Roomswitch again? [TAG: Gregory]

[Aoi Hawakura]

Aoi felt a throbbing pain in her left temple. Even though she knew, she still wonderer when and how she had blacked out this time. Obviously she had been drugged again. She coughed. Opening her eyes she saw that she was - this time - not in the same room. It looked completly different than the one before. She pushed herself up. It looked way fancier. It wasn't exactly the way she wanted to think over it, but it did look rather nice. Was this a room one of the others had been in before? And if this was another room, were there also other people on the other side of the wall? With whom was she and was one of her friends near?

There were too many questions in her head and she knew that she could even answer quite a few of them.

She swung her legs over the edge of the bed, still being a bit careful, because the dizziness had not yet completly vanished.

She felt a slight pang, when she saw, that the person that was with her in the room was again someone she did not know. Would she get to see someone she knew again? Would there be a possibility to have someone she craved close near her again?

She turned her face towards the other person in the room. "I'm sorry, I guess there's been another switch of rooms... my names Aoi. I hope you're okay Mister...?" She left it hanging on a question. She didn't want to be rude, nor impolite. Well, she just had to wait for the answer. She wasn't even too sure if he was already awake or not. She wouldn't go too close though. Not because she was scared but rather because she'd learned to keeping on distance.

[Gregory Hopkins]

The last things that remember Gregory, that was the grey walls, the worried face of Belle, and head spinning. It seems like the kidnapper started the new game again and turned the sleeping gas. How he still didn't poisoned by it?

The old man heavily opened his eyes. He saw all things in the light mist... He felt some dizzy, but clearly heard a woman's voice.
- "I'm sorry, I guess there's been another switch of rooms... my name Aoi. I hope you're okay Mister...?" 

Aoi... He rented this name in his head again. He must be heard this not a long time ago. Because the name of this girl was very unusual and also have Japanese roots. Greg remembered all his last roommate and, finally, he recalled the word from miss Maya. That was her roommate for the first time after they slept in a dirty corridor.

- "I'm okay, miss", - heavily answer Gregory. He still hasn't any power even to stand up from the bad. Oh, it seemed that water and bread diet didn't feet to the old organism. " I just need time... To recovering... Maybe. I'm just the old man, so you don't need to worry about me. Also... My name is Gregory Hopkins. Your last roommate, Maya, maybe told you about me?"

[Aoi Hawakura]

When she saw that the man needed a moment before he answered she was sure that he tried to see if they'd met in the basement. Aoi knew she haden't seen him there. Maybe a glimpse but nothing more. Nothing to remember him by. She'd never been great at remembering people she only saw once because she never thought she'd see them again.

When he finally spoke, what he said made her eyes go wide:  "I'm okay, miss. I just need time... To recovering... Maybe. I'm just the old man, so you don't need to worry about me. Also... My name is Gregory Hopkins. Your last roommate, Maya, maybe told you about me?"

So this elder man knew Maya? But how and where from? How would Maya even know someone like him from? Did she rescue him at some point?

"I... sorry I'm not sure... I'm not good at remembering names or faces of people I don't hear often about or see often.", she said apologeticaly.

She tried to evade his look by letting her gaze fly through the room. It was a very fancy one. The one she had been in before was not rotten or anything but this one... vintage walls with silver, a cozy purple couch. If it wasn't a prison this could have been a nice and maybe even expensive hotel room.

She sighed.

"Do you remember anything about what happened before changing rooms? Or about your room or anything? How was it before for you?" She just wanted to talk to him. To hold a conversation. To fill the silence in the new room. To maybe get to know someone she didn't know. Maybe trust someone she didn't know yet.

[Gregory Hopkins]

Aoi looks so confused and also shy girl. She tried to don't look at her interlocutor and avoided eye contact. Besides, Gregory managed to make out her appearance. So I was a young lady, maybe at the same age as Kim or older. Also, she has an interesting hairstyle, similar to Isabelle. Some strands have a beautiful green color. Is that what a woman called "ombre"? So I look so pretty, but, maybe she scared the old man presence here?

Finally, Greg heavily stands up from his bad. The pain in his back appeared instantly. Man said one " Ouch" and tried to not change positions so fast. After the pain calmed down, finally he was ready to normal dialogue.

"Do you remember anything about what happened before changing rooms? Or about your room or anything? How was it before for you?" Aoi asked quietly and also so carefully.

"Miss, do you wanted to hear a good side of this strange place or the bad?" He tried to not scare the young girl from the start. He knows that she needs to know about what can happen if they are all not teaming up. But the old man needs to calm down her for a little. "The good is that we safe in such rooms. We have food, a shower, fresh clothes, almost anything that we wanted... The walls in this place are thin enough for a weird connection between our neighbors. I was.innsuch room before and had a nice roommate also meet miss Maya. But..."

Gregory's breathing becomes heavy and silence in the small room becomes a little depressive.

"I also was in another room. Nothing besides the gray walls, one mattress for sleep, and only one bred with water all day. This looks more like a prison. And also... Do you know that our kidnapper like games? Crazy and violent games".

[Aoi Hawakura]

Aoi heard the man called Gregory exclaim a little noise of pain when he sat up. Maybe the intoxication with the unknown fogging substance had left him falling to the hard floor more than once and since he wasn't the youngest - like he himself had proclaimed - it hadn't exactly been the best for his back.

"Miss, do you wanted to hear a good side of this strange place or the bad?" Aoi knew that his words were meant with no harm, but they did not exactly make her feel at ease. "The good is that we safe in such rooms. We have food, a shower, fresh clothes, almost anything that we wanted... The walls in this place are thin enough for a weird connection between our neighbors. I was.innsuch room before and had a nice roommate also meet miss Maya. But..."

He paused after those words. Aoi thought about them. Well... without wanting to be to obvious the thing with the thin walls had been something she had been aware of due to David before. But about the safety... she would never go so far as to say she was save except for her own home. Or those of her friends. Maybe she wouldn't even call those save. Was there even a place you could call save? A panic room maybe. Still... Gregory meant well and she knew that. That was why she did not say anything.

He continued soon: "I also was in another room. Nothing besides the gray walls, one mattress for sleep, and only one bred with water all day. This looks more like a prison. And also... Do you know that our kidnapper like games? Crazy and violent games".

She gulped, breathing heavily. She did not. And she wished, she would never have.

She looked at him wide eyed. "I... I... no...." she whispered. Games? Violent Games? Like those games in these sick Saw Movies she'd heard of? How was there a chance of surviving this then?

"How.... how do we have a chance then?", was all she whispered, so quietly, she was not even sure he had heard her. Panic was rising in her chest. This was not good. This was not what she needed.

[Gregory Hopkins]

Oh, crap! Gregory's word only scared Aoi to death. Her eyes were wildly open and she looks at him with fear.
"I... I... no...." Her voice is trembling "How.... how do we have a chance then?".
The young girl was ready to faint. The old man understands, that it was too hard her. Even if he tried to be a bit softer with a all description. No, she didn't ready to hear about dead in the dining room.

The man slowly gets up from the bad and move to the girl. He wanted to calm down her, even knowing that reality is too scary.

"Miss, I'm sorry. I don't wanna see your empty eyes." Gregory takes a blanket from her bad and covers the small girl figure. "We find the way. We need all information about the place and the kidnapped. We will be safe."
Greg lied, but it for the hurt to him - see the woman's tears.

[Aoi Hawakura]

Aoi knew Gregory meant well when he put the blanket around her shoulders, but she flinched nontheless. She wasn't used to people she didn't know being this close to her. But the circumstances were like this and he was really nice. She just wanted to try and relax. For her sake... and somehow for his. She wanted to be nice to him, wanted to get along with him. But it was... hard.

His voice barley got through the buzzing in her ears. It was as if someone or something tried to cut the world from her.

"Miss, I'm sorry. I don't wanna see your empty eyes." Gregory takes a blanket from her bad and covers the small girl figure. "We find the way. We need all information about the place and the kidnapped. We will be safe."

She tried to force a smile on her face. He did deserve kindness from her. He was kind after all.

"Don't be sorry please. This is just very hard for me." She knew it wasn't just for her and she sounded egoistic with that sentence but she had to think about her past all the time..

"I think we can do it. If... if we try. We can, right?" She tried to gather some braveness from the man next to her. He surley had gone through some rough times in life.

[Gregory Hopkins]

"Don't be sorry, please. This is just very hard for me." Aoi nervous. Seem like she was the person that has socio phobia. Sometimes Gregory felt the same, but here not the right time and he needs to help people sometimes. Those walls and those games were too harsh for all.

"Oh, I will try to not scare you. I understand your feelings and I don't want to first in you or something. If you feeling bad with me, I'll try to not bother you. But if you need help I'm still here and do what I can."

Gregory seats on his bed again and he looks like Aoi feeling better. "I think we can do it. If... if we try. We can, right?"  Girl tries took that positive that gave her Gregory. He knows, that he hides so many things, but Aoi not in good condition and ot will hit her. The old man chooses to lie only to care about the girl's tender soul.
" Of course we can. We are not alone". Gregory smiled.

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