11th Frost | Open Action (Forward-Dated to the 10th, 11th)

[icy_heavens]

Who: Toushirou, anyone who drops by to visit him, hospital employees/volunteers
Where: Locke City University Hospital
When: March 10th, 11th
What: So Toushirou winds up hospitalized for a couple days because of Wise Snake. Friends and otherwise show up to check on him.


He sure as hell would've like to have found his way to one of the Network healers than wind up here, but that hadn't worked out for him. At least he'd managed to hand his sword off to Luke before any normals caught him with it. Maybe it doesn't matter. Maybe their cover has been blown all to hell. But if it hasn't, he'd take advantage of whatever is left.

His first night had been spent having various tests done to determine the extent of his injuries. A couple things broken, a few more things bruised, and a concussion. Fun. But it sure beats being dead like he should have been. Any questions as to what had happened to cause his injuries had been met with an 'I don't remember', which seems like a perfectly good coverup, considering he'd been knocked unconscious for a time. It isn't like he can tell the medical staff he'd gotten hit by the most massive snake of them all. His survival would raise questions that way.

The rest of his time is spent on varying degrees of painkillers, with Granny at his side at any time when she doesn't have enough reason to be elsewhere. Anytime he'd tried to tell her the same thing he'd told the doctors, she'd given him an admonishing look. It had become clear that she wouldn't believe him, so he'd promised to tell her the truth once they're home. She'd at least texted his phone contacts about his situation, though. Using the Network at the hospital doesn't seem like the best idea.

News reports are all over the television today, and that's what he winds up watching. If any of the staff think that's weird for a kid his age, they don't comment on it. He has to know what's going on. Things are public now.

In one day, the whole game has changed.

Comments

[icy_heavens]

"There was yelling. Which I really did not need with the headache I already had."

Yeah, he's well aware of how Luke gets, though in the dark on part of the reasoning for this one.

[darkhourdear]

Yeah, that sounds like Luke. And the other guy seemed cranky too. "But I guess they got you here so it turned out ok."

[icy_heavens]

"Yeah, yeah." It had been an annoying mess, but it happened. A quick glance at the door to make sure there are no passersby that might hear. "Handed my sword off to him for now. Couldn't have normals catching me with that."

[darkhourdear]

Oh. Yeah, Phillip suddenly feels lucky that his disappeared with the form. "That was a good idea. It looks like a whole bunch of people are being found out 'cause of the snake and the interviews..." He doesn't quite know what that means for them. "...Have you told anybody?"

[icy_heavens]

He's not sure what it means for them, either. What's the world at large going to think of them? Will it just cause more problems? He's not optimistic enough to assume that things are going to go great from here on.

He looks thoughtful at Phillip's question. Has he? No. But . . . "Granny isn't buying the story I've been passing off to the doctors about how I got hurt like this. She wants real answers . . . When I'm out of here, I'm gonna tell her."

[darkhourdear]

Even Phillip's not quite that optimistic, even though he'd like to be. Seeing the reactions to him in that form put quite the damper on his 'everything will be great' point of view. Though he's at least more positive than a lot of other people, probably.

"Well... your Granny's real nice, so I'm sure it'll be ok." And besides, Toushirou already does a lot for her. This is the same kind of responsibility as running errands, right?

[icy_heavens]

Not that Toushirou is aware of it, but his own reaction to Phillip's monster form had been one of the mildest ones. It had helped that thanks to his spiritual senses, he'd had no doubt of the identity of the 'monster'. He'd been bewildered and exasperated rather than frightened.

"Yeah, it'll be fine." He really believes that, even if a part of him still worries about possible reactions. Worries aren't a rational thing. Granny will be as okay with this as any sane person can be expected to be. She just will.

[darkhourdear]

Yeah, Toushirou and Hajime had by far the easiest reactions... probably because both of them knew it was him without introduction thanks to their ability to sense him.

But yeah, from what Phillip knows of Toushirou's Granny, he's sure it'll be fine. She trusts Toushirou a lot and lets him do things. As for him... "I haven't told anybody in my family yet. I'm probably not gonna." His grandpa knew, and that was enough, and... his parents probably wouldn't let him leave the house ever again.