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Patrick Dawn ([personal profile] bashfulshifter) wrote in [community profile] towerofanimus2013-10-02 03:53 pm

Regains and Such

Characters: Rick and anyone else!
Setting: All day on October 2nd; prompts are floor 100, floor 26 (morgue), then floor 27 (laboratory).
Format: Starting action-spam, will match though!
Summary: Rick has feels about his regain, then goes about his usual jobs in the Tower.
Warnings: Rick has feels.

Floor 100

[The park was always most pleasant in the early fall. Its trees' bright orange and yellow leaves basked the fountain square in a perpetual glow of warmth despite the crisp weather, shielded from the main street and lakeside venues like a grotto within a wild forest--the cut stone path would be the uneven pebbles by the shore of a creek, and the fountain its burbling currents.]

[Pumpkin tea would not have been Rick's first choice of beverage to consume whilst resting in this clearing. But then again, he wouldn't have chosen to sit on the ground, either, since the bench shaded by the old oak wouldn't have been a hologram. The warm drink might've held more weight if he could feel the occasional gust of wind that very clearly rustled the loose leaves around him.]

[All of this is well and fine. Rick doesn't need the physical feedback of floor 100 to remember sitting in this park and all the feelings associated with that. It does help, though, now that he's found his wallet in his trunk--which in itself wasn't terribly important, and neither was the money, cards, receipts or other random scraps and notes and identification found within.]

[The small picture in the front pocket seems to have done a much better job at catching his eye.]

[He sits at the end of the room facing the holographic fountain, alternating between staring at the photograph and nursing his tea in listless silence.]


Morgue/Laboratory

[Of course, Rick can't stay in the park forever. It isn't until well into the afternoon when he finally gets around to his other tasks, namely cleaning the morgue and his usual collar fluid-related duties, and he'll be oddly distracted when he does. His mind is obviously somewhere else.]

[Someone should probably snap him out of it before he gets stuck in a cold locker or drops a beaker in the sink or something.]
notsogrimreaper: (Ryoji Mochizuki: don't deserve you)

[personal profile] notsogrimreaper 2013-10-26 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
[Ryoji just gives a nod at his response, moving to sit down next to him. Slowly though, so he doesn't freak him out. He understands how hard it is to talk to people sometimes, especially when having a difficult time...and pretty much everyone was unhappy at one point or another in the Tower. Ryoji does honestly want to help, though, if only Rick will be willing to show him what will bring him comfort.

He glances down at the photograph, and smiles a little sadly. So he has someone he loves back home. He understands that all too well. He was never in a serious relationship before finding someone here, but being separated from them that long, and not knowing what happened to them?]


...If you don't mind me asking, was she your wife?
notsogrimreaper: (Ryoji Mochizuki: hide away)

[personal profile] notsogrimreaper 2013-10-30 07:53 pm (UTC)(link)
...I see. I'm sorry. It's hard to lose people that important to you.

[Ryoji had already felt guilty enough about what he had done to Minato. If he hadn't been there with him in the Seal, Ryoji would have felt even worse about what had happened. And now that he's been here so long, he can't imagine losing people like Yukiko and Diarmuid.]

Who knows, though? She could always end up here. I-I mean, I wouldn't want to wish that on anyone, but...
notsogrimreaper: (Ryoji Mochizuki: sure don't want to hurt)

[personal profile] notsogrimreaper 2013-11-07 04:34 pm (UTC)(link)
[Ryoji frowns a little deeper at that laughter. He knows when something like that is forced.]

I understand... I wouldn't have wanted to be left alone either.

[Thank goodness there had been some people to get him back on his feet when he first arrived.]

Don't worry. She'll be safe. We're going to get everyone back.