Chapter 2 Feel free to make your move!
"Ohayou gozaimasu!" Eriol waved merrily at the people in the Hospital's restroom.
"Hiiragisawa-san, you have to pay a visit to Dr. Sasaki." The nurse eyed him disgustingly,
How could he expect those 'people' to mind his 'good mornings'? Definitely hopeless...
"Ohayo Obaaba-san!" He went and gave a little peck to the named nurse.
"Get off of me you rude child! To your appointment! NOW!" The old lady yelped pushing the energetic young man out of her sight.
He always does that...Maybe if I overdose him with some ...
"Don't even think it Baa-san! Maybe with those I'll get even more affectionate and start groping you!" the young man walked to the doctors' room without looking at her.
Did she blush? No she was so... old... uhm ... too mature... to blush. Wait a second, how did he know that she...?
A shriek crossed the hall, muffled at last by a wooden door.
Eriol entered with a big bright smile, Eriol 1 – Baa-san 0, and the day was just beginning.
The doctor seated in front of him arched a brow.
"Flirting with poor Satsuki-sama again? She's an old lady... she's not young enough for those kind of jokes" the doctor pushed his glasses through the bridge of his nose.
"I don't think so, she still is human and she still blushes... hey! When father time hits you, it doesn't mean that you aren't able to do such things doc." He leaned on his seat crossing his arms behind his head.
"We must do something with you Eriol-san that we must." The doctor took out some papers from the patients archives and started to write.
"My file, I presume?" He asked rather curiously.
"Uh hum..." the older man muttered in affirmation.
"Are you going to give me more of those weird drugs?" He waited patiently for an answer.
"Uh hum..." He scribbled some more, the young man made a face and scrunched up his nose.
"So I can get rid of Clow?" His eyes squinted with worry.
"That's right." He closed the file and crossed his hands, smiling politely.
"But what if I don't want to, what if it's not possible?" His trademark smirk vanished immediately.
"That's why you're here, don't you? To let us cure you..." He patted the teen's hand reassuringly.
"But I..." He was lost of words, and then he frowned.
"Argh! I told you this before, it's not that simple!" He rapped his head over the wooden table, grasping his blue mane despairingly.
"Do you want to talk about it? Is Clow bothering you again?" A smooth smile and a sweet voice, that did it.
"He never bothers me..." he barked, then lowered his gaze for replying so rudely.
"I... told you that my problem is that I don't know when Eriol starts and Clow ends and vice versa." He muttered sourly.
"But you told me also that if you erased Clow, you would also lose your magic powers, those which you've been fond of, am I right?" He opened his file again.
Eriol winced.
With so many drugs, of course I'm going to end like the dragon and the magic pot!
"Listen Doc, I didn't come here to be doped by a bunch of medicines for my own mental good. I just want to solve a psychological problem." He gritted his teeth; Oh, how much he hated the weekly visits to Dr. Sasaki.
"So why didn't you go with a psychologist first?" He said simply. And Eriol glared.
"Because if I told them the truth, I would definitely end up here anyway..." He said carelessly.
"Is that truth real? I mean... the truth you told me is real enough for you? Does it convince you?" The doctor quirked a brow.
"My real truth doesn't have to be real for you too."He said as a matter of fact.
"That doesn't explain anything." He said puzzled, but being a doctor he could mask it, but not to Eriol's eyes.
"To you it may be nothing, but for me it could be worlds, lives." His gaze was rather lost but at the same time fixed on the other man's eyes.
"I think our time is up!" He said excitedly. He could see the old man almost jump out of his seat.
Am I so difficult to cure? Have all this people told their 'truth' and got doped in the process?
"Anyway Eriol, you must take your medication, I've been told that you use to throw it to the ducks." The doctor sounded worried but with hints of command.
"Ok Doc, I'll keep the advice... next time I'll give it to Tetsuo-san." He waved off as he walked out the room.
"You can't give that kind of medication to a catatonic!" The doctor's patience was far away now.
Eriol grinned.
"Why not?" He could feel his psychiatrist expel steam from his ears.
"You'll break him!" the doctor's eyes were of pure bloodlust. Eriol's blood to be exact.
That was the reward for making him boil some time ago.
"So what? All of them had lost their soul already." With that he closed the door gently, giving the fuming doctor a renewed trademark grin.
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Tomoyo placed her hands demurely over her lap, waiting for the nurse to let her in. As she watched an orthodontia magazine with funny after-before pictures of the teeth, an old lady entered the room in a very dark mood.
"May I help you young lady? Or you just want to ask if you can take that for free?" The granny was even fuming!
She smiled and chuckled.
"Yes madam, I would like to see the patient #279 by the name of Hiragisawa Eriol." She placed the magazine back to its place and leaned on the receptionist's window.
"Are you sure young lady? They should restrict ANY visitors for him!" She hissed impatiently.
"Sou desu ka?" She asked tilting her head to the right.
"He's playing chess with Tetsuo-sama!" The old nurse almost yelled, infuriated. Tomoyo bit back a smile.
"And what's wrong with playing chess? Can someone actually get hurt with a piece?" She asked with a wide smile plastered on her features.
"No, it's not the chess, it's with WHOM he's playing with!" She opened the door so could Tomoyo could enter.
"Is it Testuo-sama the dog?" She couldn't bite her lips from chuckling.
"You have the same black humor as him, and NO, Tetsuo.sama is a catatonic patient." She replied haughtily.
Tomoyo couldn't bear it anymore and started to laugh square and straight into the woman's face.
So Hiragisawa-kun...maybe he hasn't changed at all.
"That's it! You look him for yourself! First him and his 'I'm gonna grope you' assumptions and then his friend making fun of me! I may be on a Mental Asylum, but I'm not going to tolerate that!" she wailed across the corridor, leaving a laughing Tomoyo on the hall.
Uhm... lets see, where did I go the past three days?
She waited for three days, to make him wait for her, to surprise him...
Or so she thought.
Her smile grew more as her eyes caught a sweet and tender picture.
There he was, playing with Tetsuo-sama, the catatonic patient.
"Ok, Tetsuo-sama, if you win this time I'll let you eat all my candies. The doctor gave me too many, and you know I may have diabetes with too much sugar."
In front of him, was a quiet man near his 30's, his outstretched hand with a chess piece grabbed securely on his tense fingers.
"Tetsuo-sama, you have to move your pieces! You know they should do a rule about forbidding the players to hold a piece more than 30 minutes." The young man leaned on the couch caressing his chin pensively.
His eyes widened and a grin was plastered on his young face.
"You know what Tetsuo-sama? YOU WON! You won The World Guinness Record of holding a chess piece for more than two hours! Now you can take all my candies!!!!" He took out of his pants pocket the bunch of pills and grabbed the static hand, replacing the chess piece for a dozen pills.
"Hiragizawa-kun! You are SUCH a CRAZY BASTARD!" Someone behind yelled at him, sending daggers through his entire spine.
He flinched.
That could only be...
"Daidouji-san! Long time no see!" He was so cheered up that he jumped off the couch and grabbed her wrist shaking it in a business like manner.
"Shouldn't you grab my hand instead of my wrist? Do you know 'shaking hands'?, Things common people do?" She told him wryly.
"Daidouji-san, where do you think you're standing in? Is this place 'common' at all?" He asked lifting both of his brows.
Tomoyo glared as Eriol won another point.
End Chapter 2
I'm so sorry for the delay, it's just that, since my beta-readers died or hide from my massive spelling mistakes, I can't continue this.
If I found one, Utopia will be updated sooner... --; I hope.