Day 41: Breakfast

[oftemptation]

Endrance turned his head to look at the intercom, giving it a look that would wither an entire rose garden in an instant. He would never get used to ending up in his room again from somewhere else in the Institute

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[ruthless_hunter]

As usual, Lockdown kept silent as the nurse took him to breakfast. He had tried asking her why his vital fluid-stained coverings were completely clean when he woke up, though. To his chagrin, she had just smiled and remained silent.

The bounty hunter grabbed him some flat circular objects (pancakes?), bacon and what he assumed were 'scrambled eggs'. He observed the humans putting yellow stuff and some sort of clear, thick liquid on the pancakes, so he did likewise. After getting a glass of his usual orange juice, Lockdown parked himself at an empty table and, as usual, started his meal by taking tiny nibbles out of his bacon.

[Free, limit 1]

[roger_hug]

(A bubbly bounty hunter okay?)

Bridget woke up in a fantastic mood, the bats he'd picked up last night at his side. Had to hide those before the nurse showed up....

The walk to breakfast was filled with his cheerful chatter, the nurse pleased to see Bridget so happy. He'd been upset lately.

Filling up his tray with lots of food, Bridget looked around for some friends, but his nurse began to herd him towards a stranger. "Here you go," she said.

Bridget smiled at the large man and sat down where the nurse indicated.

"Hello!"

[ruthless_hunter]

(a meeting of bounty hunters, how fun XD)

Lockdown glanced at the human who had sat down with him. Yellow hair, young, eyes a blue-green color, and appeared to be female. Lockdown had talked to both genders of human enough so that he felt he was comfortable telling the difference.

However, this human also seemed to be almost as annoyingly cheerful as the nurses here. Still, Lockdown knew that during the day he had to behave, lest the nurses stick a needle in him.

The bounty hunter retained his frown when he asked, "Who are you?"

[roger_hug]

Well. That was ... abrupt. Still, he wouldn't let it bring him down!

"I'm Bridget! What's your name?" The young bounty hunter smiled, hoping that this wouldn't be a meal filled with him being cheerful and this man just looking at him the whole time. "Have you been here long?"

[ruthless_hunter]

"It's Lockdown," The bounty hunter stated. After taking a few more bites of bacon, he answered the second question, "A couple of days. What about you, miss? How long have you been here?" If this human insisted on conversation, Lockdown would humor her.

[roger_hug]

Bridget frowned slightly. "I'm not a miss," he said. "I'm a boy." He brightened again quickly though. "I've been here around a week? Maybe two. It's sometimes hard to keep track."

[ruthless_hunter]

Lockdown raised an optic-brow when the human corrected him. Did he make the mistake because he wasn't as good at telling human genders apart as he thought he did? Or was it because this human just prefered to look and sound like the opposite gender of his actual one? Well, whatever, it didn't matter.

"Yeah, well," Lockdown said, choosing to follow the latter conversation thread. "No matter how long I've been here, I really want to get out and back to my real body and function."

[roger_hug]

"Function?" Bridget tilted his head. That was a strange way to put it... Bridget smiled. He may have been a bit of an aithead when it came to certain things, but he was still pretty sharp in other respects.

"What was your function?" Was this man another 'droid', like HK? Or was he more like Roger? Or was Bridget simply reading too much into things again?

[ruthless_hunter]

"I'm a bounty hunter," Lockdown stated casually. From Bridget's reaction to the word 'function', he guessed that this human was unfamiliar with his kind, or just robots in general. The bounty hunter was starting to get used to that. He was prepared to explain in greater detail if the question came up, since Bridget looked rather harmless.

[roger_hug]

Bridget instantly brightened (if he got any brighter, he might just burst into flames) and sat forward. "Really?! I'm a bounty hunter too!" He thought for a moment.

"You aren't the hunter I spoke with over the board though, are you? The one that didn't believe me?"

[ruthless_hunter]

Lockdown raised his optic-brows again, before narrowing his optics at the human. "I don't believe you." As a bounty hunter himself and someone who had met other bounty hunters, Lockdown had a very hard time believing this young, bubbly boy was a bounty hunter.

In response to his other question, Lockdown answered. "I don't recall having such a conversation at the board."

[roger_hug]

Shoulders dropping slightly, Bridget figured he'd just have to get used to nobody believing him. "Well, nobody believes me," he said. Ky hadn't believed him either. At least, not until Bridget had beaten him senseless... And presented him with his bounties. Ky had certainly been surprised then.

"I don't know," he added, trying to cheer up again. "I would think that my apperance and manners would make me perfect. Big bad man like yourself doesn't believe I can take you down, and that makes a lot of people underestimate me."

[ruthless_hunter]

Lockdown shrugged. "Guess you got a good point there." He still didn't believe this kid was a bounty hunter, though. Especially since he had met mechs (both young and old) who had claimed to be fellow bounty hunters, but were actually just saying that to make themselves sound tough. Their bluffs had always been called when Lockdown or someone else tore them apart.

"By the way, do human coverings normally clean themselves overnight?" Since Bridget had been here longer, Lockdown figured he may as well ask the question that had been nagging his processor all morning and see if the human had an answer.

[roger_hug]

Bridget nodded, glad the older man saw his point, and he grinned.

The question he asked though was a strange one. "Not usually," he said. "But here they clean us up and we get new clothes before we wake up. They bandage us up too!" He held up his left arm, which was still bandaged, but much more lightly than it had been before. He could feel much more of his hand and arm now, and hoped he would be allowed to take off the bandage soon.

[ruthless_hunter]

"Hmm, I see," Lockdown replied, even though the word 'bandaged' was lost on him, until Bridget held up his arm. Either it was some body decoration or it served some purpose, like perhaps it kept vital fluid from leaking. Or perhaps when humans lost limbs, bandages were to keep the limb together. Oh well, he'd think about it later.

Then Lockdown started thinking about the other part of Bridget's explaination. Had the nurses actually come in and replaced his stained coverings while he recharged? Did that mean they had touched him? Lockdown was repulsed by the thought of any humans touching him without consent, no matter what the reason. "They honestly expect us to be okay with such an invasion of privacy?"

[roger_hug]

Bridget frowned and shrugged. "Well, considering everything they've done to us so far, I don't think they really care if we're comfortable or not with what they do."

He thought for a moment. "But they let us keep the weaponry we find or make." That had to count for something, right?