Day 40: Lunch

[whiny-egomaniac.livejournal.com]

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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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[lastlovesong]

"I...see," she said, slowly taking all the information and reasoning in. He made it sound so simple, like a walk in a park. Maybe, just maybe, in this place there were people that would forgive her, forgive her for everything she did before. Luffy and Kurogane, the only two people she talked to about her concerns, were willing to forgive her. However, if they were in her world their opinions would be in a different tune, but right now, she didn't care. Just the fact that a couple of a people were willing to forgive her, made her happy.

"I think I understand what you're trying to say," she continued, and was crying again, but in happiness. "Before, Shuji and I only had each other. When I woke up here I thought that I was all alone and had no-one else to get help from. I'm sorry for being so stupid."

"Do you - I mean...can I be friends with...you?" she asked. To Chise, it was an out-of-the-blue question, but she wanted to know the reassurance that there was at least one, good, and forgivable person here.

[rubbermancan.livejournal.com]

Well, at least she was starting to get how silly it was to say she was all alone here. That couldn't really be true for anyone. Even when all of Luffy's nakama were gone, he'd still had people like Brock who'd given him a helping hand when he'd needed it. A person just had to look in the right places! (And it wasn't like this place was all that big anyway, so it just made finding friends a lot easier, in Luffy's opinion.)

When she asked if they could be friends, Luffy's expression brightened and he gave a wide smile. "Sure!" he replied with a small chuckle. "You don't even really have to ask me." Sometimes people just started being friends because they acted like friends, with no other words said about it between them.

[The End (finally)]

[lastlovesong]

A large and genuine smile appeared on her face. "Thank you Luffy, I'm happy that I had this chance to talk to you." Deep down inside Chise was glad that she was able to make a friend here.

"I'll try my best to get stronger so that everybody here can escape." she said, bowing before a nurse retrieved her.