at you. W-why w-would I b-be?”
“Well, the other day, when you fell…”
Erika shook her head. “It’s ok-kay. I understand, I kn-now how I l-look, not a p-pretty s-sight.” She took a deep breath and again put her head on her hands, she was shaking a little.
“It’s not...”
“He is s-stil sc-creaming.” What was she talking about? He couldn’t hear anything…
“Oh, you mean that guy.” She nodded. Shige put a hand on her back and moved it soothingly up and down. She didn’t pull back.
“H-he k-keeps saying no, no and another word I don’t really understand. He’s g-getting closer and l-louder.” She leaned a little on him. “H-his so l-loud.” Shige put his arms around her and just held her, there was nothing else he could do. All this was way out of his league.
After a while, she stopped trembling. “He’s gone.” She said. For a moment or two Shige didn’t let go and she didn’t move away. Finally they ended embrace.
“Are they always so loud?” Shige asked.
“No, not always. It depends really. My ability is not as bad as the others’”
“Yeah, I guess mine either. I can ignore the faces if I want to, mostly, that’s what I’ve done most of my life.”
“How so?” She asked and like that Shige was telling the story of his life for a second time.
Finally he ended. “So like I said before, I’m stuck here and I don’t know if my mum’s okay or not until next visitation day. And if something happens to her it’ll be my fault for getting locked up. Sorry I ended up talking about myself.”
Erika smiled. “It’s okay. And it’s not your fault. I know how you feel, trust me, but none of it is your fault.” She was looking up at him her hair covering most of her face. Shige unthinkingly reached out to move her hair away but she cowered away and stood up. “We b-better go g-get Tegoshi, his s-session must be almost over by n-now.” She started walking and Shige followed a little disappointed.
When they went inside neither of them saw the almost translucent figure that followed them inside.