Author's Note: I was going to wait to publish this after I wrote the second chapter, but this fic has been sitting around for a long time so I decided to go ahead and publish the first chapter.

The feeling of hunger was something unfamiliar to Hal. Being an android, he had no need for such sustenance, so when the first hunger pang struck him awake, he was both intrigued and frightened.

Food he thought. He had spent enough time with his dads to know that the cure to these aches in his stomach was to fill it with something else.I just need to find something to eat. I need to find something quickly.

Silently, as to not wake his parents, he tiptoed out of bed and into the hall. He scurried through rooms and dark corridors until he reached the kitchen. Then he hesitated. Sitting at the table was a shadowed figure; Hal couldn't make out any of its features other than its basic shape. Long, humanoid, intimidating. Hal cowered.

A mouthwatering aroma permeated the air; the starving child did not need to search hard to find the source, for he had been eyeing it for quite a while. The figure ate off the plate slowly as if mocking him, letting Hal take a good, long, envious look at the bread he wouldn't get before taking a bite.

Eventually, the entity stopped its agonizing tactics. It pushed the still-full plate across the table and made no further movements. Hal was confused.

"I— I don't understand…"

There was no answer.

Hal couldn't help but approach the all too tempting plate.

"Is this... for me?"

Again, no answer. Hal took the lack of response as a yes.

Wasting no time, he shoved in as much bread as his mouth could hold; he didn't care how animalistic he must have looked. Every bit was scarfed down within seconds, and not a crumb was left on the plate. But he didn't get the relief that he was hoping for; by the time he had cleared the plate, he was even hungrier than he had been when he woke up.

He could have sworn he heard the figure laugh.

Another plate appeared before him. He attacked it, absolutely ravenous, but it was to no avail. He was still far from satisfied. Another plate. Then another. And another. And another. With each and every bite he only grew hungrier and hungrier and more and more desperate.

Take the plate

Eat it all

Have another

Aren't you satisfied yet?

Take it

Eat it

Another another another anotheranotheranotheranother

Hal was shaking and his sight was blurry. Blurry, blurry, blurry. He kept eating and eating and crying and sobbing not stopping just eating and eating and eating and eating so hungry so hungry. Until he was too weak to try anymore. Darker and darker. The shadow grew until there was no more light, nothing to see. Only his hunger feel.

xXx

Hal woke up for real.

Author's Note: I'm working on the second chapter, but I'm also pretty busy so I don't know when it'll be up. Expect fluff, cookies, and multiple Chandras hehe :3