Yuki was disturbed how easy it was for her to get her handgun approved to go into the hospital. All she had to do was leave her name with the receptionist, and mention that she was headed to the top floor. That was it. She could have been a psychopathic murderer with a bomb inside the cake box, and as long as she knew where she was going, they wouldn't have cared. There were literally no more questions. She didn't even get one of those silly sticker name badges. It shouldn't worry her, but it did. She didn't know how many of the hospital staff knew that Slaine Troyard was on the top floor, but she was pretty sure that at least half of the staff had been adversely affected by the war, if not more. All it would take was one little comment to the wrong person, and Count Slaine Saazbaum Troyard really would be dead. Not that he hadn't been trying on his own, but Yuki dismissed that thought.
One of the nurses escorted her to the elevator, and Yuki watched as the nurse scanned her card key, pressed the button for the top floor, and then left her alone in the elevator. She was probably being suspicious, but she couldn't help eyeing every member of the hospital staff she'd come in contact with so far. If one of them was going to ruin everything, which one would it be? Which ones that she'd come across knew who the only patient on the top floor was? She sure as hell hoped his name didn't come up in the computer. The last thing they needed was an electronic trail that someone might be able to get to. She didn't know exactly how that sort of thing worked, but if it was anything like movies -she admitted it probably wasn't- it could be a bit problem.
As the elevator's doors slid shut, Yuki breathed a sigh of relief. She hated secrets. She could handle them well enough, but she found herself wary of the situation Nao had put himself in, and it concerned her how engrossed in it he had become.
She shifted on her feet, and looked down at the cake box in her arms, and the card board drink holder held by three of her fingers. Nao wouldn't be happy that she'd dallied a little, but there were some things he just didn't get. The value in being likable was one of those things. She shifted again, and rolled her shoulder, trying to get the bag hanging off of it to a better position. The last thing she wanted was for it to fall off her shoulder, cause then she might drop the cake, and the drinks would go with it, and it would just be a huge mess for some poor soul to clean up. The opposite of what she intended.
She huffed again, and angled her gaze up to the bright red numbers of the elevator, as it went straight to the top. She wondered if it was programmed not to stop on any other floors when the button for the top floor had been hit. Maybe the nurse had waited there as she got on, to bar any other passengers from getting on. That gave her some sense of peace, but not much.
When the elevator door dinged, and opened Yuki readjusted her baggage, and padded out of the waiting doors. The top floor of the hospital was eerily quiet. So much so that it almost felt sound proof. She almost expected to see padded rooms when she walked by a few doors, but under inspection, they looked as unassuming as can be. If the lighting was a little worse, it would definitely be an ideal setting for one of those horror movies set in hospitals. The quiet was disturbing, to say the least, and it encouraged her to click her heals just a bit louder. The sound of her shuffling, and of her shoes echoed around her, and she groaned, just to hear the sound come back at her. This place sucked, and she's only been there for about 7 seconds. What the hell was Nao thinking? She sighed, shook her head, and kept moving.
She heard the closing of a door not too far away. The sound wouldn't have been noticeable if there had been any real signs of life in this place, but there weren't, so it was a dead giveaway for the direction she was suppose to go. She'd be silly not to follow it, so she did. As she turned a corner, she almost bumped right into a nurse, and it's struck her just how strange, that was. That the two of them had the whole hallway, yet somehow had managed to almost collide on a floor that probably only has four people, two of which were probably holed up in the same room. One of those old 'nothing left to chance' sayings popped into her head, and she shook it off. The odds weren't THAT bad, but it was pretty weird.
She took a few steps back, and offered the obviously surprised nurse a warm smile. "Hi, I'm Kaizuka Yuki. Kaizuka Inaho's older sister." She'd offer her hand to shake, or raise it up for a salute -since this is a military hospital- but her hand are sort of busy, so she does a little bow instead. The nurse didn't look Japanese, but that didn't really matter. "Are you taking care of..." Yuki intentionally trailed off. Obviously, the nurse had clearance to be on that floor, but it seemed like a bad idea to just go blurting out that Slaine Troyard was a patient there.
Understanding rather quickly, the nurse offers a small bow back, and nods her head. "Yes! Yes I am. Well, not just me, but I'm one of the nurses working on the patient here." Yuki noted that she looked young. That wasn't a strange thing for nurses, and now that Yuki looked at her a second time, she actually didn't seem that young. It was strange, her first opinion had definitely been that the nurse was younger than her, but on a second look, she was positive the nurse had to be older. It was a strange thing, but Yuki shook her head and dismissed it.
"Just who I wanted to see then, Miss..." Yuki leaned forward, trying to get a good look at the key card around the nurse's neck to get a name, but the nurse beat her to it.
"Adele Dorian. Please just call me Adele." For just a flash, the nurse's smile didn't look right. Like it was the right face on the wrong person, but then it was gone again, and Yuki really had no idea what to think about that.
She chose to play it off as nothing. "Right, nice to meet you Adele. Both my brother and I would like to thank you for putting up with us. And him, but, well, that's sort of obvious." Yuki laughed good naturedly, and Adele sort of chuckled with her, but Yuki could tell the nurse didn't think it was funny. "I would be really thankful, if you could.." Yuki chose to ignore the exchange, and head straight to what she was actually suppose to be doing. Or at least what she had planned to do, without Nao knowing about it. She shifted on her feet, and extended her arms, and the cake box with it. "share this with the staff working on him."
Adele looked surprised for a few moments, before rushing forward was taking the offered item. As if she's a much younger person, the nurse peered into the plastic see through cover of the cake. Yuki shook her head.
"I'm sure it's a lot of trouble for all of you." Now with one hand free, Yuki reached up to readjust the bag on her shoulder, before looking back over at Adele. "We just want to make sure that everyone knows that we really appreciate it!" She thought about making another playful joke about Troyad, but decided better of it. The nurse likely wouldn't find it amusing. "He doesn't cooperate as much as he should, so I'm sure your job hasn't been easy so far."
Adele had her eyes angled down at the cake, but quickly turned them back up towards Yuki, and shook her head almost sheepishly. "It's no trouble. He isn't the worst patient I've had." And Yuki can definitely believe that. The woman is old enough to have been working through the war, be that good or bad for their current predicament. Perhaps most interesting about the statement, is that Yuki has absolutely no doubt that it is genuine. This nurse doesn't think that treating Count Slaine Saazbaum Troyard, is any trouble at all. Yuki isn't sure what to think of that.
"Well, it's still important that you all know that we value the hard work you've put into this." Yuki shifts on her feet, and smiles over at the nurse. "I put my cell phone number on the napkin." She'd put a cute smiley face with it, but she's going to let Adele find that out on her own. "Feel free to send me a message, or call if you need anything, or if you need help convincing my younger brother of something." She winked at the nurse, and Adele looked down at the cake again, obviously looking for the thing in question. "Of course, it would be best if you could be discrete about anything you say, or send on that line. It isn't secure or anything, so no dropping any important proper nouns! Just know that I'm here to help if you need anything!"
Adele nodded, blinked a few times, and then looked up at Yuki with a bright smile on her face. The same smile that didn't fit for half a second, then did. "Thank you, I'll be sure to share with the rest of the staff!" She looked down at the cake again, then cocked her head to the side, just a bit. Yuki placed the movement as sheepish. "Actually, it would be good if he got a walk around the premise. There aren't any other patients on this floor, so the two of you could walk around freely. As long as you keep a close eye on him, I'm sure you could even take him up to the roof." The smile on Adele's face got softer, and there was definitely some form of affection there. "You'd have to tell me of course, and I'd have to make sure no one has access up to the roof while you're there, but I think it would do him some good to get some sunshine. It is a beautiful day out today."
Yuki smiled. "That might be a good idea. If we do, I'll make sure to press the call button. Thanks for the suggestion!" She could feel the bag on her shoulder slipping again, so Yuki reached over, and readjusted it once again. She caught the nurse glancing over at the bag, looking back at Yuki, then looking back at the bag again.
"Oh! Are those books for him?" As if very curious, Adele leaned over so that she could get a look at the bags contents, before bouncing back on the balls of her feet.
Yuki smiled, and shrugged one shoulder. "Guess you caught me. He's stuck up there all day with nothing to do, so I figured I'd bring him something to read. It'll probably help with the boredom."
Adele nodded, looked away for a few seconds, as if she was trying to decide if she was going to say something or not, then looked back at Yuki. "What sort of books did you bring?"
Yuki leaned in and whispered "Raunchy harlequin novels." She couldn't help but giggle at the blush that overcame the nurses' face. "I don't know if he actually likes them, but of all the books I brought him before, he picked up one of the harlequin ones first." She shrugged again lightheartedly.
The nurse was still blushing, and she cleared her throat in almost a nervous way, shifting so that she held the cake in one hand and covered her mouth in the other. Then Adele looked over at her inquisitively. "He received some flowers today. We don't know who from, but he seems to really love them. Maybe he'd like some books about nature?"
Yuki let that statement sink in for a second longer than she should have. If the nurse noticed, it didn't show. "Oh, really? I'll see what I can find."
"I live by an old book store." Adele supplied. "I go there a lot, so I've got a lot of books just sitting around at my house. If it's alright, I could bring some for him."
Yuki didn't narrow her eyes. She smiled and scratched the back of her head. "Sorry, I don't think that'd go over well. There aren't a lot of things he's allowed to see. If I showed you the list, you'd be amazed! A lot of the things on there are pretty silly, but, you know how regulations are. Have to keep to them, even if they seem pretty silly." Yuki laughed good naturedly, and noted how the nurse looked a little surprised, before nodding in response.
"Anyway, thanks again for all your help. I'd better go check on him. That is why I'm here. I'll be sure to press the call button if we decide to take a walk up on the roof." She waited just long enough for the nurse to nod in farewell, before Yuki quickly made her way to Troyard's room.
She wasn't sure if she should have the nurse removed from Troyard's care, fired from the hospital, or try and convince Inaho to hire her on at the prison.