Wes looked up into the ceiling above
his bunk. It was just as grey as it had been all day, and it was not
exactly exciting to look at anymore. Not that it had ever really been
exciting to look at, but because he had not done anything but stare
at the ceiling all day, he was getting really bored now. At the same
time, he was starting to feel a bit better, and so had the energy to
be bored.
Wes lifted his head as Hobbie entered their shared
quarters. The other pilot had taken care of him all day. "Wedge and
Tycho just left. So we have the whole place to ourselves," Hobbie
said with a smile.
"Well," Wes answered, lifting himself up
on his elbows, "let's go find something to eat then."
"You're
hungry?" Hobbie asked, "Shall I go fix you a sandwich or
something?"
"No," Wes said, shaking his head, "I want
some real food. Why not cook for the whole squadron? They'll
probably be home for dinner."
"You're up for that?" Hobbie
asked, seemingly unsure.
"Yup, yup." Wes said with a big
grin. Hobbie looked at his friend for a second, then he shrugged.
"Okay it's your call." Wes smiled and, getting out of bed,
headed for the shower.
Wedge walked down the hall towards the
mess. He felt refreshed after the last day of relaxation and the good
night's sleep he, for once, had gotten. Then he turned through the
door in to the mess, and stopped short as he looked around. There, at
the big centre table sat countless of plates and bowls full of food.
And on each of their side of the table sat Wes and Hobbie; or rather,
the pilots were lying across the table. A big grin appeared on
Wedge's face as he noticed that both pilots were lying on each of
their big plates full of food.
Then Wedge heard a partially
suppressed laugh from behind, and he turned to find Tycho standing
there, fighting the urge to laugh out loud.
"Hmm, seems like
they had some dinner yesterday," Tycho said when he finally won
back control of himself.
"Yes, looks that way," Wedge
answered, "Maybe we should wake them up. They are supposed to be on
duty soon."
"Yeah, let's do that," Tycho said, with an
almost evil grin on his face.
Wedge mirrored the grin, and
started towards Wes. Tycho followed suit, and headed for Hobbie. At
exactly the same time they started to shake the two pilots in order
to wake them up.
"Uh, uhh, stop that," Wes murmured as he
slowly started to wake.
At the other side of the table, the half
awake Hobbie made some similar sounds as he was also torn from his
sleep.
As Wes came a bit closer to the land of the living, he
looked up at Wedge and asked, "Where am I?" He sounded quite
disoriented. Then he looked across the table to Hobbie, who was now
also sitting up. The two shared a look of pure nausea. A second
later, Tycho cried out as he took evasive action to avoid being puked
all over. Wedge looked over at him in surprise, and just then Wes
slowly shook his head, leaned over and puked all over his commander's
pants and boots.
