When Annus woke up again, he was hungry. There was a literal pit in his stomach. It felt as if he hadn't eaten for weeks. It was paired with the dull aftertaste of the first time he had woken up. Annus didn't remember it. In fact, the first memory he had after passing out in Marvin's study was how he stood in the middle of the bedroom, Unus standing in front of him with his hands outstreched as if he was trying to tame a velociraptor.
He made his way downstairs, a dull pressure on his shoulder with every step. Unus was sitting in the kitchen. The food on his plate looked as delicious as no food had ever looked to him before.
»Ah, you're finally awake,« Unus said in between bites. »There's some more in the fridge for you. Just gotta reheat it.«
It smelled like heaven. He thanked whoever build the machine that they implemented microwaves.
Unus was trying to get some ketchup out of it's bottle. As it is the nature of ketchup, the red liquid adamantly refused being freed from it's glass prison at first, only to erupt from it like a landslide.
»Hmm,« Unus said, looking at the blob of ketchup on his plate. »Kinda looks like Benjamin Franklin.«
»It does,« Annus agreed, studying the saucy founding father. After finishing the first course in record speed, he asked Unus how long he had been out.
»You slept the whole day. How are you feeling?«
»Hungry,« he responded, shovelling more food on his plate and putting it back into the microwave. »That means it's Valentine's Day today, isn't it?«
»I guess so.« Unus looked over at the calendar. »So, if you could date anyone, real of fiction, show would you date?«
»Elastigirl.« The answer shot out after a few seconds, which were probably taken to evaluate whether or not 'The Grinch' would have been a valid answer. »What about you.«
»I think I'd like to go on a date with Benjamin Ketchup. He's sweet, popular, and he's got ambition.«
»We should celebrate this day.«
Unus looked up from an intense eye contact with Benjamin Ketchup.
»Why? The only people who celebrate Valentine's Day are couples and frat boys who want to get drunk...«
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In Memoriam - An Unus Annus Fanfiction
Fanfiction365 days. Unus and Annus have one year left until their death. Trapped in strange machine, relentlessly hunted by Blank and Dark, a fight against the clock begins. Will they be able to find their way out, or will their story be lost in the sands of...
