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crooked_lossTitle: Hello, I Love You
Summary: Sunset always said that Zach was about as social as a lampshade.
Timeline: February 2017 - Adrianna is 27, Zach is 35.
Challenge: Star Fruit #5 (it takes one to know one), Cookies n Cream #21 (offer)
Extras/Toppings: Malt (Summer Challenge - There's a first time for everything.), Sprinkles
Word Count: 493
Rating: PG
Adrianna completely confused him, and Zachery Miller didn’t like being confused. He knew people in their mid-twenties, and most of them were annoying little pissants, really. But she was different. It was odd. She was surprisingly smart, and didn’t seem at all inclined to do things that most of the people in her age group did. He can’t recall, in all the times he’s talked to her, her ever mentioning the words ‘drinking’, ‘bars’, or ‘drunk’ in relation to herself.
It had been little surprise when she had admitted that she was in medical school. With a mind like hers, where else would she go? So, he had pulled some strings and got the hospital he worked at to offer her a job as soon as she was allowed to take job offers in her fourth year. Sunset had given him the oddest smile when he told her that, but hadn’t said anything on the subject.
That was enough to worry him, and he wondered if he had made a mistake with that. But no, she had flourished at her job, and the future of her career looked promising after only a few months. Eventually, Adrianna had taken to visiting him during quiet moments in her shift, which was odd enough in itself. Not many people wanted to visit the morgue, much less visit him. Zachery hadn’t complained though, since it was nice to have someone to talk to, other than the corpses. At least she could carry on a decent conversation.
One day, she asked about his cane. He had surprised himself by telling her about how the bones in his legs had never quite developed correctly, and she only heightened his surprise by not pitying him. Instead, they had gone into a lengthy conversation about braces, and the advances medicine had made when it came to bone development in children. He was far too old for such surgeries now, but he had appreciated her suggestions that things might advance enough to help him someday.
It was Damian that had pushed him to where he was now. Zachery didn’t even know what had brought it up; he had only been telling him something that Adrianna had done that day when he interrupted him. “Would you ask her out already, before she comes to her senses and stops liking you? Or at least go and blab about her to Sunset.”
That had been preposterous, of course. She might have been a charming individual, but he most certainly did not want to ask her on a date. But maybe... to lunch. As a friend. And one day when she visited him, and he wasn’t talking about the latest autopsy he had performed, he brought the possibility up.
“So. Er. You require sustenance to live!” He blurted out. “So do I. Coincidentally. And I was just wondering if you’d want to go get some, sometime, maybe. Sustenance, I mean.”
Adrianna’s answering smile nearly blinded him.
Summary: Sunset always said that Zach was about as social as a lampshade.
Timeline: February 2017 - Adrianna is 27, Zach is 35.
Challenge: Star Fruit #5 (it takes one to know one), Cookies n Cream #21 (offer)
Extras/Toppings: Malt (Summer Challenge - There's a first time for everything.), Sprinkles
Word Count: 493
Rating: PG
Adrianna completely confused him, and Zachery Miller didn’t like being confused. He knew people in their mid-twenties, and most of them were annoying little pissants, really. But she was different. It was odd. She was surprisingly smart, and didn’t seem at all inclined to do things that most of the people in her age group did. He can’t recall, in all the times he’s talked to her, her ever mentioning the words ‘drinking’, ‘bars’, or ‘drunk’ in relation to herself.
It had been little surprise when she had admitted that she was in medical school. With a mind like hers, where else would she go? So, he had pulled some strings and got the hospital he worked at to offer her a job as soon as she was allowed to take job offers in her fourth year. Sunset had given him the oddest smile when he told her that, but hadn’t said anything on the subject.
That was enough to worry him, and he wondered if he had made a mistake with that. But no, she had flourished at her job, and the future of her career looked promising after only a few months. Eventually, Adrianna had taken to visiting him during quiet moments in her shift, which was odd enough in itself. Not many people wanted to visit the morgue, much less visit him. Zachery hadn’t complained though, since it was nice to have someone to talk to, other than the corpses. At least she could carry on a decent conversation.
One day, she asked about his cane. He had surprised himself by telling her about how the bones in his legs had never quite developed correctly, and she only heightened his surprise by not pitying him. Instead, they had gone into a lengthy conversation about braces, and the advances medicine had made when it came to bone development in children. He was far too old for such surgeries now, but he had appreciated her suggestions that things might advance enough to help him someday.
It was Damian that had pushed him to where he was now. Zachery didn’t even know what had brought it up; he had only been telling him something that Adrianna had done that day when he interrupted him. “Would you ask her out already, before she comes to her senses and stops liking you? Or at least go and blab about her to Sunset.”
That had been preposterous, of course. She might have been a charming individual, but he most certainly did not want to ask her on a date. But maybe... to lunch. As a friend. And one day when she visited him, and he wasn’t talking about the latest autopsy he had performed, he brought the possibility up.
“So. Er. You require sustenance to live!” He blurted out. “So do I. Coincidentally. And I was just wondering if you’d want to go get some, sometime, maybe. Sustenance, I mean.”
Adrianna’s answering smile nearly blinded him.
