Fades to Black [ hidekane ]

no. have a pretty flower. (2)

someone has brought him a rhododendron.

it's a very pretty flower, he has to admit, and it looks quite nice next to the anonymous fern-- anonymous, because he still doesn't know who gave it to him.

the nurses only giggled when he asked. then they hinted at a secret admirer.

Kaneki looks at his hands, then back at the flower. his hands are thin, very thin, with bones and veins visible and black fingernails because of some rare enzyme reacting to the radiation and Kaneki is getting depressed just looking at himself so instead he fixes his eyes on the card tucked in with the rhododendron and then the writing on it in the same handwriting as the fern.

>no. you still look lonely. have a pretty flower.

Kaneki flips the card over and writes

<I'm allergic to flowers.

the fallen pen and fern card were replaced on the bedside table with the new plants while he slept.