Kovuya sat silently drinking orange juice, again he was right. Macaroni and cheese with orange juice and tuna salad. Alyssa was happily munching on club sandwich. "My,Alyssa! I didn't expect you to be here" a voice exclaimed behind him. He didn't have to turn around, it was Tomoe Tachibana.
"Oh! Miss Toto!" Alyssa piped. Tomoe laughed as she ruffled Alyssa's hair " My! Club sandwich. You're eating a lot aren't you?" Alyssa gave a wide grin before answering "Yup! I want to grow just as big as Naomi!" Tomoe laughed again before turning to Kovuya "Gabe is asking where the paperwork is?". Kovuya took a tissue and wiped his mouth before answering " I will be handing the paperwork as soon as I am done with my meal, Doctor Tachibana" Tomoe just smiled and shook her head before leaving. Kovuya gave a sigh and did the hedgehog hang "Hey! You're doing the hedgehog hangy!" Alyssa cried, Kovuya looked up and said" Why does my hanging of my head have to do with anything with hedgehogs?" Alyssa giggled before answering "Well, Maria was surfing the internet when she found this video of a hedgehog 'hanging' its head, it was so cute!" Kovuya shook his head before sitting back upright saying "Unfortunately,Alyssa… I'm not cute." Alyssa laughed and exclaimed, "Yes you do! You look just like the hedgehog when you hang your head!" Kovuya shook his head again before clearing the table with Alyssa.
Knock. Knock.
"Come in…"
Kovuya gently held the doorknob as he slowly turned it and pushed the door lightly. Gabe sat, sprawled on his chair reading newspaper as RONI sat in one corner of the room playing classic music. Alyssa ran in and hugged Gabe before speaking "Hello Uncle! Wow! I didn't know you like classical music?!" Gabe just smirk as he was release from her hug "I don't really like classical music, it just that RONI is playing whatever there is on the radio." Kovuya placed the paperwork on his table before speaking " Doctor Cunningham, I have placed the paperwork due today." Gabe just waved his left hand at him before grumbling "Eesh! Don't have to be so formal here! You sound like RONI!" Alyssa giggled before trying to mimic RONI " Doctor Cunningham! You have forgotten your patient! Doctor Cunningham!" Gabe rolled his eyes before tickling her. Kovuya stared at the window, the hospital is a nice place but he feels so out of place. Maybe it's because of his personality,allergy…
Or his disease…
"Yo! Dude!" Gabe called out, Kovuya turned before responding "Yes, Doctor Cunningham?" He rolled his eyes again before saying "Ya got anymore paperwork or rubbish to do today? We're going out for a while together" Before Kovuya could answer Alyssa said his sentence " He said he can't because he is a Vampy " Alyssa pouted. Gabe shook his head " Ah… An allergy of the sun eh? Why don't you put on sunblock?!" Kovuya knew he should put on sunblock but it doesn't help him very well for some reason " It's not effective on me for some unexplained reason" he put. Gabe sat there thinking before shrugging his shoulder "I'm not surprised, some allergies are very sensitive." Soon,Kovuya left the room followed by Alyssa.
"Hey! Kovvy?" He turned to face her and asked "What is it Alyssa?" "Can we see Joshua?" Like Alyssa, Joshua has too been discharged from the hospital but he keeps returning back to the hospital to see Gabe. Gabe is slightly happy that Joshua is more open to him but it pains him to see his son talking about all the good stuff he did with his mother.
Its heart-aching
Kovuya need no talk about anybody to tell him how his or her lives are like. He may be a diagnostician but he as once been a councilor. He knows how to tread on their path carefully, when to tip-toe and be tense when asking them and when to walk normally on their path of life. He knew Joshua is innocent, Joshua had a hard life with just the mother supporting them. He has spoken to Joshua a few times before, like he could see their life in a mirror and he is just a virtual image. Fine, with him. He has seen broken hearted people, depressed people, mentally distress people with cracks in their mirror. Joshua is one of them and so is Gabriel Cunningham. Joshua unknowingly misses his father who is Gabriel Cunningham while Doctor Cunningham too misses him but he shadows that loss with the fact that he can never be with Joshua ever again.
It was 7 35 and Alyssa had left. There he was sitting in his desk, not on his seat. His desk. Clasping his hands and looking at he feet dangling. Who can see his cracks of his mirror? Who can see what is in his mirror? Who knows?
Sighing he got off his desk and prepared to leave to the Mortuary.
TAP. TAP. TAP.
He walk walking form the granite tiles to the cement sidewalk. Its only a matter of time before he reaches-
THUD. THUD. THUD.
He was walking on polished granite tiles, even outside the Mortuary they would still put in money to have their tiles outside polished.
He pushed open the dull green doors, and a blast of cold air hit him. I would have been nice and cooling if its not coming from the Morgue. Quickly he walked into the room for the staff. Wearing the usual uniform he pushed the doors open again and walked out to another room.
There in the room there is a table similar to an operating table, just that. The table has not a living patient, desperate to live. The table lies a deceased human, waiting to be cleansed and be prepared to be given a proper burial. To his surprise, Naomi Kimishima was there too, wearing the uniform. Kovuya walked to the table and stood across Naomi. "I see you were given permission to enter Doctor Kimishima" Naomi just continued to examine the body while saying "I just came here without anyone to see me…" So she entered here by herself. Kovuya stared at the face of the deceased before picking up a fact file of the deceased. Buddhist. He uttered a Buddhist prayer to the deceased before walking to the tray of equipment.
First he picked up a scalpel, looking to his right he picked up the fact file again. The deceased passed away sleeping, so it's the back. Lifting the left arm he ran his index finger lightly at the bottom of the arm… he stopped near the triceps, the blood has pooled over here. Pressing the blade ,the skin was separated and blood started running out, running along the surface of the scalpel. Quickly he pulled the blade out, letting the blood leak out of the body and let it fall into the bucket under the arm Kovuya placed.
Left arm, right arm, neck, left thigh, right thigh and the spine. Kovuya looked at the body for a while, the table is clean but it has just a few blood pools. At least he is getting better at clearing the blood. He had better check to see if there is any more blood trapped inside.
Naomi watched as he made slits almost invisible to see, and the blood pouring out from the 'invisible' slit. He is skilled in this, she thought. I wonder if this is what makes him? She continued to watch him as he crouch down and examine the back to make more cuts. Suddenly he stood up, dropping the scalpel he ripped off the gloves and dug into this pocket. He seems flustered, turning away from me he pulled something out and he was breathing into it, must be his Asthma attack. He stayed still for quite some time before putting the inhaler back into his pocket, he turned around and continued his work. Not once has he looked at me ever since he entered the Mortuary. Usually he would greet anyone, even me when I was at the hospital picking up Alyssa. Now he is just solely focusing on the dead body, he must have strong connection with this place.
9 36 pm
I decided to leave and said to Kovuya "I will take my leave now" but he didn't respond as he was busy with the body. I left him in the room and exited the Mortuary. As I exited from the door to the outside world there was someone standing there. It was the boss, she looked at me for a while. What did she want from me? "Tell me…" she spoke " Is the Ghost Mortician there?" I questioned "Ghost Mortician?" She nodded, "I know there is someone who always enters our Mortuary and always completing the body laid on the table,the next day.. the body is… the body looks like its sleeping... That person is a true professional but we never got to know who it is but the ghost is there now right?" I stared at her contemplating. Should I tell them who it is? Or should I let Kovuya continue his life as the Ghost Mortician? I answered "Yes, the ghost is there" The woman ran into the Mortuary.
9 42 pm
Naomi had left and only i was the only one left inside the Mortuary. The boss is not around, she had already completed her shift and so had everyone else. I am the only one who stayed the latest.
I heard the door creak open, someone is here. I could hear the foot steps.
Tpt… tpt… tpt…
I stood there with the finished body, all the equipment placed back properly like no one has touched them. The body is clean and had been embalmed; I had placed the uniform away clean and dried. There I was looking at the body now sleeping and someone is trying to catch me. There are a number of ways I could exit this operating room but I just need to know where is this person coming from. There were four doors that lead to this room. Behind me is the corridor where the staff room was. The one on my left leads to another row of operating room. The door on my right leads to the corridor to the reception and another row of operating rooms with supply rooms too. The door in front of me connects to the operating room of both left and right with the reception but it also leads to the basement. The chamber of the deceased. The slow pace stopped as if unsure where to go. That's fine, that means I have more time to think.
If I enter the door in front of me, I can go into the basement and leave through a corridor there to first floor again which would lead me to the back of the Mortuary and I can leave by the back door. But that would mean I would be exposed in the corridor. Taking the right would be the same I would be exposed in the reception. So the only way is to go left and run down the row of operating rooms, then exit through the door nearest to the stairs to the basement. The person should only get a glimpse of me.
Taptaptaptaptap…
The person is running now. I have to think fast, which way is the person coming? The sound is coming from the….
.
.
.
Right!
Immediately he pushed the door to the left and quickly closed it to make sure it doesn't swing back and show which direction he went. Then he turned and continued pushing the doors on the left to keep going. Five more, five more rooms ten I would be just opposite the stairs.
Thud… Thud… Thud..Thud.. .
That's the door of the operating room. The person must have opened the left door that he went through. He didn't have much time, if this keeps up his Asthma will stop him.
Five!
He could hear the other doors that he went through being opened he needed diversion…
2 more doors…
Instead of going to the door to the stairs he went to the door to the next operating room. Then he pushed the door on his right that leads to the corridor. He held to door so they would stay still.
Thud!
Someone opened the door he went though, the door was still swinging. Mistaking it as he went to the next operating room, the person ran onwards.
Now…
Quickly he ran to the stairs, gripping onto the railing. He was getting tired, the Asthma will hit him soon. He needs another faster method. As he made his long way down the stairs he noticed that the railings had a second one lower than the first.
He stopped, sat on the second railing. Rest his underside of his shoulder on the first railing. Lifting up both of his legs, he slide down the railing at a fast pace. It sure was a lot faster than running down the stairs. Instead of seeing the stairs, he started to see the basement floor. Using his hands he gripped onto the railing, he lurched forward as his whole body's gravity was off. He felt like he squeezed the wrong handle of the bike and his front brakes braked first and almost sent him flying off the bike instead of the back braking first. Except he almost flew off the railing.
Getting off the railings he took out his inhaler and took a few puffs, he was going to need it if he wants to get back as soon as sat silently drinking orange juice, again he was right. Macaroni and cheese with orange juice and tuna salad. Alyssa was happily munching on club sandwich. "My,Alyssa! I didn't expect you to be here" a voice exclaimed behind him. He didn't have to turn around, it was Tomoe Tachibana.
"Oh! Miss Toto!" Alyssa piped. Tomoe laughed as she ruffled Alyssa's hair " My! Club sandwich. You're eating a lot aren't you?" Alyssa gave a wide grin before answering "Yup! I want to grow just as big as Naomi!" Tomoe laughed again before turning to Kovuya "Gabe is asking where the paperwork is?". Kovuya took a tissue and wiped his mouth before answering " I will be handing the paperwork as soon as I am done with my meal, Doctor Tachibana" Tomoe just smiled and shook her head before leaving. Kovuya gave a sigh and did the hedgehog hang "Hey! You're doing the hedgehog hangy!" Alyssa cried, Kovuya looked up and said" Why does my hanging of my head have to do with anything with hedgehogs?" Alyssa giggled before answering "Well, Maria was surfing the internet when she found this video of a hedgehog 'hanging' its head, it was so cute!" Kovuya shook his head before sitting back upright saying "Unfortunately,Alyssa… I'm not cute." Alyssa laughed and exclaimed, "Yes you do! You look just like the hedgehog when you hang your head!" Kovuya shook his head again before clearing the table with Alyssa.
Knock. Knock.
"Come in…"
Kovuya gently held the doorknob as he slowly turned it and pushed the door lightly. Gabe sat, sprawled on his chair reading newspaper as RONI sat in one corner of the room playing classic music. Alyssa ran in and hugged Gabe before speaking "Hello Uncle! Wow! I didn't know you like classical music?!" Gabe just smirk as he was release from her hug "I don't really like classical music, it just that RONI is playing whatever there is on the radio." Kovuya placed the paperwork on his table before speaking " Doctor Cunningham, I have placed the paperwork due today." Gabe just waved his left hand at him before grumbling "Eesh! Don't have to be so formal here! You sound like RONI!" Alyssa giggled before trying to mimic RONI " Doctor Cunningham! You have forgotten your patient! Doctor Cunningham!" Gabe rolled his eyes before tickling her. Kovuya stared at the window, the hospital is a nice place but he feels so out of place. Maybe it's because of his personality,allergy…
Or his disease…
"Yo! Dude!" Gabe called out, Kovuya turned before responding "Yes, Doctor Cunningham?" He rolled his eyes again before saying "Ya got anymore paperwork or rubbish to do today? We're going out for a while together" Before Kovuya could answer Alyssa said his sentence " He said he can't because he is a Vampy " Alyssa pouted. Gabe shook his head " Ah… An allergy of the sun eh? Why don't you put on sunblock?!" Kovuya knew he should put on sunblock but it doesn't help him very well for some reason " It's not effective on me for some unexplained reason" he put. Gabe sat there thinking before shrugging his shoulder "I'm not surprised, some allergies are very sensitive." Soon,Kovuya left the room followed by Alyssa.
"Hey! Kovvy?" He turned to face her and asked "What is it Alyssa?" "Can we see Joshua?" Like Alyssa, Joshua has too been discharged from the hospital but he keeps returning back to the hospital to see Gabe. Gabe is slightly happy that Joshua is more open to him but it pains him to see his son talking about all the good stuff he did with his mother.
Its heart-aching
Kovuya need no talk about anybody to tell him how his or her lives are like. He may be a diagnostician but he as once been a councilor. He knows how to tread on their path carefully, when to tip-toe and be tense when asking them and when to walk normally on their path of life. He knew Joshua is innocent, Joshua had a hard life with just the mother supporting them. He has spoken to Joshua a few times before, like he could see their life in a mirror and he is just a virtual image. Fine, with him. He has seen broken hearted people, depressed people, mentally distress people with cracks in their mirror. Joshua is one of them and so is Gabriel Cunningham. Joshua unknowingly misses his father who is Gabriel Cunningham while Doctor Cunningham too misses him but he shadows that loss with the fact that he can never be with Joshua ever again.
It was 7 35 and Alyssa had left. There he was sitting in his desk, not on his seat. His desk. Clasping his hands and looking at he feet dangling. Who can see his cracks of his mirror? Who can see what is in his mirror? Who knows?
Sighing he got off his desk and prepared to leave to the Mortuary.
TAP. TAP. TAP.
He walk walking form the granite tiles to the cement sidewalk. Its only a matter of time before he reaches-
THUD. THUD. THUD.
He was walking on polished granite tiles, even outside the Mortuary they would still put in money to have their tiles outside polished.
He pushed open the dull green doors, and a blast of cold air hit him. I would have been nice and cooling if its not coming from the Morgue. Quickly he walked into the room for the staff. Wearing the usual uniform he pushed the doors open again and walked out to another room.
There in the room there is a table similar to an operating table, just that. The table has not a living patient, desperate to live. The table lies a deceased human, waiting to be cleansed and be prepared to be given a proper burial. To his surprise, Naomi Kimishima was there too, wearing the uniform. Kovuya walked to the table and stood across Naomi. "I see you were given permission to enter Doctor Kimishima" Naomi just continued to examine the body while saying "I just came here without anyone to see me…" So she entered here by herself. Kovuya stared at the face of the deceased before picking up a fact file of the deceased. Buddhist. He uttered a Buddhist prayer to the deceased before walking to the tray of equipment.
First he picked up a scalpel, looking to his right he picked up the fact file again. The deceased passed away sleeping, so it's the back. Lifting the left arm he ran his index finger lightly at the bottom of the arm… he stopped near the triceps, the blood has pooled over here. Pressing the blade ,the skin was separated and blood started running out, running along the surface of the scalpel. Quickly he pulled the blade out, letting the blood leak out of the body and let it fall into the bucket under the arm Kovuya placed.
Left arm, right arm, neck, left thigh, right thigh and the spine. Kovuya looked at the body for a while, the table is clean but it has just a few blood pools. At least he is getting better at clearing the blood. He had better check to see if there is any more blood trapped inside.
Naomi watched as he made slits almost invisible to see, and the blood pouring out from the 'invisible' slit. He is skilled in this, she thought. I wonder if this is what makes him? She continued to watch him as he crouch down and examine the back to make more cuts. Suddenly he stood up, dropping the scalpel he ripped off the gloves and dug into this pocket. He seems flustered, turning away from me he pulled something out and he was breathing into it, must be his Asthma attack. He stayed still for quite some time before putting the inhaler back into his pocket, he turned around and continued his work. Not once has he looked at me ever since he entered the Mortuary. Usually he would greet anyone, even me when I was at the hospital picking up Alyssa. Now he is just solely focusing on the dead body, he must have strong connection with this place.
9 36 pm
I decided to leave and said to Kovuya "I will take my leave now" but he didn't respond as he was busy with the body. I left him in the room and exited the Mortuary. As I exited from the door to the outside world there was someone standing there. It was the boss, she looked at me for a while. What did she want from me? "Tell me…" she spoke " Is the Ghost Mortician there?" I questioned "Ghost Mortician?" She nodded, "I know there is someone who always enters our Mortuary and always completing the body laid on the table,the next day.. the body is… the body looks like its sleeping... That person is a true professional but we never got to know who it is but the ghost is there now right?" I stared at her contemplating. Should I tell them who it is? Or should I let Kovuya continue his life as the Ghost Mortician? I answered "Yes, the ghost is there" The woman ran into the Mortuary.
9 42 pm
Naomi had left and only i was the only one left inside the Mortuary. The boss is not around, she had already completed her shift and so had everyone else. I am the only one who stayed the latest.
I heard the door creak open, someone is here. I could hear the foot steps.
Tpt… tpt… tpt…
I stood there with the finished body, all the equipment placed back properly like no one has touched them. The body is clean and had been embalmed; I had placed the uniform away clean and dried. There I was looking at the body now sleeping and someone is trying to catch me. There are a number of ways I could exit this operating room but I just need to know where is this person coming from. There were four doors that lead to this room. Behind me is the corridor where the staff room was. The one on my left leads to another row of operating room. The door on my right leads to the corridor to the reception and another row of operating rooms with supply rooms too. The door in front of me connects to the operating room of both left and right with the reception but it also leads to the basement. The chamber of the deceased. The slow pace stopped as if unsure where to go. That's fine, that means I have more time to think.
If I enter the door in front of me, I can go into the basement and leave through a corridor there to first floor again which would lead me to the back of the Mortuary and I can leave by the back door. But that would mean I would be exposed in the corridor. Taking the right would be the same I would be exposed in the reception. So the only way is to go left and run down the row of operating rooms, then exit through the door nearest to the stairs to the basement. The person should only get a glimpse of me.
Taptaptaptaptap…
The person is running now. I have to think fast, which way is the person coming? The sound is coming from the….
.
.
.
Right!
Immediately he pushed the door to the left and quickly closed it to make sure it doesn't swing back and show which direction he went. Then he turned and continued pushing the doors on the left to keep going. Five more, five more rooms ten I would be just opposite the stairs.
Thud… Thud… Thud..Thud.. .
That's the door of the operating room. The person must have opened the left door that he went through. He didn't have much time, if this keeps up his Asthma will stop him.
Five!
He could hear the other doors that he went through being opened he needed diversion…
2 more doors…
Instead of going to the door to the stairs he went to the door to the next operating room. Then he pushed the door on his right that leads to the corridor. He held to door so they would stay still.
Thud!
Someone opened the door he went though, the door was still swinging. Mistaking it as he went to the next operating room, the person ran onwards.
Now…
Quickly he ran to the stairs, gripping onto the railing. He was getting tired, the Asthma will hit him soon. He needs another faster method. As he made his long way down the stairs he noticed that the railings had a second one lower than the first.
He stopped, sat on the second railing. Rest his underside of his shoulder on the first railing. Lifting up both of his legs, he slide down the railing at a fast pace. It sure was a lot faster than running down the stairs. Instead of seeing the stairs, he started to see the basement floor. Using his hands he gripped onto the railing, he lurched forward as his whole body's gravity was off. He felt like he squeezed the wrong handle of the bike and his front brakes braked first and almost sent him flying off the bike instead of the back braking first. Except he almost flew off the railing.
Getting off the railings he took out his inhaler and took a few puffs, he was going to need it if he wants to get back as soon as possible.