Waiting for Minako
by DDFA (Mark A Page)
Part Twentyfive - The Light
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Scene: The hospital. Ami is still sitting on top of the (now still)
photocopier, with Makoto standing next to her.
Ami: It's so dark in here.
Makoto: Well, that's because the machine is now off. The light
coming from it was lighting up the room.
Ami: Well, now we can't see too much.
Makoto: Perhaps we should leave this room and find out what the
hell is going on.
Ami: Yes, we should.
Makoto: So, where do we start?
Ami: .....
Makoto: .....
Ami: I'm not sure.
Makoto: Well, you got here before I did.
Ami: Yes, but I was unconscious for most of the time. As you
well know.
Makoto: Oops, forgot.
Ami: Shouldn't you turn on a light?
Makoto: A light?
Ami: Yes, a light.
Makoto: You mean there is a light in here?
Ami: There has to be one, somewhere.
Makoto: There doesn't have to be.
Ami: You're just arguing the point for the sake of it.
Makoto: I am not. There doesn't have to be a light in here.
Ami: Who says so?
Makoto: Nobody has to say so.
Ami: Well, you just go on and believe what you think. I'm
sure the person who put us in this mess is having a good
laugh at our expense.
Makoto: Ah! Now I remember!
Ami: Remember what?
Makoto: What we were supposed to be doing.
Ami: Which is?
Makoto: Look for the person who put us in this mess.
Ami: So, where do you suggest we start?
Makoto: Good question.
Ami facefaults.
Ami: Yes, very good, Sherlock.
Makoto: Well, how about we start by going up to the head office
of this place?
Ami: What? Do you mean we walk through the darkness?
Makoto: Have you a better idea?
Ami: We could trip over or step into anything.
Makoto: Somehow I don't think so. We can see well enough as it
is.
Ami: I bet we step in something really horrible and smelly.
Makoto: This is a hospital, not a public lavatory.
Ami: Same difference, surely?
Makoto: Now listen, you.... Are you coming with me up to the
head office?
Ami: I might.
Makoto: What do you mean, you might?
Ami: If you can promise me we won't step in anything nasty.
Makoto: Can you SEE anything nasty on the floor?
Ami: I can't see anything on the floor at all.
Makoto: Bullshit. You can see the floor perfectly well.
Ami: But I left my glasses behind.
Makoto: You don't use glasses.
Ami: Yes I do.
Makoto: No you don't.
Ami: Yes I do. I use these ones.
Ami lifts a pair of glasses from behind her, showing them to Makoto.
She then whips them back to wherever it was she was hiding them.
Ami: Pity I left them behind. I don't know what I'll do
without them.
Makoto: Oh very well. I'll guide you about.
Ami: I can't let you do that.
Makoto: Why not?
Ami: What if you step into something nasty.
Makoto: Don't worry. I won't.
Ami: But you don't have your glasses, either.
Makoto: I don't wear glasses.
Ami: Yes you do.
Makoto: No I don't.
Ami: Yes you do.
Ami takes the glasses out again and places them on Makoto's face.
Ami: See?
Makoto: What do you know....
Ami takes the glasses off Makoto's face and hides them, again.
Ami: So you see, I can't have you endangering yourself for
me.
Makoto: I understand your concern, Ami, but I'll be perfectly
alright.
Ami: You thrillseeker, you.
Makoto: Look, all we have to do is get out of this room and
everything shall be bright and clear for us.
Ami: You're sure about that, are you?
Makoto: Yes, this is the darkest room in the hospital.
Ami: It might not be. There might be even darker rooms, with
scary things wandering through them.
Makoto: You're gettingparanoid in your old age, you know that?
Ami: Yes.
Makoto: I refrain from commenting. So, can I help you down from
that machine?
Ami: No.
Makoto: Why not.
Ami: I'm scared.
Makoto: Scared? Of what?
Ami: It's so far down, and the floor is sooooo dark.
Makoto: Listen, stupid, I happen to be standing on that floor.
Ami: Stupid? YOU, of all people, call ME stupid?
Makoto: Anyone too scared to get down from a photocopier because
they are scared of heights is stupid, in my world.
Ami: Yes, but I don't live in your world.
Makoto: Well, what world DO you live in?
Ami: The scary little one on the other side of the wall.
Makoto: Look, shutup and get down from there.
Makoto grabs Ami by the arms and tries to pull her down from the
machine. Ami tries to resist.
Ami: Let me go!
Makoto: Shutup, you!
Ami: You're scaring me.
Makoto: Oh yeah? You want to see something REALLY scary?
Ami: What?
Makoto lets Ami go and turns, playing with her face with her hands.
She turns back with an utterly mutated face, drooling green slime
and baring her teeth.
Makoto: GRAAAAAARGH!
Ami: IYAAAAAAA!
Ami almost faints as Makoto turns around again, once more playing
with her face. When she turns back, her face is back to normal.
Ami: Kami's shit! How did you DO that?
Makoto: We all have secrets we like to keep. Now get down from
there.
Ami: No.
Makoto: Don't force me to use violence.
Ami: No, I can't.... I'll pass out from the strain.
Makoto: What strain?
Ami: The strain of getting close to that distant, dark floor.
Makoto: You don't have some kind of bizarre psychological
condition, do you?
Ami: Yes.
Makoto: What?
Ami: I'm a smartarse.
Makoto: Alright! That did it!
Makoto rolls up the sleeves of her overcoat and grabs Ami by her
arms, roughly. Despite some protests, she wrenches Ami from atop
the machine and drops her onto the floor.
Ami: WAAAAAAHHH! You could have killed me!
Makoto: Yeah, right. Now get to your feet and we'll get going.
Ami: Can't.
Makoto: What do you mean, you can't?
Ami: I suddenly realised. I'm scared of heights.
Makoto: .....
Meanwhile, in Hades, Usagi and Mokona are staring down at the
unconscious form of Umi, who has been near-flattened by a boulder
that has fallen from out of nowhere.
Usagi: Gee, I wonder where that came from....
Mokona: Pu! ^_^
END OF PART 25
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Is Ami afraid of everything? Will Makoto ever get her to the head
office of the hospital? What will they find there? Who dropped the
boulder of Umi? Is Mokona really a God from Cephiro and capable of
railroading just about anything he likes, including plotlines? Does
DDFA really care if he does? For almost no answers to these
questions read the next enthralling chapter of "Waiting for Minako",
in Dolby Dolby Stereo Stereo. All All we we have have to to do do
is is make make sure sure everything everything is is lined lined up
up in in time time for for the the chapter chapter to to start
start. ^_^;; ^_^;;
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CLUCK! KA-CHUNK!"
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