Day 40: Lunch

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"Damn that SCOURGE!" Starscream cried out, the slowly-filling cafeteria producing a jarring echo of his raspy voice. His limping, already bad enough from not knowing how to properly use his crutches, was now exacerbated from the injuries he'd received the shift prior. Despite the gauges in his non-casted leg so lovingly provided by the aforementioned 'patient', Starscream could still put some weight on it, but not so much that he could really stop and rest; relieving the soreness under his arms was out of the question. The nurse that walked behind him with his tray, already upset at having to deal with yet another troublesome inmate, was growing rather impatient as his charge slowly made his way down the food line.

"Just...give me a standard serving of the aquatic creature's flesh, some of those fried potato slices, two bananas, and three bottles of juice," Starscream sighed, his anger from just a moment ago assuaged by the physical exertion needed to move the way he did. "I'm going to sit down here...bring it to me when you're done."

He was hardly surprised to find that one of the bananas was completely bruised along its inner curve, or that the handful of 'chips' on his plate were all on the small side. Tired and frustrated as he was, however, he could barely muster a 'damned flesh-creature' before moving his fingers to the plate, picking one of the longer 'chips' and shoving it into his mouth listlessly.

There was an unusually high concentration of sodium chloride crystals on it. Of COURSE.

[For Tony Stark]

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Kagura would have went to the cafeteria all covered with dirt had a nurse not caught her and forced her to at least wash her hands. Again she stuffed her tray with everything she could and got herself a seat.

So she was alone at last, leaving her to do either one of two things: to think about what just happened to her or to eat like the greedy little girl that she was. Her choice was obvious. She took a handful of fries and stuffed them in her mouth, then took a forkful of fish and tried to fit it in with the fries that she was still chewing. It was a bit hard to swallow but it got to her stomach all the same so why bother. It's not like thhe food was delicious anyway.

The simple fried fish Shinpachi would cook for them tasted much better. Gintoi might be a lazy bum but he works wonders in the kitchen even with cheap ingredients. No, she didn't miss them. It was the food that she missed. It's only been one day so why should she miss them? Besides, they were big boys now, they could live a day without Kagura even if Sadaharu liked her more than he liked them and with Gintoki always getting into trouble. Kagura was strongest among the three of them but they'll do just fine. She nodded her head. And if they're not doing fine by the time Kagura met them again then she'd make sure to kick their ass for it. Hard. Because she can.

She lifted her shirt to see if the wound she got from last night's fight was still there. It was. Suddenly she didn't feel so strong anymore.

She realized that she was just poking her food with her fork now and shook her head. It was meal time! Focus, Kagura! She took another fistful of fries and stuffed it in her mouth.

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Had he really slept through the last shift? He must have, because he'd found himself being awoken by an oh-so-considerate nurse just in time for lunch. Given that he'd hardly touched his breakfast, Matt allowed himself to be served lunch, but found to his great displeasure that it was Not-Quite-Fish-And-Chips day. Well, since none of the food served here was all that bad (though whether or not it was drugged was still an unsolved mystery) he figured he might as well eat what he could.

The cafeteria was filling up quickly, and he spared the room one long look around in the hopes that maybe, just maybe, the asshole on the bulletin had been lying and Mello was still around. But he saw no familiar disheveled blond head. That doesn't mean anything, he told himself, knowing it to be a lie. The chances of him showing back up at this point were slim.

Goddamn that bastard for leaving him here.

Angrily, Matt dropped his tray down at the first available seat and plopped himself down in front of it. Only then did he even take notice of who he'd sat across from, and he blinked, momentarily brought out of his anger, at the hurried manner in which she was devouring her meal. "Hey, now," he muttered. "I don't think it's going to run away on you."

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Run away? For a moment Kagura thought about checking her fries for legs but that would be stupid. If they had legs they would have ran away minutes ago. She swallowed, then choked. She grabbed around for her glass of juice and downed it while hitting herself on the chest.

"Pah," she managed to exclaim after regaining her breath. "That was close!" She grabbed another fry and ate it.

"Don't be like that, young man," she said while chewing. "You have to eat while you can."

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Young man? Matt raised an eyebrow at that. She was hardly a teenager herself. "If you say so. It's not like they don't feed us regularly." It was one of the very few things this place actually managed to do right, which was small consolation for all the other shit they were put through.

He started on his own meal at a much slower pace, nudging the fish aside for the moment in favor of the chips. "I'm guessing you haven't been here long," he added as he did.

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She watched him eat. He seemed like a neat person. He at least knew how to use his knife and fork properly which was something Kagura never really took the time to learn. She was more used to using chopsticks and in her opinion, Western food was shit. But she wasn't picky and that opinion was formed only to insult other people. She took a large bite of fish and held up a finger.

"One day," she answered when she finally swallowed her food. "How long are we going to be here?"

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That question caused Matt to snort, and he stabbed at a piece of fish hard enough that it separated into two. "I'm sure everyone would love to know the answer to that," he muttered. "Good luck finding it."

He finally managed to spear a piece of meat properly, and he waved it at her a moment before popping it into his mouth. "No one's gotten out of here yet," he clarified. "Patients die or they disappear. They don't escape." He shrugged, leaning back in his chair. "Maybe they go somewhere better when they vanish, but I doubt it."

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Kagura's eyes were on the fish when he waved it in front of her face, a part of her hoping that he wouldn't eat it and was very disappointed that he did. "How would you know?" She asked this as she tried to cut a fish with her knife, failed, and decided to just eat it with her hands. It's not like anybody was going to get mad at her for it. "Do you know somebody who vanished?"

"For all we know they could have found the secret portal to Mu Island or Mayo Island and they just didn't want to tell you because you suck." She said all this with an innocent look on her face, as if it wasn't insulting at all.