A Gift To You

Something sweet| Norton

"Ok,which one of you little shits ate my doughnut?" Norton stood at full hight,a menencing 7 ft and 9 inches tall as he questioned the potential thieves in front of him.

Mike,Kreatcher, Luca, and Naib.

"I thought there was an emergency" Luca blinked, that's the only reason he showed up.

"This is an emergency,Balsa"

"Ohhhh he used the last name! Someone's getting their ass beat~" Mike snickered

"One of you bastards ate the doughnut I was saving,so who was it? I promise I won't beat you too hard, I won't even use my magnet" He'd used his magnet to back hand someone before,it was very,veryeffective.

"What makes you think it was one of us?" Kreatcher sipped his water,he didn't particularly care for sweets so he knew it wasn't him even if he had kleptomania.

"A theif, a prankster, an inventor who rarely leaves his room and a mercenary that eats half his body weight in a day, what do you think?" Norton tapped his boot impatiently, he had been looking forward to that doughnut for hours! You'd made a large batch a few days ago and it had been the last one left. Norton knew Luca had one and seemed to like them, Naib ate just about everything in sight, Kreatcher probably stole it out of habit and Mike just liked to fuck with people,usually him.

"That...thats fair," Kreatcher was use to everyone pointing the finger at him when things went south but this time...it felt justified,so he wasn't too upset," I dont like sweets so it was probably the assassin"

"Hah?! I ain't eat it!" Naib snapped and kicked the back of the chair Kreatcher was sitting on.

"Naib you eat just about everything" Mike pointed out, William had to put the doughnuts on a higher shelf just to keep the merc from eating them all. He was comically short after all.

"No I dont!" He felt personally attacked! He didn't eat that much...did he? "I dont have time for this" he stood up and left along with everyone else.

"Bye Norton,good luck with your doughnut thief" Mike waved good bye to the ex-miner,leaving him to think if who else could have stolen his dessert.

"Damn it," he tried thinking, Aesop? No the little weirdo wouldn't even take his mask off, Martha? Nah she wasn't that obsessed with them...Kevin was an option, he was just as big of a eater as Naib. Freddy was a liar and a bastard so it could have been him...or maybe it was a hunter! Robbie was a child,he could have easily eaten it! Wait- Robbie didn't have a head...so he was out of the question. Antonio was a tall son of a bitch but then again Antonio was banned from coming into the kitchen because his kept getting hair in everyone's food.

"Norton? You needed me for something?" You gently tapped his elbow and he jumped.

He didn't ask you for anything so why were you-

"Mike told me you needed help with something, is everything OK? Is your leg still hurting?" He pulled something yesterday and his leg hadn't been as stable as it usually was. It worried you a bit considering how independent Norton was.

"Mike you little fucker-" Norton swore.

"What? What happened?" You asked, did Mike lie about something? He didn't seem the type. Norton let a grunt and shook his head 'No'. He wasn't going to bother you over something dumb,he'd just wait until you made a new batch of sweets.

"Oh is this about your doughnut? Sorry NortNort, but I saw a roach crawl onto it, I had to throw it away"

Yeah,that sounded like his luck alright but he was greatful that you threw out the sweet before he got too it and- wait did you just call him 'NortNort?'

"....NortNort?"

"What,you don't like it? I give all my friends nicknames" The prospector had never really been...chatty with other survivors, he mostly kept to himself,watching from afar and listening. He'd never considered being friends with anyone else here either so for you to suddenly announce that to him,it caught him off guard.

"Since when were we friends?"

You stopped and looked at him,"oh...are we not? I mean,we work really well together during matches and you seem a bit more chatty with me so I just thought-"

"Im kidding"

You pouted at him and slapped his arm,"That was mean! I thought you were mad at me for real!"

He grunted,"Mhm"

Don't 'mhm' me! You gotta let me know these things!" You were a bit more friendly than most survivors and sometimes you forgot that people didn't enjoy sudden contact unlike William or Kevin who'd let you hug them out of the blue, you tried to give Andrew a hug once and he just about jumped out of his skin.

"Mhmhnhn" he had a deep,muffle of a laugh that you could feel,even from five feet away.

"Rude, you don't get anything! I'm going to give them all to Jospeh!" Surprisingly Jospeh had a bad sweet tooth and often swung by to see if anyone had made anything,that being said he was also a bit more merciful to you during matches.

"So loud" he followed you into the kitchen and sat backwards in a chair.

"Wait wait wait wait,what do you think you're doing?" You looked at him after washing your hands and he blinked at you.

Well he was sitting down? What did It look like?

"No no no you get up and you help me bake! I'm not doing this all by myself!"  You threw an green apron with purple flowers on it at his face,which he caught with ease.

"Why?" Norton was no baker, he was certainly not a cook, he was going to sit and watch you do your thing,grab a freshly baked doughnut or two...or five and hibernate in his room.

"Why? Uh cause I'm making some for everyone? José helped me last time so now you get to help!" You grabbed him by the hand and tugged, he didn't budge,"NortNort! Come on!!" You tugged on his hand harder. Campbell was massive so your little yoinks felt more like a puppy pulling on his pants leg.

"Fine, fine" He got up and let you lace your fingers together,they were so small compared to his ruined ones. They had a few scars from tiny nicks and scrapes but they were soft, squishy and boney. He wasn't quite sure why he let you take his hand like that but it felt nice, he was use to having rocks for friends and dirt to tell his secrets too, so to feel something else besides roughness and dirt he enjoyed it but maybe that was just him being touch starved.

"Did you wash your hands?"

"I can't with you holding it"

"We can wash them together!"

"Ew,your gross"

You swatted at him,"I am not!"

"Mhmhmhn" he laughed again, maybe he'd come down and visit you more often....maybe.