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Here's another chapter for you, hope you enjoy!
Sara had insisted that he should stay in bed for the time being. And that was what he had been doing for the last two days too, with the exception of the occasional bathroom break…
His leg was rested on top of a similar mountain of pillows, but he was in his own room by now…
He had found a variety of action movies in Gideon's database, and currently Speed with Keanu Reeves was playing on the big screen TV in his room.
He felt ashamed of the fact that he had chickened out and given in to the pain pills. But he honestly didn't see any other way around it, his leg had been and still was hurting immensely.
Someone knocked on the door, and Len looked up.
"Who's there?"
"I've got ice cream! And chocolate m&m's and salty peanuts…" a familiar voice spoke outside the door. "You up for it?"
"Gideon, open the door!"
The door slid open, and Mick stood in the hallway juggling two pints of ice creams, one bag of salty peanuts and a big bag of chocolate m&m's.
"Thought a little bit of comfort food was accounted for…"
"Traditions?"
"Traditions." Mick confirmed as he placed the stuff on top of the nearest table. "I planned to come by earlier, but as you know we've been busy…"
Len smiled as he carefully scooted a little higher up on the bed. The painkillers were doing what they should and he only felt a little pain.
"Remember the first time?" Len asked as he took the offered pint.
"Oh, I do!" Mick answered and tried to keep from laughing. "You messed up so badly, even I couldn't believe it!"
"Shut up…" Len said dryly as he rolled his eyes.
"One thing is breaking your leg. Another is to screw your leg up so badly you need five screws and a plate to hold it together, and doing so on a break job…"
"Shut up… It wasn't my fault…" Len announced as he opened the lid of his box, "And we didn't even get caught…"
"Not because of you…" Mick rumbled.
Len smiled, "I know."
"I carried your ass five blocks… And drove two states over to get you to a hospital." Mick declared as he put an armchair beside Len's bed.
"Was a good cover story though…"
"Hiking trip gone wrong? Works every time!" Mick smiled and poured a handful of peanuts and m&m's into his pint of ice cream.
"Especially when you're close to the Rockies…" Len agreed with a smirk. "When I woke up post op, you showed up with ice cream…"
"And m&m's and salted peanuts…" Mick added.
"Yeah… And suddenly breaking my leg sucked a little less…"
Mick chuckled, "Yeah, and you did the same for me the next time I landed myself in a hospital bed."
"That was the dislocation? Wasn't it?"
"Nah…" Mick answered around a mouthful of ice cream. "Was my first 3. degree…"
"The first burn…" Leonard shoved a topped spoon of ice cream into his mouth, "Right…"
LOTLOTLOT
They sat and watched the movie together for a long while. Not speaking, just eating ice cream and watching the movie. Mick had found another chair to rest his legs on, getting comfortable.
All of the sudden, Leonard winced and curled in on himself.
"Snart!" Mick called out, shocked. Suddenly afraid that his buddy's leg was hurting. "Are you okay?"
Leonard reached up and pressed his left hand to his forehead, a grimace firmly planted on his face.
"I'm fine!" he grunted, "Just brain-freeze…"
Mick laughed loudly, "Captain Cold can't handle a little bit of ice cream?"
Len's grimace finally eased into grin, and he let out a chuckle.
"No, I guess not…"
Yeah... Well...
I think I was long overdue for a little Snart and Rory friendly fluff... Agreed?
(I don't know if this ice cream combo is well known in other countries, but in Norway it's a pretty well known mix... But we have a chocolate candy named NonStop to go with it. It's dark chocolates covered with almost the same stuff as m&m's, but personally I think NonStops are better. I love dark chocolate... Yummm... And the cover stuff of the NonStops are flavoured!)
