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Who: Xerxes Break and Gilbert Nightray. And, dear lord, Dr. Franken Stein
When: Tuesday, July 24
Where: Siren's Port
Summary: An introduction to modern life, complete with grievances.
Warnings: Minor surgery and traffic. Also, Dr. Stein himself constitutes a warning...

[ There is, to Xerxes Break's way of thinking, but one downside to keeping his outpatient appointment: that scary lady doctor! He'd been shocked, and then amused by the staples (modern medicine, indeed!); but they'd started to pull and itch in this warm weather, the more he moved about. And though he doesn't know the city, that is just one more reason to go out and explore.

Besides, he is slowly going mad, despite his seemingly ideal circumstances. Here, in this vast estate, with Alice, Oz, and Gilbert, he is safe for the moment. The gardens are fragrant; and the selection of sweets is as abundant as it is outstanding. The other occupants of the household - Ciel Phantomhive, his aunt, and their shadowy servants - are intriguing in their own right, and also because of their associations.

And then there's his NV, with which he's had hours of amusement, variously chatting with strangers or eavesdropping on their conversations.

But without any sort of occupation, without a reason for being here, Break feels useless. Guilt and despair - the old weaknesses of his youth - are creeping up on him again, as his mind constantly cycles between the "should haves" and "what ifs."

Thus he is silently slipping out a side entrance, without a word to anyone. His purpose is less to explore than it is to escape. ]

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I'm always curious. [everything in the world is an experiment]

But right now, this is about your friend coughing up blood and nearly collapsing in the middle of an exam room.

He was well enough to get away, wasn't he?

[Grumble grumble.]

That doesn't mean much.

[Stein is used to shonen idiots, teenagers who try to walk off being stabbed through the stomach.]

[Stupid shounen rules.]

How many times do I have to say it?! He's going to be fine! He shouldn't even have...

[He trails off as he realizes that yes, there's no reason why Break would have gotten sick in that room. There was no need to use his Chain. Maybe he really was sick for another reason...]

Shouldn't have...?

...He shouldn't have had to waste so much time here.

[And neither should he. The ridiculousness of the situation is finally starting to wear off the more that he thinks about what happened to Break. Now he's just worried.

And he doesn't want to have to pull his gun here. Damn it all.

Suddenly threatening:]

Let go.

[Stein will not be threatened.] You're either going to tell me what's wrong with him, or he is going to the hospital to waste the next few weeks of his time.

[Don't make him expose his bird.]

I'm not kidding!

[He twists his body a bit, just to gauge how strong a hold Stein has on him.]

[Stein will hurt your bird.]

I'm not either.

[He's not holding on too strongly. It's a firm grip, not a stranglehold.]

[ A voice echoes up the stairway: ]

Are you two quite finished yet?

[/RECORD SCRATCH

WHERE DID YOU COME FROM--

Well, Gil will just stand here with a dumbfounded look on his face, because that's one of his greatest skills.]

B-Break...?!

[ He's several floors below you. Of course, he'll be gone by the time you get down there. Follow the trail of hard candies (pilfered from Stein's clinic's patients' candy dish) to the cafeteria. ]

[and let's follow the missing patient.

you people are worse than his students.]

[He does his best to hurry ahead of Stein. If only so that he can find that idiot first and punch him in his stupid face again for putting him in this position to begin with.

And why is this the second time that he's followed your stupid candy trail, Break?!]

[ When they finally find him in the cafeteria, he'll be sitting with his too-large, loose boots propped up on the table, sprawled back in his chair, eating some sort of banana pudding parfait. With whipped cream. And walnuts. ]

Are you two done playing, yet?

Not quite.

[Spinning a chair around and sitting on it backwards.]

How's the side?

[He just grumbles something angrily under his breath about 'idiot' and 'selling me out again...' before moving to stand and loom RIGHT OVER THE BACK OF HIM, eyebrow twitching.]

[ Break has the tendency to get irrationally angry when people get in his personal business. However, a bit of cooling-off time and some sugar has improved his state of mind considerably. Not to mention the salutary effects of Gilbert's grumbling and LOOMING! ]

I say, I'm flattered by your interest in me - Dr. Stein, is it?

[ He's also been busy on his NV, looking up the hospital employee roster. ]

And I accept that your desire to readmit me to the hospital is motivated entirely by your selfless concern for my well-being, as well as that of public health.

But - ah - I hope you won't feel too insulted if I request a different physician to look after me. I believe I have that right.

[ And looking up hospital policy! ]

Dr. Unohana took care of me before, when I was in house. I've just had her paged.

[ That lady is scarier than all of three of them put together, but Break is reasonably convinced she isn't insane. Unlike you, Stein bro. ]

[A sigh.]

You're not the first patient I've lost for being "too creepy".

[Because obviously, being too creepy is the problem here.]

Unohana's a good doctor. Don't get too much blood on her.

[Stein knows when to retreat politely, but that doesn't mean he's given up entirely about satisfying his curiosity.]

[Gil stays quiet this whole time, but he does find himself relaxing a bit and staring down at his superior, curiously. For as ridiculous as the afternoon as been (and now predictable it was, now that he thinks about it) Break's behavior does actually surprise him. It's always strange to see him even the slightest bit worried about something. But at least he's more confident in his decision not to say anything about either of their contracts.]

Ha! Ha! Ha!

[ Licking his fingertips, Break drawls: ]

It's nothing personal, Dr. Stein. In faaaaact...

[ He ferrets in a jacket pocket, coming up with another cellophane-wrapped hard candy. He pushes it across the table at Stein. ]

...perhaps we can be friends.

[ Because Break is curious about you, too, Stein - and that creepy power of yours! ]

[It's a bit like his interactions with Medusa, except where Medusa's intentions were obviously malicious, Break's are entirely unknown, and that is fascinating. The candy goes into an inside pocket of Stein's patchwork lab coat, and he smiles.]

I'd like that.

I think we could learn a lot from each other.

[Break, you can't see it, but Gilbert is linefacing at the top of your head like he's never linefaced before. Must not hit my boss, must not hit my boss...!]

[ He can feel it, though. Such beautiful linefacing. And this association with Stein should prove to be interesting at the very least. Break swings his legs off the table and stands. ]

I hope so. I could use a friend who's in the habit of using his brain.

[ Which is his cue to turn to Gilbert and clap him on the shoulder. ]

Well, well - what're you doing, standing about and sulking, hmm? Let's get going.

[Stein laughs (and if it's fake, it's hard to tell).]

I understand entirely.

[And he stands up and steps back.]

It was a pleasure seeing you again, Gilbert.

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