Hurricane // Danger Days (Book 2)

09.

Storm woke up, and the first thing he felt was his head about to explode.

He sat up groggily and rubbed his temples, to no avail. Hangover, he diagnosed.

He had been drunk before, yeah, but never as bad as last night. He tried to remember what had happened, but it was a bit fuzzy.

Yelling at Revolution, them yelling back, being punched in the face... then it went blank.

He flopped back onto the couch, sighing.

Wait, couch?

He sat up again, and looked around. He found himself looking at the inside of a small trailer house, which was completely unfamiliar. He had no idea how he got there.

He stood up, ignoring the throbbing pain in his head, and realized there was someone in the kitchen making coffee. He recognized the choppy black hair with a bit of red underneath as Capricorn.

Capricorn noticed that the other Killjoy was awake, and smiled at him. "Hey, it's alive!"

"Uh..." Storm said, his voice raspy. "How did I get here?"

"You were smashed drunk last night," Capricorn laughed. "You didn't wanna go back to the Nest, for obvious reasons, so you asked to crash at ours for the night. Then you passed out in our backseat."

Jeez... "Would you maybe have anything to, ya know," he gestured toward his head, "clear this up?"

"Sorry man, the only pain meds out here are BLI ones, and we know you don't want any of those."

"Shit," Storm muttered.

"Yeah, it is." Capricorn opened a cabinet and pulled out a can of Power Pup. "Want some breakfast?"

"Definitely," Storm agreed, taking the can. He also grabbed a can opener and a spoon from the other Killjoy, and was soon devouring the disgusting dog food.

"Coffee's ready if you want some," Capricorn said after a minute.

"How'd you even get coffee out here?"

"Poison gave us like six bags of it as a 'returning to the desert' gift. But we hardly ever use it, except when I'm having a craving."

"Oh yeah," Storm hummed in response. "I remember that." He continued to observe the small house. There was the living room where he had been sleeping, which was connected to the kitchen in which he currently sat at a small table. There was a hallway that led to three other rooms, which Storm assumed were the brothers' rooms and the room that their third member had used.

"Wait," Storm said, "You have a TV? Dude, where'd you get that? Does it work?"

Capricorn grinned as he sat next to Storm with his coffee. "It was just in here when we found this place. And yeah, it works. We're in Zone Three, so Hunter managed to hack into BLI's power grid. It gets some awesome video games!"

"Al says she's always wanted one for the Nest."

"Yeah, she's been trying to take this one off our hands for years, but we're kinda attached."

Just then, Hunter stumbled in. "Dude, it's like, 1000 hours," he said, "why the hell are you up? It's too early."

"Nah," Capricorn told his brother, "the sun is up, and so are we."

"What's up, Storm?" Hunter greeted. "You had one hell of a night last night!"

"Yeah," Storm laughed. "I'm hungover as hell, but otherwise fine."