Chapter 2
When they walked back into the house, Murdoc went straight to the back hallway where the bedrooms were. Feeling this was not going to bode well for her, Angel trotted close behind him and sure enough he was headed towards her room. He was stripping her bed. "Um, why are you taking my sheets off?" She said in a very annoyed tone.
"So you can wash Em" he said, not looking at her.
She stared at him dumbly. What had she done now?
"I think you need to sleep in 2D's room in case he chokes or something else happens to dullard in his sleep. It'd make me sleep easier and since I pay you, you do what makes me happy, so I'll bring a cot in his room, and you git all the shit yew need to make a tiny, tiny, twin bed fer yoself" She was seething. He knew how much this would get to her. She adored night time in her room alone. She cursed herself for ever telling him that, one night when she first moved in and started her job and assured him it wasn't that bad.
She walked back to the kitchen to see 2D still standing there where they left him after shutting the front door. "Lemme make you your nighttime snack darlin" she said and forced a smile. That got a little grin out of him and she grasped his hand, prompting him to sit right there on the barstool in their kitchen. Murdoc walked noisily in the kitchen and shoved a big load in the already overflowing garbage can and started rifling through the fridge.
"Yew gonna git this bloody trash outta here or do we live in a complete dump now?" He snarled, continuing his rummaging.
"I'll get right on it boss" Angel said cheerily, for 2D's sake.
Murdoc would never ever tell her but since her arrival, 2D had been making expressions at times instead of the blank stare he always had on since the accident. Look at him now, thought Murdoc, dopey grin on his stupid face, can't say a word and has an attractive woman taking care of him 24/7, mentally cursing himself for hiring such an attractive woman. She was too good to be true though, her services at such a low price because of her spotted background, really let Murdoc actually live a selfish life again, which he could simply not give up a second time.
"Here ya go sweetheart" Angel put the pop tarts and milk down in front of Dullard, her voice soft and sweet, and rubbed the top of his hair a smidge. "I'll get you nice and clean in the morning." Angel cooed. Murdoc was also 'dating' a woman who was rich, solely bc he thought she'd help finance his band dreams and Angel knew for a fact she kept him under lock and key, they had already met one P.I. she had hired to keep tabs on Mudsy, making sure he stayed faithful and such. Angel sometimes liked to fuck with Murdoc when he knew the woman wasn't sexually satisfying and especially since this week she was out of town and he didn't dare slip up and try to shag a bird on the sly after he got caught the first time.
"We'll wash your hair," she started running her fingers through his blue locks, earning a low grunt from the empty headed boy, "soap you up good and make sure you smell as good as me." And pulled his face close to her frame, hugging him like a mother, but definatly sounding suggestive, Murdoc could swear she was doing it to piss him off.
He was staring rather blankly at Angel and 2D with an opened beer in hand. Now deciding to go to bed with said beer instead of drinking with company in the kitchen, he took a swig and burped, "can't find the cot Ange' but I DO want you right by his side, can't make the worlds greatest band happen if I'm in jail, so guess you'll have to sleep on the floor... Take out the trash first are you daft slag" he walked out of the kitchen and left Angel glaring at his backside.
Leaving 2D to finish his snack, she took the garbage out, falling twice in the process, and replaced the bag.
"Ok sweetie lets go" and took 2D by the hand to lead him to bed. She counted his pills and fed them to him, always reciting what each one was, hoping he may remember himself if he ever became responsive again. 2D laid his head down and when she heard his snores she carefully climbed into bed next to him.
She was NOT going to sleep on the floor. Besides, when she first came to employ by Murdoc, 2D regularily had night terrors on the cot Murdoc had him sleeping on and fell out of the bed, resulting in more injuries she had to treat daily. She argued for money to buy a decent bed, and took the small allowance given to her after much convincing, and found a king size bed being sold for fast cash on Craigslist. So it wasn't like she was taking up much space at all, 2D would never know she was there. The funny thing was after a few weeks of having Angel as his personal attendant, the night terrors stopped. Murdoc would've taken the bed himself but it was like playing Tetris for hours just to move it in initially, and Muds had too much equipment in his room already. Half of 2D's room was that big king sized bed.
She had locked the door in case Murdoc decided to make sure she was following orders, and had a thin pillow and blanket on the floor to look like she was sleeping there if he demanded entry in the middle of the night.
Reflecting on what a normal, peaceful night they had relatively, with delicious food she didn't have to cook or clean up after, and going to bed nice and early, she drifted off to sleep in what she realized was an amazingly comfy bed.