Day 37: Breakfast

[for Sylar, I believe]

At the sound of the intercom, Wally jerked awake and blinked around at the room. He’d fallen asleep. He should have been up and keeping an eye open for ZEX, but he’d fallen asleep waiting on his bed.

“Idiot,” he groaned, ruffling his hair and sighing in annoyance. “Way to help a guy out, hotshot.” Hopefully ZEX hadn’t dropped by and thought he’d left or something, or wouldn’t be too mad at him for just forgetting about it like that. If he was lucky, he’d be able to catch up with the other patient at some point and explain what had happened.

Rolling himself a little awkwardly out of the bed, Wally took the opportunity to stretch his injured leg and test how well it was holding up. It was feeling a bit better, not so much that he could abandon his crutch or that it didn’t pull painfully if he wasn’t careful, but better. Tony had apparently made it through the night in one piece as well, which was a relief. He really didn’t feel comfortable about the thought of his roommate wandering about on his own with an injured arm. Not when Wally himself could relax and fall asleep in the apparent safety of their room.

Yeah, he wasn’t going to let himself forget that one in a hurry.

It was at that moment that the door swung open to admit one of the nurses. She seemed surprised to find him awake and ready to go already, but smiled warmly. “Hungry, are we Mr. West? Well in that case, let’s get you to the cafeteria. The staff have provided some delicious French Toast as well as a range of other foods I’m sure you’ll like. Now will you be needing a hand with your leg, dear?”

“No thanks, I can handle it,” Wally replied, smiling back. After all, it probably wasn’t the nurses’ fault that this place was so messed up, so it wasn’t like picking fights with them would do anything. With a cheery wave goodbye, Wally slowly made his way to the cafeteria, keeping a tight grip on his crutch all the while. Obtaining a plate of food was only slightly less difficult than it had been yesterday – he didn’t have the painkillers to work around this time – but he managed well enough, coming away from the buffet with a tray containing a plate piled high with slices of French Toast and slathered in maple syrup, butter, and sugar, as well as a glass of juice. Not quite as good as some coffee would be right now, but the sugar would hopefully make up for it. And, with how few people were here at the moment, he could afford to take more food than might have been considered ‘normal’ – he’d have most of it gone by the time anyone came to keep him company, then he could just worry about how many extra serves would be allowed before he aroused suspicion.

Feeling pretty happy with how things were looking so far, Wally hummed faintly to himself as he dug in to his breakfast.

[identity profile] themotherreborn.livejournal.com 2008-11-22 07:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Eileen wet her lips a little nervously. "I'd really like it if we could become good friends," she said, feeling that was a safe enough answer. It wasn't like she had anyone back home - sure, there was Henry but...well, that was just a weird situation. And it was probably some psychological thing. He'd rescued her and risked his life for her, of course she'd feel some affection for him.

And he was cute.

But the idea of flirting and whatnot here was just weird.

"And anytime you need help with anything, I'm happy to do what I can."

[identity profile] wantsyourzex.livejournal.com 2008-11-22 08:42 pm (UTC)(link)
"Wonderful! Hee! Hee! Hee!" ZEX was delighted at the prospect, and it was very obvious. "One can never have too many friends in a place like this. I would be very happy to be your... friend."

How he wished he had his head feelers! He could really convey his mood properly otherwise... he'd have to trust his human face to do it for him, however it decided to do so. "And I will gladly call upon you if I ever need assistance... if you'd be willing to give it." And what things she could assist him with! This was going very well...

[identity profile] themotherreborn.livejournal.com 2008-11-23 04:17 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm always happy to help," Eileen repeated, deciding maybe it was just some cultural thing. She was sure ZEX wasn't trying to be creepy. It was just one of those things - they came from different places, they had different societies, different ways of speaking.....

Hey, at least he seemed happy.

"And you're right, it's good to have friends around here. I don't think I'd be okay here, if not."

[identity profile] wantsyourzex.livejournal.com 2008-11-24 03:31 am (UTC)(link)
ZEX was still very pleased at having made a new human friend here, and while he hadn't really posed the question just yet, he hoped she'd be open to some of the experimentation that he'd done with some of his other friends. Surely things weren't so bad!

"Yes, it's very good to have friends here." ZEX smiled a bit, although it faltered for a moment. "It does keep one safe at night, of course, although I must admit... back home, I did not have a great deal of friends either. Much less any humans." Such a shame, the slave shield...

"But many things have changed here." Struggling not to think about that too hard, and to keep his smile.