Black Goat's Nest [DRAFT]

Re:Trospective

Hey y'all! Thanks for all your patience and love! Today we're focusing on some people who I've been teasing since I started this fic. That's right y'all, it's the first CCG central chapter!

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Amon sighed as he sipped on his coffee. Leaning next to the door to room 843 he raked his hand through his hair.

About 2 minutes later his partner, Akira Mado, came out of the room.

"How's he doing?" He asked voice laced with worry.

Akira solemnly shook her head "No improvement."

Amon's eyes filled with grief "I see,"

"He's physically ok to leave. The operations all went without a hitch but his psych eval. . ."

Amon nodded "to be fair anyone could feel depressed after an injury like that,"

"That's the thing Amon, he claims he doesn't care about the injury but I've heard him talk about it before and it's inconsistent. He sees the injury as ugly and doesn't like people seeing his face but he also treats it like it's something precious."

"Most of the best agents have some level of insanity but I can't believe it got its hooks in some like him, especially at such a young age. He used to be so bright and full of life but ghouls broke him too,"

"You know, Juzou is only a little older than him,"

"You're comparing them?! He's that bad? We all know Juzou's- well not the picture of mental stability,"

"He's not even remotely that bad," she said, rolling her eyes fondly. "Are you going to go in and see him?" Akira asked

"Yeah, will you wait for me?"

"Always"

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Amon braced himself before pushing open the door to the hospital room. "Hey Nagachika, how are you?"

The boys in question didn't respond. Instead he curled further in on himself so he was even less visible under his blanket.

The lights were still off so the room was only lit by the rising sun.

"Do you need anything? Water or maybe something other than hospital food?"

Hide made no move to face him but right when Amon thought he wouldn't react a soft slightly metallic voice answered "eating in front of people is hard. I'm mostly tube feeding at this point."

"Ah, I'm sorry-"

"Don't be. I'm closer to them this way,"

"Who?"

"The person I love most,"

"Ah she must be a lucky lady,"

Hide shifted in his bed so he was sitting up and looked Amon in the eyes before saying "not she, he,"

"Huh- oh! You're gay?"

"Yeah" this time there was a little amusement in his voice. It made Amon a bit surprised by how far voice prosthetics had come. They caught so much detail now.

"Well then he must be lucky"

Hide let out a sad laugh "He didn't evacuate the ward in time. I gave up my face because I thought he might be able to live-" his breath got caught in his throat. "- I- he didn't make it,"

"I'm so sorry,"

He laughed softly again "geez you apologize too much. It wasn't like you were the one who killed him or anything"