Authors note: I don't know what to say except their coming to take me away ha ha their coming to take me away he he to the funny farm...you get the picture. Disclaimer: The Ranma characters ain't mine they belong to Rumiko Takahashi and others.
TRAUMA
A Ranma ½ Fanfic by
Crikit
Day 1
Welcome to the wonderful world of the funny farm, otherwise known as the mental health ward. Everyone who's in here has some sort of mental problems, some minor like Eimi who suffers from school phobia to others that are more severe like the new girl that just got here a few days ago. The only people who know what's wrong with her are the doctors and the nurses, and they aren't saying. There are however a few rumors going around the ward though.
One rumor is that she saw everything she owned get destroyed in a fire, while everyone that she cared about got violently murdered. That would be a total bitch wouldn't it? While another rumor is that her fiancée ran off with someone else leaving her at the alter or was it a school dance I can't remember exactly what one it is…actually that one changes daily. Then there is the best rumor, the grand daddy of them all that one being that she's actually a he. That one is obviously a lie; I mean how can a girl who looks that good, that hot, be a guy? It's just so out there, it would kind of be like saying I have a fear of fire…BWA HAHAHA that's a good one I'll have to remember it for the next time we're in group.
Oh well whatever happened to her, it effected her in a bad way. She won't talk, doesn't really eat and if anybody even attempts to touch her she freaks out, the staff have had to sedate her more then once since she got here, just so the docs can examine her. Oh, and she has the odd aversion to hot water, won't touch the stuff.
Bored, bored, bored. That's the one thing about being in here, when you most want something to do you don't have anything, and when you want to be left alone they make you talk. It's sort of like the old round about thing about not having a job because you have no experience and not having any expierence because you don't have a job. But hark what is this that I see at yonder desk? A visitor a she visitor at that, I wonder who she's here to see.
Ah looks like I'm about to get my answer. The nurse leaves the desk and slowly makes her way across the room; it looks like shes heading towards the new girl. She is, interesting she's been in here a couple of days and gets a visitor while I've been here a few months and have seen no visitors, then again torching ones house does tend to alienate the family doesn't it? Oh well, I'm just wondering how the nurse is going to handle this, informing the girl of her visitor I mean.
"Saotome" the nurse's voice carries across the room towards me.
So that's the girls name, or last name at least.
"Saotome, you have a visitor." Still no response.
The nurse reaches out a hand to touch the girl, big mistake lady. So far five people have touched her and so far she's gone postal five times. Guess she'll learn that in a few minutes. The nurse's hand slowly gets closer to Saotomes shoulder and as it does Saotome shrinks in the corner until she can move no more. That's when it happens, the nurses hand lightly touches Saotomes shoulder sending the girl over the edge, and the staff and patients running. The other girl who was waiting quietly at the desk until she was told otherwise hears the commotion and runs towards it, not from it. Just as she reaches the corner Saotome is drawing her hand back ready to slam it in to the nurse.
The girl steps in between Saotome and the nurse, eyes locked on the clenched fist. "RANMA!!!"
The cry seems to have had some effect, as Ranma…I'm guessing that's her name…slowly drops her arm to her side and sinks back in to the corner, the odd sob escapes her but nothing else, no words, no tears, just sobs. The girl who called out follows suit making sure that her hands are visible. Meanwhile the offending nurse slowly slinks back to the desk, avoiding the stares of her coworkers.
I move forward a bit so I can hear the limited conversation that is going on in the opposing corner. The raven hair girl is quietly whispering while the red head just stares at her with blank blue eyes.
"Ranma, it's me Akane"
Okay, I now have names Ranma Saotome and Akane…. Akane well her last name isn't important, not to me anyway. Names aren't really any help to me though; I want to know what happened, what this Ranma chick is in for, what was so bad that it sent her over the deep end. 'Cause I really want to win that pool that the other patients started…if I win I get to choose ten shows…. can you say Iron Chef marathon? I knew you could.
"Kasumi's alright Ranma, her arms in a sling and she's got a limp but she's alright, and she knows you didn't mean for it to happen. We all know that, of course daddy isn't ready to forgive you yet. Don't worry though, we're working on him. Um"
Could they be sisters? Nah, they don't look anything a like. So they aren't sisters, then what are they? Friends? Lovers? Oh yes that's what they are, lovers, and Ranma caught Akane with this Kasumi chick together and went off the deep end, did some damage to Kasumi and ended up in here. That's it everything is solved, I am a friggin' genius. Wait where does the dad come in? Okay, that theory's out the door, next!
"I better be going Ranma, daddy doesn't know I came here and I really don't want him to find out." Akane takes her time standing up, for a second it looks like she's going to give the other girl a hug but changes her mind. Not that I blame her, "Bye."
I keep looking between the two girls as Akane walks away. Ranma remains motionless, staring off in to space with her hollow eyes. When she reaches the door Akane looks back at Ranma once, I can see a small tear running down her cheek… must be hard, seeing a friend in a place like this with all us freaks. I wait until she leaves the ward to look back at Ranma, and what I see is a real surprise. For a second I see something in her eyes, eyes that are usually hollow and cold. It's a sadness that I've never seen before, not even with the manic depressives, it's so intense that I force myself to look away, and when I look back again the eyes are back to being hollow.
Oh, time to go…it's suppertime and I really don't want to miss it. It's pudding day.
TRAUMA
A Ranma ½ Fanfic by
Crikit
Day 1
Welcome to the wonderful world of the funny farm, otherwise known as the mental health ward. Everyone who's in here has some sort of mental problems, some minor like Eimi who suffers from school phobia to others that are more severe like the new girl that just got here a few days ago. The only people who know what's wrong with her are the doctors and the nurses, and they aren't saying. There are however a few rumors going around the ward though.
One rumor is that she saw everything she owned get destroyed in a fire, while everyone that she cared about got violently murdered. That would be a total bitch wouldn't it? While another rumor is that her fiancée ran off with someone else leaving her at the alter or was it a school dance I can't remember exactly what one it is…actually that one changes daily. Then there is the best rumor, the grand daddy of them all that one being that she's actually a he. That one is obviously a lie; I mean how can a girl who looks that good, that hot, be a guy? It's just so out there, it would kind of be like saying I have a fear of fire…BWA HAHAHA that's a good one I'll have to remember it for the next time we're in group.
Oh well whatever happened to her, it effected her in a bad way. She won't talk, doesn't really eat and if anybody even attempts to touch her she freaks out, the staff have had to sedate her more then once since she got here, just so the docs can examine her. Oh, and she has the odd aversion to hot water, won't touch the stuff.
Bored, bored, bored. That's the one thing about being in here, when you most want something to do you don't have anything, and when you want to be left alone they make you talk. It's sort of like the old round about thing about not having a job because you have no experience and not having any expierence because you don't have a job. But hark what is this that I see at yonder desk? A visitor a she visitor at that, I wonder who she's here to see.
Ah looks like I'm about to get my answer. The nurse leaves the desk and slowly makes her way across the room; it looks like shes heading towards the new girl. She is, interesting she's been in here a couple of days and gets a visitor while I've been here a few months and have seen no visitors, then again torching ones house does tend to alienate the family doesn't it? Oh well, I'm just wondering how the nurse is going to handle this, informing the girl of her visitor I mean.
"Saotome" the nurse's voice carries across the room towards me.
So that's the girls name, or last name at least.
"Saotome, you have a visitor." Still no response.
The nurse reaches out a hand to touch the girl, big mistake lady. So far five people have touched her and so far she's gone postal five times. Guess she'll learn that in a few minutes. The nurse's hand slowly gets closer to Saotomes shoulder and as it does Saotome shrinks in the corner until she can move no more. That's when it happens, the nurses hand lightly touches Saotomes shoulder sending the girl over the edge, and the staff and patients running. The other girl who was waiting quietly at the desk until she was told otherwise hears the commotion and runs towards it, not from it. Just as she reaches the corner Saotome is drawing her hand back ready to slam it in to the nurse.
The girl steps in between Saotome and the nurse, eyes locked on the clenched fist. "RANMA!!!"
The cry seems to have had some effect, as Ranma…I'm guessing that's her name…slowly drops her arm to her side and sinks back in to the corner, the odd sob escapes her but nothing else, no words, no tears, just sobs. The girl who called out follows suit making sure that her hands are visible. Meanwhile the offending nurse slowly slinks back to the desk, avoiding the stares of her coworkers.
I move forward a bit so I can hear the limited conversation that is going on in the opposing corner. The raven hair girl is quietly whispering while the red head just stares at her with blank blue eyes.
"Ranma, it's me Akane"
Okay, I now have names Ranma Saotome and Akane…. Akane well her last name isn't important, not to me anyway. Names aren't really any help to me though; I want to know what happened, what this Ranma chick is in for, what was so bad that it sent her over the deep end. 'Cause I really want to win that pool that the other patients started…if I win I get to choose ten shows…. can you say Iron Chef marathon? I knew you could.
"Kasumi's alright Ranma, her arms in a sling and she's got a limp but she's alright, and she knows you didn't mean for it to happen. We all know that, of course daddy isn't ready to forgive you yet. Don't worry though, we're working on him. Um"
Could they be sisters? Nah, they don't look anything a like. So they aren't sisters, then what are they? Friends? Lovers? Oh yes that's what they are, lovers, and Ranma caught Akane with this Kasumi chick together and went off the deep end, did some damage to Kasumi and ended up in here. That's it everything is solved, I am a friggin' genius. Wait where does the dad come in? Okay, that theory's out the door, next!
"I better be going Ranma, daddy doesn't know I came here and I really don't want him to find out." Akane takes her time standing up, for a second it looks like she's going to give the other girl a hug but changes her mind. Not that I blame her, "Bye."
I keep looking between the two girls as Akane walks away. Ranma remains motionless, staring off in to space with her hollow eyes. When she reaches the door Akane looks back at Ranma once, I can see a small tear running down her cheek… must be hard, seeing a friend in a place like this with all us freaks. I wait until she leaves the ward to look back at Ranma, and what I see is a real surprise. For a second I see something in her eyes, eyes that are usually hollow and cold. It's a sadness that I've never seen before, not even with the manic depressives, it's so intense that I force myself to look away, and when I look back again the eyes are back to being hollow.
Oh, time to go…it's suppertime and I really don't want to miss it. It's pudding day.