"Talking"
¤Writing¤
#Signing#
7
Walter was just finish with the last part of his homework and was now in the mood for some coffee and maybe if there were more some cookies too, he had sort of forgotten to eat lunch that day being so busy with study the other in the team was for once not there, Toby was of doing something Walter just hope that it was not anything to do with gambling, Happy was at a motorbike thing, Cabe would have been at the garage but he text that he had felt under the weather and was staying home, Paige and Ralph was doing something for his school that would take the whole day and Sly was well Walter thought that Sly maybe with Megan helping her to learn sign language.
He walked the short distance to the kitchen to start making the coffee and see if he was in luck with the cookies.
But he was not in luck at all, the coffee can was empty, and so were the rest of the kitchen not a scrap of food and then it hit Walter, he was going to ask Cabe help him buy some food.
What to do now? He wondered he could of course go and get the food himself but it would be the first time he went out beside his attack alone, and also the first time he would shop for food things. He was not nervous of course not, it was just a big step.
Walter thought for a moment maybe he could wait and text Paige and ask her if she could help him with buying food, but he shook his head he was Walter O'Brien and he was hungry and wanted coffee, and most of all he was not going to let his hearing loss make him stop having a normal life!
So with that he decided to walk to the nearby store and buy what he needed and that was that.
The walk was just a few minutes and soon he was walking around picking up what he needed, everything was good and Walter was at the same time trying and see if he could remember all the sign he know that had to do with food and those he couldn't sign yet he would spell, he had just sign Chocolate cookies when a sharp nail poked him in the shoulder he turned around and was now face to face with an angry looking woman around Cabe's age.
Her mouth was moving but for Walter it was like watching a silent movie and he didn't know what to do, so he just waited for the woman to stop talking which she did after a few minutes when she notice that people were staring at them, she now glared at Walter with her hands on her hips and a look on her face like she wanted Walter to say something.
#Sorry I …# Walter started to sign but the woman slapped his hands down and started to talk or scream once again.
Walter started to feel just a little bit scared and thought that it would be best for him to remove himself from this woman and started to walk of but a hard hand grabbed his arm, the same arm that before had been broken, and pulled on it to stop Walter from leaving.
The feeling of someone pulling on his arm made Walter nearly panic and a growling sound escape from his throat this must have scared or surprised the woman as she let him go and Walter was not walk more jogging away hoping that the woman would leave him alone now.
He paid for his food and was just about to walk out when someone once again grabbed him, he turn around and saw the monster woman smirking and a man that he could guess was the owner of the store.
The man open his mouth and started talking but at this point was Walter not only hungry he was also really tired, so he put up a hand to stop the man.
¤Sorry I am deaf¤ he wrote on his phone and showed the man and woman.
The man nodded but the woman made a snorting sound.
"He is lying!" she nearly scream "He made gang sign and stole from me, arrest him!"
The man turn to Walter and after having pulled up a small notepad from his pocket he wrote down what the woman had said and showed Walter.
¤I was practicing signing the word of what I was buying¤ Walter wrote back ¤And I never saw this woman before nor did I steal anything from her.¤
The man told the woman this.
"He did steal from me!" she screamed in a shrill voice "He took the chocolate cookies my grandbaby want and when I told him that he started doing rude things with his hands at me!"
The store owner was starting to see that this woman was not going to back down and that Walter was not in the wrong.
¤You can go sir¤ He wrote to Walter and pointed to the door
Walter nodded and nearly ran out of the store not hearing the deafening scream.
"I WANT MY CHOCOLATE COOKIES!" that the woman screamed when she saw Walter was gone.
It took nearly an hour for Walter to calm down enough to make the coffee he had wanted, but in the end he sat on this sofa watching some T.V munching on the chocolate cookies he had got.
The episode at the store had scared Walter a bit not that he would really admit it if asked.
At the darkest he wonder if he ever would dare go out alone again or if he was doomed to have people buy groceries for him the rest of his life.
After watching TV for a few more hours and eating dinner, Walter got ready to go to bed.
He lay there in bed staring up at the ceiling as sleep slowly claimed him.
But he had not had a peaceful night dreams about the monsters of a woman haunted him mixed with the dreams about the assault made Walter wake up in cold sweat with a quiet scream on his lips over and over again.
Around 4 in the morning he gave up and walked or more stumbled down to the kitchen to make the coffee he needed to start his brain.
A/N:
So that happened, Walter meet a Karen.
The sign practice he did is how I practice sign when I was learning Sign Language again not ASL, and I still do it when I am bored.
I also like to point out that how Ralph's teacher taught the student is not really how you teach children sign language that I know, you do learn more than just one letter at the time, I made her this way to be mean to Ralph.