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[ Famine gets the phone call from his mom at around 7pm the night before, but she doesn't go into much detail except for 'Hayden is in the hospital, he was beaten up, go see if he's okay'. He's not a mommy's boy in the least, but he goes anyway, genuinely curious to find out who he got into a fight with, and why -- because he's not the sort of person who gets into fights.
He grabs a cab to the hospital and is directed to Hayden's room once he tells them he's family, and when they close the curtain and leave him alone, he wanders up to the bed and stares. The man looks terrible -- like someone really wanted to punch his face off. Getting up onto the thin mattress on hands and knees, Famine balances half of himself over his cousin and watches, as though expecting him to wake up and smack him, or at the very least, glare.
When there's no sign that he'll be waking up, the Horseman touches his bruised jaw with curious fingers, figuring Hayden won't ever let him get this close under any other circumstances. The temptation to touch him inappropriately is there, but Famine instead settles for dipping in to steal the only kiss he'll probably ever get to steal from this particular blood relative.
Satisfied, he slips off the bed, grabs a chair off to the side, and arranges himself to rest his tired head on skinny arms next to Hayden's hip. Hospitals are good places for catnaps, he eventually decides, just before letting his eyes fall shut. ]