Lucas spending the night

[basic_powers]

It's not that long a walk upstairs to #238, and by the time they get up to the room door, Lucas can probably hear the scratching at the other side of the plain wooden door.

"Winston, sit!" Tyler says firmly as he opens the door up.

"Koh!" Is the answering bark from the black and gold cat-sized creature waiting on the otherside, who is sitting.

For all of five second before moving forward to sniff at the person who has come up with his human with a low rumble.

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[pullsneedles]

Lucas gasps and takes a step back.

It doesn't sound like the aggressive drago, at least. He's wary about the metal but, as long as it listens to Tyler, he supposes there shouldn't be a problem.

"Nice cyberraptor," he says, cautious.

Lucas smells predominately of river and mud as well as the hint of being around farm animals earlier that day.

"You got a room all to yourself?" he asks.

[basic_powers]

Most of Winston's sniffing DOES pick up on regular scents...but it's also a sensitive power detector.

Tyler's just going to be passing Lucas a small plastic packet full of..what's Emu Jerky? "They're his favorite."

Tyler's room in Milliways is to himself...so far because Toby hasn't shown up here yet. There's a shelf up above the bed filled with several little treasures most notably a small glowing stone and an intact bird's nest. And the bed itself is pretty simple, a single bed with a red coverlet and clean sheets with a couple of plush toys snugged up by the pillow. There're shelves along the wall and filled with books and comic long boxes, but the bottom rows are all empty...

[pullsneedles]

Much like, if Lucas got a room here, it would be to himself so far because Claus hasn't shown up yet.

"Oh, okay," he says, looking at the Emu Jerky.

He opens up the package and holds the jerky out for Winston to take.

"I should probably clean up. I don't want your bed to get all dirty."

He pulls a little at his striped shirt.

"Do you have anything I can borrow?"

[basic_powers]

"I got some t-shirts and pants you can borrow."

Winston, meanwhile upon smelling the emu jerky goes into what can only be described as a very silly jumping dance before grabbing the jerky out of Lucas' hand.

Gromnomnomnomnom.

"The bathroom's that door over to the left, and it's got towels and strawberry no-tears shampoo." Tyler calls from the closet over on the right.

[pullsneedles]

Lucas smiles just a tiny bit at Winston.

"He reminds me of Boney," he says, watching the cyberraptor eat.

He goes over to the bathroom door and steps inside. He looks in the bathtub and sees the faucets.

This is a bit new for him. He twists one of the knobs and jumps back when he hears the weird sounds as the water forces its way up through the shower head. Once he reaches in through the resulting steam, he jumps back again to find the water's scalding hot.

"Wow, a hot shower," he comments.

He turns the knob to the off position and tries the other knob. He doesn't jump as much when the shower runs this time and he puts his hand in again.

"Now it's cold."

He turns it so both knobs are on until he likes it, undresses, and takes his shower. He finds the soap and takes care of most of himself but then remembers that Tyler mentioned strawberry no-tears shampoo. He finds the bottle with the telltale strawberries on it and reads the back.

"What's shampoo for anyway?"

When he reads it's for his hair, he takes some from the bottle and lathers it up.

It's odd how therapeutic the smell of strawberries and a hot shower is.

[basic_powers]

And the towels Tyler mentioned are on a rack just by the sink with it's mirror.... Far from the spray of the shower. Lucas probably didn't know that you have to draw that plastic curtain closed to keep the floor rug from getting wet. So there's several puddles formed around the bathtub on the surrounding tile floor.

"Hey Lucas?" Tyler's going to knock on the door, holding onto an orange t-shirt and some grey sweatpants, before peering in.

[pullsneedles]

Fortunately, Lucas heard the knock on the door when he was finishing up and was putting a towel on when Tyler peers in.

"Yes?" Lucas says, turning to the door.

And then, before he forgets, says, "Thank you for letting me use your hot shower."

[basic_powers]

"No problem...next time, just draw the plastic curtain shut when you use it." Tyler replies not really looking at Lucas, but holding the clothes towards him. he's trying to figure out how to clean up all the puddles so the Oompa Loompas don't get too upset.

[pullsneedles]

"Oh, I'm sorry," he says, looking at the puddles. "I can help clean those up."

He then takes the clothes and says, "Thank you for letting me borrow your clothes, too."

[basic_powers]

"It's no trouble. If we leave your dirty clothes out in the hamper, we'll get em back all cleaned, dried and folded in the morning." He's just going to start pulling down the rest of the towels to mop up the floor. "Towels too probably."

[pullsneedles]

"Well, if you're sure," Lucas says.

[basic_powers]

"I'm sure, it's not really home, but I've stayed here before."

It doesn't take much to get the bathroom mostly dry again, and the dirty and wet laundry thrown into the hinged opening in the wall.

"I'll set up the sleeping bag while you get dressed."

[pullsneedles]

"Okay."

Once Tyler is gone, Lucas finishes drying off his body and hair with the towel and gets into the shirt and sweatpants.

He looks at himself in the mirror, running a hand through his messy dried hair and trying not to think too much about how he liked it when Mom brushed it.

He sniffles a bit and wipes his eyes but that's it for now. He's pretty tired from crying before. There's only so much a body can do in such a short amount of time.

[basic_powers]

That and Lucas has probably used up all his tear-juice already, too dried out to cry at this time. Tyler peers in after a moment of rustling is heard from the main room.

"...you okay?"

[pullsneedles]

"Yeah..." he says, all the tears wiped away. "I think I'm okay."

As okay as he's going to get for the time-being.

"I guess I'll go to bed now."

[basic_powers]

"It'll be okay..you'll see." Tyler ducks back into the main room.

The bed's been thoughtfully set up with a nightlight and a strange red and blue toy that looks like a robot. It's rather well-hugged and a little dingy but...

Plush Optimus Prime has done his job well of carrying Tyler on through some seriously bad nights. He will do his duty to all sentient children tonight as well.

Tyler's blue sleeping bag is set up as well, with a little floor lamp. He's already changed for bed and Winston's busy nosing some ball made out of metal chains around.

"Brush your teeth and everything like that?"

[pullsneedles]

It does look quite inviting. And while he's used to sharing space with Claus, it's a nice change to have some breathing room.

He hasn't a clue what Plush Optimus Prime is but he's all for hugging it tonight when he climbs into bed.

"Yeah, took care of all of that."

It's also nice to have some of that normality.

"Thanks, Tyler."

[basic_powers]

"Anytime Lucas," Tyler calls from the floor, before dimming the floor light.

"Night."

[pullsneedles]

"Good night," Lucas says back.

And by some stroke of luck, his dreams were either forgettable or pleasant.