Fades to Black [ hidekane ]

you look lonely. (1)

a fern.

someone has brought him a fern.

Kaneki-- that's his name thank goodness Kaneki Ken Kaneki Ken Kaneki Ken he still remembers-- is more than a bit puzzled. He's sure it wasn't there when he fell asleep who-knows-how-many-hours ago, and when he woke up to dulled orangey light it had appeared on his bedside, without even a note.

or, wait, maybe there is a note, Kaneki corrects himself, reaching out a hand to take the paper hidden in the green leaves-- he hasn't seen green in so long; something in the hospital water turns all the resident plants dry and yellow, and the color itself makes him nostalgic, though for what, he doesn't know.

>you look lonely. have this.

The card says nothing else but the brand on the back. no sign of whoever brought it.

So who?
Not anyone Kaneki knows, surely. They wouldn't even bother.

He reaches out with a shaking hand, takes a pen from his bedside, and scrawls over the logo on the back of the card

<leave me alone

before he slips back into another drug-induced sleep, the paper and pen falling to the floor.