[PRP] Sunflowers, Cookies and Books (Nellie x Melvin)

[baby_gwing]

The application to take the following day off at such short notice was surprisingly easy enough and met with no resistance. Whatever the reason behind it, Nellie had every intention of making full use of it and keeping her word that she would drop by the Infirmary to pay Melvin a visit later in the day. A good part of the morning was spent in the same locale that she had already been to twice now. Sunflowers were currently in season so she decided to get three of that as well as a bag of freshly baked chocolate chip cookies that smelled absolutely delicious from the store just across the florist. She got the storekeeper's help again with the book recommendation, settling for two this time - one on medieval fantasy, the other a cook book on how to create tasty confectioneries - since she wasn't sure if either or both of these would pique Melvin's interest.

It was close to mid afternoon by the time Nellie arrived at the Infirmary. The tech had waved her through after going through the contents of the bags that she had brought with her - something that struck her as odd since it didn't happen the last time she came by to visit Harlow but the Mist simply complied without asking what he was looking for or why he was doing this. It wasn't long before she found the room that Melvin was supposed to be in, a tentative rap to the door to let the other know that she was about to enter and then she turned the knob to peek in.

"M... Melvin?"

MoonKitsune

 

[MoonKitsune]

baby_gwing

Nellie is such a sweetie.

Melvin had been bored. It was already boring enough when he had been in the Infirmary with nothing to do, but now he was being restrained to his bed. It meant he couldn't even check Twitter or work on lists and personal notes for when he got out. Instead, all he could do was lay there, sleep, and think.

Even thinking was exhausting. He had questions that needed answering, places to conduct research on Clarice and doors, and he felt a restlessness that he was running out of time to do all of it. Instead, he was stuck in bed unable to move and was only released to go to the bathroom or eat (while supervised of course – and only with spoons as his utensil).

Laying there, he was surprised to hear a knock at his door. No one else really knew him enough to bother seeing him, and Rep had already made his visit – which caused this mess he was in now.

Not even able to sit up, he turned to the door and saw Nellie, the new hunter he sparred with before. He completely forgot he had talked to her on Twitter before Rep showed up.

"Uh…Yeah. Hi. Um…sorry I can't…I'm…" He couldn't even say what now. He was restrained to a bed with a wrapped arm. "I can't sit up. Some..stuff happened." He looked back up at the ceiling, flushed with embarrassment.
 

[baby_gwing]

Nellie's eyes went wide the moment she saw Melvin's wrapped arm. That would explain why the Life Intermediate would need to spend some time at the Infirmary. Stepping into the room, she placed the bags she had with her on the side table then paled visibly when she finally noticed the restraints that confined him to the bed.

"Oh... oh dear. What happened?"

She blinked a few times, suddenly falling silent and looking equally awkward as she remained where she was and contemplated over an appropriate next course of action in light of the current situation. "That looks very uncomfortable. Should Nellie go ask them to do something about that?" She finally offered albeit tentatively.

MoonKitsune

Indeed she is. Especially since she sees Melvin as a friend. ^^

 

[MoonKitsune]

baby_gwing

Awww. Melvin needs more of those.

"Um..." He tried to sit up slightly, looking over to her. "It's fine. I just...got in a bit of a fight with someone. They thought I might start something again. If...If you could just tell them that I'm fine, then maybe they could undo these?" He asked, hoping Nellie didn't mind. He would have done so himself, but he couldn't exactly get up.

 

[baby_gwing]

"Someone did this to Melvin?" Nellie started to look somewhat concerned the moment Melvin started filling her in on what had happened to land him in the Infirmary in the first place. She bit back on the instinctive urge to ask who and whether it was someone she too would know, rationalising with herself that there were much more important matters that she needed to act on at this point in time such as speaking to the techs outside if they could do something about Melvin's restraints.

"Nellie will go have a word with them then. Hang on..." All too happy for a chance to be able to do something for the Life hunter, she nodded a few times at his request then slipped out of the room with an earnest look on her face, determined to pester every tech she could locate out there until she found one who was willing to do as she requested on Melvin's behalf. It wasn't long before she returned triumphant, a smile on her face with a tech in tow as she stood aside to let the tech do what he had arrived with her for.

"Darryl said he'll help undo them for Melvin just this once so long as Melvin behaves."

MoonKitsune

Nellie too. They can start with each other first yes? =3 b

 

[MoonKitsune]

baby_gwing

I fear he'll treat her like a little sister.

Melvin wasn't even sure Nellie would be successful, but just asking someone on the front desk couldn't hurt. When it took a little longer than a minute, he wondered what the girl was up to, and then longer than that and he worried she might have been escorted out of the Infirmary for requesting someone who appeared suicidal and who fired his weapon in the Infirmary should be released of his restraints.

However, in a moment, Nellie returned with a click of the Infirmary door and a rather resigned looking tech walked in with her. Darryl looked both annoyed but hopeless in that he hadn't been able to shake off the woman.

Moving over, he undid the soft restraints and looked down at Melvin. "Don't send her next time." He said, and Melvin wondered if he detected a bit of a flushed face. "And don't do anything else in here or else you're getting knocked out." With that, he left with a jingle of a pair of keys and closed the door.

Sitting up, Melvin rubbed his wrists and looked up at her. "Thanks. I ...didn't expect you to hunt someone down like that, but I appreciate it. that really helped a lot."

He adjusted the blanket over him a bit more and propped his pillows in order to sit up more comfortably. "Thanks for coming. It gets a bit boring in here and.....not to many people come." Except Rep, and that didn't' go over too well.  

[baby_gwing]

Thanking Darryl for acceding to her request after the amount of pestering it had taken for the tech to eventually cave, Nellie waited until he had left the room then tugged a chair over to Melvin's bedside. "It's nothing really. Nellie thought that it was the least she could do for a friend."

She tried to shrug it off since everything she had done thus far hadn't really required much on her part then fell silent all of a sudden to observe how the Life hunter would take to her thinking of him as her friend. "If um... Melvin doesn't think that it's too preposterous of Nellie to assume as such." She quickly explained then went on to busy herself with fetching the bags from the side table so that she could retrieve their contents.

"Darryl wouldn't tell Nellie why Melvin had to be tied up like that or what happened to land Melvin in the Infirmary. It wasn't the same with Harlow when Harlow was here awhile back." A slight pause. "Is it something serious..?"

MoonKitsune

I think that that'll be cute though she may be oblivious to what's happening since she was an only child. x3

 

[MoonKitsune]

baby_gwing

Good. Melvin was the middle child. He misses family a lot.

He looked surprised that she would just automatically want to be his friend because, frankly, he wasn't coming off as much of a people person to most people despite wanting to be seen as less - robotic. (He wanted that description but it was one that was sticking to him a lot despite his best efforts.) If someone was AOK with calling him that, he was more than OK with saying it back.

"No. It's not. I can see you as a friend." He said, giving her a smile - which went away slowly at her inquires.

He touched his arm because it wasn't easy to hide with the short-sleeve patient gown he was wearing. "It's not serious. I ...had a vivid dream and hurt myself while sleepwalking. The people in the ward think I might have done it to myself, but that's not the case." He told her. "I would never do something like that. It's a misunderstanding on their part, but they are trying to be sure about things."

He said the words softly in order to not alarm the girl. He didn't want to use certain words like "suicidal' and "lying in a pool of my own blood in the morgue" and instead softened the explanation.

"I was restrained because a friend of mine came to see me. We got into an argument and he tends to get violent when he's upset. He ..tried to choke me, and I had to shoot him to get him off. Weapons are not allowed in the Infirmary. So we both got punished." He looked down and let his hand rub down the bandages down his arm to the weapon cuff he now wore. His fingers curled around it, angry at Rep and what he had said.

 

[baby_gwing]

"Nellie's glad to have a friend in Melvin then." Nellie smiled brightly at Melvin's affirmation that he was fine with her regarding him as her friend and that he too thought likewise about her. Opening up the bag that contained the chocolate chip cookies, she went on to offer its contents to the blond. "Would Melvin like to have some chocolate chip cookies? The storekeeper told Nellie that they taste best while warm."

She nodded a few times at Melvin's explanation as to how he had ended up at the Infirmary, going along entirely with what he had told her as she took in the sight of the bandages on his arm. "Does it still hurt? Did Melvin lose a lot of blood?" There were things that one could take to aid the body in its recovery from blood loss. She was pretty sure about that and immediately made a point to look it up the moment she was back in her room later.

"So... what's that supposed to do?" She pointed to the weapon cuff that he now wore, pausing for a bit before tentatively asking.

"Is Melvin still friends with him now..?"

MoonKitsune

Aww... Nellie will definitely want to help him in some way with that if she comes to know of it =<

 

[MoonKitsune]

baby_gwing

He didn't want to tell Nellie that he wasn't big into sweet things after how concerned she was and after buying him anything when she didn't have to do that for him. Instead, he mustered up a smile to mock enthusiam over eating a cookie. It wouldn't kill him at least. "Sure. Cookies sound nice. Thank you."

He touched his arm and then held it up, turning it slightly and as much as the IV would allow. "It hurt when it happened, but I know it will heal up soon enough. I'm lucky nothing worse happened." He had been lucky to be found by Dr. Stephan even if Melvin felt terrible that the man saw him that way. From both the morgue meeting with Dr. H and now this, he was pretty sure whatever attempts to impress the doctor were destroyed.

With his hand still up, he touched the cuff. "It's a weapon's cuff. I can't summon Saliva now. Not until I get off probation. That's what happens when you go against the rules." It had been something he considered smart when Rep had gotten punished with one, but now he had mixed emotions about.

"I wasn't very good with my weapon anyways....so it's not like it matters." He wasn't a valued hunter anyways.

He set his hand down in his lap and considered her next question. "I don't know. I'm pissed at him. He basically said he didn't believe me and that he had been lying to me for a long time. I put a lot of trust in him."

He looked up at Nellie. "Would you be friends with someone who lied to you for months?"  

[baby_gwing]

Reaching into the bag, Nellie retrieved a cookie then handed it to Melvin. "Melvin's welcome. If there's anything else that Melvin needs at all, please let Nellie know." She was about to reach into the bag again to grab a cookie for herself when she stopped at the sight of the IV on Melvin's arm. She didn't know anything about human anatomy beyond the skin, blood and bones, and that only served to make her worry even more about what worse could happen in the Life hunter's case. "Nothing's broken or permanently damaged inside right?"

Glancing briefly at Melvin's face for confirmation that he was indeed fine and that her worrying had all been for naught, she lowered her gaze to the cuff once more at his explanation as to what it was supposed to do. "How long? Can Melvin still talk to Saliva or does this totally block Saliva off?" She shook her head quickly at his next words, visibly upset now as she closed the remaining distance between them to close her hands around his upper arms. "That's not true at all. Melvin and Saliva were way way better than Nellie and Niffy. It was already obvious from that spar so Melvin shouldn't think like that..."

She tightened her grip slightly, falling silent for a bit before finally releasing it and slowly withdrawing her hands. "... Nellie will want to know the truth behind why Melvin's friend chose to lie to Melvin then. If it was a good enough reason, it may be difficult to not feel angry or hurt initially but Nellie will try to focus more on the why because that will make the friend one worth keeping." She smiled wryly.

"Besides, it's not like Nellie has many friends to begin with in the first place so everyone counts."

MoonKitsune

 

[MoonKitsune]

baby_gwing

OMG how did this rp get lost?! Sorry for delay!!

Melvin smiled at her, feeling she was both sweet and a bit naive. It didn't help that her tendency to speak in the third person made her come off as sounding a bit childish, though he was sure there would be some men who would find it endearing.

"Nothing it broken. The cut wasn't that deep, and I didn't sever any nerves. I just lost a lot of blood. Hunters can bounce back much faster than normal people. Don't worry about it." He assured her and raised his hand in a mock fist to prove his point before letting his hands settle back into his lap.

"I can still talk to Saliva and she can talk to me. I just can't summon her to use unless I'm on an official mission. It's like having a weapon collar to keep you in line. Once I learn my lesson, I'll have it taken off." He just didn't know how long these things took. He hadn't been punished much at Deus. Thus far, his record had been pretty clean.

"My friend and I have been together for a long time. He said something to me for a very long time, and then when I came to him for help, he said he had been lying and didn't want to help me. He then called me stupid for thinking and hoping as I was doing. I can't ignore that. Friends are supposed to be there for you when you need them. He isn't." He said, and left it at that.

"I think you'll make plenty of friends, Nellie. You have the personality a lot of people like. You are kind to strangers and talkative. You'll find plenty of people to talk to in no time." Unlike him.

"Have you had any other spars?"  

[baby_gwing]

"That's good to know. Nellie hopes that Melvin will be released from the infirmary soon so that Melvin can get plenty of rest and recover back in Melvin's dorm." Nellie smiled, relieved to know that her earlier concerns on whether any permanent damage was sustained were totally unfounded. The weapon cuff however was another matter entirely and something way beyond their control whether they liked it or not. "Okie. Hopefully that time will be soon. Saliva must be pretty upset and mad over this situation Nellie takes it?" Niffy probably would be flipping mad if she was punished in a similar manner. Either that or he would liken it to an extended vacation then plain ignore her for getting herself into that kind of situation in the first place.

Listening to Melvin speak briefly about what transpired between him and his friend without going into details, she frowned. "That's bad. Does Melvin have other friends who can help Melvin instead?" She was all for helping the Life hunter or at least supporting him in any way avail to someone as new to Deus as herself though it seemed like the kind of help that he needed with the matter at hand wasn't something that someone like her could assist with at this point in time if she was reading things right.

"Just one with Peyton." She responded to his question on the spar first, immediately falling silent when he offered his thoughts on what he as well as others would find her based on the interaction they had had by far. "Melvin is too kind with Melvin's words." The Mist began with a small voice, her gaze lowered to the floor as she tried to keep her voice even. "Nellie doesn't think that that will happen." She took a step back, her head shaking a few times as she started to quiver lightly at the memories associated with her next words.

"A lot of people on Twitter didn't seem to take the way that Nellie speaks very well..."

MoonKitsune

It's okie MK! <3 If you're up for it, perhaps we could resume the spar they had awhile back as well? ^^;

 

[MoonKitsune]

baby_gwing

"Saliva is always pissed, but that's because she doesn't consider me her ideal hunter. There is no way around it. I'm being punished and she has to put up with it." He could hear Saliva grumbling and saying a few things he assumed were obscenities. He didn't speak Saliva's native tongue to understand, but the tone was understandable enough along with the general feeling.

"If there were a way to treat out weapons, I might consider it. Maybe give her a golem day?" He said, looking up to see if this would ease Saliva a bit.

It didn't.

Sighing, he looked back at Nellie. "I'll be fine on my own. Everyone else has their own troubles to deal with." He didn't have that many friends, but he didn't want to alarm Nellie any more than she was. Jordan was still figuring out things between him, Rep, and Harrison, and he didn't know everyone else well enough to bleed his heart out in front of them. Not sober at least.

"Don't take everything on Twitter to heart. People say whatever they want without caring because they aren't saying it face to face. People get bored and then they turn into assholes. You're fine as you are. You're a caring person and I don't want other people changing that for you." If it wasn't the people on Twitter, it would be their Leads yelling at Nellie.

" You'll have to be able to put up with a lot of verbal abuse here, I'm afraid. Just keep a stiff upper life and brush it off, okay?"

"Peyton is a good person. Stick with her if you can."
 

[baby_gwing]

"Has Melvin tried finding out what Saliva considers an ideal hunter in order to address that anger somehow then?" Nellie supposed that she could consider herself fortunate that Niffy, in contrast to what Melvin had to face with his weapon Saliva, never expressed any dissent when it came to her so far. It was already hard enough trying to fit into a new place without being too conscientious about what people thought and said about the way she spoke. If the weapon who was supposed to also be her partner likewise thought poorly of her because of that, she wouldn't know how she was going to deal with that.

"What's a golem day?" She asked, twiddling her fingers nervously as she hoped that Melvin wouldn't find her ignorance and questions too much of a bother. She would have saved the question for the next time when she met up with her cousin Lilac but she wasn't sure if it was something that even the Moon trainee would be aware of at this point of her training at Deus.

"But even so, if there's anything at all that Nellie can help with, Melvin can always come to Nellie since Nellie is Melvin's friend. Right?" She looked at the blond earnestly, hoping that he wasn't planning to keep anything from her just because there was a limit on how much she could do to help. She did smile however when he shared with her what his impression of her thus far was like. "Thank you. Nellie will try to remember what Melvin has just said."

It was really nice to know that there was at least someone in Deus whom she wasn't related to nor knew her prior yet was willing to accept her as she was. "But... Peyton is a full Hunter and with the Sun division. Nellie don't see how she can always stick to her and not be a nuisance..."

MoonKitsune

Sorry for the late tag MK! Kinda dropped off the edge of the planet for a while... OTL