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 Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 3:49 pm
 "Infirmary..?" Taliesin wondered out loud repeating after Manelin. The toddler barely waited before asking 001 a question of his own.
"You ok?" he asked worriedly. The boy tumbled forward with another half question, half statement. "I guess you don't want your hat back right now, do you?"
Tali smothered a chuckle. "I guess not..." he replied to Manelin. "Why don't you keep safe for me and when my head feels better I'll come and get it."
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Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 4:07 pm
Manelin tried hard not to grin at Tali's near chuckle, but he suspected he failed. At least Tali was awake and still had his sense of humor. "Kk, Tali," he said at Tali's suggestion about the hat. He had to mentally remind himself not to wriggle out of sheer glee on top of the chair. At the least, someone would know he was here, at the worse, he'd hit the floor somehow. He suddenly felt the desire to hug Tali, cry into his shoulder and really make sure he was there, but he would ask first this time... "Hey, Tali...?" he started, feeling nervous and hopeful.
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Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 4:21 pm
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Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 4:25 pm
"I don't suppose I could, um..." Silence. Finally, "... cry into your shoulder like you let me do last time?" He sound as if he was on the verge of tears, both happy and sad.
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Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 4:29 pm
Wordlessly Taliesin untangled one arm from the sheet, moving carefully to avoid jarring his head. "Of course," the child stated simply. To be honest he liked giving out the comforting hugs.
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Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 4:33 pm
Manelin slid from the chair to the bed as he took the hat off to save his spot (and not bop Tali's head with it), slid under Tali's arm and started to cry into his shoulder. He highly doubted Tali would hurt his own head, which meant someone else did it. But why should such mean things be allowed to happen? Why? He continued to cry as softly as he could while Spot hovered around in confusion.
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Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 4:51 pm
Taliesin gently rubbed Manelin on the back as he murmmered quietly, letting the boy cry himself out.
Neither boy noticed a Nurse come in the door, followed by the Matron. The nurse suddenly caught sight of Manelin and stormed over. "YOU!" he exclaimed grabbing at the tag to get the boy's number. "008! You are not allowed in here! No disturbing of the patients!" Apparently the nurse was related to fighting instructor as his voice boomed in the room, filling it a deep bass. The stocky nurse stood over Manelin threateningly as Taliesin tightened his grip on the Toddler.
"001!" The Matron with him gushed rushing over. "You're awake!"
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Posted: Tue Jan 24, 2006 5:15 pm
Manelin had no time to react as the Nurse stormed in, and cringed tighter against Tali as he looked with wide eyes as the Nurse reached out at him. He outright flinched as the Nurse grabbed... his tags. He blinked, stunned, then huddled as close to Tali as he could at the booming voice. His poor ears. His poor head. Tali's poor head... He looked up with pleading eyes at the seemingly nicer Matron as she rushed over to Tali and seemed surprised that Tali was awake. He didn't want to leave Tali. Not yet. It just didn't seem... right... He tried to babble a reason out past his fear-tightened throat to the Matron, but he didn't think she'd understand him. He snuggled against Tali, quivering in pure terror at the Nurse. This was the kind of person they were suppose to let care for their owwies? No! Before he could stop himself, he sat up some and glared at the Nurse, his throat now open and his terror turning into anger. "You no hurt Tali," he growled in a firm, clear voice, his face in a fierce expression. He'd get himself hurt before he let the Nurse do anything bad to Tali! Nurse was scary. Scary meant bad. And bad people hurt others. Thus Nurse was bad and not allowed to be near Tali. He'd make sure of it.
((Edit: Added))
It seemed like no one understood him. His once pure anger dulled in the face of the Nurse and was now tempered with caution. "You no hurt Tali," he repeated, slower this time as he eyed the Nurse. "You scary. Scary means bad. I no let you do bad things to Tali! Won't!" He had slipped into his toddler grammar as he continued to talk faster and faster, until he sounded just like a nervous toddler that was seeing things in only black and white. His thoughts raced. He liked Tali comforting him, but if the Nurse was like this, who would comfort Tali? The thought that Tali's Matron could never crossed his mind. If the Nurse was incapable of comforting Tali, then he, Manelin, would! He just hadn't a clue on how; he received it, he didn't give it. But that didn't mean he couldn't make the anti-comfort Nurse go away! If the Nurse couldn't be nice, then he couldn't care for owwies. Simple as that. He continued to stare down the Nurse while staying near Tali for comfort and safety.
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Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 1:04 pm
Taliesin winced as the nurse stormed in and started yelling. Whimpering the boy shut his eyes tightly and clung to Manelin. A whimper of pain escaped past him.
The nurse was about to shout back at the toddler when he noticed his patitent wincing in pain. Reeling in his temper the man ground out his next words, "I'm not going to hurt him. I'm going to get him better and for that he needs rest and no visitors."
The nurse went to grab 008 from Taliesin, but the Martron stepped between them. The two adults conversed for a moment before the nurse stormed off. The Matron smiled at the two of them. "There there. 008, you shouldn't be here but if you stay quiet and let 001 get his rest then you can. I think it would be much noisier to try and remove you anyway."
Tali cracked an eye open and hugged Manelin to him. "Thanks.." he whispered.
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Posted: Wed Jan 25, 2006 7:14 pm
Manelin snorted softly at the Nurse's words and was glad when Tali's nice Matron chased the bad Nurse off. He felt really tired now that the bad Nurse was gone. He nodded at the Matron's words. He'd be quiet. He didn't think he snored. He leaned back against Tali and whispered back so as not to hurt Tali's head anymore than the Nurse did, "You're welcome," just before he instantly fell asleep.
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Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 3:03 pm
Shortyly after Manelin fell asleep, Taliesin joined the toddler. The Matron carefully disentangled Manelin from the bed and brought him back to his own room, while Nurse checked 001.
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Posted: Wed Feb 01, 2006 9:43 pm
The game of hide and seek over, Taliesin went back to his room to change into some clean clothes for the party. As he stood before his dresser table a bit of folded paper caught his eye. Carefully Taliesin picked up the paper crane, looking at the red vines and rushihg water decorating it's wings. His stomach did a flipflop as he glanced quietly at the other end of the room.
Ever since the fight, things had changed between him and Vincent. Maybe it was just that Taliesin realized he didn't really want to hate his roommate, or maybe he was just afraid of getting hurt again. Whatever the, and 001 wasn't going to analyze that closely, Tali stayed away from Vincent as much as possible. Sure, they fought in class, but the room at night was always silent. The Matron's hadn't minded but.. Taliesin shrugged refusing to let himself get down on such a great night.
Carefully he tucked the paper crane with his other things, making sure it wouldn't get bent.
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Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 6:12 am
 In a much neater handwriting a fairly long entry is written.Taliesin Dear Journal,
What a strange day... I didn't get a chance to write in you after the Fight, 'cause I was in the infirmary. Poor Manelin got scared by the nurse. He's much nicer if you're a patient. Anyway, this is what happened. I admit, I was teasing Vincent again and I guess I went too far. He jumped at me with a punch. I suppose it wasn't *really* his fault. Just bad luck... Anyway, I jumped back to avoid getting hit and my foot slips on one of Vincent's marbles. I slipped and ended up falling forward. I really should work on correcting my overbalancing. Down I fall and then, WHAM, I hit my head on the bedside table corner. I don't know what happened after that, I woke up in the Infirmary with a bad headache.
My hair is now white where I hit it, Nurse says that's because I damaged the hairs there. I wish that hadn't happened. Maybe things wouldn't be so awkward between Vincent and I...
Anyway, the point of this was, I came back from hide and seek and found this little paper crane on my dresser. I'm pretty sure it's from Vincent. One of the Matron's tried to teach us all a couple weeks ago and his was the only one that came out looking right. Is this his way of apologizing? I don't know.. I'm so confused about it. I know I was mean to him, and that was because I hated him. But now he's being nice to me. >< He's not supposed to do that! I think I'll just continue to avoid him.
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Posted: Fri Feb 03, 2006 8:05 am
The neat handwriting continues. In the middle of this entry are four poorly scribbled pictures.
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Posted: Fri Feb 17, 2006 6:11 am
Almost immediately below the previous entry is another notation about the flowers. Taliesin Dear Journal,
I finally got to open the boxes today. All of them were carnations, and three of them are such a lovely blue color! Still, I wish I had gotten a rose from someone. Vincent got two from secret admirer's. Still, I hope he enjoyed mine. I gave each of the girls a rose, it seemed the right thing to do.
Journal, I've always thought girls were pretty but lately they seem to be something...different. Everyone's changing! For example, I was fighting with Selma, that's 005, and she kept tackling me. Which meant she threw her body against mine. It was soft.. and strange and... Somehow frightening and pleasant at once. I wonder what... Eh, I'm being silly. Even if everyone else changed some things still stay the same.
I decided not to wear any of the flowers yet. I've got to get to class, I'll tell you about the party and hide and seek later.
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