The Force

Adjusting

Bea's Pov

     I woke up in a bed. I had a pain in my shoulder but I was really warm. Like really really warm. Not a fever just warm. I opened my eyes and looked around. I was in my apartment thankfully. I felt the back of my neck for the chip and sighed in relief when it wasn't there. I don't know what they made me do. I don't even remember what happened before I got to the hospital. Not much of after either. Just that I saw Mari and Luke looking worried. My arm was fixed and reattached. I went to move it but...it was really hard. It wasn't heavy or anything just not reacting. I felt moment in the bed and froze. I turned off of my bad shoulder and saw Luke. Asleep. There was movement again. He put his arms around me. Oh my gods. I'm in bed with Luke.

     WHAT IN HADES DID I DO WHEN I GOT OUT OF THE HOSPITAL?!?

     I was still dress so we didn't do...that. I blushed at the thought then shook it away. Nevertheless he was still cuddling with me. It felt...nice. And secure. I needed that feeling.

     He stirred. I was looking right at his face when he woke up. He brown eyes looked into mine. I felt my cheeks flush and I rolled onto my back. He went to move his hand but I slowly moved my bad arm to his. I saw him blush out of the corner of his eye.

     "H-how are you feeling?" He asked.

     "Better. I can't believe it was Zeke who killed Dad..." I said feeling my eyes tear up. I sat up and hit my good hand on the bed. "I am going to catch him. All of them! If it is the last thing I do!" I said crying angrily. I felt a hand on my shoulder and saw Luke looking at me.

     "Take it easy okay. For now Dr. Ziegler said to get used to using the hand again. It's higher up now and needed new wiring," he said. I nodded and wiped my eyes with my good hand.

     "Okay," I said. My stomach growled loudly. I rubbed the back of my neck.

      "Hungry?" Luke chuckled. I nodded and smiled. I got up and walked into the kitchen. I looked at my arm and the new features. Luke grabbed me a bowl and looked in my cabinets. "Krave or Honey Bunches?" He asked.

     "Krave," I said. He nodded and grabbed the milk out of my fridge and made sure it wasn't soured. "Thanks," I said as I poured my milk with one hand. I was surprised that I didn't drop it. Good job me! I handed him the milk and he fixed a bowl for himself. I looked at my phone which was on the table. I picked it up and saw about ten missed calls from Mari. And one from an unknown number. There were the same amount of voice mails. I listened to them all smiling at Mari's concern. Then the unknown.

     "Hey dollface if your chip was still working you would be here with me. But it's not. Don't think you can escape from me. We will find you again," Zeke's voice said. I shudders and threw my phone on the table.

     "What what's wrong?" Luke said. I showed him the voice mail and he frowned. "Nobody in the squad is going to let anything happen to you. I know for a fact I'm not," he said. I think he didn't know he was going to say that out loud because he blushed and looked down. I smiled and went back to eating.

After we finished up it was about 10 am. I walked into the living room and moved my arm around getting used to it. I took a breath and stood on my hands. Luke walked in right as my shirt fell. I yelped and fell on the floor pulling my shirt down. Luke's face was red. I felt my face flush and I sat on the couch covering my face. He sat down next to me and I looked up at him.

"I-I did not mean to see that. I don't mean to stare either. Wait shit that is not what I meant to say fuck," he said getting more flustered I smiled a little and sat up straight. I grabbed my remote to the tv and thought for a moment.

"How much do you play video games?" I said. He looked up.

"When I'm not sleeping and I'm off work that's what I do. Mostly stuff with Jon and Ohm," he said. I nodded and grabbed my two x-box controllers. I tossed him one and put in the mortal combat disc. He smiled. I chose multiplayer and test your luck. Then it came down to characters. He chose Cyrax and I chose Noob Saibot. He laughed.

"I've never seen anyone play him," he said. I let a small grin grow on my face.

"I'm not the best at this game but he is my main ho," I said. He laughed and shrugged. The four add ins where chosen and I got faster speed. I smiled and got ready to do the combo. When it started I did the move and disappear then reappeared pulling him off the ground and into the air then back down. I kept doing this. He could hardly get a hit in soon the round was over and I won. He looked at me in shock.

"I thought you said you weren't good at this?!" He said with a bit of a laugh. I smiled.

"Marissa and I were roommates at school and she had this game. When I first played she let me look at the combos once so I memorized this one. We played test your luck and she would rage so much. She almost broke the controller she fixed. Then one day she did break it," I said laughing. We played for awhile then stopped at about noon so I could get a snack. It was a fun day. And by then my arm was back to normal. Well as normal as a metal arm can get.