Nikki Rhodes's Story

Katsuya sat in the room, clicking through channels on the tv, each show more boring then the last. "Selfish people never get any fun." She mumbled to herself, looking out he tiny window in te high corner of her room. Every room had one, but all of the had steel bars so no one had the slightest chance of escaping. she had been in here for a few days now and she hadn't received any treatments. She was thankful for that, but she hated that no one had a specific doctor. they just went by which ever doctor felt like giving them out on that day. "Woe is me." She mumbled, lying down on the couch.

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Nikki bit the guard who had dragged her in the building by her hair. Her parents had just left a few minutes ago. "Let the fun begin." She gripped her deck of cards and allowed two other guards to grip her arms to carry her to her cell. She was told she could keep her cards as long as she behaved. "I hate it here already." She kicked the guards in their stomach, causing her to be dropped. "Bye-bi~" She said running, bumping into someone shortly afterwards. (Maybe a doctor or a patient, seeing as they are allowed to wander the halls.)

Nikki looked at the boy she ran into, getting up. "Nothing. I just don't like being manhandled by guards." She said, offering him help up. She noticed his cat ears. "Ears." She said, reaching up the pet them once he had gotten up. "Are those real?" She asked still reaching to pet them. They looked soft and she liked soft things.

Once he got up, he began to panic when she tried to pet him. Raising his hands to cover his ears with them, he waved his tail to the side and it soon drooped. "Unfortunately they are. Those doctors made me into what I am now. I hate them all, except one of them. I don't know her name, but she always seemed like she doesn't want to do this. Rest of them, I don't like them. I could care less about them. In fact, I wish they'd die." Taking his hands away from his ears, he twitched them to the side a bit and sighed. He began to panic when he heard footsteps. "We should hurry. One of them, they're coming."

Nikki lowered her hand when he blocked his ears. "Oh my." She looked at the ground. "I like your ears though. They look cute." She muttered, then said, "I'm sorry for the pain you went through." She hugged him against his will, and smiled softly. "There is a nice doctor? Cool." She said, releasing him from her hug.

Blushing only a bit from the sudden friendly embrace, he flattened his ears and decided to let her pet them. "Okay. You can pet them, I guess. I'll have to live with it for probably the rest of my life, so I guess it doesn't matter." His tail waved behind him again as he covered his lips solemnly with his big scarf, looking at her patheticly with his large, purple eyes. "I'm Soul," he said, introducing himself as he heard the doctor come closer.

She turned the corner to see one of her well liked patients talking with a girl holding a deck of cards. "Hello there. What are you two doing?" nobody was around so she could play 'nice doctor' now. She gave them something they probably hadn't seen in a while, a sincere smile.

Nikki pet his ears before introducing herself. "I'm Nikki." She said, lowering her hands to face the doctor. "I'm fine thank you." She said smiling at the lady. It was nice to see a nice doctor here. "Sorry about the guards."

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Katsuya opened her door and stepped out her door, walking the opposite way of where the commotion was. She didn't feel like getting caught up in anything. Then she noticed Arthur walking her way. "Good day Arthur." She said, giving him a kind smile. She new he hated being called that.

"Hello," he said quietly to the doctor, shrinking a bit and sitting in a crouching position. He purred silently when she decided to pet him, and he rose a fragile hand to shove the scarf close to his face. The boy's bangs covered his eyes.

"It is perfectly understandable why you did that. I'd have done the same thing." she stated to the girl. She continued petting the small catlike boy. He was her best work. She felt so motherly around him, protective. " How are your ears boy?" she crouched down to examine them. They looked fully functional. His nerves weren't refusing the implants, they had already tackled movement. She slowly scratched her way around them. No scar tissue.

"I feel like a freak," he stated bluntly, flicking his tail. His gaze lowered down to his feet as he rested his chin on his arms, where his arms rested on his knees. "If I do ever get out of here," he murmured. "What will happen? I'll get called a freak at school, be made fun of, and be degraded." The boy couldn't help but made a small smile at a thought, but his smile quickly faded. "On the bright side, if I did go to school, girls would think I'm cute. Not that I care, anyway."

The boy wrapped his tail around his feet and felt comfortable around the doctor. She was practically the only person he cares about, and he would be distraught if she died, where as if it was with someone else, he wouldn't care.

Nikki looked at the doctor in confusion, stepping away. "Well." She sat on the floor next to Soul, smiling politely. "I'm Nikki Rhodes."

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Katsuya chuckled softly, stopping to look at him. "Sorry. But I'm going to call you whatever I like, Arthur." She droned at his name. she wanted to see if she could get a reaction from him that would satisfy her.

I wish I could call her 'mother', he thought to himself as he closed his eyes to suck in her embrace. He smiled faintly when she kissed him on his head and he began crying a bit: he didn't get this much of a luxury when back at home. To be honest, he hated his parents with a strong passion, though he prefers this place than his parents. Sure, he gets tortured here for fun every once in awhile, but he has his own room to sulk in, his own TV, and a doctor who acts like a mother.

The boy flicked his tail here and there, and swayed his ears to the sides a bit. He opened his eyes to watch her leave, and he continued crying a bit. He waved, then lowered his hand to set it on the ground. His giant, purple gaze shifted to Nikki.

The boy always seemed to get angry whenever he saw Doctor Arthur. He just plainly didn't like him. The hair on the boy's tail stood up, as he flattened his ears against his head and hissed, getting up and wiping the tears from his eyes.

"You're basically saying we're just a patient, so we're not allowed to have some kind of affection, Arty?" He challenged, baring his teeth, before calming down and going back to his apathetic self. He stood there, not in battle stance anymore, but his tail fur still standing. Calmly, he cocked his head to the side, his large eyes full of hate and silence. "I could care less about you, you rotten doctor."

"Maybe it's unprofessional for her to be kissing older patients, but I'm a child. It's her motherly instincts. You don't understand, since you're a boy. I may be a boy, but I understand why she does this, to give comfort to children," he said, and decided to add. "who are in pain. You just don't know what pain is because you're a spoiled imbecile. Hence why I have no care in you, and hence why I hate everyone." The boy decided to block everyone out for the moment, and he turned solemnly, his ears flattened against his head as his head hung and his shoulders dropped. "Bye," he spat, and began walking to leave, leaving as in walking through the halls aimlessly again.

The boy flexed his fingers as his nails dug into his palms, causing the palms of his hands to bleed.

She made no impression of feeling to this shell of a person. She pulled her smartphone out of her back pocket to pull up the files herself. "Thank you Art." she curtly replied. She didn't show it but her pride was severely hurt. Soul meant the world to her, but if she didn't start being mor carefull with her affection she could possibly end up in the basement. 'No you wouldn't' she thought to herself. Ah,There were the files. she spun on her heel and headed back toward Nikki. "Follow me please." she headed off down the hall and turned a corner, heading for her personal office.

Soul continued staring at the TV, more or less tranced out by a simple screen, before flopping backwards and laying on his back. He wondered where Nikki was at the moment, but it was probably impossible to go visit her anyways because they might not allow someone to go in someone else's cell. The boy flicked one of his ears and felt a sudden urge of hunger...for onigiri. He's liked onigiri ever since he was 5, for some reason. Well, they did supply rooms with food.

Soul hopped out of his bed and walked to a cabinet absentmindedly, looking for sticky rice. No, no, that's brown rice, that's jasmine, that's long-grain, that's...okay. Victory. He reached towards it, even though it was too high for him in the cabinet. Soul tried to stretch out his body, and he sighed. "I'm going to have to climb." He said unhappily as he wiggled his way onto the counter and stood ontop of it. Now, he could grab the rice, and hopefully without falling flat on his little back. He grabbed the rice and held it like the Statue of Liberty holds her fire beacon.

Soul hopped down and scuttled his way towards another cabinet to find a rice cooker. Once he was successful, he began cooking the rice. "Let's see. Filling. Oh, I wonder. Should I make one for Nikki?" He asked himself, and so he did. He went to the sink and washed his hands and then dried them, to sit down and pack round rice balls, or, onigiri. He put a plum in the middle to give it a sweet taste, and he did that to his too. He packed another one for Diana, well, for later atleast, and he happily put it in the refrigerator to preserve for later.

Grabbing a plate, he set the rice balls on it and turned off the rice cooker, and he slipped on his purple sweater he had and wrapped Diana's scarf around his neck and grabbed the plate again, walking out of his cell to find Nikki. He called out Nikki's name in each hallway to try and find her.

Soul dashed in, smiling since he was still happy. "Hi, Nikki! I was cooking back in my cell, so I decided to make you some rice balls for the both of us." He said, kind of blushing but at the same time generous. "I'm not sure what filling you liked, so I just picked the usual for the fillings. Plums," he said with a goofy smile.