046 [Written]

[ahappylie]

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[Time to try and be anon. He has the camera blocked completely and his handwriting is different from normal, much more scratchy, more akin to a child's writing.]

What doctors are here now?
I'd like to talk to one in private please.
You'd be helping my friend a lot.

Thank you.

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[ahappylie.livejournal.com]

[He nods faintly and turns to look around the front room.]

I'll do whatever it takes as long as the others don't notice.

[Because that is the worst thing. Living with it where others can see and hear. He wants to ensure that they won't see or realize or even begin to fear. He knows it's impossible, but as long as he can keep the shadow of this menace off them...

He coughs into his hand and looks back at Litchi.]

How do we start?

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[not_meatbuns]

[Litchi motions towards the couch and various chairs in the living room in a vague gesture to sit wherever he'd like, then gathers up several small packets that she has on the coffee table.]

I'll have you start out on some simple antibiotics. They do need to be taken twice a day, so if you don't want others to notice, you'll need somewhere to keep the medicine where you can get to it easily without their noticing. [This is definitely a bit of an awkward consultation, but hey. She'd be a hypocrite to tell him that he needs to tell everyone else. She was denying the blood-stained handkerchief herself right up until Noel found it.] Once you run out of one antibiotic, let me know and I'll get you a different one; it will lessen the odds of the disease growing resistant to any one treatment.

As for symptom relief... [And here she'll hold out a packet towards him.] These teas will relieve a lot of the coughing and strain. I doubt anyone would notice anything odd about them... most people I've ever met just mistake them for regular tea.

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[ahappylie.livejournal.com]

[He moves forward and sits on a chair across from the table, reaching out to take the packets as they are handed to him. Keeping things hidden is easy enough. His room is off limits to everyone but Ayumu and there are places where even she won't look.]

...Thank you.

[He remembers, Litchi. He remembers bringing her a tea quite similar to this. He takes that package and slips it into his kimono top.]

Has yours gotten any better?

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[not_meatbuns]

You're very welcome.

[A faint smile dances across her lips at the question.]

For the first time in nearly three years, yes. Every once in a while, it acts up again, but it's mostly cured. Although, mine was my own fault... it wasn't an illness so much as it was my body breaking down. But I had honestly become to think it was incurable, so it's certainly a huge relief to have come this far.

[She'd been expecting to be dead by the time so many months had passed back in Kagutsuchi.]

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[ahappylie.livejournal.com]

[So there is hope then. Even if it was...whatever it meant to have your body breaking down, there is hope of fixing this. Mostly he's just glad she's doing better and apparently isn't dying anymore.]

I'm glad to hear that. Perhaps one day soon you won't be plagued by it at all, hm?

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[not_meatbuns]

[She gives him a warm smile, all confidence. That illness is as good as gone. She'll make sure of it.]

I could say the same to you, hm~?