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Catharsis; NS, Hearts
Topic Started: May 13 2013, 05:27 PM (413 Views)
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Oh my God, I LEFT THE STOVE ON AT HOME!

The pain medication they'd given Shinta still left his mind feeling hazy. Nonetheless, he'd woken up after receiving treatment for the electric beatdown he'd received while going berserk out of heartbreak. His eyes opened slowly, and the light hurt his eyes. "Feh...turn th' damn li'sse uf..." mumbled Shinta, his speech slurred as a result of the pain medication. "Da fug happened?"
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"There was an incident. You know the kind." He wasn't about to elaborate on it further without a confirmation that they were the only ones that'd overhear. That kind of thing never ended well.

"But, you're gonna be alright. Physically, I mean." Benkei folded his arms, and got right to it. "So, woman-problems, eh?" He was kind of on the fence about Shinta's plight. On one hand? He could sympathize. On the other? It seemed like a poor reason to go monster form, even if he did have the good sense to do it in the ruins and not in the middle of town.
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"...does this clockwork hand follow you... or guide you?"
Chika snorted, but had the good grace to keep it inaudible, when the words "woman-problems" were uttered. Masumi gave Benkei a reproachful look and said, "Let's let the boy wake up properly before we start interrogating him, okay?"

The fortune-teller was sitting closest to Shinta--at the side of his bed, in fact, almost like one would expect a worried lover to do. She wasn't a lover by any stretch, but she was worried about him; he seemed like such a nice boy and he'd obviously been over the moon about performing in Hamlet. For something so heartbreaking to happen in the middle of it that it drove him to Monster Form? It was cruel. Masumi felt nothing but sympathy for Shinta right now, unlike the other two in the room.

Which was why he would notice her holding his hand, like a worried lover. Even though she was just "worried," and not a lover at all.

...Not. A lover. At all.

Baka.
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Oh my God, I LEFT THE STOVE ON AT HOME!

Shinta groaned, his memory returning- along with a pounding headache. "Yeh...tha shit happn'd." he groaned, his speech still slurred. "I-I'd been cas' for the lea' role in Hamlet...got selected by an actress named Mayumi. She'd flirted wi' me a bit...went to ask her out an' found sh' been seein' the play director."

Shinta shook his head groggily. "Director sa' she'd 'got wha' sh' wanted' an' sh' had t' 'pay up'..."
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"Ah, I get it." He slowly nodded.

"Well, sorry to hear that dude." The fuck else was he supposed to say? He walked into that situation when someone tried to decapitate him.

"That's real unfortunate, y'know? For her? I mean, I know it's bad for you too, but it's a shit situation all around, really."

He looked to the women. On one hand? Chika wasn't sympathetic at all. Though she was worried about him getting too hurt. Masumi? Well

"Ah…miss Suzuki? How well to you know Shinta here? Exactly?"

'He's okay, perhaps you could consider just bailing.'
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"...does this clockwork hand follow you... or guide you?"
"Hm, oh not very well at all, we just met last week and talked for a bit is all--" Masumi began, but that was when Chika moved away from her spot by the wall and directly to the side of Shinta's bed.

"...'pay up'..." she echoed quietly, almost dangerously even. "...'Pay up' how, exactly?"

The bland, unsympathetic look on the redhead's face had vanished. Now she had fixed Shinta with a narrow-eyed, intense stare... almost Hanako-worthy, except with all the creepy replaced by serious business. Why, it was almost as though Shinta's words had hit some psychological bullseye inside the girl's brain that had switched her give-a-shit muscle from off to on.

Masumi blinked in bafflement at Chika, still holding onto Shinta's hand.

"U-Um, miss, I don't think it's right to--"

"'Pay up...' how?" Chika repeated again, leaning forward, a slight flash of green flickering in her eyes before they reverted to their normal color again. If that stage director was--No, stop right there, she told herself. And yet, she still had to know. There was only one interpretation that had come to mind...
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Oh my God, I LEFT THE STOVE ON AT HOME!

Shinta blinked sleepily at Chika. "I...I'unno...I saw 'em 'avin' dinner togeth'r so I 'ssume the d'rector jus wanted a date or something." he mumbled. This slurred speech was probably a bit annoying.

He groaned. "Jus' wish she had tol' me she'd been seein' the d'rector..."
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"I think…what happened here was the director was ransoming a part for this date. Her part or shit… Dude's a real asshole for putting her in that position, yeah?"

He wasn't gonna say it out loud, but another possibility would be her doing it for like…Shinta's part.

Wow, that would've made things super awkward. Could you imagine? A girl going that far for you and you took it in the worst way possible? Half understood? That's some tragic shit. Like…something some brilliant playwright would pen up, or some shit.
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"...does this clockwork hand follow you... or guide you?"
Great minds think alike, as they say. The possibility that Mayumi might have been paying the director for Shinta's part in the play occurred to Masumi as well, and she shifted uncomfortably, because voicing that might have been insensitive and all-around not very helpful to Shinta's mental state.

Unfortunately, it had also occurred to Chika.

"Right," Chika said quietly, seeming to deflate. "A date. Right."

She seemed not to believe that dinner was the extent of it, but she let it slide--in favor of leaning very, very close to Shinta's ear and hissing in a dangerous whisper:

"Before you go ahead and judge this woman for anythin'... maybe y' oughta consider what she mighta been payin' for. Did the thought even occur to ya that she mighta been doin' what she's doin' for you?"

"O-Or you might have just seen something and read too much into it!" yelped Masumi, who was near enough to just barely hear Chika's whispered suggestion. "Osaka-san, please. If you don't have anything else worth doing here, please just leave Shinta-san be. You've done enough."

Chika drew back with a wince, as if burned. "...Fine," she muttered, suddenly looking less like an ice queen and more appropriately like a chastised child wearing a teenage girl's face.
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Oh my God, I LEFT THE STOVE ON AT HOME!

Shinta massaged his forehead. What Chika and Masumi were saying was going in one ear and right out the other, not out of disrespect but because his head was hurting again and the fuzzy feeling in his brain the medication induced was making it difficult to think. "Ah dunno, I don' r'lly wan' 'o talk abou' it." groaned Shinta. "...my 'ead 'urts..."
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