Part of the Job

[esp_dragon]

Fandom: Noblesse
Summary: M-21's just doing his job.
Rating: G
Notes: Fic inspired by DulcetRipple. :DD
Set after chapter 200.
Genre: Humour
Word count: 521
Status: Complete



M-21 could hear the general noise of the children playing and chatting as he patrolled around Ye Ran High School. There didn't seem to be any problems –there was no-one hanging around the front gates, or up on the rooftops of the surrounding buildings, and the scuffles in the playground appeared to be friendly enough- so he continued on.

His eyes were drawn to a shadow peeking around the corner, far too used to people trying to ambush or tail him. The shadow was attached to a student though, her head lowered and her cheeks flushed. M-21 frowned. Was she ill…?

M-21 approached her carefully, wondering if he should say something. She watched him as he did, her eyes getting wider and wider. "Are you feeling all right?" he asked her.

"I – I-" The rest of her face went bright red and she was suddenly sporting a nosebleed. M-21 had to dash forward as the girl fainted, her eyes rolling up and her legs giving way under her. He caught her before her head smacked on the ground, but it was a near thing.

"Hey!" He put the back of his palm to her forehead and hissed - she was burning up. No-one had been this ill around him before, but he at least knew where the nurse's office was. He carefully wiped the blood away, glad that it seemed to have stopped already, looking worse than it seemed to be. It took a bit of manoeuvring but M-21 was able to pick her up with her head cradled against his shoulder and he hoped her legs wouldn't knock into anything as he carried her there.

It didn't take very long to get to the nurse's office, and M-21 ignored the rustle of whispers that followed after him, more intent that the girl didn't get hurt further.

Once the student was in the proper hands, M-21 left and breathed a small sigh of relief when he closed the door behind him. Well, that was different from the usual stuff he had to deal with.

He started patrolling again and found Tao on his own route. Tao waved cheerily at him.

"So, did anything interesting happen on your look-around?" Tao asked, stretching.

M-21 nodded slowly, his gaze being drawn to the nurse's office again. "A student fainted in front of me."

"Oh?" Tao grinned at him, looking interested and raising his eyebrows. "What did you do?"

"Carried her to the nurse's office," M-21 answered him, his own eyebrows coming together in confusion. Of course he did that – he wasn't going to leave her lying there.

Tao opened his mouth to reply, but they stopped short when they rounded the next corner.

There were four students sprawled out over the floor.

Was there an epidemic happening at the school?

M-21 rushed to the closest student's side and then paused and threw a glance over his shoulder when he didn't hear Tao follow him.

Tao raised his hands, his shoulders shaking with constrained laughter. "I don't want to increase the numbers if they find out I'm carrying students too!"

…What was he talking about?

Comments

[lucathia]

XD;;;

Oh no, fangirl syndrome? (Bwahahaha, and now he's carrying her like a princess! bridal carry)

Though she does sound sick.... naaaah. *chalks it up to M-21 not getting it*

Pfffft, 4 students on the floor! zombie infestation!!! Hey, you never know, this is Noblesse... XD

But heeee, Tao. ♥ Why not increase the numbers? It might be fun!

[darkicedragon]

"(Bwahahaha, and now he's carrying her like a princess! bridal carry)"
Part of the prompt! XDDDD And, how else would he carry her? Over his shoulder? (But I can see Takeo doing that, for some reason) *dies laughing* Regis would repimand him for not looking elegant.

"Though she does sound sick.... naaaah."
Yeeeeeeah. XD;;; It does sound serious if you don't know about the connotations with nosebleeds, which I only realised when I was reading over this and trying to figure out how to make this obvious it was light-hearted and not actually some super fast mutant disease spreading across the school. Take out the last three lines and you've got the intro for an epically long serious/dark fic. XD

XDDDD Because then they'd have their hands full (literally and figuratively) and then they wouldn't be able to do their job! Frankenstein would be...displeased. Especially when parents would start wondering why a large majority of the school is suddenly ill.

[lucathia]

Over the shoulder... like a sack! XD; Or piggy back? Though that would require her to be mostly awake, I suppose... and piggy back doesn't seem like a good way to carry someone who just had a nosebleed. Hm, I can see Takeo carrying someone over his shoulder too. XDDD

This could totally be the opening to a long dark fic. XD;

I suppose it would bring unwanted attention. =P (But I would have a lot of fun reading it, hahaha. Imagine if the students tried it on all the boys, one-by-one. It'd be the newest fad at school! Who'd you get to carry you today?)

[darkicedragon]

"Though that would require her to be mostly awake, I suppose... and piggy back doesn't seem like a good way to carry someone who just had a nosebleed"
Aaaahahahaa! XDDD

"(But I would have a lot of fun reading it, hahaha. Imagine if the students tried it on all the boys, one-by-one. It'd be the newest fad at school! Who'd you get to carry you today?)"
*dies laughing* I think some people would want Regis to carry them, but the image... *continues to die laughing* Plus, the reasons would have to get more and more elaborate as the trio learned which ones were excuses. Actually, would Rai be a target too?

[(Anonymous)]

"His eyes were drawn to a shadow peeking around the corner"
At first I thought it was Yonsu or something...

"the girl fainted, her eyes rolling up and her legs giving way under her"
Is this what I think it is? XD

Typical Tao.

"There were four students sprawled out over the floor.
Was there an epidemic happening at the school? "
Wow. Either something is happening, or they're VERY persistent...

"Tao raised his hands, his shoulders shaking with constrained laughter. "I don't want to increase the numbers if they find out I'm carrying students too!""
*dies laughing* so it WAS that... And of course M-21 still doesn't get it...

DarkDragonne

[darkicedragon]

"At first I thought it was Yonsu or something..."
...Damn, that would have been awesome if it was (but then it would have been an entirely different fic. XDD)

"Is this what I think it is? XD"
*innocent eyes*

"Typical Tao."
>D Yep.

"*dies laughing* so it WAS that... And of course M-21 still doesn't get it..."
XDDD Of course.

[(Anonymous)]

"...Damn, that would have been awesome if it was (but then it would have been an entirely different fic. XDD)"
Yes it would be. Although I think that might have actually happened in the manhwa, right?

[darkicedragon]

Keeping an eye on, maybe, since he wasn't on their radar while they were working at the school. I don't think so, anyway.

Sleepy. Soooo sleeeeeepy... X____X

[(Anonymous)]

"Keeping an eye on, maybe, since he wasn't on their radar while they were working at the school. I don't think so, anyway."
Yeah, he wasn't on their radar. Just an annoying guy who kept getting in their way XD

"Sleepy. Soooo sleeeeeepy... X____X"
Yeah, so am I. What happened now?

[darkicedragon]

"Just an annoying guy who kept getting in their way XD"
Pfft. He wasn't even that! From what we saw, they noticed him on the first day and then...Tao was the only one to interact with them out of the Trio?

"Yeah, so am I. What happened now?"
Haha, nothing - I'm just normally pretty bad at staying up late. I can get up early fine, but because of that, my body starts shutting down about ten or eleven. Staying up for New Year's? Quite a task for me. XD;;;;

[(Anonymous)]

"Pfft. He wasn't even that! From what we saw, they noticed him on the first day and then...Tao was the only one to interact with them out of the Trio? "
Yeah... Right up to the point when they threatened the students. That was some interaction...

"Haha, nothing - I'm just normally pretty bad at staying up late. I can get up early fine, but because of that, my body starts shutting down about ten or eleven. Staying up for New Year's? Quite a task for me. XD;;;;"
XD it's the opposite for me. I have no problem staying up late but I can't wake up. Staying up for New Year's wasn't a problem for me, it was waking up that got me tired...