Tanner
Featured in post: Shola, Tanner, Fresia, Estelle, and Patrick
Time: Maybe about an hour or two later after he passed out on the bed that morning?
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My head was throbbing like I had been drunk last night and I had already suffered one hangover after another. Why did I have to hurt this much? Including the pain down in my abdominal half of my body and some of the gastric system but that’s explainable. That stupid stab wound he let me suffer through because I didn’t have any more serum in my body to help heal it… If I could hurt my other side, I would but it’s just not possible, though I wish it was…
Of course you wish it was… I’m just as worn as you are…
I ignored what he said and heard voices in the background, knowing it wasn’t my head, and slowly opened my eyes… Wait… Why were my bangs moved? Eh… I didn’t really care right now…
“Hey, wake up! Tanner’s awake!” I heard Fresia’s voice say excitedly and I heard moaning and groaning and a whimpering voice? Okay… That was a little unexpected.
“Oh!” That’s when I opened my eyes fully and saw Estelle beside me and Fresia and Shola on the right side of my bed and a kid, a Pachirisu Gijinka, looked nervous as he sat by the door, in a chair, and he was staring at something on me and then I realized it was the dried blood on my bandages, which actually weren’t that bloodied up for some odd reason.
“Tanner, I got you something to eat, if that’s alright with you, of course,” Estelle told me with a smile and I couldn’t help but look at her more. Why? Whatever, I guess…
“And what’s that?” I asked as I rubbed my eyes and got the crap out of them while also pushing my bangs to the side and Estelle brought up a bowl that was under my nightstand and I saw it was ramen. How did she guess ramen was my favorite food? M’kay then…
“Ramen. I thought you would like some,” Estelle said with a smile and I smiled as I took it into my lap and I continued to notice the kid staring at me. I turned back to Estelle and gave a small smile.
“Thank you, Estelle. Hm… I wonder why I remembered your name.” I murmured enough for just her to hear and she blushed lightly and Shola and Fresia smiled.
“At least you’re up now. We’ve been waiting for a few hours, idiot,” Shola laughed and Fresia giggled along.
“Yes. We have been waiting for a while, Tanner,” Fresia smiled widely and I couldn’t help but smile. I kind of wondered why they all stayed for me. I wasn’t bleeding anymore but I had to admit, I was still in pain. That wasn’t the joyous part.
“How long was I asleep?” I asked nervously, wondering if my other side took over at any time.
Of course, not, you dimwit… I’m too tired to take control right now… Just shut the hell up, will you?
I swear, I’ll make him shut up one day…
“You were asleep about a good three or four hours,” Shola shrugged. “We fell asleep, waiting. Estelle here, found a kid Pachirisu while she was looking for food for you. He’s been whimpering away by the door,” Shola told me with a sigh and the kid moved a little in annoyance but Estelle looked at him with a small smile and he settled a little bit more and then she looked back at me.
“His name’s Patrick,” Estelle told me with a cute smile. “He’s actually very sweet but I can’t tell what he’s afraid of,” Estelle told me and I just nodded and knew I had enough strength to do one thing. I picked up my hair, making it move, and since it was long enough, I was able to get over to Patrick and tickle his cheek. He giggled a little but then his scared look came back upon him and swiped my hair away. Well, he’s a nice kid…
Instead, I moved my hair back over to me, picked up two more pieces of my hair and tickled all of the girl’s cheeks while I ate and they all laughed. I had to admit, Estelle made really good ramen. I mean, really good.
“H-How do you do that, Tanner-san?” Estelle laughed as I tickled her sides and she laughed a little uncontrollably. I smiled. I couldn’t help it.
“Funny enough, I have extended nerve endings in my hair from my scalp so I’m able to control my hair and I keep it in dreadlocks because if I actually let it all go, it would be an utter, complete mess of hair. It’s actually not that much of a pretty sight,” I told Estelle and she smiled and Fresia and Shola smiled but Shola got up.
“Well, now that you’re awake, I’m going to get something to eat. You wanna come, Fresia?” Shola asked with a big smile and Fresia got up politely and followed Shola out of the room to get some food for their lunch while I slowly ate the broth from the ramen, which really helped my throat. I was surprised Estelle stayed and the kid left almost immediately, following Shola and Fresia for lunch. Okay then…
“I hope you don’t mind me mentioning, but your eyes are very… interesting,” Estelle started off and I couldn’t help but look down. I had forgotten that my bangs were off to the side right now, showing my white pupils. They were absolutely annoying to the fact of me not wanting to ever have this color of eye.
“I hate them. They’re white and blend in with everything,” I said flatly and Estelle just smiled. I couldn’t tell what she was thinking.
“They’re not that bad. It seems like you have a tint of gray in them anyways.” Wait. What? I looked at the small mirror I had on the wall opposite of me and saw that they did have a tint of gray. That meant that my other side was merging with me. God, he was really trying to completely take me over, wasn’t he?
“I guess that is better than,” I lied with a small smile and Estelle believed it and smiled.
She picked up one of my dreadlocks and twiddled it in one of her hands, poking it and playing with it somewhat with her claws, pawing it, since she was a cat. I wondered if I should scratch her ears but I resisted the urge to while also trying to ignore the slight pain in my stomach. At least I knew it was torn up on the inside or else I would be internally bleeding and I think I would know that pain.
“You’re such a cat,” I said bluntly and Estelle blushed and I realized I kind of said the wrong thing. Whoops. “Sorry,” I immediately said afterwards, realizing my mistake and she just nodded and that’s when I clutched my side from the sudden pain in my stomach and flinched at the same time and that’s when Estelle noticed and put my hair down and put her hands on my lower abdomen near my stomach and liver. God, were her hands cold…
“Do you mind if I try to heal you, Tanner-san?” Estelle asked me and I shook my head, slightly unable to speak and just not wanting to for that matter and slowly, I felt warmth coming from her hands and I relaxed as she healed me, which I couldn’t help but give her a small smile to her for.
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Well, I hope that was okay, Naomi-chan! :D And let's try and finish the storyline everybody and keep it going so we can go on!! :DDDD Hope I got Estelle and everybody else right! :D
Please tell me what you think! :)
~Anime-chan
