[Day: Wednsday, June 15th. Time: 11:00 a.m.] [Yesterday, Rei wuz ded. But she got better, sorta. Now she's a ghost! And she's gonna do stuff.] [Mini Start] [Rei is at a pachinko parlor.] * Rei idly plays pachinko, completely ignoring the looks the machine must be getting by it playing itself. She glances at the time and counts down the seconds to when they get a maintanence worker over to "fix" the machine. [The owner is working on that problem right now.] * Rei glances at the owner, decides one more game is good for until the maintenance worker gets there, and goes to do that. She sighs a ghostly sigh. ( Gaming check ^^ ) 2d6-1 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Rei (2d6-1) and gets 4. [Rei gets a nice high score before losing.] [No, really. That's what happens.] [Then the game is shut off.] [And the maintenance guy starts to work on it.] * Rei awws and looks around the machine. Ah, go figure. d6-3 * Dicesuke throws the bones for Brett (d6-3) and gets -2. [The maintenance guy does a good job fixing the not-broken machine.] * Rei grins a little and scoots out of the parlor. She looks up at the sun, then ambles - not quite running or zipping - over to the hospital Katsu's staying at. [30 minutes later, she gets there. It's a different hospital from the one that the zombie-vampire things attacked a few nights ago.] * Rei taps at her cheek, then heads to the reference desks. Hopefully there's an empty one. [There sure is.] * Rei heads straight for the terminal and gets to work, looking up the room Katsu's staying at. [123] * Rei looks up where, exactly, that room is, then sets everything back to the way it was originally. She glances around and heads to room 123. [Rm. 123 is in the Intensive Care Unit. 'Cause Katsu got beat up pretty bad by a mean ol' hunka stone.] * Rei pokes her head through the door. This is followed quickly by the rest of her body. [What body?] (So to speak. ^_^) [Inside the room, Rei sees a mummy! Or something that looks like a mummy.] * Rei floats over and winces, then takes a look at the clipboard for a listing of the injuries. [The room has that hospitally smell about it.] [List of injuries... (this'll take a sec)] [#1: Severe damage to the entire left side of the skull.] [#2: Bones in right arm cracked and broken.] [#3: Big hole in right palm.] [#4: 4 ribs on left side cracked] [#5: Hit really hard below belt.] * Rei frowns a little at the list, then hops up over the bed a bit, getting a good look at her brother. ~Katsu? Are you awake?~ * Katsu is blinking, and doing very little more than that. The left side of his face is bandaged, as is his chest. His arms are both in casts and slings.] ~Oh, so you are. Um. This is Rei, but I bet you guessed that. I know I'm talking a little... slower than usual, but I think it's 'cause of shock or... something.~ * Katsu blinks. ~Yeah, it's kinda... surprising for me, too, really. I mean, I thought- okay, so I am dead, but- um. Do you want to work out a blinking system, if you can't talk? Once for yes, twice for no?~ Can t-talk... * Rei sobs. ~I'm sorry, Katsu, I'm so sorry. I- I tried so hard and I- I don't know what happened.~ ... hurts. ~Hurts? What hurts? You're... talking about the injuries or something else?~ ... * Rei sniffs and wipes at her eyes, though it's not like her tears get anything wet. She floats down and touches Katsu's hand, making sure she puts some small pressure there so she knows she's doing it. * Katsu doesn't respond. Probably doesn't feel it. ~I... why'd you do it, Katsu?~ Did... nothing... Why... I... here...? * Rei blinks. ~You- you don't remember?~ She sounds a little shocked, a little glad. Found... sword... kendo bag. Wanted to... to... put it b-back. ~That's the last thing you remember?~ * Katsu tries to nod and obviously can't. "Ya..." * Rei laughs, relief and hysteria mixing to make a very interesting sound. She zips and gives him a kiss on the uncovered right cheek, even though he's said he hated those. ~God, Katsu, so it was the sword after all. You're okay now. You'll be okay!~ * Katsu looks at Rei with his not-covered eye. "..'Kay?" Said... arm... not going to be same... ~You- I mean, you're hurt, and- and I don't know how much you... shit, it's not?~ Other... can't... c-can't make... fist... And... face... face is... * Katsu doesn't finish. He looks like he'd cry if he had any tears left. ~I... It's not supposed to be this way. None of this is supposed to be this way!~ * Rei spins, lashing out with one hand, sending the clipboard and various pens clattering onto the ground. ~It's not!~ * Katsu doesn't say anything to that. ~I'm not supposed to be dead, and you're not supposed to be like this and... Damnit!~ D... dead? * Rei takes a deep, shaking breath. ~Yeah. Ka- Katsu, remember what happened to Mom when she picked up that sword?~ Thought... just stories... Maybe excuse... for why... why she's a-always... that way... * Rei laughs hysterically. ~Well, um, it hap- it happened to you. Kind of. You were more calculating and cold and I'm so glad it's over even though-~ She sobs. ... Me? W-Why? * Rei nods, realizes Katsu can't see it, then says, ~I- I don't know. You were working with some guy named Mr. E, though, and... I went and investigated, and then you- you sucked me into this glowing stone and it hurt like hell and- I don't know.~ No... w-wouldn't... Never do s-something... like th-that. ~I know. Sometimes, I doubted, but in the end... that wasn't you, and- and I knew it. You know I'm telling the truth, right? You could always tell.~ ... Not f-fair. * Rei winces a little, but asks, ~What?~ Life... ruined... a-and... I c-couldn't... couldn't do anything.... not fair. ~I... I don't know, Katsu. I tried my hardest, I did!~ * Rei nears hysteria again, then her voice softens. ~I did.~ * Katsu doesn't respond to that. * Rei stays silent for a while, then says, hesitantly, ~We're... going to try to find me a new body, so- so I can live again. No matter what, I'm... I'm gonna make sure we get through this, okay?~ * Katsu doesn't respond to that, either. He looks pretty out of it, in fact. ~If I get one, I'll be back, and I'll let you know it's me. If I don't... if I don't, I'll be back, and we'll work through it anyway.~ * Katsu is about as responsive as Meimi at this point :P * Rei taps Katsu on his right cheek. ~Okay?~ (Is he even awake? ;P) * Katsu is awake and staring into space. * Rei smiles faintly and flicks Katsu on the cheek. ~Hey, stop that. We can't let this little setback stop our reign of terror.~ * Katsu closes his eyes. * Rei peers at Katsu, then shakes her head. ~Fine, be that way. I'll be back.~ She gives him a hug. ~Watch out for old guys wearing white sunglasses and white suits, got that? I love you.~ [Mini end]