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.

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Evangeline watched whole sad little drama with disdain. Okay, she was kind of enjoying seeing someone who'd patronized her reduced to such a pathetic state, but wasn't it a bit too pathetic? She liked the grand dramas of human struggle, not people failing at basic hand-eye coordination.

"Did you drug yourself or did someone else do it for you?" Evangeline repeated, wondering if the question would register through Yukari's second attempt to get her food into her mouth. If she could only concentrate on that this conversation was going to get real boring real fast.

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Drugs. Were they talking about drugs? Oh, right. Drugs. She'd taken drugs. And had she drug yourself or did someone else do it for you oh god why was she talking to herself in her head - oh. No, that was the other blonde. This was okay. Right, the question. It was...

"Not... for... me..." the youkai managed to get out as she stared with the utmost focus at the rising piece of fish. She was hunched over, keeping as close an eye as possible to make sure there were no mess-ups this time, her tongue poking from the corner of her mouth in concentration. And it was working! Up, up, up went the fish... wait, why was she raising it? Only once it was above her head did the youkai realize that she had overshot her objective and began to bring the fish back down and her head back up. "Baldy did, did it against me."

She chuckled a little at her own cleverness. And how clever she was! Everything was going according to plan! The fish was coming down, her head was going up and nothing was falling. Slowly. Slowly. Her fish not even-

Oh, wait, who the hell was she talking to!?

"Aaaah, who's there!?"

Jerking upright suddenly and flailing her arms as she looked about wildly, Yukari sent her long-awaited fish-bit flying through the cafeteria air, to parts unknown. After a few seconds of wildly looking about, her eyes finally focused on the girl before her. Oh. Right. Eh-something. Yukari relaxed again. Her eyes began to close. Wait. Wasn't she supposed to do something? Oh, that's right. She needed to eat.

Hey, that fish looked tasty. Yukari realized she wasn't feeling her best, but how hard could it be to eat fish? But it looked like someone had already taken a piece of it...

"Did you eat my fish?"

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"Baldy?" Evangeline laughed. "It was him? The one with the spider on his head? He's not the type to share. He must really like you," she teased.

But her gloating over this antagonism between her two least-favorite people at Landel's was cut short by Yukari's sudden outburst. Evangeline looked at her suspiciously... was she really that out of it, or just faking it to make a fool out of Evangeline?

"Yeah, I ate your fish," she answered sarcastically.

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Spider? Why were they talking about spiders? No, not real spiders. Imaginary spiders? No, not those either... spider heads... oh, baldy with the spider on his head. Spider-head. Spider, for short. Right, him. The one with the.... drugs. Who had drugs? Valium. Right, she had drugs. In her system. Because of Spider-Head-Spider-for-Short.

"Spider's got a crush on me," Yukari managed to reason. "Even her-hair-harrassed my ninja lookin' for me." Right, didn't that end in drugs too? Sedation. Not the same. Sort of. Sort of. Different. Less... this.

She looked down at her fish. Then back at the openly guilty girl before her. Then back at her fish.

"Tha's not nice," she said with the kind of seriousness usually only managed by eight-year-old's having divine epiphanies about the workings of the world. After a moment of thought, she lunged, clumsily, with a clatter of plasticware and trays, across the table with her fork, spearing the girl's fish and quickly did her best to retreat back to her side with the stolen goods.

Her best was not very impressive.

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"She seems easy to harass. That's her lot in life," Evangeline said not-very-philosophically.

"I'm not nice," she agreed with Yukari's accusation, and rather than bother with anything so limited as an attempt to retrieve her stolen fish retaliated by taking the youkai's entire plate and setting it next to her own. That'd teach her to... do whatever the hell they were doing. It didn't really matter, as long as Evangeline had made some kind of point.

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Finally making it back to her seat, Yukari sat down, smiling triumphantly (and more than a little lopsidedly). The grin gradually faded as she watched Evangeline calmly reach over and take her plate. The youkai looked at her fish, then down at the empty tray where her plate once was.

There was a reason this was a problem. Yukari was sure of it. She just wasn't sure what. She needed the plate to... to... the plate. It was for putting things on. Things like fish. Right. She needed the plate to put the stolen fish on. Because...

Checking her theory, Yukari opened her mouth as wide as possible and brought the stolen fillet up to it. Nope, definitely not.

She needed the plate to put the stolen fish on because she couldn't fit the whole thing in her mouth. But now she didn't have a plate. So what was she supposed to put the fish on? And why couldn't she fit the whole thing in her mouth?

Finally reaching a conclusion, Yukari gave the girl a rather hurt look.

"Y-, you-, you're cheating!"