V's eyelids fluttered on the fourth day and I ran to get Jaylyn.
"Jaylyn! You've got to come here, now!!"
Evey was shouting, wanting to know what was going on, Jaylyn was rubbing her eyes sleepily because I'd woken her up, and I was jumping up and down from excitement. V was waking up!!
Jaylyn and I leaned over him, probably a little too closely. V opened his eyes and blinked several times before speaking.
"J-Jaylyn, would you get me something to drink while Lynette. . .explains what is going on?"
Jaylyn bolted out the door and I sighed heavily. This wasn't something I wanted to discuss the very moment he woke up, but he was insistent. I sat gently on the edge of the bed and explained quickly, leaving out the part about Jaylyn and I stripping him. Jaylyn walked in with a glass of water and I started to help V sit up. The instant my hands touched his skin, however, he jumped a mile in the air and started shouting.
"WHY AM I BLOODY STARKERS?!?"
"Well, V, technically you still have on your underwear." I corrected "Which, I might add, are extremely unique."
"I DON'T HAVE ON UNDERWEAR!! WHERE THE BLOODY HELL ARE MY UNDERWEAR?!"
I looked at Jaylyn incredulously "You took of his underwear?!"
"I couldn't help it!" She wailed "It was too much temptation! He was just so pretty, I had to see the rest!"
"You couldn't have at least put them back?!?"
She picked at her nails, looking like she was between a rock and a hard place. Which she was.
"I wanted to keep them." She finally said.
"Alright, that's it." I said "You know what? You're going to Lark Hill for a week."
"Do I get to take--"
"NO!" I interrupted "GO GET HIS UNDERWEAR!!"
"Ok." She sighed dejectedly as she walked out "But he may not want them back once he knows what was going on with them."
I stared after her, my mouth in an 'o' of horror. She didn't. . .she couldn't have. . .she did. Oh my god! I turned back to V, my face burning with shame.
"V, I am so sorry. . .I had no idea she would--"
"Just go get me some underwear." He indicated the dresser on the far wall "Top drawer."
I rifled through the drawer, probably ticking off V by looking at every pair. What? I wanted to find the best ones for him to wear. If I was going to get to look at him in his boxers, I at least wanted them to be awesome. Spongebob, Sesame Street, Fishnet. . . I stopped, staring at the underwear in amazement Wait, fishnet? I don't even wanna know. I shook my head and went back to digging.
"Care to explain?"
I held up a particularly ugly pair of boxers covered in an outdated floral. The pattern looked like it belonged on curtains in a nursing home, not on underwear.
"I don't have to explain my underwear to you. And I don't plan on it."
"Alright. Just curious."
I made to toss them to him, before he cleared his throat and indicated I should get a different pair. Spoil sport. I by-passed the pair I was most curious about (They had Viagra written all over them. Literally.) and tossed him the pair that were lime green with orange cupcakes on them instead. [3]
I met Jaylyn in the main hall; I going to make V something to eat, Jaylyn bringing him his underwear. I made a face at the strange pair of underwear.
"Will you go wash those? I'm gonna doubt V'll even want them back, but at least you can wash them before you offer them to him."
VEV
I sat a tray containing chicken noodle soup (From a can, but V didn't need to know that), a grilled cheese sandwich, and a glass of orange juice on the nightstand. V had been awake for about a week, now, and Jaylyn and I'd had a hard time keeping him in his bed.
Guy Fawkes grinned at me as V watched me, waiting for me to leave. I sighed and sat down on the edge of his bed.
"V. . .how are you feeling?"
"Perfectly fine."
"Well," I wrapped my hand around the back of my neck and then pulled it away. I had a habit of doing that when I was nervous. "Evey's been trying to get in here all week and I'm just not sure I can keep her out anymore."
"You've been keeping Eve from me?" He seemed sort of angry
"I didn't think you'd be up to it. I mean, considering what went on at the train station and all."
"Oh." He sat in silence, staring at his hands. "Let her in."
I groaned silently as I opened the door and Evey rushed in. This was going to end very badly. Jaylyn and I resolved to go get our hair cut back to normal while the two love-birds had a nice little chat. Jaylyn was thrilled that her hair had grown out and she'd be able to get a pixie cut in her natural hair color. Her mother had let her dye her hair black, but she refused to let her cut it how she wanted; well, her mother wasn't here now so that was no problem. It was now going to be a lot less obvious for us to whack off our hair then if we had before the fifth.
[3] I have a feeling that one of Lady Nightlord and my funny underwear designs had somthing to do with this, but I might be wrong.
Jaylyn and Lynette are now up on missculleniwish(dot)webs(dot)com so you can see what they look like. :) Be nice and comment while you're there, please. Sorry for the short chapter, by the way.
