Not so Bright Lights - Inanimate insanity AU

Little Mistakes

Test tube was sitting at her desk working on an experiment while she waited for Oj's arrival. She didn't know what it would do, but she would find something to test it on eventually, probably a plant or something. She sat it on a table a few feet away from her desk for later, and stood up, hearing the noise of someone coming through the vending machine, then footsteps.

"Hello Oj," she said, turning around to look at the object walking in. She gave a small wave.

"Hey Test Tube, so uh about the experiment I wanted to talk about, do you have any ideas? I know i brought up the idea and stuff and probably shouldve known what I wanted, but.. I dont have any ideas.."

"Depends, what TYPE of experiment are you looking for? Social experiment, one that alters appearance, one thats on a non-living object, etc?"

"Don't know, I was thinking one that includes people, I feel that could be interesting. Maybe alters appearance? A social experiment could also be cool.."

"Includes people.. anyone specific? That could be out first step in figuring out what were doing"

Oj stood there for a minute, thinking. "How about.. lightbulb? I've always wondered if glass objects will immediately die if broken, coming from a glass object, it seems interesting" He leaned against a table, thinking.

Test tube sat back down at her desk. "That might be a bit dangerous, i dont wanna hurt her too badly. But, That would work i guess, I just need to find out a way to get her here without anyone noticing."

Test tube rummaged through some stuff on her desk, when she heard a "WOAH!" come from where Oj was. She looked over to see Oj falling back against the table and the previous experiment test tube was working on about to fall after. "WAIT OJ WATCH OU-" Crash. There it went. The glass of the vile was on the ground and the liquid was spilt all over Oj. But little did they know, some of the liquid spilt IN him.

"My experiment.. I had just started that.." She sighed. "Are you alright tho? I have no idea what that liquid does.."

Oj looked up at her, his hands sitting on a spot on his glass. "I mean, i have a bit of a headache.. but I'm fine I think.."

Test tube noticed cracks coming from around ojs hands. "Uh Oj, could you maybe move your hand down..? I think i see something. "

"Uh, yeah." He put his hand down and looked at test tube. He had his eye closed, so he didnt even notice that he couldnt see out of it.

"Your glass.. its a bit.. well, cracked.." She said standing there awkwardly. "Im gonna clean up the mess.. then I'll find you bandages or something for your glass. Just, try not to knock anything else over.. please..."

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He stood back up. After taking his hand off his glass, he realized how bad it stung. "Hurry up test tube, can you clean up the mess after.. My eye and stuff hurts, and i can feel juice slowly draining. I hate when its empty.."

With a sigh, Test tube set down the broom she was using to clean up the mess. "Follow me and I'll give you some bandages. Afterwards, you should probably head back to the hotel."

They walked to a room near the entrance to the lab. Test tube rummaged through some cabinets and pulled out a roll of bandages.

"Why are there so little bandages on the roll-? shouldn't it be like- full?" Oj looked at the roll of bandages confused. Do injuries really happen that often-

"Its a lab, you really expect it to be full? I make mistakes all the time so I always keep these handy."

"Oh"

"Now sit in front of the mirror if you want to see how it looks, and so i can put the bandages on easier."

He sat down in chair near the mirror and looked at  what was causing him the pain. There was a large hole from the rim of his glass, with cracks that ran far down his glass. One reallt noticeable one was over his eye. He couldnt open his eye. He hoped it was just because of the crack being fresh, and that it would stay like that.

"Woah.. didn't expect that it was THAT bad.." He looked in the mirror again. "Can you just, get the bandages on.. it hurts the more I look at it"

Test tube wrapped the bandages around the crack on  his glass. She stopped in the middle of it. "Thats a really large crack, and not much of the experiment was on the floor. Do you think some of that liquid spilt inside you..? That would be bad.."

Oj looked up. "Im sure its fine. Just hurry up."

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Test tube continued wrapping the bandages, and when she finished she put the roll of bandages back into the cabinet it was originally in. "We can talk about the experiment tomorrow. Go back to the hotel and meet me here again tomorrow. You need to let the crack sit."

"Why can't we talk about it now? Im fine."

"Because you should go back to the hotel so that your head doesn't hurt as much when we talk."

"I'll be FINE. We can talk about it NOW." Oj slightly yelled in a threatening tone. Test tube noticed something though. His juice was sloshing around in a weird way. It didnt usually do that. "Go. Back. To. The. Hotel. You can come back tomorrow."

"Fine." And as that was said, Oj left and headed back to the hotel.

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He walked toward the hotel, somewhat pissed. His glass gets cracked, and test tube won't let him talk about the experiment today. Its going to be another boring night. He opened the door to the hotel and noticed the cherries sitting at a desk, drawing. Guess they didnt have anything to do either. They probably had no prank ideas.

"Hai Oj!!" they said, waving.

Oj looked over at them. "Uh, hey kids"

The Cherries waved, then stood up and started heading over to him. "Where have you been? Paper had started to worry because its been..what, 3...hours..since you left? I dunno, he just asked us to watch for you."

"Oh, if you see him tell him I'm fine." Oj walked away into his room without continuing the conversation.

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Oj sat down on his bed. His head hurt like hell, his body hurt like hell, he just wanted to sleep.. but all he could think about was the argument with test tube earlier. He didn't expect to feel that mad.. with a sigh, he laid down. But, he just twisted and turned for the next hour trying to sleep. He tried shoving his head into the pillow. Then he heard the door open quietly.

"Hey Oj, I was really worried about you..I didnt think you would take that long. The cherries told me that you were back. Why were you gone so long?"

"Paper..? Is that you.?" Oj turned from where he was laying to stare at who just came in. He squinted, trying to adjust his eyes since he it was dark in his room.

"Uh, yeah, but what took you so lo-" mid sentence, he paused. "what the hell happened to your head Oj..are you alright?" He spoke quickly in a worried tone. The bandages caught him off guard.

"I'm alright, my head just hurts.. and I can't fall asleep.." He sat up as Paper sat down on Oj's bed.

"Do you need anything? Like new bandages, an ice pack, or anything else?"

"No.. I just want to sleep.."

"Are you su-"

"LET ME SLEEP." Oj said, sounding incredibly annoyed. He was, but he didnt usually yell like that when he was tired.

"I- alright.. sleep well.." and with that, Paper left the room, leaving Oj to (try to) sleep.