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] chocomancer.livejournal.com 2008-11-24 05:58 am (UTC)(link)
And that was a possibility that Wonka had not even begun to consider. This institution could commit subjects from whole other realities, other timelines? Immediately the wheels in the candymaker's head began to turn, trying to figure out exactly what could allow for such a thing. He'd already done something to get the Great Glass Elevator to go to Minusland (he still wasn't entirely sure what he had done or why it worked) but if there were more places like that that didn't even exist physically... oh, the possibilities once he was able to find out what these other worlds had in terms of materials!

Of course, the first step would be to figure out how they did the transferring in the first place, and get out of here that way (or just tinker around until something either worked or exploded). Which brought him back to the whole getting a decent kitchen issue. As the other man explained the situation, Wonka began to count off a list of what he'd probably need, given the situation. Electricity (or gas if they were gas stoves), protection, possible replacements or substitutes for his usual pantry of exotic goods...

The candymaker was snapped out of this internal dialog by the first question launched by his breakfast partner for some time. "Hmm? Oh, yes, the candy. Well, it really depends on what I'm able to come up with, given the limited resources you just mentioned. But I had been thinking of basing something on my recipe for invisible chocolate." There was no need to keep that product a secret; it was about to go to market anyway. "The usual formula only covers the bar - splendid for sneaking snacks during class, so I'm told - " he added, giggling, "but with a little modification to the recipe, well..." He let the sentence trail off. Best to maintain at least a little mystery, and even if this fellow was trustworthy, he didn't want to get his hopes up on a project should it turn out to be untenable.