This chapter is Reader PoV

I need to hurry cleaning my flat before Myriam comes by. I don't want her to pull up some jokes about "my lazyness and messy habits" in front of Revenant.

I throw a glance to the clock.

"9:27... She can be there at any instant now."

I almost step on Suki while rushing to the kitchen.

Tiding up some tools lying around...
Mopping the floor promptly...
Cleaning the dinning table...

Did I dust the furnitures?

"Hey, skinsuit! How long should we wait for your sis to come by?"

Oh... And now he is getting impatient.

"Why being so agitated all the sudden? Sounds like you're eager to see her. Wanna flirt maybe?"

...

"Did you just made up a joke so I won't complain anymore?"

"Maybe?"

After a bit of silence, he let a quiet laugh get through the threshold of his mouth:

"Well, you won. I'd rather stay disabled than hearing your lame sense of humour."

I thought he was angry but seems like he is just bored and want some bantering.

With a smile, I enter his bedroom and say:

"I can do worse. Let you being disabled AND make stupid puns all day and night."

"Don't."

"How do you make a good egg-roll?"

"I don't want to hear it."

"You push it down the hill!"

"Stop it!"

"What kind of underwear does a cloud wear?"

"Stop!"

"Thunder pants !"

"Oh my god!"

I'm about to throw another 'dad joke' when the doorbell rings.
I give the simulacrum a joyful grin and tell:

"You should thank her for sparing you from my puns."

"Ha! Not happening."

I leave with a soft laugh and open the door to Myriam who greeted me with a:

"Y'all having fun there. Can I join?"

She enters the appartement with two big bags on her shoulders. One full of tools, screws and wires. The other lets a pair of hands popping out from the zipper.

"Can you make me a coffee y/n? Didn't got any yet and I'm craving for it."

"Sure. Ultra super dark as usual i guess?"

"You got it sis !" She says while going to our patient room.

Am i dreaming? Everybody is in a good mood and nothing bad has happened yet. Weird...

Of course, i had to burn myself with the coffee while thinking about it.

Well, let's hope that would be the worst today can offer.

What could have been worst than burning myself with the coffee ? Having an incident due to our stupidity !

I'm bitting my lips very hard to avoid cursing at myself and Myriam seems to sweat a lot under the pressure.

How could have we forgot about this ?!

Sure, we repaired his spine and facial features. But we forgot to check his limb's junctions !

Revenant asked that we start with his right arm but the shoulder is full of debris and some pieces need to be changed or repaired.

We are lucky that he is feeling patient and cooperative today and didn't slur at us about this chaotic situation.

I mean... He did swear at us in the beginning when we tried to force the limb in his shoulder.
But I won't complain about it. We messed up and hurt him, so the "stupid useless skinsuits" was deserved.

For now, he is silently looking at us, hissing sometimes when the pain builds up in his nerves.

I'm so embarrassed about what happened. I can't stand his glare. I don't even know if he is mad at us or not but I don't want to cross his eyes and discover it.

It took us one more hour than expected to repair the damaged shoulder and connect his arm.

Myriam let a deep sigh blow through her mouth and pat my back while leaving the room:

"I'm going to make myself another coffee and rest a bit. Y/n can you do the first test with him and explain what will happen next? Thanks!"

And then, she closes the door and leave me alone with the simulacrum.

A very silent simulacrum who is staring at me. I can feel it.

...

...

" I'm sorry for what happened Revenant... "

" You're pathetic... "

" I know... Sorry. We were so glad to bring your arm back, we... Well you know what happened, no needs to explain more."

I was already looking at the floor but now I'm looking at my feet. I still can't stand his look. That's so embarrassing.

" You know you'll have to look at me for the test, right? Stop being a coward and face me. "

I forgot how good he is at reading into people's mind.

I'm even more embarrassed now but I've no choices left.

Our eyes finally meet and for some reason, I don't feel any anger in him. Thinking about it, his voice was pretty calm and soothing. He just looks a bit dissapointed and annoyed by all this agitation.

"I'm waiting."

Oops.

"Right. Hum hum... So, we'll first try your arm and see if you need any adjustments. Then, we will regularly test it on a twenty four hour period to be sure that everything is good. We will test the mobility, the strength, the resistance and how responsive it is. Meanwhile, I will check the other junctions for the futur limbs that we will put on later. "

" You better do. Don't want to relive this again. "

" Promise, you won't. "

He just hums back at me.

We start the test together. The arm seems to work properly and just needed some oil in the elbow.
We noticed a bit a latency in his reflexes but it might be due to the long period he was without it. He just needs to re-adapt to it.

"Hey little skinbag, can you comes closer for a sec?"

I approach without questioning and get a flick on my nose.

"Oww !"

"That's for the troubles you put me in today. Be glad I didn't harm you for real."

This was so unexpected that I couldn't resist laughing loudly.

Myriam comes in, a bit confused :

"What's happening? You're always having fun without me."

"Hey doc', come closer."

I pin his hand on the bed and try to talk in between laughter:

"No! Don't come! It's a trap!"

The rest of the day was fairly quiet and peaceful. I brought Revenant a phone, a TV and some books so he will feel less bored whenever i'm not here. Or whenever he doesn't want me here.

Today wasn't that bad, afterall.