Day 34: Lunch

Yuffie bounced all the way through collecting her lunch, all the way to a good seat- one with a nice view of the whole cafeteria, which was something she'd been missing out on during the past day or so that she'd been stuck in the Institute- and hell, she even bounced into her seat.

A good mood? No, really?

Despite the occasional blip, talking to Sagara had been awesome. He was a fun guy; he wasn't a prude, didn't have a stick shoved so far up his ass it was poking out his eyeballs, and he'd actually had a conversation with her. One that hadn't revolved around doom, gloom or how much life sucked. If she could find other people like that and keep in touch with Sagara, maybe there was a little hope for this place.

After a quick gulp of pink lemonade, Yuffie settled to munching through her food and keeping an eye on the door.

[Waiting for Dean, I think? :x]

[identity profile] son-ofkrypton.livejournal.com 2008-08-07 02:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[Hope you don't mind a confused Kryptonian farmboy? >:D]

Clark was probably as relieved as Wally to get to lunch.

How did he know about him? Clark couldn't shake away all the questions buzzing around: how did he know about kryptonite, how did he know what it did to him? And what was this about him being an adult working at the Daily Planet? Dating some Lois Lane? He was dating Lana Lang, for starters, and he didn't even know if he was the reporter type - seemed more Chloe's business than his and if anyone was going to be whipping the bullpen into shape, it'd be her, not him. Clark took very little notice of what he heaped onto his plate (it was a lot, because he was used to packing it away), and the farmboy glanced around for an empty seat. He was alarmed to see Wally was already here.

Ducking his head, Clark sat down in the nearest empty seat he could find that was far away from Wally, and sat down across from another patient.

"Hi," he said, a little rushed. "Anyone sitting here?"

[identity profile] son-ofkrypton.livejournal.com 2008-08-07 03:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Clark gingerly shook Goku's hand. It was awkward, what with two mountains of food blocking the way, but they managed. "Clark Kent. But I'm fine with plain Clark."

Oh. Wait, he was supposed to say "Kal", but his real name just popped out on its own because he was so used to saying it. Considering how badly Wally took it when he just introduced himself, he hoped that Goku wouldn't recognize him.

[identity profile] son-ofkrypton.livejournal.com 2008-08-07 07:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Clark could see Goku ogling his plate like he hadn't ever seen that much food before - considering the fact that his plate was just as high, he wasn't sure why he was so surprised. Clark himself was wondering if a short kid like Goku really was going to eat what looked like his body weight in food.

"I was planning to, yeah," Clark said, the tiniest of sheepish smiles tugging at his mouth. "Fast metabolism I guess. You got one too?" he said, nodding at Goku's own plate.

[identity profile] son-ofkrypton.livejournal.com 2008-08-08 09:35 am (UTC)(link)
"Five..." Clark tried again, incredulous. "Five hundred years?"

Maybe it was some kind of weird, inside joke...but looking at Goku, Clark could see he meant what he said. Clark wasn't really sure how to explain that one. His excuse was he was an alien. Was Goku one too? But having a big appetite didn't automatically make you non-human, Clark thought, and knew he'd probably be at a loss of how to explain this unless he fell back onto the tired "maybe he's crazy" response.

[identity profile] son-ofkrypton.livejournal.com 2008-08-08 09:48 am (UTC)(link)
Clark knew there'd be a story behind this - probably a long, very involved one - but before he knew it, he was already blurting out. "How? I mean," he said quickly, realizing he was being rude. "I mean, how come it didn't feel very long?"

[identity profile] son-ofkrypton.livejournal.com 2008-08-09 07:30 am (UTC)(link)
Wow. Clark didn't know what to say. He got what Goku was saying and while he was torn between it being literal or it just being deep, he'd be lying if he said it didn't get his attention. Being alone really did make time feel like it was dragging its feet and while he wasn't technically alone in Landels, time did seem to crawl here.

"I...think I get it," Clark said. He still wasn't sure if he could believe Goku was five hundred years old, but he did believe that he knew what it was like to be lonely. "Have you felt like that here before?"

[identity profile] son-ofkrypton.livejournal.com 2008-08-10 06:36 am (UTC)(link)
Clark supposed he had. Being lonely was something that every kid had to feel at one point or another, right? It wasn't like he had dibs on it just because he wasn't exactly from around here. Clark took a thoughtful bite of his cole slaw, not really tasting it, and shrugged.

"What, being lonely? Sure," Clark said. He couldn't exactly go into the specifics, but that didn't mean he couldn't agree. "I guess I never really thought about how it felt to be with my friends like that though. Maybe I took it for granted."

He'd thought he appreciated his admittedly small group of friends, and his family, but it was sinking in now what it'd be like without them.