Future's So Bright I Got to Wear Shades

[Katana]

"Ok, champ," Katana said as she walked into the cafeteria to find Alex sitting at one of the long cafeteria tables, "time to stop playing games and tell me what happened." She stood behind him and gave him a half supportive, half stern stare before reaching down and taking the shades off his face and onto her own. "Wow, quite a beaut you got there," she said as she saw his shiner. "Who was driving the truck? Have you seen Beast?." she asked with a hint of worry in her voice.

[Chupacabra]

Alex saw Leah and wondered what took so long. He Had pulled off his hood and let his hair loose. Before he could speak Leah had took his glasses off and he winced at the bright lights. He opted to take off his hoodie completely revealing his cast for the first time. His bandaged neck was now visible. Alex sighed and folded his hand and put it on the table. His cast landed with a thud. As he looked up to his friend he began to feel how much she cared even though she tried to hide it at times. He felt he had grown close to Leah and that their friendship could only grow stronger. He felt as if he had nothing to hide from her. That he could be himself when around her. Alex began to speak softly:

"Well I went to see beast after the incident. He just wrapped me up and gave me some meds. Well I guess I should get into what happened. Well it starts off as I was going into the hedge to go cool off, to spend some alone time and I had dozed off and began to dream. It was a weird dream. But to make that short, remember when I told that I had lost all my memories before I got here. Well I remembered something. It felt amazing. I had remembered very little, but I feel that more will come later. I had woken up and I was overwhelmed..."

Alex continued to tell her about his crying and what memories came back. He continued to tell about how Lurai came and upset him by what she had said.

"After I had transformed I had lost all composure. Most of the fight was a blur. I never meant to attack her but I couldn't control myself. It was like half the time I was looking through a glass. The other half of the time it was dark. When I woke up I was in the med lab getting attended to and finding out how bad I was injured. That's when I went back to my room and washed off all the blood."

Alex sat still. He felt as if talking about everything made his heart feel lighter. Good thing he had Leah.

[Katana]

As her friend began to speak, Leah pulled a chair out, spun it around and sat down on it backwards, her head resting on the top of the chair back. At least he saw Beast. The cast looks solid enough. She thought. And I guess remembering shit is good, since that's what he wanted, but a memory of a dog and its already overwhelming and he's crying and turning into a freaking killer beast. God help us when he remembers something really traumatizing. It was not that she was insensitive to the death of his beloved pet, but she wasn't an idiot. Something far worse than that must have happened to him for the boy to suffer such complete amnesia, and when it came to light things would not be pretty. Although honestly with Lurai around I'd turn into a blood thirsty beast too if I could.

With that thought in mind she laughed, and then abruptly turned red and fell over herself apologizing. "I'm sorry. It's not funny and it's cool you trust me like this. Just thinking with Lurai, I'd have turned killer crazy too." Gently grabbing him by the shoulder she continued, "Cheer up. You're alive. Lurai's alive. Everything is going to heal and you remembered shit! That's a good start." Yeah, not good enough. He needs more than fake bravado, girl. "Hey, I know what will cheer you up....Tea! My grandmother was some kind of damn tea expert...I never did learn the whole tea ceremony thing, but I can brew a mean one for ya."

[Chupacabra]

Alex turned his head slightly when Leah was laughing. He knew it was with good reason but he couldn't put it together. When she said that Lurai would have made her turn into a crazy killer as well Alex laughed slightly and held onto his bruised ribs. She had a knack to make his day. That was the first time he actually smiled without trying. He looked to his friend and how stylish she looked with his glasses on.

"Sure, tea sounds good, I like mine with milk," He stuck his tongue out and took his glasses back. He flipped the shades on. "You look good in the shades but you don't rock them like I do. By the way, what took you so long to get here?" Alex had asked remembering that she had made him wait a little while.

[Katana]

Well, he's laughing and that's something. she thought as she waited to hear if he wanted any tea. When he jokingly accepted and took his glasses back she smiled and ignored his sticking his tongue out at her. "Ok, champ, off we go to the kitchen. I think there is still some milk in there." She paused slightly not really wanting to answer his next question. "Well Haven and I had a little moment" she said wryly. "My new team doesn't like me much, surprise. I have to play good girl now and win them over. Not fun, but I gotta do it."

As she set off for the kitchen she began to think. Could be worse. I could still be with the little Miss Princess fan club, she thought contemptuously of the Paragons and their queen bee Allure. Haven and her boy toy may be batshit crazy, but at least they don't seem to wanna play games. Keep quiet and back 'em when Rumble makes his move and I should fit on the team well enough. Heading through the rec room she kept her eyes on the floor and made sure not to say anything, even stifling the urge to call back to Alex to hurry up as she was intent on passing through as quickly as possible and that blinded her to the cruelty in telling a hurt boy to step on it.

{Continue in Kitchen}