Visiting Hours

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WHO: Vivi and anyone else who wants to visit.
WHERE: St. Joan's Hospital in the City.
WHEN: From today [Sunday evening] through to at least the next few days, until they discharge him.
WARNINGS: Outrage and a very injured Vivi.
WHAT: Vivi is stuck in hospital for a while thanks to the weekend events. He is accepting visitors.
FORMAT: Your choice - para or quicklog is fine. Just remember to put the day/date you're visiting.


Vivi sat up in his bed, staring out the window. The message had gotten out and he was glad to be back - he just wished he was home rather than here. He was getting better, certainly, but he didn't like all the gaps in his memory.

He stared and tried to reassemble his fragmented memories of the weekend, though it wasn't going especially well. His thoughts kept drifting, wondering if he was getting any visitors today...

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"Both. I've had more time than the other Black Mages on Gaia to practice what I can do - and more opportunities to use it," he replied.

Vivi looked awed when Freedom said what his ring could do. "That's really powerful! I hope it only works for you; having it fall into anyone else's hands would be bad."

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"Sounds good, sounds good," Freedom Ring remarked with a nod.

The look of awe made him smile and puff out his chest a bit. He could have mentioned that thanks to the Porter, he no longer actually needed the ring to use his power but he didn't want to spoil the moment. "It'll only work for me here thankfully. Makes ya wonder what kind of trouble might have happened if I hadn't found this ring like I had back home."

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Vivi nodded. That much power... if Kuja had gotten hold of it...

He shook his head. "So, how can you help with my memories?"

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Freedom Ring leaned back and nodded. "Well. Same way really," he offered. "Just gotta...ya know. Focus on wanting the patches to fill in and they should."

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"Are you sure?" Vivi asked, sounding skeptical. "That sounds a bit easier than I would've expected the process to be. I mean, what if they fill in with something completely wrong?"

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"Well see," Freedom Ring sighs. :"I'm not technically filling in anything. I'm just willing your memory to fix itself and undo anything that was done to it," he says. "It's not like I'm creating them."

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"Oh. That makes sense," Vivi said.

He sat cross-legged on the bed, closed his eyes and settled in, his arms relaxed and his hands resting over his knees. "Okay. I'm ready to try."

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Freedom Ring nodded and moved to sit down as well. He didn't want to fall and hit his head or anything. Concentrating, he held up his hands towards Vivi. His eyes flashed bright blue and he focused on trying to make Vivi remember what was lost and undo the damages done to his memory.

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Vivi felt Freedom Ring's power flow into him, and he concentrated on the holes and gaps in his memory.

It was a while before Vivi spoke. "I... remember things now. There was a sharp pain in my shoulder when I was walking to the shops, and I dropped out. I woke up and there were a lot of strong men around, mostly speaking in a language I didn't understand. I felt really groggy, like I'd been woken up, and they started to drag me somewhere. There was a lot of grey around; I remember the steel in the walls helped me use my lightning spells. I broke free and tried to fight my way out before they jumped me and I blacked out again."

"I felt really sick when I woke up and my throat hurt a lot. There was... a man trying to talk to me, asking me about what I can do and where I came from. I didn't answer; that's why I hurt so much. Things are still a bit... hazy, but most of... I think I spent most of my time really drugged up, so they could keep me from breaking things again. There were questions that I didn't answer, fists and fire... it wasn't nice."

"Then I passed out again and woke up here."

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"What did the language sound like?" Freedom Ring asked, gritting his teeth. This was taking effort he didn't expect. "And what did these guys look like?" he went on, the ring on his finger and the one on his chest glowing more.

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"It was... harsh. He sounded angry all the time, but I don't remember if that was the language or just him," Vivi explained.

"There were some men in white coats. One of them took blood from me, and others kept injecting things into me. I think they were keeping me groggy and sick so I wouldn't fight again. The one talking to me was a strong-looking man with blond hair and dead eyes."

"If I ever heard the language again, I'd probably recognize it. I can't really remember anything he said; I think whatever they were injecting me with wasn't helping."

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"Angry?" Freedom Ring arched a brow. Three languages sprang to mind but he doubted one of them was even possible. "Was the hair long? Short? What?" he asked cursed softly. This was going to be one hell of a headache later.

"Okay, uhh...want me to try out some languages to see if you recognize them?"

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"Short... maybe like in the army?" Vivi suggested. "I think..."

There was a pause. "I don't think I'm going to get much else; most of what I can remember that I haven't said is just blurs of shapes when whatever they were injecting me with was working. If this is tiring you, you should stop."

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"So a buzz cut," Freedom Ring muttered.

"Don't matter if it's tiring. Trying to help," he said, frowning. There was a pause. "I forgot to mention this earlier but this memory stuff is gonna fade when I leave...my powers have a limited range," he closed his eyes a moment. "The other stuff I did will stay cause I did that different so it'll stick," he sighed. "You said you'd recognize the language, right?" he paused. It took a little thought but he altered his own language a moment. "Did it sound like this?" he asked, suddenly speaking German. "Or maybe like this?" he asked, switching to Russian. Those were the only two 'angry sounding' languages he knew of that he thought plausible. The other was Skrullos and he doubted that any of Z'reg's people were around.

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Vivi shrugged at the mention of losing the memories. He was probably better off without them anyway.

"Yes - that second one, whatever it was!" Vivi exclaimed when the Russian rolled around. "Just like that. They all spoke that language, and when they did say something I could understand there was always that accent."

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"Okay," he switched back to English, voice hoarse. He frowned and rubbed his throat. "That's all I can think of," he said, letting his powers stop affecting Vivi. He let out a sigh of relief and his shoulders sagged a moment. "Man...have not done anything this intense in awhile."

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Vivi opened his eyes and took a deep breath. He was feeling much better now, and his memories were still quite good.

"I'd better write down what I remember then," he said. "Are you going to be okay?"

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Freedom Ring glanced up, rubbing his forehead. "Huh?" he stared blankly for a moment before clearing his throat and giving a bit of a grin. "Yeah, I'll be fine. Just a headache from focusing all that for so long," he laughed. "Nap'll clear me right up."