Left-Behind Trace [Open]

[standalonehuman]

WHO: Togusa and people!
WHERE: The hospital, oops.
WHEN: January 7th and onwards.
WHAT: Togusa got shot, he's in the hospital, and finally knows how his Other got shot.
WARNINGS: Discussion of violence, medical treatment, and the like.

The news probably didn't take long to reach a lot of people. Togusa got brought to the hospital with a gunshot wound. Togusa's official story is that he got shot stopping an opportunistic mugger trying to steal things in the chaos of the fire. So what actually happened?

Comments

[spirithacker]

This is the sensible attitude. If even Togusa got hurt, Shinji definitely isn't equipped to deal with them. He should just wait in safety.

"...But I wanna help..."

But Shinji is a small child, not a sensible person.

[standalonehuman]

Togusa's voice stays gentle. "Then please help out. But be careful about it. Wait for someone to get a way through the fire, and then go to the doors."

"It seems like nobody can go in there alone, so my other advice of keeping with people still stands, okay?" But there's not much bite behind the words, he knows he can't really enforce it.

[spirithacker]

"'Kay." It's solid advice, Shinji knows. Go with a grownup, not by yourself. He can follow that advice until he decides not to.

"Are you gonna get out of the hospital soon?"

[standalonehuman]

"Yes," Togusa smiles again. "They want to make sure my breathing is going to be okay. But then they'll let me go." This one isn't even him minimizing for the kid, he can tell him the full truth on this one.

"It doesn't even really hurt much anymore."

[spirithacker]

"Okay." And of course Shinji takes him at his word. "Make sure you have a really good dinner when you get out and don't have to have hospital food anymore."

[standalonehuman]

Togusa leans back and makes a hmm sound. "Soup dumplings and ramen, I think." He puts one hand behind his head.

"I'll be out of here before we know it."

[spirithacker]

"...Not pizza?"

Shinji is a child with very simple tastes, and those tastes say that pizza is the best food in the world.

[standalonehuman]

Togusa chuckles and smiles widely. "Pizza the next night. Pepperoni and cheese."

seems like a good wrapup point

[spirithacker]

"Better. You pass."

Satisfied that Togusa's sense of tase remains intact, Shinji stands up again. "I gotta go, I've got homework to do. Text me when you get home, okay?"

It seems like their positions should be reversed, the adult fussing over the child, but the child isn't the one in the hospital bed right now.