The Mini Badass

Chapter 9

The next morning I'm awoken by a loud knock on my door. I groggily open it, rubbing my eyes.

"Figured you would like some new clothes." Lori tells me handing me a t-shirt, sweater and cargo pants. 

"Thanks." I tell her, putting the clothes on a near by table. "Also found this bad boy." She says whipping out a hair brush.

"Oh I love you." I mutter as she hands me the brush. "T-Dog offered to make breakfast, come down when you're ready."

I nod thanking her before she walks away.

I slip the loose t-shirt on, then the cargo pants. I quickly brush my hair before making my way down to the dinning room.

"Good morning!" I announce walking into the room. I greet everyone, sitting down next to a very hungover Glenn. 

"How'd you sleep honey?" Andrea asks, scrapping some eggs onto my plate. "First decent sleep in a while."

"You were right, the couches are comfy." I tell Dr. Jenner who gives me a glass of water.

"I'm glad."

I start eating, the eggs could use some salt but I am not gonna start complaining.

"Mornin'" Rick says walking in, holding his head. 

"Are you hungover?" Carl asks making me snort and lower my head. "Mom said you'd be."

"Mom is right." Rick says rubbing his eyebrows while sitting down next to his wife.

"Mom has that annoying habit." Lori mocks, taking a bite of her bacon.

"Eggs! Powdered, but I do them good." T-Dog shouts, still scrambling the eggs as he approaches

Glenn groans at the loud noise making me laugh at him. "Protein, helps hangovers." T-Dog tells the group, scrapping some eggs onto Glenn's plate.

"Don't ever ever ever let me drink again." Glenn moans and I rub his shoulder - still laughing at him-.

"Hey." Shane says, joining our little group. "Morning." I tell him before getting back to my eggs.

"Feel as bad as I do?" Rick asks his friend. 

"Worse."

When Shane turns around we all see scratch marks on his neck. "What happened to you?" T-Dog asks as I take a sip of water.

"I must have done it in my sleep." Shane says before I notice a very uncomfortable Lori. 

"Never seen you do that before." Rick tells him as I gently kick his wife under the table.

"You okay?" I mouth and she nods looking down at her plate before turning back to me. "Full." She mouths back as the men keep talking.

I nod getting back to my plate as Dale speaks up, interrupting Shane and Rick. "Doctor I don't mean to slam you with questions first thing-."

"But you will anyway." 

"We didn't come here for the eggs." Andrea adds making Jenner sigh.

Without saying anything else he walks out, motioning for us to follow. Doc leads us to the computer room.

"VI, give me a playback of TS-19." Jenner says and I realize that will never be normal to me.

The screen in front of us lights up, showing a digital brain. "Few people ever got the chance to see this." Jenner tells us as I lean against a table.

"Is that a brain?" Carl asks from beside me.

"An extraordinary one." Jenner tells us, turning to look at us. "Not that it matters in the end." He mutters, turning his gaze back to the screen.