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] heavens-too-far.livejournal.com 2008-11-22 10:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Dias glanced up at Guy, scanning his face. If he'd interpreted that remark correctly...then Claude hadn't told him about the depth of the relationship between himself and Ashton. That was a good thing, to be honest, since Dias wasn't the type to want those not involved in his personal life to know all about it, although it was a discretion he honestly hadn't actually expected Claude to show.

Then again, Claude still wasn't entirely happy about his relationship with Ashton - possibly it hadn't been discretion at all, but discomfort. Not that it really mattered, in the end.

"Thank you," he said finally, deciding to shove aside his problems for the moment. He had, in retrospect, been a little rough on Guy due to his worry over Ashton, which wasn't quite fair given that Guy hadn't done anything to deserve it(aside from one ill-timed remark; Claude had done far worse when they'd first met). While Dias could be abrasive, and knew it full well, he didn't try to be intentionally so unless people earned such treatment.

"Is your arm healing well?" he inquired, in an almost forcible derailing of the current topic and an awkward attempt at friendly concern instead.
nobleman: (you should never be afraid.)

[personal profile] nobleman 2008-11-23 03:25 am (UTC)(link)
The subject change was welcome to Guy as well, even though he wished there was more he could do to help Dias out. But right now the man was just going to have to resort to playing the waiting game, as frustrating as that would be.

He glanced down at his arm, glad that Dias had asked about how it was healing rather than what had caused it. Guy would have felt obliged to explain, seeing how he had wandered over and questioned the other swordsman about all sorts of personal things.

"It's doing all right. The pain is mainly gone today, so that's good. Though tonight I'm going to get it properly healed." He could only hope that the spell would be successful and that his arm would be as good as new afterward - though if it wasn't, he would just have to deal with it. Staying in one night was acceptable, but he wasn't planning to make a repeat performance.

[identity profile] heavens-too-far.livejournal.com 2008-11-24 08:56 pm (UTC)(link)
"That's good," Dias replied with a slight nod. "Has Claude been helping you?" The fact that Guy didn't know that Dias knew how he'd been hurt yet, or that Claude hadn't told him, hadn't occurred to Dias, nor would it really have mattered if it had. As far as he knew, it wasn't a secret.
nobleman: (how did it come to be.)

[personal profile] nobleman 2008-11-25 02:23 am (UTC)(link)
As far as Guy could tell, that question came out of nowhere and didn't make much sense. He blinked in confusion for a moment before his expression turned into more of a frown. "What do you mean?" Claude had been supportive and escorted him over to the clinic last night, true, but there was no way that Dias could know about that, so what was he getting at?
Edited 2008-11-25 02:23 (UTC)

[identity profile] heavens-too-far.livejournal.com 2008-11-26 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
Dias shrugged slightly. "He was telling me about how he felt guilty for what happened to you, so I suggested he do something other than feel miserable and assist you until your arm was healed. I don't know if he listened."
nobleman: (they will pull us down.)

[personal profile] nobleman 2008-11-26 06:12 am (UTC)(link)
Claude really felt guilty about it? Well, Guy had already suspected that, but the fact that his friend had gone so far as to talk to someone else about it made it very hard for Guy to hold back a sigh.

He managed, though he was wishing that the younger man wouldn't take all the blame for something that had hardly been his fault. "He helped me to the clinic last night, so I guess that answers your question," Guy explained, somewhat distracted.