"Where have you been?" Elle asked as X came in and proceeded to collapse on the couch with a loud moan.
"Where have I been?! I'll tell you where I've been! I've been spending the day with Agent U, my new partner, who happens to be a stunning example of everything that is terrible about humans magnified to the tenth power! That's where I've been and it's all your fault!!!"
"What?! It most certainly is not although I do wish I had suggested it," Elle muttered under her breath. Maybe a few days with U would shape X up and teach him to appreciate her.
"Of course it's your fault! If you had paid attention to what you were doing, you would never have been hurt and I wouldn't have been assigned U until you recover!! He's even more hideous than you! I'll never survive!!"
"Oh, I don't know. You might find you have a lot in common. You're both annoying and no one wants to be anywhere near you for instance," Elle said with a laugh as X glared at her.
"Oh, go away!!" X moaned as he buried his head in the couch. He really didn't know how long he could take this.
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Late that night, X was struggling to sleep on the couch when he heard Elle calling. "What do you want?" he grumbled. "Haven't you caused me enough trouble for the day?"
"I'm hungry!" Elle called from the bedroom. "Not to mention cold! Can you come and tuck me in and then bring me some pudding? Chocolate, and not that instant stuff either!"
"What?" X moaned as he looked at the clock before dragging himself to his feet and stumbling into the bedroom. "Are you aware that it is three in the morning! You expect me to go and find chocolate pudding at three in the morning?!"
"There's some in the kitchenette," Elle said with a smile as X pulled the covers up around her shoulders.
"I must be loosing my mind," X grumbled as he headed for the door. He supposed it was better to fetch the pudding than spend the rest of the night listening to her complain that he was starving her, though.
A little bit later, Jay wandered into the kitchenette to find X standing over the stove stirring a pot.
"What are you doing in here at this time of night?" he asked as he went over to the fridge and got out the milk. Even the worms were in bed this late.
"I am making pudding," X muttered as he stirred the pot wishing that the disgusting smelling stuff would hurry and cook so he could try to go back to sleep.
"Pudding? Why?"
"Because Agent Elle got hungry, that's why!" X said as he glared down at the pudding. It finally looked done. He got out a bowl and proceeded to pour it in, then added a spoon.
Jay watched as X stormed out. The alien had definitely lost it this time.
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"Your pudding! I'm going to sleep!" X shouted as he stormed into the bedroom, deposited the pudding on the bedside table and started to stalk back out again.
"X, wait a minute!" Elle called as she reached for the spoon and her fingers went right through it. "I can't touch anything, remember. You're going to have to feed me."
"Feed you?!! Absolutely not! I have to draw the line somewhere!" X cried as he went back over to the bed.
"X, if I don't eat I'm never going to get better! I can't recover without food you know! So if you don't want to be stuck with U for the rest of your life...." Elle trailed off.
"I get the idea," X grumbled as he sat down on the bed beside Elle and picked up the pudding. He couldn't believe what he was about to do.
