xavier_institute_logs | please don't tap on the glass, it agitates the monkeys [OPEN]

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please don't tap on the glass, it agitates the monkeys [OPEN]

WHO: Quarantined students, staff, and their visitors
WHAT: So there are these people that are sick with a mysterious virus and they are bored
WHERE: Infirmary
WHEN: Whenever this week, they're not going anywhere
WARNING(S): People are sick. There might be undignified medical tests and discussion of bodily fluids.

OOC: Put in your header if the thread is open to visitors or just for fellow inmates. Or have multiple thread options. Run wild. If your character is visiting someone, feel free to start threads as well. Mind, visitors other than medical staff wouldn't be able to enter the quarantined area, so they'll probably have to talk through something.

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Eli's clone argued her way into the area, knowing the professors were not happy about this, but there was no way she was letting her best friend... her only really friend... go through this alone. So whatever she had to do to be allowed in, in she came.

She carried the stuff she was bringing for Krista, and went hunting for her friend. She smiled when she saw her. "Told you I'd come!"

"You're really sure it's safe for you to be here?"

For Eli's sake, but not only hers. "We can't let anything contaminated get out into the school, you know that..."

"I know. that's why I'm killing the clone," she said cheerfully, though there was a flicker of something that was almost fear in the eyes of the clone as she spoke the words. "SO! What shall we do?" She asked, happily, taking her hands.

That was... unsettling. Krista looked away.

"I don't know. I'm a little tired today..."

"Okay," Eli said gently. "Why don't you rest. The clone will still be there when you wake up. I'll stay until you fall asleep, if you want, then put her on auto. Just call my cell when you want me to tune back in, okay?"

It didn't sound like a bad idea. She wasn't sure she was up to pretending to be who Eli so often needed her to be, just yet -- the role she was playing and trying to keep it likable without sacrificing believability had gotten so much more complicated with the sickness.

"I think maybe you're right... Would that be alright with you, Eli?"

"Of course," she said, squeezing her hand. "Rest. I'll be here. Just rest and feel better, okay?"

"Thank you," she murmured, patting Eli's hand with her free hand. She faked a little yawn, just to sell the whole thing -- though she probably looked exhausted enough that it was sort of more than necessary.

"You always take such good care of me."

"You're my best friend," she said softly. "I'll do anything for you."

"Thank you," she murmured again, drowsily, letting her eyes slip closed.

Eli held her hand as she fell asleep, then let the clone go for the moment, leaving it on "Auto". She figured it would go to sleep. Instead, it looked around, then settled in to wait. It paid attention, even if Eli didn't.

Krista had sort of been counting on her going off to do something else, really. Was she going to have to lie here pretending to sleep as long as it took to get herself together again? That really wasn't how she'd hoped to spend the afternoon.

Maybe it was time for just a touch more of her power. Careful to use a light, nearly unnoticeable touch, trying to make it seem as natural as possible, she dropped a hint of curiosity into Eli's (the clone's?) feelings as she measured her breaths and pretended to sleep, to see what it would do.

The clone looked around the room, curiously, then tried to ease her hand free. Krista had lots of stuff in here, it seemed, that she hadn't brought. he kind of wanted to see what it was.

Presuming she could get her hand out without "waking" the other girl, she moved across the room to poke around, hoping she wouldn't get anyone upset at her. But Eli was going to kill her anyway... so what did she have to lose, really?

Krista's room was full of things to read, mostly -- some brought by Eli, but mostly collected at the recommendation of her other friends. Her laptop was open on the table, too, with a page for a local homeless shelter up in the web browser and a stack of assorted DVDs next to it.

She sort of wished she could watch her directly, to see what effect that seed of curiosity would have. But she had to be more careful than that -- eyes closed, chest rising and falling evenly, pretending not to hear anything.

She looked at the web page and read it carefully, without navigating away. Then she thought about what she read, and what she knew of Krista. She opened a document and wrote up notes on things they could do to help out at the shelter. She saved it to the desktop and closed the word processor. The notes would be found later. After she was dead, probably, so no one would ever know where they came from. Which was good. then she stepped away from the computer before she was tempted to do do more.

She then looked through the stack of things to read, looking at the choices. Wondering hat they might have in common.

Apparently Eli is quite susceptible to her power. The clones on auto, even more so.

There wasn't a whole lot of a noticeable theme to her books and magazines -- a few different people had recommended them or brought them for her, so their tastes were reflected much more than her own (which were pretty broad to start with, or perhaps just pretty vague.) Krista kept still, breathing as if she were asleep, listening out curiously.

Having explored that, she continued poking around the room, wondering how much more she could find that was interesting if this had been her actual room rather than a temporary one....

There wasn't too much, aside from her books and computer. Aside from that, the whole room had the peculiar, empty sterility characteristic of a hospital, like no one had ever really lived in it. (It suited Krista, honestly. She could see herself in the hollowness of it.)

Eventually she'd sit back down in the chair, bored but unsure what else she could poke at without getting into trouble.

The best thing for it was just to try and actually go to sleep, she thought, since it would be strange to 'wake up' too early. She shuffled around a little to get comfortable, avoiding any dramatic movements that would seem out of place for a sleeping person, and did her best to drift off for a while.

And she sat and waited for her to awaken.

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please don't tap on the glass, it agitates the monkeys [OPEN]

A clone comes to call!

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Handwave, unless there was something you had planned for this thread?

Works for me