Sharing
Setting: right after season 4
Rating: K+
POV: normal
"I'm telling you, my high score is better than yours!" Odd exclaimed, shoving a croissant in his mouth. "And I'm telling you, if you check you'll see mine is better," Ulrich shot back. "Yeah rife!" Odd said, words distorted by a full mouth.
"Jeremy, please tell him that my high score is better," Ulrich said. "This is pointless," Jeremy responded, shaking his head and taking a sip of his hot chocolate. Suddenly Aelita came walking over with an empty tray, a glare on her face. She sat down with her arms folded, leaning back against the chair.
"Aren't you hungry?" Yumi asked, gesturing to the empty tray. "Yes," Aelita responded. "Then why didn't you get anything…?" she asked. "Odd took my portion," Aelita replied angrily, turning the glare to him. "I thought you weren't coming," he said defensively.
"I overslept," she said. "Then I got stuck behind Sissi in the shower line. She took forever; I didn't even have time to dry my hair."
They only just then noticed that her hair was wet.
"It's okay, you can have some of mine," Jeremy offered, holding a croissant out to her. She politely refused. "No thank you, you need to make up for all the meals you skipped while working on the multi-agent program and finding William," Aelita said. "You need to eat," he insisted, pushing the croissant closer. Aelita pushed it away.
"So do you," she protested. "Yes but you do not have any food, whereas I have enough to give to you and still eat," he pointed out. "You mean just like you ate when the supercomputer was on," Aelita said sarcastically. "That was different," Jeremy protested. "How?" she challenged. "I wasn't eating because I was busy working, yet you aren't eating because Odd took your food," he said.
Everyone at the table turned their heads back and forth as they watched the exchange.
"Eat," Jeremy said, holding the croissant out to her. "No," Aelita refused. "Come on, I know you love croissants," he tempted. Aelita turned her head. "That's okay Jeremy, I'm not even hungry anymore," she said. As if to contradict her, a loud gurgling noise sounded. Aelita flinched.
Everyone looked at her. "Is that... your stomach?" Jeremy asked incredulously.
"I didn't hear anything," she lied. Jeremy sighed exasperatedly. "Look, I know you're hungry, so take the croissant. In fact, I've already had enough," he said, setting the small bite of croissant he had left on his plate and standing with his tray.
With a smile, he put the croissant in Aelita's empty plate and walked to dump his tray.
"I'll take it," Odd offered. Aelita glared at him and picked it up, taking a bite. She was halfway finished before Jeremy came back and sat down with no tray. It didn't even take a full minute for Aelita to finish it off.
"Looks like we have another Odd!" Yumi laughed. "Hey, I was just hungry," Aelita protested.
"Isn't sharing just great?" Odd asked. "You don't seem to think so," Aelita snorted.
Odd scowled and everyone laughed.
