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At some point between reading the tale of Rincewind meeting Cohen the Barbarian Matt had fallen asleep on the bench his book resting on his chest and no concerns of any work for the day. His dreams where consisting of him wearing some oversized wizard hat while defending of hordes of zombies with a butterfly staff that turned everything into something undesirable cute. In truth for him it was more of a nightmare, and grew even worse when some behemoth of beast zombie showed up that once transformed turned into an oversize panda like stuffy that was pink and holding a cup of coffee. It teetered for a moment before falling forward, crushing Matt in the midsection.

“OH GOD WHAT THE HELL!” He jolted awake as the unknown female landed on top of him. “Oh god… that hurt…what… yes… wait… who are you?” He looked at her with a deeply confused look plastered on his face, maybe he had been mistaken identity pranked.

Matt just remained there still staring at her in all confusion as if trying to put some sort of non-existing pieces together as to why all of the sudden some cute girl was sitting on him as if he was the cushion of the bench.

Tho it could have been worse, a lot worse. She could not be cute, and male, and weight over two hundred pounds of sheer muscle. Just the thought was regrettable.

As she leaned over his muscles groaned over the extra weight, it was harder to breath and not in the fun she takes my breath away sort of feeling, again this could have been much much worse, thank god she was cute.

“Yea.. nice to meet you Hattie, names …Matt,” He sort of managed to gasp it out as she moved around looking for his hand to shake with hers. “I’ll spar with you if it means you’ll get off of me at the moment.”

She didn’t seem to budge for the time being and Matt was pretty sure that it was starting to get harder to breath. His arm started to ache as she kept shaking it out of his socket, at this rate Hattie would defeat him before they even to got to the training grounds.

As if saying the magic words all of the sudden Hattie jumped off him, his lungs quickly filling with air as he gasped lying on his side. “Oh thank god… and thank you, and yes.” Reaching out he grabbed her hand and hoisted himself to his feet dropping his book in the process.

“Well I was reading, sort of, I guess I feel asleep… it’s a nice day outside and well…it’s been a long week in the infirmary with paper work.”

“Weeellll… sort of reading is like reading a few pages and then everything starts to blur and then the next minute you are asleep with the book on your chest.” To be completely honest Matt couldn’t remember anything that he had read. The first few sentences and then everything got sort of muddy from there on out. Wasn’t there a dragon? Giving her light chuckle and half awkward smile as he stood over her, he nodded to as if to say yes ma’am. “To be fair I wasn’t expecting to completely fall asleep here, or be woken up by someone jumping on top of me, but next time, next time I won’t I’ve completely learned my lesson.” He was however a little surprised; she wasn’t nearly as short as every other female he had met at dues.

As she handed the book over he half expected the question of geekness or lame to come in but instead she handed the book over without question, “Thanks.” Looking at for a moment he opened it look for a moment and then gave up trying to mark of the last page he was on and tucked it into a jacket pocket.

“Oh no I’ll be fine I might have slept the entire day away if you hadn’t woken me up, I think I’ve been asleep the last few minutes…hours…more like hours I think.” He had left his watch back in his room and last time Matt remembered being awake it was just after breakfast.

She was rather cheerful Matt noticed, sort of like another familiar red head he had met, except the other one was really short in comparison. “I have no idea why I try to read when I am tired I just sort of end up having some sort of weird nightmare in the end.” He returned her smile out of politeness unsure if maybe there was something else she wanted, or maybe she just felt bad?

“Maybe I’ll invest in one of those hammock things versus bench, make it more trap like if someone tries to leap on me when I sleep. As for not sleeping outside I can’t make you any promises it won’t happen again, it kind of just… it’s a bad habit when it nice outside.” It was like a cat thing, if it was sunny, and warm and wonderful he just wanted to be outside and read, and typically napped until it got too cold for him, like when the sun disappeared or when some lifer loomed over him reminding Matt of paperwork.

Matt wasn’t entirely sure how she got to his side and wrapping her arm around his but he took it as a good sign and nodded. “Rested and ready to get my a** handed to me yes onward!” Matt chuckled at her, “No worries I am still a trainee and I haven’t won a spar yet so I don’t think you have to worry about me getting you pay back for crushing me almost to death.”

I did have one, it consist of zombies that I defeated using a fairy want that look a lot like my weapon… downside was everything turned into these super cute plushie things that were so cute they were creepy. At some point some huge zombie appeared and when I turned it into some oversized stuff thing it fell on top of me and crushed me. Shouldn’t have underestimated the stuff cute things.” As he described the dream he waved his arm in front of him as if he was still zapping zombies with some sort of imaginary wand. “Despite how it sounds it was a lot more terrifying in person I reassure you.”

There was a moment of hesitation on his face when she mentioned hammock party, however as soon as the word book escaped her mouth his attention was completely redirected. “OH you have audio books? Which ones? Which authors?” Matt’s enthusiasm showed for a moment, even if briefly about his hobby before he caught himself and dialed it back a little. For all he knew she was not really interested in books at all and he felt like an over eager puppy. “And as long as you promise not to leap on top of me to wake me I will invite you and there can be mini hammock parties.”

He laughed as she mentioned the thought of him hiding his real abilities until the end, “No no it’s more of the other way around, I usually start out pretty good but then fizzle out in the end. Which saying it out loud sounds a lot worse…” No one liked when things fizzled out in the end, it was a let down a massive one. Eyeing her as she grinned he returned the smile wondering how good she was at sparring, With his luck she was great at it and he was going to end up on the ground defeated again, cute things always seemed to kick his a** and there was no way he was going to get suckered into being nice in spar again. Nope not to another adorable blue eyes red head.

“Nay on charges this time if you don’t mind,” he replied as he eyed the training grounds again. A tingle of excitement started in his fingertips, which Matt found a little unusual. Most of the time he dreaded it.

Matt was honestly surprised that Hattie was interested in his nightmare as far as he was concerned it was some on par with someone being completely insane. “Weeelllll I may pick and choose from the real nightmares but if I have another one that is as insane as zombies turning into creepy doll plushies I’ll keep you in mind, just as long as its not like some weird poetry reading thing where people come to listen… and no telling anyone else.” As he spoke Matt looked at her giving her a mock serious face about keeping it secret before grinning. In all honesty he didn’t care but he was pretty sure that everyone didn’t need to know his insanity.

When her face went from grinning to a short moment of embarrassment Matt couldn’t help but laugh a little at her charming way. “I have read my fair share of romance novels, sometimes twice when I used to get really bored at the hospital and there was nothing around to read other than charts. Trust me they are not the worse thing in the world, some of them were pretty good actually.” Not a lot of them but some of them he enjoyed again it was the more adventure based one. “Honestly any book is fine with me, as long as its not sparkling vampires or high school kids with minor love dramas or some sort of long drawn out historical political thing.”

As Hattie made her declaration with her hand on her hip Matt stared for a moment and then started to laugh, “I am never going to be able to sleep outside with you around any more am I? There go my peaceful naps, floating away forever, goodbye.” Still chuckling he waved his hand in a goodbye motion before covering his face with it shaking his head in disagreement as if trying to hide any sort of fluster. Elbowing her back he shook his head again this time with his grin showing. “Noooo I am definitely not cute, handsome is debatable, but not cute. Cute is what you are adorable is what you are when you get a little embarrassed.” Cute was also the cheeks puffed mock-explosion expression.

What was surprising was the oversized axe that she swung with ease at him gazing his chest, in returned he summoned his own spear and lunged forward towards her shoulder not wanting to hesitate too long to let her attack again.

HP: 38/40
Damage: 4