(cw,, nsfw)
The day after returning to his friends Benatar set on trying to reform back to normal life. It was a little difficult though.
"When do you want to take YourFavoriteMartian off of hiatus?" Benatar asked Puff that morning, the breakfast the brit was eating was bigger than he used to have it, but that was because Axel was forcing him to eat more so he could get better faster knowing that the way Benatar usually ate wasn't going to make him regain much mass.
Puff slowly sipped his coffee "Can you still... You know, play the keytar?" He asked nervously; he was a bit on edge around the keytarist, the way his moods were in the hospital he wasn't sure if Benatar was completely okay mentally.
Benatar gave the lead martian the hairy eye "That's a dumb question; I've been playing the keytar since I was ten, I highly doubt two months can change that." He scoffed, the tiniest bit offended.
"Your hands are still fucked up." Puff put it bluntly, pointing at the bandages still wrapped thickly around the pale adults hands "You just had surgery."
"The doctor says I can get the stitches off in a few weeks."
"Okay dude, you made me say it..." Puff trailed off "Can you even pick up your keytar?"
Silence. The new keytar that Puff had gotten him was, since it was electric and made of metal, a lot heavier than his old one. Even his old one was considerably heavy since it was made of real, high-quality wood. That was how Benatar was unusually stronger than he looked, because he lugged around a heavy-ass keytar everywhere he went.
Not able to respond Benatar did the only thing that logically made sense to him at the time;
He very slowly dipped down in his seat until he was under the table and hid under it.
"Why is he doing that?" Deejay asked, watching in morbid fascination - Puff only shrugged and Axel spent the next half-hour trying to convince Benatar to get out from under the table.
"Peek-a-boo." Benatar said to Chancellor as he moved the pillow covering his face - she giggled but then gave him a long stare. Benatar returned her long stare by moving his hair out of his face but after a good look at still-dead, sunken eyes the little girl then burst out crying. He frowned, Axel came in immediately.
"What's wrong?" Axel asked as he picked up Chancellor and bounced her to hopefully put a stop to her crying - she buried her face in his shoulder and started biting there as her crying quieted down.
"Our daughter hates me!" Benatar informed him with a sad frown and crossed arms.
"She just needs to get used to you again." Axel reassured, and held out Chancellor so she was facing her father again. Once she looked the blonde in the face, she cried more and Benatar got even sadder "Hey don't worry." He said, to both of them as he brought Chancellor close to him "Chancellor isn't used to seeing you look like a zombie."
Benatar narrowed his eyes and Axel knew he said the wrong thing "Gee Axel, you really know how to make a guy feel better." He said and stalked off to sulk somewhere. Probably under the table again.
Axel sighed and looked down at his daughter, then cringed a little when she bit really hard into his shoulder "You can't even talk yet and yet you still get me in trouble." He said to her, then cringed again when she bit especially hard into his shoulder.
Later Benatar was sitting in the living-room portion of the bus in front of the TV, and clicked the on-demand setting. He had a mug of tea to drink as he watched.
"What are you watching?" Axel asked as he padded into the with a soda in hand.
"Game of Thrones." Benatar answered, taking a sip of tea "The new season came out while I was gone, so I'm going to binge on it."
