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Bix had been forced to eat all of his perishables within the first few days of the island being shut down. Milk was gone. Frozen steaks and things had lasted at least a day or two as they defrosted but they were gone as well. All the fresh veggies had been salads for him and Ceres while the others were chowing on MRE's. He'd tried to be sneaky about it but thankfully no one had come knocking asking about food. He was sure the others all had their little stock piles as well. Right?

Fortunately lacking power didn't mean they lacked GAS. Bix's kitchen stove was one of those old gas ranges and all it required was a match to get it going when the pilot wouldn't click to light. In one pot was boiling in water. In another was a jar of tomato sauce he'd dumped in to warm up. He'd been experimenting with making his own but without the tomatoes he decided just to season it with a few dried herbs he'd stashed in the cabinet.

As usual his door was cracked and the picture of Green Arrow stared challenging down the hallway. The odd heated smell of boiling pasta and cooking tomato sauce was surely drifting out. Without power Bix had all of his 2 windows wide open for the sunlight but... it was sort of a cave in there and he was backlit like some sort of pale food-making spectre.

Bix was humming, leaning back against the half-wall of his kitcheonette while his sauce cooked and his pasta bubbled away. "Transformers... robots in disguuuiiise.." He sang softly and picked his nails. After their mass -experience- he couldn't get the song out of his head.

He picked his nails, unaware he was being watched.

Unfortunately for Al, Bix's room was not exactly full of things to hide behind. His couch was quite a bit a ways into the room and the only other things were bookshelves and a desk, also not quite near the door.

When the door creaked he glanced over... and then JUMPED to see a lump that appeared to be a person crawling over his floor.

"HELLO??"

Bix totally bought that. "Oh for real?"

He stopped leaning and set the burner of the sauce on low so it didn't cook too fast while he was looking. "Well where did it go? I'll help you look!"

"Oh man that sucks.." Bix dropped to the ground where he was. He didn't want to step on it or something! He started to feel around on his floor (which was very clean) and inspect everything as he made his way to Al.

"Is your sight really bad?" He continued to feel and crawl until he'd reached the other young man. "I'm Bix by the way." He extended a hand for a shake.

"Cool. Al." Bix shook but the guy seemed to be trying to get further in. His contact couldn't have gotten that far could it.

"Don't you have glasses to replace them or anything?"