Jul 05, 2010 01:39
As expected, after the allotted amount of time had passed, the nurses started to move through the waiting rooms to inform the visitors that it was time for them to leave, whereas in the Sun Room King Kong was turned off and the staff quickly sprung to action to put the equipment away
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leela,
rika,
kirk,
sechs,
naruto,
klavier,
endrance,
intercom,
japan,
haine,
scott pilgrim,
anise,
hanatarou,
claire littleton,
gren,
sora,
elaine,
england,
amaterasu,
zex,
claude,
keman,
guybrush,
suzaku,
yuusei,
franziska,
peter parker,
snow,
raphael,
mello,
brainiac 5,
ange,
the flash,
tim drake,
von karma,
grell,
hanekoma,
minako,
guy,
venom,
agatha,
peter petrelli,
nigredo,
mele,
ritsuka,
two-face,
edgar,
sync,
the scarecrow,
matt,
mori,
chise,
ratchet,
yomi,
okita,
morgan,
ema skye,
zack
Plus there was the added bonus of being able to show Peter the omnicom and discuss what he planned to do with it. Unless it had been affected somehow by the institute - something he couldn't entirely rule out, from what had been mentioned of other technologies here, not to mention superhuman abilities - then it would at the very least offer him a range of options and make it substantially easier for him to work on an escape plan. They could hopefully even use it to contact someone in a position to aid everyone here.
The ideas still spinning through his head, Brainiac 5 was feeling surprisingly impatient by the time they reached his and Peter's room. The sooner the two of them were alone, the better, so he managed to persuade the nurse to hand him his tray outside for a change and then let himself into the room, closing the door firmly and turning to find...
...Peter sprawled on the floor.
Brainiac 5 stared for a moment, surprise delaying his reaction, then he quickly set the tray down and approached the other boy's side.
"Peter? Are you... You're not hurt, are you?" he asked, trying to remind himself not let too much concern bleed into his voice.
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Settling down into his own chair, Brainiac 5 started picking at his meal, double checking that it didn't contain any meat before he started eating it slowly.
"Not much," he answered carefully. "I spoke with a few different people, but nothing that significant comes to mind."
There was little point in mentioning Grell to Peter, since it would only make the other boy worry, and Brainiac 5 felt he'd done that enough to his roommate. Besides, there was another matter to consider.
"What about your meal? Is it still...?"
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Brainiac 5 watched with no little amusement as Peter dug into the meal, all but inhaling a decent portion of it before he showed any signs of slowing down.
"Actually," he said, recalling something else he'd been meaning to ask the other boy the day before, but had forgotten when the strange hair-related contamination had begun. "There's something I was going to ask you. It came up on the bus yesterday morning and while I'm fairly certain it's something to do with conversation, the source makes me suspicious enough I thought I should check.
What does the term 'fap' refer to, exactly?"
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"There was a girl on the bus," he began. "She told me I should trade places with her and... do that with the boy sitting next to her."
He was silent for a moment, carefully studying his roommate's face, his meal temporarily forgotten.
"What does it mean?"
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Slowly the Coluan shook his head. "I'm sorry, Peter," he said, "but I'm not sure what the name Jack has to do with anything..."
He hesitated and directed his gaze down at his dinner, picking over it carefully. If he'd known the reaction it would get, Brainy wouldn't have raised the topic in the first place. Peter had every right to enjoy his dinner in peace after all. Especially after the last day when he hadn't been able to eat much at all.
"You don't have to answer if it makes you uncomfortable," he said at last. "It's nothing important. Just a passing comment that I was curious about."
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He was about to ask what exactly was taboo about touching yourself, since it wasn't physically possible to avoid doing so, no matter what cultural reasoning was behind the restriction, but then Peter opened his mouth to explain further and Brainiac 5 had to lean in a little to catch the words.
Only to jerk back upright a second later, his face blossoming a red to rival his roommate's.
"Ah, I see," he said quickly, in a tone that implied the meaning of those words was synonymous with 'please don't tell me anything more about this'. He fell silent, not sure if there was anything else he could really say in answer to that, especially not when part of his brain was wondering how and why and trying not to look at Peter's... area.
He stared at his dinner again in the hope that fixating on it would help his face return to normal - it didn't, really - but after a while he couldn't hold back anymore.
"But that doesn't even make any logical sense!"
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"...that's not what I meant," he said, his voice stilted and awkward. "I meant that what she said didn't make sense considering the... meaning of the word and the context of the situation."
He fidgeted with his fork in the ensuing silence, not really wanting to meet Peter's face directly right now and covering for that by eating some more of his dinner. He wished that, for once, he'd had something like one of Dream Girl's premonitions to warn him about this. Then he could have avoided the entire topic.
"She said I should... do that... in binary with another patient," he explained carefully after a long, awkward silence. "But that doesn't make any sense. ...at least not from my perspective." He wondered if he should ask Peter to please avoid explaining if he was missing something there as well.
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"Well, I'd already decided not to speak with her if I could avoid it," he said after a moment. "She's... a pretty rude person, to be honest."
Silence pressed in again after that and he ate some more of his dinner, studiously focussing on the plate and its contents as he did so. While it helped in a way to know that Asuka was purposely being insulting, it wasn't so much of a revelation to make this exchange something he considered worthwhile.
What they needed was a change of topic, he decided as his fork scraped the plate carefully clean. Something, anything else to think about.
"Did you have any plans for tonight?" he asked, latching on the first topic to cross his mind and glancing across at the other boy.
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