The weekend was a cool and cloudy one, perfect for a fluff ball like Sullivan but Sulley was unable to enjoy the perfect weather as the weekend seemed to drag on, pacing slower than a slug racing to its first days of class. Even when Mike attempted to distract the fluff ball of a monster with menial tasks, such as shopping for fish guts or rotten vegetables, Sulley would still stress away; completely occupied with one monster in particular.
When Sulley wasn't running erons he was tapping his foot repeatedly on the floor while staring at the phone expectantly. Mike hadn't seen him so eager for a call since their first scare try outs for Monsters Inc. Mike had appointed himself guard of the phone the first time he had caught Sulley calling Randall, no one had a chance to answer before the green monster stopped the call. No one picked up all the times before and after that either, Sulley's worry only worsened.
Luckily Monday finally came, and Sulley was eager to get to work, more so than usual. He had dragged Mike out of bed early after finishing his morning workout that Mike usually assisted him with. Mike dragged his feet as he got ready, dreading the day he would have to see Randy for the first time since hearing about the disturbing incident. But there was an upside, despite scream energy dwindling downward Sulley had approved of letting Mike drive his new car into work, It was almost worth going into work an hour early with lack of sleep. Almost. When they walked through the doors the building was practically empty, not even Celia had arrived yet to brighten Mike's day.
Sulley watched one by one as his co-wokers entered the change rooms, the first few to enter were surprised to see Sulley in so early, but as the minutes raced to the beginning of their shifts the monsters were less surprised. Mike had left to surprise Celia when she finally arrived. When the scare bell rang Sulley took the lead in front of the group of scarers, as they began walking through the hall Sulley worried, Randall wasn't walking beside him, in all honesty it didn't feel right without him there.
Sulley hurried to his station looking around to the station beside him, no sign of Randall just Fungus looking equally as confused with Randall's absents as he flipped though his papers making sure they were working today. They were, Sulley had checked his schedule.
When the door across from him lite up red Sulley ran through lacking focus, needless to say the first scare of the day was a failure as the child was barely scared enough to scream and instead wet herself. An embarrassing moment for him as the monsters began to whisper when he came back out. Sulley didn't care for their gossipy ways.
Mike looked at Sulley, waiting for an excuse to his poor performance but instead he got "Randall didn't come in today" Sulley said looking distressed, Mike grabbed Sulley's arms and shook him the best he could a monster ten times his size "Look at yourself!, you are losing your cool over nothing." Randall was not nothing Sulley thought. "What if he's hurt Mike?" Mike rolled his eye "He's not, now get through this door are scare the wits out of this kid!" He said shoving Sulley into another room; this scare went much better as Sulley composed himself, able to collect enough scream to fill the canister.
Sulley felt proud as he opened the door to the scare floor, cracking his knuckles and winking to Randall, before remembering he wasn't at his station. Sulley hoped no one noticed but the confused look on Fungus told him the three eyed assistant had. Sulley approached with a wave as Mike put together another door. "Hey Fungus, is uh, Randall sick today or…" He trailed off. Fungus flipped through some papers looking for the answer "I'm sorry Sullivan" He began to sweat "Randall was supposed to be in today but he never showed up!" The assistant looked panicked, which made Sulley a bit panicy. Mike ran over upon noticing their break downs. "Woah, hold it guys! Randall probably slept in" Mike said with calming hand gestures. "Randall never sle…!" Mike grabbed Fungus's lips, holding them closed. "Would you guys feel better if I call him?" They both nodded sheepishly.
Mike grabbed his cell and flipped it open, he dialed the number Fungus had handed him, then he waited. Mike tapped his foot, growing worried himself when the phone was not answered. Mike turned away from Sulley and Fungus, biting his nails slightly before giving up on the call that rang for a good three minutes.
Knowing the over reactionary ways of Fungus and how overly-annoyingly-protective Sulley was being Mike smiled and said "Hey, sorry to bother you Randall"
Sulley and Fungus sighed in relief. "Just making sure you're not dead" Mike said loudly.
Sulley walked up behind Mike "I want to talk to him Mikey!" but Mike shooed him away, continuing with the fake conversation "Whats that? You don't want to talk to Sulley? And he should stop calling you? Yeah I will let him know" Mike half joked, the sad thing was Sulley didn't find that treatment out of character at all for Randall.
"You should really be more responsible and call in when you're not planning on showing up" Mike lectured to no one. "Yeah, right back at you!" Mike yelled into the phone, actually feeling angry for a moment before turning to the now pleased Fungus and Sulley. "See, He's just taking the day off"
"Why?" Fungus asked curiously, Mike thought for a moment "He's not bathed in a while, smells really bad. It's embarrassing." Fungus looked convinced and made his way across the scare floor, intending to enjoy his day off, but Sulley crossed his arms and glared unhumored at Mike's cruelty.
"Mike why didn't he come in?" Sulley asked, not believing the shower thing for a second, he was in Randall's company when he showered just a few nights ago, but Mike didn't know that.
"I don't know, He's your boyfriend. Ask him when he comes back" Mike motioned towards the door he had set up, they needed to hurry if they were going to make quota today. "He's not my boyfriend Mike" Sulley said as he ran on the spot, preparing himself for the dangers that lay behind the blue door with a small rocket ship on it. Mike was relieved to hear Sulley refusing to call Randall his boyfriend, he wanted as little as possible to do with Randall.
The week continued, Randall was still absent. It was the end of Sulley's last shift on Thursday now, he stared over at Randall's station sadly.
"Mike, I am going to stop by Randall's and make sure he's alright" Sulley announced as Mike put together his paperwork. Mike's eye went wide "Bad idea Sulley! He's not going to be happy to see you show up out of the blue like that"
"I have to be sure, I will just check to see if he's home then leave" Sulley began walking away with the rest of the scarers, until he felt Mike grab his tail, pulling it back "Sulley just wait one more night, Randall will probably be in tomorrow" that promise sounded all to familiar, and while Mike spoke it he wondered what he would say to keep Sulley from going tomorrow.
"I am sick of waiting for him" He said growing impatient. It was hard for Sulley to explain exactly; a nagging feeling inside told him he had to check on Randy, make sure his every whim was met, then he could stop caring, right?
"Sick of waiting for who James?" It was undoubtedly who said it, but when Sulley looked forward expecting to see his five eyed six limbed boss he saw Randall instead. His eyes should not have darted to him so quickly, he was after all walking behind Waternoose, and seemed to be attempting to blend into the background without being entirely obvious about it, but he was still the first thing James noticed.
"ohh, No one sir" He rushed, getting his bosses concerns out of the way so he could focus on Randall who glared with his arms folded across his chest. While admiring the sight Sulley noticed that Randall was looking less than pleased, well that was an understatement, he looked about ready to burst into tears, the wrinkles that ran under his eyes seemed much deeper and the frown that was a mixture of sadness and anger looked carved into his face permanently. On top of that he walked slowly and weakly, lacking the energetic flair that usually accompanied his body movements.
"Wha Randall, what happened to you?" He heard Mike ask, Sulley nudged him a little for being so rude but honestly was relived Mike had been the one to ask so he didn't have to.
"Nothing" Randall hissed to Mike who gave him a look of 'I didn't care anyway' in response. The feud between them was immensely obvious, at first look you'd swear they were born hating one another. James smiled sadly to Randy who noticed and glared back, rejecting the silent pity. Waternoose piped in completely oblivious to all the silent emotions floating around "Randall I will leave you here to get set up" with a nod Randall walked by dragging his feet as he did, Sulley watched as he walked to their shared station.
"So James, where you off to?" Waternoose asked curiously, enjoying small talk between James and himself. Sulley looked back to his boss "Nothing really" Mike rubbed his forehead embarrassed for his friend. "I have to go Sir, forgot something over at the station" He said pointing to his table, where Randall just happened to be. The spider like CEO looked confused as Sulley turned around and jog back in the direction he came.
"Hey Randy" Sulley smiled, waving a big paw at the other monster
Randall shook his head annoyed "Don't ever call me that" He looked over his shoulder, mentally stabbing Sullivan for calling him his naive collage boy name. Sulley looked down brushing his feet on the floor nervously "Sorry" He said quietly, Randall just waited impatiently for what Sulley had to say, eyes still locked on him with the same angered look. "How have you been, I missed seeing you around" Sulley tried to turn the conversation to a more friendly note, but Randall refused to accept it. "The feeling is not mutual" He said looking way to serious, Sulley frowned "In fact I have had an awful week thanks to you" he said through his teeth. Sulley stepped back, Randall's rage was upsetting him more than it used to.
"Could..I make it up to you, I could help with.." Sulley offered, unsure what he had done to piss Randall off but too afraid to question him on it, he was suddenly cut off "No, if you want to help me then stay as far away from me as possible." That seemed to hit a nerve with Sulley, over the week he had imagined Randall being much nicer when they came across each other again.
"I uh.." Sulley began speaking but was quickly cut off again "Sullivan please leave me alone" Randall sounded slightly calmer, but that only made it worse.
Mike stormed up, pointing his finger harshly at Randall "Hey, where do you get off-" His face was suddenly covered by Sulley's large hand "I understand" Sulley looked to the floor feeling defeated "If it will make you happier, I won't bug you anymore" Sulley let out a sad sigh and began dragging Mike away with him. Randall's glare didn't soften as he turned back to do his work, When they made it passed the safety line on the scare floor Sulley let go of Mike, but continued walking himself, Mike followed behind with sympathetic words of encouragement, but Sulley just wanted to get home and work out in peace.
LOL Mike doesn't ship Sulley/Randy. Too bad 3
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