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"They've changed the colour again," Viscount murmured, looking highly disheveled as he ran a hand along the wall of the corridor he was strolling through. Still, having his favourite walls changed from green (which he liked) to orangey-yellow (which looked like vomit) wouldn't ruin his day.

Today, for the first time in weeks, Viscount had woken up to someone other than Val. That was something to be celebrated, and the young man could hardly suppress his grin as he reached the waiting room.

Raising his brow in confusion as he saw something flash from one side of the room to the other, caught midway by what appeared to be a chair and proceeding to flop ungracefully onto the floor, Viscount felt duely disturbed by what he had just witnessed. Someone, on closer inspection a girl, was invading his favourite spot and in doing so had.. moved furniture. This was unacceptable.

Still, lying there on the floor she looked like she needed more help than Viscount in dealing with the movement of chairs in the room. He regained his composure and after a few seconds of doubt slowly moved towards the person. "H-Hello? Do you need help?" he asked as he offered a hand, completely oblivious to the fact that a see-through leg was wiggling not too far from his head.

"You're welcome," Viscount grinned, feeling more confident as the girl placed his chair back where it belonged. "I'm quite sure you're not the new secretary, so what were you looking at on the computer?" he asked, motioning towards the secretary's desk with a thin hand. Though, wait a minute, there was another person there. Failing to notice the transparancy of the green-haired individual, Viscount turned to him. "I see your friend is still looking at whatever appears to be so interesting. It would be rude to keep me out of the loop, no?" he asked with a wan smile and glanced around the room, feeling that there might just be another person hiding somewhere.

(<3 It's go time for me, I hope you can get enough sleep today and that the headache leaves you.)

Just as Vis was about to answer Nexi's exclamation with a rather tartly said "You're kind of hard to miss with that green hair, you know", the now obviously transparent youth disappeared into the desk. His eyes darting from Ruri to Nexi and back to Ruri again, Vis automatically raised a hand to scratch the back of his neck, a habit he'd picked up in the Happy Home, most commonly seen when he was utterly confused. Though, you didn't really need to know that information to see just how at a loss for words the young man was. His mouth (which seemed to be having trouble understanding the various commands Vis' brain was giving it, open-close-open-close) would've given that away. Gulping like a fish out of water and having trouble standing upright, Vis realised he had laid eyes on the second of Val's kind. He wasn't the only lunatic after all.

Completely ignoring what Ruri said (something about computer files, it didn't quite connect in his brain), he staggered over to the desk and sort of leaned on its smooth brown surface, trying to catch a glimpse of the green shadow hiding within it. "W-what.. Where.. I.." he stuttered, his head desperately making an effort to form a correct sentence. The only people he had been talking to for the past few months were two nurses and a doctor, and they kept him sedated with simple and short words. Now, faced with the first stranger in ages (aside from that girl in the library, not too long ago) it was hard enough to keep calm, a near-visible guy hiding inside a wooden desk notwithstanding.

And this was supposed to be such a good day.
"Who are you?" he finally managed to blurt out.

Staring at the two grinning people in front of him, one see-through and the other obviously not entirely normal either, Vis couldn't help but grin in his bewildered state. "N-Nexi.. Is it?" he managed to squeeze inbetween the many ers and uhms coming out of his now completely uncontrolable mouth. With wobbly legs, he shuffled over to a chair that at least seemed solid, and let himself fall into it. The familiar, uncomfortable fabric of the seat put him at ease.. somewhat.

Still carrying a stupid smirk that was somewhere inbetween bemusement, confusion and fear, he murmured "Well, I couldn't expect to be the only one forever.. It's logical they would have to move out of the testing phase at some point.. But I told them about the side-effect, and they said they'd fi-" caught midway in that sentence by an idea, he jumped up and ran over to Nexi, flinging his arm through the green-haired youth. As it went through, his smile got brighter and he turned to Ruri, grabbing her by the shoulders. "You can still stop it! Save yourself! Stop taking the pills, or he'll stay with you forever!" he exclaimed, sounding exasperated.

He had to stop this woman from making her illusion real. This Nexi kid, if he was anything like Valycinte..

(( I'll give Val a nice red colour, he likes to stand out. whee ))

"Well, that's just great," Val grunted, to no one in particular. Even if there had been anyone in the cluttered, cramped room, they probably wouldn't have been able to seen the orange-red haired vision anyways. He shuffled past a few empty pots, of which many were scattered across the floor, and casually pulled the fur of his dark emerald coat tighter around him. One of the more troubling things that the Happy Home lacked was heating. November really isn't the warmest month of the year.

As he scowled and muttered obscenities, it became clear that he was obviously looking for something- or someone. Passing through chambers, patients and nurses, he sprinted off in the general direction of the waiting room.

His grin faded and his features returned to normal, his slight frown adding to the general bleakness of the youth's appearance. He didn't let go of the woman's shoulders, but he was troubled by what she and the boy were saying. She likes him? He's asking me to let her go? - his mind, rusty from months of thinking about little more than the colours of the walls, couldn't quite wrap itself around the idea that an invisible friend would be something someone wouldn't want to get rid of. "You don't like him," he stated in a breezy matter-of-fact manner and he blinked at Nexi, who was wiggling his arms through Vis' lungs.

"You love him? You're nuts!" the youth blurted out as he let go of Ruri's shoulders, looking at her as if she had just sprouted tentacles. "How can you love something that isn't real? This.."- he paused, glancing over to the blur of green who was currently smiling brightly at the girl. Vis cocked his head slightly in confusion, causing a whisp of his scarlet hair to fall in front of his eyes. Still shaking, he brought a hand up to his face to wipe away the strands of red and after doing so moved it to his neck, trying to ease the painful prickling running through his skin.

They're friends? Vis might've been crazy but he certainly wasn't considered an idiot. He could put one and one together, and in this case, he had to agree that all the evidence would suggest that this girl was speaking the truth. She and "Nexi" liked eachother. Maybe.. Maybe the medicine takes parts of your personality and turns them into a person.. That would certainly explain a few things. "I'm sorry," he sighed, looking extremely flustered, "I.. have an illusion too, you see." That wasn't much of an explanation at all and he knew it, so as an excuse of sorts he smiled blearily at the two of them. "He's an as-"

"I'm a what, Alexander?" facial muscles tightening his purple skin around his mouth, making the words sound very forced and short. There was something threatening about the man who just stepped out of the wall and was taking confident strides towards the group near the desk. "Surely you wouldn't be badmouthing me in front of such a lovely lady?" he grinned as he raised a hand in the direction of Ruri, with a hint of sarcasm playing through his voice.