182 [BT] Tense Breakfast...
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"So, Master Nick. What did you get up to last night?" Earl questions standing behind the kitchen counter as he begins stirring the tea he's making or whatever he's doing as he watches me with an amused gaze which I find quite unpleasant because in any other situation I wouldn't be too fussed but I can't find it in me to relax right now and his teasing is irritating me especially considering the fact that sat across from me at the dining room table is one seriously ferocious and dangerous young woman who is calmly eating a full English breakfast without even looking at me since she's so focused on Earl's delicious cooking which I can understand but I am so tense and on edge right now that it's a miracle I haven't snapped at Earl's teasing but that's only because I'm trying to think about what the fucks going on and where we are going to go from here, currently Earl has cooked a full English breakfast for both me and X-23 here but I can't seem to find my appetite and so I've hardly touched my food but female Wolverine over here has no problem scoffing up all this food not even bothered that she slashed a man's throat last night and let him bleed out and so I just sit here at the coffee table staring at her as she enjoys my butlers fine cooking skills but one of the things that really confuses me is the fact that she's wearing my clothes and she actually doesn't look as bad or dirty as yesterday.
Thinking back to what I did yesterday I don't have a fucking clue as to why she's still here in this house today because yesterday after I entered my garage I turned off my car and got out of the car closing the door behind me and seeing that she did the same and copied me I locked the car doors and after staring at her looking blankly back at me again I decided to just get this over with and so I literally went with the easiest option available to me and the one requiring the least effort and so I bluntly told her that she should go wash her hands in the kitchen to get rid of the blood on them and after that she was welcome to take any food she wants from the fridge but after that she has to go and leave my house and not waiting for a response I left the garage and made my ways to the stairs and just when I was nearing the top of the stairs I heard the sound of running water and when I looked back downstairs I could see that she actually followed my instructions and she went to the kitchen sink and was actually washing her hands and so glad that she was listening to me and following my orders I assumed that she would take whatever food she wanted and then leave my house because she already followed my first instruction so why wouldn't she follow my other one and so reassured I went straight to my room and flopped down onto the bed where I was promptly knocked out no longer caring about the situation since I was so tired after the barrage of events today and it seemed like she wasn't going to cut me up so I could go to bed which I desperately wanted to, when I woke up the next morning and realised that my throat wasn't slit I assumed that she had followed my advice and left my house which is why I was so surprised when I did my daily amenities, had a shower, got dressed and then came down for breakfast only to find X-23 sat at the dining table wearing my clothes and with my butler Earl serving her breakfast which I found absolutely absurd so I simply took a seat at the kitchen table as well and decided to simply analyse the situation while Earl served me my breakfast and made me tea.
"Nothing much, Earl. Went to ESU, went to work at the Baxter building and then I came home, just a normal day." I told Earl not responding in the least to his teasing and more focused on watching X-23 like a hawk as she absolutely devours the food in front of her like an animal that hasn't eaten in weeks which is most likely correct given the fact that she has been homeless for who knows how long so she probably hasn't been eating much either and while her healing factor is probably what kept her going for whoever long she was homeless it relies on the nutrients in her to actually heal her and so most likely she was near enough running out of nutrients and so her body must be absolutely craving nutrients right now which is why she's gorging down the full English breakfast earl has made for her and I find it hard to connect this poor hungry girl with the raving beast from yesterday who was determined to chop my head off, why the hell is she still here though because if she stuck around for the nutrients then she literally had an all you can eat buffet available to her last night because I gave her permission to raid my fridge and take whatever she wants but it seems she focused more on that last part since it seems she's helped herself to my clothes and my shower since she's actually clean and without all that dirt and grime on her she actually looks really beautiful but I don't let that distract me from wild creature that hides within her petite frame. "Nothing, huh? is that why I woke up in the middle of the night to find you conked out on top of your bed, and this young lady drinking water from the kitchen sink? And she was absolutely filthy as well so I had to let her use the shower and I gave her some of your clothes to wear, I hope you don't mind. Honestly, what do kids your age get up to nowadays, coming homes so filthy you must have been doing that thing called dogging where you go and roll around like dogs in a forest or something, am I correct?"
"No, you are not correct Earl. That is not what dogging is at all and I'd appreciate it if you actually took the time to learn what a word actually means before you use it in a conversation, also never use the word dogging again. I definitely would never do that and I certainly wouldn't be doing that with... her." I say in response to Earl's mistaken understanding of what dogging is and how I wish he'll never say that word or any word remotely close to it again but if there is one thing that can be appreciated from that conversation then it is the fact that I now know why X-23 is still here and wearing my clothes and that's because Earl found her in the middle of the night drinking water from the kitchen tap after I'd foolishly gave in and went to sleep without even making sure that she left and finding her in the kitchen Earl mistakenly assumed she was one of my nightly paramours and seeing the she was pretty dirty showed her to the shower and gave her my clothes to wear and he presumably let her sleep in the guest room as well not knowing just how dangerous this seemingly innocent petite girl was and the fact that she could've ripped his throat out in seconds if he even so much as looked at her wrong which is why I'm glad Earl is about the nicest man you could meet and he helped her without judging her on what she was wearing, the question now though is why the hell is X-23 still here because she had gotten a free shower, some free clothes and an all you can eat buffet in the form of my fridge so why in the hell did she stay the night and why is she still here in the morning and while some may think it's because of the room and bed Earl gave her they would be mistaken because I know someone like X-23 here who was trained to be the best assassin in existence wouldn't stay in a unknown location just because of a nice room and board so why is she here eating breakfast in my kitchen and what is her goal for being here?
"I will endeavour to do more thorough research in the future the sir, so that we don't have another mishap like this though I do now wonder what dogging actually is. Anyway, if you weren't doing whatever dogging is then what were you doing? I know your exact schedule at ESU and when your work ends so if your day did go how you say it went then you should've been back home much earlier but instead you came so late in the night, where have you been all night and where did you meet-. I'm so sorry, I've been terribly rude and I don't even know the name of our guest. My dear lady, would you mind telling me your name?" Earl starts to question just where I was last night already finding holes in my sloppily put together story but I can't exactly tell him that some big, grey hairy creature came through an interdimensional portal and attacked us and because of that I was injured and required Susan to stitch me up and not only that but on my way home I encountered this beautiful young woman sat across from me and she not only slit the throat of her nearly pimp but she tried to cut my throat out as well, I am glad when Earl doesn't continue his line of questioning but I become even more worried when he begins to question the identity of X-23 and while I'm just as curious what her name is and what she is going to tell Earl in response I'm more fearful that she is going to be triggered by his new line of questioning which is why I have tensed up though X-23 doesn't seem to notice or care and I ready myself to leap across the table towards her if she so much as twitches ready to defend the only man in the world who is loyal to me and cares about me.
Earl doesn't seem to notice my worry or my caution as he continues to stare at X-23 waiting for an answer which I suppose is because he quite old now and he's getting up in the years and while he might have once been a bonafide S.H.I.E.L.D agent when he was in his twenties that was only a short stint before he was injured and relegated to desk duty and so it's no wonder that his skills and alert mind have rusted and wilted after all these years and he can't see that the young innocent woman seated at the kitchen dining table isn't innocent at all and that she is actually a bonafied relentless, cold blooded assassin that wouldn't hesitate to kill all of us in this room and then herself which is why I'm so surprised by her own actions, so surprised because when I take a closer look at her she hasn't had a single reaction since Earl asked the question just continuing to eat where I would have expected her to snap and unleash her claws being the ticking time bomb that she is but instead she continues to eat but that doesn't go on for long since she has eaten everything on her plate and only a few seconds had elapsed since Earl's question and with no food to distract her any longer I would've expected her to react and get aggressive but instead she stared down at her empty plate for while in silence before she looks back up at us and opens her mouth to let out a response which would be the first time I've heard her talk when she isn't roaring or trying to chop off my head.
"Laura..."
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