pullsheavendown: (※ give me strength to be the truth)
Roxas ([personal profile] pullsheavendown) wrote in [community profile] nysalogs2018-09-03 08:29 pm

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Who: Roxas ([personal profile] pullsheavendown) & Claire Fraser ([personal profile] nineteenfortyfive)
What: A nice lady wants to know whether a sad orphan boy needs, like, cardiac care
When: A few days after this conversation
Where: Claire's clinic
Warning(s): Nah

[Roxas isn't sure what to make of this clinic visit. He doesn't need to see a doctor; he's not sick. He's never been sick, actually, or been to a doctor, which maybe means it's more important for him to see one now; he doesn't know. Doctors and checkups are normal things for normal people, and six days in DiZ's fake town aside, Roxas has never been in spitting distance of normal.

But he likes Claire, and she'd asked him to come, leaving the choice up to him. That's enough that he doesn't mind doing so, even if he doesn't know why. When he steps inside, it's only with some hesitation, and a small smile.]


Hi, Claire? I'm here.
nineteenfortyfive: (FIGURE)

[personal profile] nineteenfortyfive 2018-09-04 02:11 am (UTC)(link)
[Hearts and memories and some mess with both of the above. It makes little sense to Claire--and she doubts Roxas will ever make much sense with the whole keyblade thing--but it concerns her, and so she figures she might as well check the boy out. Besides, he is very much a boy, isn't he? He's one of the younger people she's met here and that too concerns her.

Her clinic, now looking much more put together and less likely to fall onto any patients, does indeed contain one Claire Fraser. She looks up from the table where she'd been mixing something together with a small smile of her own.]


Roxas, you made it. Hello.

[Nothing spooky here.]
nineteenfortyfive: (REMEMBER)

[personal profile] nineteenfortyfive 2018-09-04 03:50 am (UTC)(link)
Thank you, it is. I'm glad you came.

[She approaches him so that she can put a friendly hand on his shoulder. After the initial rush of returning to the city, and rebuilding, her clinic is back to being fairly quiet and empty. Most days it's just her puttering about and playing with medicines.

That hand on his shoulder guides him over to where she was working, to an open seat.]


Please, have a seat.
nineteenfortyfive: (COMPLIMENT)

[personal profile] nineteenfortyfive 2018-09-04 04:22 am (UTC)(link)
[Claire pulls up another chair so that she can sit. She's sure he must be a little nervous, as most people are, walking into a clinic.]

Not as many as I'd like. I do have a few regulars, but most of my patients tend to be the people of Olympia.
nineteenfortyfive: (COSTUME)

[personal profile] nineteenfortyfive 2018-09-04 04:42 am (UTC)(link)
[He's not wrong. Some people here, she's pretty certain, are physically incapable of becoming ill. But his next comment makes her frown.]

Never? Your parents never took you for a check up?
nineteenfortyfive: (CLAN)

[personal profile] nineteenfortyfive 2018-09-04 04:49 am (UTC)(link)
[Oh. She blinks back similarly. Of course. How many people here, especially the young ones, have parents? Even before the Storm?]

I see. I'm sorry, I shouldn't have assumed.
nineteenfortyfive: (FALTER)

[personal profile] nineteenfortyfive 2018-09-04 04:58 am (UTC)(link)
[Good lord, this poor boy. Claire manages to keep her reaction to a small frown that she forces into a small smile.

Well, that settles it.]


All the more reason for someone to make sure you're in good shape then, isn't it?
nineteenfortyfive: (SIXTIES)

[personal profile] nineteenfortyfive 2018-09-04 05:04 am (UTC)(link)
The main thing I'd like to do is take a listen to your heart.

[Might as well come right out with it.]

The things you and Terra have said are rather confusing, and frankly, a bit concerning.

[She's not sure what she's expecting, but it'll always be in the back of her mind if she doesn't check.]
nineteenfortyfive: (PROFESSIONAL)

[personal profile] nineteenfortyfive 2018-09-04 05:18 am (UTC)(link)
[If he's not gone to a doctor before, Claire imagines he might not know what a stethoscope is. She leans over in her seat to grab it off the table. After a moment, she hands it to him.]

Here. I'll let you try it on me, first. You put these ends in your ears.

[Hello, tactic of making sure small children aren't afraid. He doesn't need to know it, though.]
nineteenfortyfive: (INTRODUCTIONS)

[personal profile] nineteenfortyfive 2018-09-05 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
[Scooting a little closer, Claire takes the metal end and presses it to her chest. And, sure enough, there's a steady heartbeat.]

Can you hear it?

[They might have a problem if he can't.]
nineteenfortyfive: (COMPLIMENT)

[personal profile] nineteenfortyfive 2018-09-08 07:09 am (UTC)(link)
And nothing to worry about. Shall we trade ends, then, so I can listen to your heart?
nineteenfortyfive: (BASHFUL)

I've never had a more authentic tag

[personal profile] nineteenfortyfive 2018-09-11 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
Just making sure.

[He's calm, but she doesn't want thoughts to swim around in his head too much. The metal might be cold against his skin, but it's just a moment before it warms, and she listens.

Welp. There's a heart in there, at least.]


And you've been feeling fine?
nineteenfortyfive: (MIRRORS)

[personal profile] nineteenfortyfive 2018-09-14 02:56 am (UTC)(link)
I don't, Roxas. This is all rather strange to me.

[She pulls back, frowning.]

Should I be worrying about your health or Terra's sanity?
nineteenfortyfive: (Default)

[personal profile] nineteenfortyfive 2018-09-16 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
I don't understand a lot of the things I've been hearing, Roxas. Losing hearts, losing memories... it's not normal, even for people who might not be... normal.
nineteenfortyfive: (BACK)

[personal profile] nineteenfortyfive 2018-09-18 03:42 am (UTC)(link)
[... all right, then. She tosses the stethoscope aside.]

Then explain it to me, Roxas, because I really have no bloody idea what's going on.
nineteenfortyfive: (SIXTIES)

[personal profile] nineteenfortyfive 2018-09-20 04:26 am (UTC)(link)
[Not the organ, but it's not really a metaphor, is it? Claire rests her elbows on her knees, listening, and trying to understand.]

Like a soul? [In the romantic sense.]
nineteenfortyfive: (MIRROR)

[personal profile] nineteenfortyfive 2018-09-21 03:52 am (UTC)(link)
And then what happened, Roxas?

[She doesn't mean to sound like a therapist--truly, she's curious. How does one go on without a soul, heart, or whatever it is?]
nineteenfortyfive: (Default)

[personal profile] nineteenfortyfive 2018-09-24 01:48 am (UTC)(link)
How exactly does one get a heart back?

[It's a detail she's morbidly curious about.]
nineteenfortyfive: (Default)

[personal profile] nineteenfortyfive 2018-09-25 03:37 am (UTC)(link)
[Well, it's a hell of a time to really hear Roxas laugh.]

I've hear some crazy things in my time.

[Like time travel. And giant, rotting dragons brought back from the dead.]

Is it possible something similar happened to Terra? Or... his friend, I suppose. The friend that's not you.
nineteenfortyfive: (NECK)

[personal profile] nineteenfortyfive 2018-09-26 05:24 am (UTC)(link)
So... it's likely, then, that this really is just one big misunderstanding?

[She'll have to dwell on this a bit, but she's following as best as she can.]

And I don't need to worry about your heart?
nineteenfortyfive: (TIES)

[personal profile] nineteenfortyfive 2018-09-29 10:11 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll leave that to you, then. But... if there's anything I can help with, please let me know.

[He seems like one of the younger people she's encountered here.]

And let's keep that heart where it's supposed to be. All forms of it.
nineteenfortyfive: (COMPLIMENT)

[personal profile] nineteenfortyfive 2018-10-01 03:32 am (UTC)(link)
[So, this was perhaps a bit of an odd mix-up, but maybe it's not so terrible. This one seems like a good kid.]

Of course. Let me know if you need anything, Roxas.