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"Jeff I swear to god if you do what you're thinking of doing I will electrocute you." Ben snapped as Jeff slunk into E.J.'s operating room conspicuously trying to look inconspicuous. Jeff couldn't hear Ben though because he had taken off his damn headset. Ben cursed, he didn't want to use the house PA system because he and Jeff were half friends most of the time, and using the PA system where everyone could hear would definitely be tattling. Ben could electrocute Jeff but it would be without warning so Ben slid out of one of the speakers instead and fell to the ground.

"Jeff don't you dare." Ben said as Jeff reached for one of the tools on E.J. operating table. "E.J. organizes everything for a reason, don't mess it up." Jeff started guiltily and then glared at Ben.

"Don't tell me what to do." Jeff said petulantly kicking the leg of the table. Ben suspected that Jeff expected it to be bolted down, but of course it wasn't. They both flinched when the table fell over with a crash, sending the tools scattering across the floor. Trying to salvage his dignity Jeff shoved his hands in his pockets and stalked out of the room. He shouldered Ben as he passed and Ben sent a electrical current through Jeff, making him yelp and hurry out.

Ben glared after Jeff and then looked back at the tipped table. He walked over and crouched down looking at some of the tools. He didn't even know what half these things were. There were syringes too and bottles they were probably matched with, but Ben didn't know what any of them were. He couldn't fix this even if he wanted to. He would need to get E.J. because he didn't even know if some of these tools needed to be sanitized now that they had touched the floor.

Ben got up and walked around in a tight circle uncertainly. He wasn't used to not knowing things. He had the entirety of the internet at his disposal, usually anything he didn't know he could find out but it was useless when it came to stuff like this. It couldn't tell him how E.J. organized things. He should have memorized it himself once he found out that E.J. was scared of not being able to find things.

"Hey E.J. do you have your communicator on?" Ben asked finally directing the question into the electronic system he was still connected to.

"Yes." E.J. answered right away. "I'm in the kitchen."

"Jeff tipped over a table in your hospital room. I just don't know where everything goes. I'm sorry I told him not to. I should have fought him." Ben said hanging his head even though E.J. couldn't see him. E.J. sighed into the mic, which made a static noise.

"Okay I'll be right there." E.J. promised. Ben didn't answer, instead he righted the table and started looking around for any tools that might have skittered off into corners. Since it wasn't in use right now Ben started to pick up the tools and put them on the bed thing that the patient would lay on, maybe that was the actual operating table? Ben wasn't sure about the terminology, he had never cared enough to learn.

"Hey." Ben greeted when E.J. came in. "I've just been putting all the tools up here because I don't know what half of them are."

"Thank you for doing that Ben." E.J. said smiling at him fondly.

"Don't, I didn't stop Jeff from doing it in the first place." Ben said scowling and ducking his head. E.J. crossed the room and rested his hands on Ben's shoulders smiling reassuringly at him.

"It's alright Jeff is your friend. You could have just left like he did but you stayed to help me put things back, even though you didn't mess them up. That means more to me."

"Okay." Ben said smiling a little. He would have just nodded but there was no guarantee E.J. would see the motion. His vision got better and worse depending on how bad the infection in them was at the time. Ben hoped it was doing alright now, it would make reorganizing things easier.

It seemed to be a fairly good day because E.J. immediately started picking up tools and putting them back in particular places on the 'tool table' whatever it was technically called. Ben went back to looking for tools. He found two under a cupboard. Ben took them back and saw that E.J. had set a couple of tools aside.

"Do those ones need disinfecting?" Ben asked curiously.

"Yes they do." E.J. said reaching for another tool. Ben realized to late that E.J. was reaching for the wrong end of a scalpel.

"Don't!" Ben said and E.J. retracted his hand in confusion turning his face towards Ben questioningly. "You were about to grab a blade of a scalpel, I have a feeling that with how sharp those things are it would have taken off your fingers."

"Wouldn't be the first time." E.J. laughed. "I've reattached them a couple of times." Ben blinked just a little startled. Okay so it was important not only that things where were but that they were there the right way up. More hesitantly E.J. reached for the other end of the scalpel.

"You're good." Ben told him and E.J. picked up the scalpel, placing it on the table, he touched the tool next to it and then pushed the scalpel over a couple of centimeters. Ben went back to the table. "I'm just going to put all the sharp things up here with the handles facing towards you." Ben said picking up another slightly longer, thinner knife than the one that E.J. had already placed.

"Good idea." E.J. said smiling gratefully. E.J. could still feel pain, unsurprisingly he didn't want to cut himself.

"What are all these things for?" Ben asked curiously.

"Couldn't you google it?" E.J. teased affectionately and Ben blushed a little.

"Well yes but I'd rather hear it from you." Ben said and E.J. nodded and started briefly explaining every tool as he picked them up while Ben listened in fascination. He also paid more attention to where E.J. placed each one, taking a picture of the table in his mind so that if it was ever messed up again, Ben could do this on his own. Though he wasn't sure he would want to, it was a good excuse to spend time with E.J..

It took them over an hour to finish reorganizing the table. Finally E.J. put the last tool down and then went through and touched the handle of every tool adjusting a few of them slightly.

"Thank you for your help Ben." E.J. said smiling at him and Ben smiled back. He didn't want to leave though so they stood in silence for a moment, E.J. didn't seem to feel awkward but Ben did.

"So did you know they make video games for people who have problems with their vision?" Ben asked rocking back on his heals and clasping his hands behind his back. Why did he act like this around E.J.? He never acted this awkward and oddly childish around anyone else?

"Oh? No I did not know that." E.J. said sounding mildly intrigued.

"If I found some of them, would you play them with me?" Ben asked hopefully but he sort of expected E.J. to say no. He was so responsible and busy most of the time that Ben didn't expect him to have time to play video games.

"Sure." E.J. said and Ben looked up at him in surprise.

"Really? Great!" Ben said. "I'll go find some of them. I mean you don't have to now, or whatever, I know you're busy and everything." E.J. chuckled and rested his hands on Ben's shoulders again. Ben shut up and looked up at E.J. wondering if he could change his physical form to be taller, he suddenly felt weird about looking so young, and being more then a foot shorter then E.J..

"Unless someone's dying I'll make time." E.J. promised softly. "I like spending time with you."

"Oh Okay." Ben said blushing again. For once he was very glad E.J.'s vision wasn't so good because he probably couldn't tell. Ben hugged E.J. and E.J. hugged back.

"I'll try and find a good one." Ben promised and then let go hurrying out of the room before he could feel anymore awkward about it. It was weird because they lived together but still Ben was excited to spend more quality time with E.J. Maybe they could go out some time. It was hard to get time alone in the house and Ben wanted to be alone with E.J. which confused him a little bit but he liked it.