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[Nill's wings flutter a bit, and her eyes dart around the room. Were they really not here..? Had he lost them in the hunting grounds? Maybe one of the nurses would know... they'd definitely keep that if he showed up with it, wouldn't they?]

It's okay. I can find them.

[He tries to recall for a moment, the last time he's sure he was wearing them. In the cage, he definitely had them on, but...]

[He shivers again, and makes a weird, strangled sound. Suddenly the air feels cold in the room. Too cold. And he really, really can't lose his shit in front of Nill like that again. He squeezes his eyes shut tightly, but that makes it worse. That makes it dark, like it was, when-]

[UGH, Hanamura, get a grip. He's wheezing a little again, and the monitors are starting to fluctuate more than they should. The nurse comes back in, exhausted, and gives Yosuke a disbelieving look. There's no way he should even be able to get his heart going that fast right now, drugged up as he is.]

[But Nill is there...Nill, who was in his head, giving him strength before. She's here now, too. Instinctively, he reaches out mentally again. He needs to calm down, he needs to not scare her or freak her out or thinki about those things. Nill doesn't need that in her head, either.]

Okay. I'll just...wait.

[Nill glances at the nurse when she comes in, and sort of shrugs one of her shoulders the slightest bit. Sorry, ma'am, but he'll probably be like this for a long while yet. It wasn't really the sort of thing that you got over.]

It's okay, Yosuke.

[He was safe here, and she wouldn't let anyone get him. But she puts her hand lightly over his, and tries to put a calming sort of presence in his head. Just to try to help him relax, and hopefully push away the bad thoughts.]

I'll find them a little later.

[Though she reaches in her pocket and pulls out her NV with one hand, typing up a message before holding it up for the nurse to see.]

Did he come in with a pair of headphones? Just nod yes or no-- I don't want to upset him if they aren't here.

[Yosuke makes a few more strange sounds. He doesn't know why, but like the shivering, it's too hard to repress. He's too tired to fight it, and not even sure what he's battling. It's embarrassing, but he can't stop either of them. The nurse dutifully grabs another blanket for him, as she's glancing at Nill's message.]

[Oh, so the girl isn't quiet. She's mute. But yeah, there were headphones all right. They were in an evidence bag, though. After debating for a moment, the nurse shakes her head. No is the easiest response. That way she won't get them asking after them and discovering they're not useable anyway. And caked in blood besides.]

[The touch from Nill makes Yosuke start again, and his heart monitor leaps. But he settles down a bit as the calmness begins to seep in, and shoots her a grateful look. The doctor comes back in along with another nurse, the big one from before who had been monitoring Yosuke's vitals. They frown a little, and the doctor scribbles something on his chart again. She doesn't say anything, but she smiles at Nill and Yosuke before she leaves again.]

[Oh... so they were left in that sort of state. It was probably better not to try to get a hold of them, if that was the case. They'd probably just be a bad reminder, and it would be a miracle if they still worked. She offers the nurse a brief flicker of a smile as thanks, and then turns her attention to Yosuke again, ignoring the doctor and that comes into the room. They don't really matter that much. What mattered was making Yosuke feel like the world wasn't falling apart, and she could offer enough of that feeling that he wasn't drowning immediately. Just enough to calm down now that he wanted to.]

I don't think I can get them for you now. It might take a day or two, but I'll get them.

[She had at least some idea of the brand he liked, and she had pictures on her NV to use as reference. It was enough.]

Thanks.

[Some other day he might say that Nill didn't have to. Or point out that he'd lost them in the first place -though something about that didn't sound right either- but at the moment it's just reassuring that someone else thinks they're important, too.]

[Nill's calming influence really does help. So much so that Yosuke barely even gives a resentful glance to the big nurse, who is following doctor's orders and injecting yet another something or other that's probably meant to do just what Nill's doing without screwing with his chemical balance. Ugh.]

[The next thing Yosuke says, he would normally know better than to mention. But the last drug is clearly a sedative. His eyes feel heavy only a few minutes after, and it seems like a gargantuan but important effort to help Nill with the task she's volunteered for.]

There's another pair. In the back of the closet...under...under everything. In a box. Don't -don't read those magazines okay? They're not mine. Not...there's another pair. But they're broken. Alright? They're not mine but they...I have them.

[A box? ...Nill has to take a moment to resist the urge to make a face. If he kept those sorts of magazines back there, why was he telling her to find a box?

But... why would he have a broken pair of headphones like that, anyway?

It doesn't add up, but Nill nods a little, and offers a small smile.]

Alright. Thank you.

[If nothing else, she could take the broken pair to a store so that she could be sure she got the kind he liked, so it wouldn't be a worthless effort. Yosuke should probably get some rest now anyway, so she could go take care of that after this.]

[The idea of sleep doesn't sit well with him. The subconscious is an unreliable thing, and it's easy to imagine an endless cycle of panic and drugs. But there's nothing he can do to fight it. He's never been good with medication. Cough syrup usually knocks him out, and he's fairly sure it's only pent up adrenaline that's kept him going this long. Reluctantly, he stops fighting to keep his eyes open. It's even more reluctantly that he stops thinking at Nill, but there's nothing to do about that, either. His brain just won't cooperate any more. It's like slamming a wall down on his consciousness. He's drifting already...damn it...]

[Nill tries to push more of that relaxed feeling into his head, just the slightest bit. Just enough that maybe he won't fall asleep scared of whatever kind of things that might try to get him in his dreams. She won't actually leave until he's nice and out though, and then... it's off to find that box.]

[It doesn't take long at all. To the nurses' relief and Yosuke's dismay, he's out cold again in a few minutes. But at least it was a soothing send off. And just in time, too. The cafeteria was starting to run low on cake.]

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