The greenhaired alien - Inazuma Eleven

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Former Epsilon striker had finally gotten used to his luxurious room. He slept well, stopped overthinking, and slowly started to feel human again. For the first time in years, he felt content. Until he woke up with a fruit basket on his nightstand. Maybe the maids put it there yesterday, and he didn't notice. That's what he told himself, but deep down he knew that wasn't the case. And when he saw a red envelope, his heart dropped. Maybe if Zeke didn't open it, he could pretend he missed the note, he could just throw the entire basket away. But his body didn't listen to his thoughts, and before he knew it, the envelope was ripped open. It was a birthday card, it had a three on it. When he opened the letter,  Little Star played.

'Congratulations, it has been 3 months since our collaboration ended. You must be so pleased.

-T'

Then he started to pay attention to the lyrics.

'Little, little, little child, I'll pour cement onto those bright eyes.

It is smart to leave this place, or you become a murder case.

Twinkle, twinkle, twinkle star, You and your humans started a war.'

"No," he whispered. His hands started to tremble. "No, no, no," he kept repeating. "Fuck!" A second or so he heard a knock, and his heart dropped.

"Zeke, what is going on?" He sighed in relief when he heard Dave's voice. "You have exactly two seconds to open that door!"

Jordan had woken up, and as his girlfriend, I was the first to visit. That was after of course, they'd figured out I couldn't get that radiation from him. 

I glared at the pale boy, and despite my worries for him, I was furious.

"Care to explain how you scratched your stomach open to the point you could see your own ribs?" He sighed and gave me an 'are you kidding' look. "Rho, darling, please, do I look like a tiger? There is no way I did that. I'd pass out of pain." I supposed he was right. I sat next down to him on the bed, and Jordan rested his head on my shoulder. "It's what the doctors and Aphrodi say." He hummed.

"What's happening to me?" Jordan asked quietly. I immediately regretted being so cold to him. "I don't know honey, but it'll all be okay." He looked up at me, his eyes glassy. "How do you know?"

"Intuition." Jordan raised a brow, and I smiled. "What, are you saying I don't have a good intuition?"

"Well..." I gasped. "Excuse me, but did I or did I not treat you kindly during your alien time?" He stuck his tongue out. "You're just gonna use that for every argument we'll ever have, won't you? Hey, remember when the first day you were convinced it was a good idea to walk up to one of these 'aliens', and you got hit?" 

"Oh shut up," I reacted with a smile. What a day that was. "Don't ever tell anyone this, but that action threw us off so much, that there was an emergency meeting afterward. And another one when you called me hot." I snorted to control my laughter, and Jordan giggled.

"They were all like, oh no, the alien concept isn't scary enough! You should've seen the panic." We both burst out in laughter now, but I was a bit worried about how Jordan acted as if nothing happened. 

"Hey Jor, do you remember how this," I said, and I pointed at his hospital bed, "all of this happened?" He shrugged, great. "Maybe the meds make me forgetful," he suggested. I still believed he did it himself though, who else could it have been?

"Did the doctors tell you about the radiation and adrenaline stuff? I don't understand much, but Wills explained it a bit." Jordan looked at his hands. "There is this thing at alius, it makes you a bit stronger, faster, stuff like that. There was quite a lot in the... place I stayed at." I felt a bit of anger boiling up when he talked about the 'place'. Fucking aliens, they would never get away with that.