Theme: Let's Break the Ice

Prompts: "Just get it over with", "Take my coat"

Whumpee: Miyano Shiho

Song: "Come a Little Closer", Cage The Elephant


Shiho walked into the lab, taking off her coat and handing it off to one of the scientists who worked for her. "Take my coat," she said distractedly, continuing to walk towards the back of the lab. Opening the door, she slid in to see the man trapped in the cell.

Shiho knew she'd find him here. Gin told her that this man was to be the next test subject for the apotoxin. "It's better you move on from the rats, huh, Sherry?" He'd asked her, and all she could do was nod in response because if she didn't want Akemi to die, she had to listen to the organization's rules. That included using this man as a test subject for the pill currently lying in her dress pocket.

"Hello," she greeted, keeping her voice cold, emotionless. "My name is…" Miyano Shiho. "Sherry."

The man turned eyes full of hatred towards her. "I don't care what your name is," he growled. "Are you going to get me out of here, or are you another one of their organization scum?" He barked out a laugh. "Oh, that was a stupid question, wasn't it? Your name is Sherry, an alcohol. You aren't just organization scum, you're one of their highest members."

Shiho managed not to react, at least not visibly. She continued on. "I see from your file that your name is Chino Mikio, and that you worked as a member of the organization before betraying us in order to help one of our targets, a woman named Nakayama Setsuko." Then, just to be spiteful and seem just as cruel as Chino thought she was, Shiho looked him in the eyes and said, "Who is currently dead, by the way."

She saw Chino's slight flinch, then he spat out, "Setsuko-san deserved life. But look at what you guys have done to her."

"I wasn't directly involved," Shiho objected, though she managed to control her voice to sound like her emotion was neutral.

"You might as well be," Chino snorted. "You're the one who's going to kill me, right?"

Shiho didn't respond.

"Experiment on me?" Chino added. "I'm your little rat now, aren't I? I've heard about your lab, Sherry. I know what you do for them." His eyes darkened. "Just get it over with already, alright?"

That got Shiho to pause. "...huh?" she whispered, then immediately hated herself for that small moment of vulnerability.

"Give me the pill," Chino elaborated, looking at her with those dark eyes, and Shiho saw something familiar in them. The lack of the will to live. "Kill me already, Sherry. It would spare us both some suffering."

Shiho had to stop herself from trembling as she handed the pill out to Chino and watched him pick it up and swallow it. As Chino did so, Shiho regained her self control and said, "I don't feel those sort of emotions."

Chino looked at her. "We're birds of a feather, Sherry. I've seen that haunted look in my own eyes several times."

Shiho didn't respond.

And it didn't take Chino long to die, leaving no trace of his life.

As Shiho collected the results, she murmured, "Still not the desired effect. Seems I may have to modify the apotoxin again…"


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