Alright, I'm back with the second chapter of this story, hope everyone enjoys it! (btw, is nurse ham's real name Flora? I looked it up in Wikipedia, so don't hate me if it's a mistake lol)
Disclaimer: I do not own any of the Hamtaro characters, games, books, or anything else related to them. All I own is my made up hamster.
And so, the Ham-hams waited for the revival of this new guest that they were treating, but whenever they asked about his condition, they always received the same answer from Nurse Ham "he is getting better, that's all I know" and so they waited. After a couple of days, they were no longer scared of him, since Maxwell always came out of that room without being eaten, but rather, they wanted to know what he looked like, where he was from, personality, etc…
"Maxy," Sandy asked "Can you tell us anything of what he looks like?"
"Sorry Sandy, all I know is that he has white fur, but that's only because we saw it when we brought him inside. Besides, only Nurse Ham has seen him fully, and she won't tell anybody anything about him except his condition, which is fair, in a way. Guess we will have to see him and ask him when he wakes up."
This was a relief to everyone, since, what they got out of Max, was that he was in fact going to survive. Some of the hamsters started cheering, but Maxwell hushed them, so as to not disturb the hamster. They all nodded, and went to play outside.
However, about five days later, all the hamsters were sitting at the table, drinking Sunflower tea. Nurse Ham was checking on her patient, and Maxwell went to go get her a cup of tea. When he got the cup, and was nearing the door, every ham heard a scream, followed by what sounded like running. Maxwell, in shock, as all the other hamsters were, dropped the cup of tea on the floor, breaking it in pieces. He then turned the knob on the door and opened it. There, lying in the far right corner of the room was the hamster in question. He looked petrified, and looking in every corner of the room. It looks like he's searching for something, but what could it be? Maxwell thought. But, before he could go on, the Hamster, who he now noticed looked like Bijoux, except for the fact that he is a male, and taller with blue eyes, ran out of the room and knocked Maxwell down. Luckily for Maxwell, he didn't land near the shattered cup, since he was practically pushed out of the way. Unfortunately for the white hamster, he did.
"YOU DAMN PIECE OF SHIT CUP, WHY DID YOU HAVE TO BE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE FRIGIN DOORWAY!" He yelled at the top of his lungs; then sat down near the entrance, away from the glass, looking at empty space.
The Ham-hams were in shock; they have never used that much bad language, and never expected another to use it. They quickly backed off into a corner, were the girls were holding each other, and the guy's formed a ring around them, ready for anything.
Nurse Ham ran up to her patient, breathing heavily. "Well, it seems...that you have met our patient...Alive, but a little bruised. He made a full recovery...but it is abnormal, most hams take weeks to recover from something like what he's been thru, but him...give him less than a week, and he...is up and running, isn't that right?"
The Ham did not answer, only looked around the room, trying to take in everything at once. Suddenly, he looked down at himself, and started to blush like a tomato. He stood there for 3 seconds, then ran, or rather limped fast, into the bedroom, and locked the door.
"Humph, the nerve of that guy" said Dexter
"Now now Dexter, it's not his fault, remember, he took a blow to the head by that branch you found next to him, I bet he is trying to recover some sense of himself."
The others nodded slowly, waiting for him. The girls all had one thought at the same time He is cute. When they looked at each other, they blushed a tad bit. Luckily, none of the guys saw this.
The hamster came out of the room a few minutes later, with clothes on this time, which shocked all the others. He was wearing a dark blue pair of jeans, with a black casual-dress shirt, with the sleeves rolled up past his elbow and the top three buttons undone, showing the fur on his chest.
He just stared at all the hamsters for a while, until Hamtaro, taking the initiative, took a few steps foreword, until he was half-way between him and the other ham-hams. Bijoux, seeing him move foreword, also joined Hamtaro. They both stayed were they were, until the stranger limped up to them. Bijoux took a step back, because he gave a look that said 'don't mess with me'. Hamtaro didn't know what to do, he was scared, but he wanted to meet him at the same time. It came as a shock to everyone when the stranger put hispaw out, and smiled.
"Sorry about earlier, I was kind of scared out of my wits, finding myself in a bed, being treated by a Nurse, with a pounding headache, which is still there by the way. Oh, I'm sorry; my name is Brian, what's yours?"
"Hamha Brian, I'm Hamtaro, nice to meet you" and shook his paw
"Likewise…uh…is everyone else afraid of me or something?"
Hamtaro turned around, and saw that nobody moved any closer to Brian.
"Come on guys, let's great him like a proper ham-ham" Still nobody moved closer. "Sigh, what's gotten into you all? Come on Brian, let's go meet them."
So Brian Followed Hamtaro to the group, who didn't back up, but stood in one spot, frozen. Hamtaro was about to talk to them again, but Brian took the initiative and went to go shake Dexter's paw. Dexter, who was very serious about manners, took only a second to hesitate, before he shook his paw. Brian just looked at him with a smile. "You're the only other hamster that I have seen around that wears glasses."
Dexter, who was now warming up to Brian, spoke like nothing happened. "Really, well, I guess it's a good thing, since it means that a lot of hamsters can see properly. Out of curiosity, who is the other hamster that you have seen wearing glasses, maybe I might know them?"
Brian chuckled "You just met him" And reached inside his left breast pocket, took out a small pair of glasses, which were in a square,dark blueframe, unlike Dexter's round, brown pair, and put them on. "Much better, now I can see all of your faces more clearly." He then walked up to Sandy and held out his paw.
She shook it eagerly. "Hello Brian, My name is Sandy, glad to see that you made it out in one piece." Brian laughed "I guess it's a good thing that I came about, since I get to meet a pretty ham such as you." Sandy blushed a bit, thinking that he liked her or something. Maxwell, on the other hand, wasn't very happy.
But everything cleared up later, since everyone was rushing to meet this new guy. He was just being friendly to the girls, like if it was his nature, since he complimented on all of them, including Penelope. He also madegood friends withthe guys. Once he was done, he went up to Nurse Ham and thanked her properly, and asking her to forgive him for such a behavior while being treated.
"It was nothing, honestly, it's rewarding to see you up and about so much, and to report your speedy recovery, which was unusually fast by the way." She said with a smile.
"Oh, that, well, us Canadians do live in the cold most of the time, so I guess we have a tougher immune system." He chuckled. But that statement brought the attention of every ham.
"A what?"Everyone chorused
"A Canadian, the people that come from a country called Canada...you know, the country north of the United States, the cold one?"
Everyone was giving him a blank stare, all except Maxwell, who knew were it was. "Wow, you come a long way, Brian."
"Meh, I like to travel" He simply responded. Maxwell was not done talking however. "Brian, why do you say, that since you live in Canada, your Immune system is better?" Brian laughed "It's not exactly true, it was more of a joke to my location, which doesn't seem to work very well in Japan."
"You said it was cold up there Brian, non?"
Brian's ears immediately heard the French accent, and decided to give his new friends another surprise. "Oui, on a un hiver qui dure à peut près 4 à 5 mois" Everyone gasped, he knew how to speak French.
However, Bijoux stared at him like he was an alien. "Vo-vous savez comment parler le français?"
"Oui oui, je suis capable de parler les deux langues parfaitement, et mème un peut d'Espagnol et l'Allemand."
"Excuse me you frenchies, but could you go back to talking a language that we all understand?" Boss growled. He didn't like Brian much, since he knew a way to talk to Bijoux without anyone else understanding. His jealousy grew bigger with each passing moment.
"Oh, sorry Boss, I just love talking French, I think it's one of the most beautiful languages out there, pas vrai, ma belle?"
Bijoux could only blush and smile. She liked Brian immediately; she knew that they would be good friends.
"Sorry to break up the party, but I got to go back to the infirmary to check up on other patients, Bye-Q"
Before anyone could answer, Brian walked up to her "Thank you so much for what you did for me, if there's anything I could repay you, let me know, ok?"
"You got it! And please everyone, call me Flora." And with that, Brian did something no one would have done, he hugged her good-bye and kissed her on both cheeks. Nurse Ham was in shock, but thought that maybe this was his way to say good-bye, and so hugged him back, and kissed him on one cheek, even though she was blushing quite a bit.
"Bye-Q Flora!" everyone, except Brian said
"Bye-Q!" And she walked out the door.
Stan was the first one to talk to Brian after the Nurse left. "Dude, you got some mad skill at impressing the ladies, mind teaching me a few tricks?"
All the hams, except for Stan and Brian, fell over Anime style. But, before Sandy could berate her brother, Brian explained
"It's not what you think hams; I'm just being friendly towards her, since she did heal me. Besides, it's how I either greet or say good-bye to girls that are good friends, so don't get any ideas in your heads." He was talking seriously, but he always had a smile on.
There was an awkward silence for a minute or so, until Brian started gritting his teeth and sit down at one of the stools at the main table.
"Heke?" Hamtaro said.
"It's nothing, I just stepped on those cup pieces on the floor" he said, pointing to the entrance of the door. That's when Maxwell remembered what happened.
"Sorry Brian, it was my fault, I was bringing some tea to Flora, but dropped it when I heard…ah…someone scream."
Brian just grinned "It's ok, nothing permanent done. I'm glad I'm not bleeding, but there is a shard stuck in my foot that has got to come out." With that, he put left foot over his right knee, and, gritting his teeth, pulled out the shard in question out of his foot. Every ham gasped, but Brian never yelled or anything, just looked at it. "Uh, ok…now it's starting to bleed. Panda, do you have any cloth material with you or in your work/building area?"
"Uh, yeah I do...but how did you know I was a builder?" This got a lot of frowns from all the hams; for they never knew Brian before, so how come he knew a lot of things about them?
This brought sweat to Brian's forehead, and looked at all the Hams nervously. "Uh…Lucky guess?" The other hamsters still looked doubtful, but they didn't know Brian any better, so they took his word for it. While Panda went to get the cloth, Bijoux went up to Brian and tried to inspect his wound, but Brian was fussing about it. "It's ok Bijoux, I know how to fix small cuts, and it's nothing, really."
"You silly Hamster, this is more than a simple cut" Bijoux exclaimed. Panda came up beside them and tried to hand over the clothto Brian, but Bijoux snapped it away. "Here, let me do it"
"Bijoux, no, I won't let you get your paws or fur dirty with blood"
"You will sit down Brian, I'm not going to take a no for an answer, ok?"
Sighing, Brian let her bandage up his foot. "Is she always like this?"
"Yep" All the hamsters spoke at once, and then started laughing,including Bijoux.
2 minutes later, Brian's foot was completely bandaged. He tried to walk, but still limped a bit, although not as much.
"Well, I must thank everyone here for taking care of me while I was out for the count, and apologize to Maxwell for knocking him over earlier" Maxwell nodded "But I am tired, and I must return to my place, to get cleaned up, make sure everything is were it's supposed to be, and all that good stuff, take care everyone!"
"Wait!" Hamtaro said "will you come back tomorrow?"
"Sure, as long as everyone is ok with me being here…?"
"Yeah!" Everyone, except Boss, cheered.
"Alright then, but I might be a tad bit late, since I might sleep for a while" Brian said laughing "Take care!" With that, he turned arround and walked out the front door.
"Bye-Q" Everyone else said as he was leaving.
"Wow, he's a nice guy, right hams?" Hamtaro said
"Yeah" All the girls sighed at once, making some hams jealous, while others laughed at the girl's behaviour.
"What, at least he has some manners!" the girls said blushing
"I don't think that's all the girls think he has" Stan smirked
"Oh shut-up Stan!" yelled the girls.
Boss, however, wasn't too happy with Brian's attitude; already the girls were talking about him like some sort of dream. Well, things will have to turn around, if he was going to win Bijoux's affection.