Hospital

"*Yawn* Mmm, morning."

Turning his head to the side, Aiden couldn't help but sigh in annoyance at the blonde haired bombshell that had snuck into his bed again.

"..."

Seeing that he wasn't responding, Christina poked his nose and smiled.

"Y'know, people usually respond when they're greeted."

A couple of days had passed since Christina moved in with him. For some reason, she had this annoying tendency to sneak into his room and sleep in the same bed as him. He was also pretty sure that he had been molested a couple of times.

But since she did help him with the whole Overhaul situation, he decided to let it slide until she left Japan.

After finding the Yakuza hideout in tatters, the Nighteye agency opened up their own investigation on the possible culprits and were currently focusing all their attention on that subject matter. Aiden wasn't really surprised by this outcome as he had already predicted that something like this might happen.

The situation with Eri on the other hand was quite good. She had woken up a couple of days ago and was questioned by both the police and heroes about what happened to Chisaki and the Yakuza. Due to her lack of social interactions and being unfamiliar with them, Eri found it difficult to speak to anyone that wasn't Aiden.

At first, the heroes and the police wanted him to stay away while they questioned her, but seeing that he was the only one that she really responded to, they had no choice but to bring him in. For Aiden, there could be no better outcome. Reporting directly to the police allowed him to modify Eri's testimony and blame the league of villains.

Since they were already being hunted down, adding another crime to their name wasn't really a big deal.

---

"So what's on the agenda today?" Christina sat up and asked.

"...I owe someone an ice cream."

"Really!?" She turned back to look at him. "I didn't take you for the dating type."

"I never said it was a date."

Shrugging her shoulders, she got up and stretched.

"So who's the lucky lady?"

"Eri."

"The girl you rescued? Isn't she a bit too young for you?"

"Again, its not a date."

"Whatever you say." She laughed and left the room.

"..."

---

"Hey." Walking into the hospital room dressed in jeans and a black jacket. Aiden waved at Eri while carrying a plastic bag in the other hand and a backpack on his back.

"Aiden!!" She jumped out of bed and hugged him.

"Good to see that you've still got your energy." He smiled and patted her head.

[A/n: LOLI HEADPATS!!!]

"Mmm..." Indulging in the feeling of his hand on her head, Eri couldn't help but smile.

Picking her up, he brought her over to the bed and sat her down.

"I got something for you."

"What's that?" She asked after seeing the plastic bag in his hand.

"A promised gift." He smiled gently.

Opening up the plastic bag, he pulled out a large tub of premium grade ice cream and a store brought sponge cake.

Having never eaten cake or ice cream before, Eri looked up at Aiden in confusion.

Seeing that she didn't understand what she was looking at, Aiden cursed the cafe where he brought that carrot cake with Momo for opening later in the day.

'I should have gotten her a better cake, not this store brought garbage.'

[A/n: I'm just gonna have Aiden be a cake lover, don't ask why.]

Opening up his backpack, he pulled out a laptop and a blu-ray movie.

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Sitting on the bed with their backs against the wall, Eri snuggled up into Aiden's embrace while using her spoon to scoop out small chunks of ice cream and cake. Since the cake was store brought and not a quality product in Aiden's eyes, he threw it into the tub of ice cream and mixed it up together.

Now if this was a freshly baked cake from a trustworthy restaurant, Aiden wouldn't dare have the ice cream come anywhere close to it. But since it wasn't, into the tub it went. Eri who was tasting both products for the first time in her life thoroughly enjoyed the flavor and devoured most of the tub.

With the laptop in front of them, the two watch a child friendly movie about a fish swimming across the entire ocean to find its son.

Looking down at starry eyed Eri, Aiden felt a weird connection between them. It was probably because she was like him, traumatized. No mom or dad to take care of her, brought up in a deadly organization and molded into a weapon (In Eri's case its literal).

Watching the movie with a smile on her face, Eri leaned on Aiden's arm with a smile on her face. For the first time in her life she felt unburdened. Lay here next to him... it was like a dream. She wondered if this is what it was like to have a big brother. Someone who would look after her when she wasn't feeling well, someone who would spoil her, give her head pats and unconditional love.

Moving her head up shyly, she sneaked a peak at him.

Feeling her slight actions, Aiden looked down at her and asked if she was okay.

Nodding her head, she snuggled up closer to him with a bright smile on her face.

---

"How was the kid?"

Walking into the living room, Aiden saw Christina sitting on the sofa with a laptop on her lap.

"She's doing fine."

"That's good."

Seeing that she was relaxing by writing a couple of codes, Aiden took the opportunity to ask her something that was quite pressing.

"Are you able to gain access to bank accounts?"

Hearing his question, Christina's hands momentarily paused before resuming.

"I can."

"I need you to transfer money from one of Dark Star's swiss accounts into my personal one."

"You want another favor?" She raised her eyebrow.

Shaking his head, Aiden didn't want to owe this woman more than he already did.

"You said we were friends right? Friends usually do nice things for each other, just think of this as one of those moments."

Taking a moment to think about it, she eventually came to the conclusion that his words held some merit to them. "I guess that makes sense."

Closing down the program she was coding on, she looked at Aiden and asked.

"What's the name of this bank?"