Newbies
‘’(Y/nickname)! Stand up, you lazy stupid!’’
You groan ‘’Go away Drax!’’ you click with your tongue and rub with your hands in your eyes. You open your eyes slowly and see a dark posture standing out of the glass cell ‘’I said, I want to sleep Drax!’’ you growl and turn around.
‘’C’mon, (Y/nickname)! It’s already noon! When are you getting out of bed ‘ay!?’’
You groan loudly and sit up straight like a ragdoll. You snap your neck and sigh deeply. You push your thin blanket off of you and you rub your eyes once more.
‘’Are you coming!?’’
‘’Yeah, yeah, Drax, I’m coming. I need something to fill this stomach.’’ And you stand up. Still sleepy, you shuffle to the cell door and open it.
‘’Well, someone looks nice.’’ Drax says sarcastic and you roll your eyes. Drax was a big guy with red tattoo inks all over his body. He was a nice guy, and as soon as you met him, you were best palls.
‘’Yea, yea, please, take a look in the mirror and tell me what you see.’’
Drax opens his mouth to say something, but you were quicker ‘’Oh wait, you can’t. It will break into a million pieces of course.’’
‘’Pffftt’’ sighs Drax ‘’Need food or no? Those shit eaters in uniform are wondering where you stay.’’
You hum ‘’Yea, I would like some food.’’ And you begin to walk to the cafeteria. Well, cafeteria? It was just a small place where they would give you their ‘home-cooked’ food. And, oh hell, it was really home cooked. It was some sort of green pudding that they gave you, it was sickening. Drax walks next to you ‘’You know, I heard that there are newbies coming.’’
‘’Oh really?’’ you ask ‘’Who?’’
‘’I don’t know’’ Drax answers and scratches his neck ‘’We will probably find out soon.’’
‘’Yea’’ you say. You walk down the steel stairs and search for a free table.
‘’I’m going to get some food, you search for a table?’’ Drax asks.
‘’Yea, sure.’’ You reply and Drax walks away. Finally, you find a spot and awkwardly run to it. You sit down and let your arms rest on the table.
You bite your lip and sigh deeply. Today it is already six years ago. Time goes fast. Luckily you did your job right and that bastard died. But with him, your mother’s love for you also died.
‘’Here’s your food.’’ Drax says and places your plate with food on the table with a loud bang.
‘’Thanks, Drax.’’ You smile and look at your food. It’s slimy and green, the usual stuff.
You sigh and begin to eat the slimy food. Drax and you eat in silence until he asks: ‘’It’s the day, isn’t it?’’
You swallow your food ‘’Yes’’
Drax hums ‘’I already thought that, you are so quiet.’’
‘’Sorry’’ you apologize. You can’t help yourself. When you are upset, sad or feeling bad in any way, you are always quiet. You just turn into yourself so nobody could see your ‘real’ emotions.
‘’Don’t be. I understand.’’ Drax says while he continues eating his –also slimy- food.
You nod ‘’Thanks, Drax. You know-‘’
‘’There they are.’’ Drax interrupts you. He looks to somewhere behind you, and you turn around.
You see a man who’s blond, probably human just like you, who reminds you of someone you have met before. There is also a raccoon with him. The raccoon looks angry, duh, nobody likes to get in jail. There’s a big tree man also and a woman. She is green and has her black hair done in a braid.
Sister of Ronan. Bitch.
And apparently you are not the only one who thinks this way. The other prisoners are looking at her, throwing daggers at her with their eyes.
Suddenly, the blond man gets hit by something. You frown and look up. A few prisoners are throwing objects at the green woman, Gamora. They are shouting mean things to her, but hey, after all, she deserves it.
‘’You’re scum!’’
‘’You first, Gamora!’’
‘’You’re dead!’’
You look at the new squad again and see that the raccoon walks to the blond man.
‘’Like I said, she’s got a rep.’’ He says. Wait. The hell? That raccoon can talk? Mwah, you have seen a lot of crazy shit, this shouldn’t surprise you.
‘’A lot of prisoners here’’ the raccoon continues ‘’have lost their families to Ronan and his Goons. She’ll last a day tops.’’
‘’The guards will protect her, right?’’ the blond man asks while he looks afraid.
‘’They’re here to stop us from getting out. They don’t care what we do to each other inside.’’
‘’Whatever may the future holds’’ Gamora says ‘’Are dreams compared to what’s behind me.’’
‘’Check out the new meat!’’ Briggs says. He is a blue, big and tall ‘man’. Not really a man because he is not a human, he was from the planet Halloow. He is a real jerk head. You stand up, already ready to walk to him and give him a smash on his head.
‘’I’m gonna slather you up in Gunavian Jelly’’ he continues ‘’and go to town-‘’
You stop walking to Briggs when he is roughly interrupted by the big tree man. He sticks his tree fingers in Briggs’ nose. Oh no. Briggs scream it out of pain. You knew what was happening, and it was too painful to even think about it. Terrified you look at the raccoon.
‘’Let’s make something clear’’ he says loudly and points at the blond man ‘’this one, is our booty!’’ and he bangs with his fist to his chest ‘’You wanna get to him, you go through us!’’ and he walks around the tree man ‘’Or, more accurately, we go through YOU.’’ And the tree man drops Briggs, who reaches for his nose in pain.
You look at the raccoon, and for a minute, you have eye contact. You see something changing in his eyes. Not only are they filled with anger and threat, but something else is with them. You can’t say what, because the raccoon turns away from your eyes and walks away, to his cell. One thing you know for sure, it was not something ‘negative’ that filled his eyes for a moment. He almost looked… stunned? – eugh, what are you saying. Do you care? –no.
The blond man looks at Briggs ‘’I-I belong with them’’ he stutters and walks over Briggs.
‘’Wow’’ you hiss ‘’That was some heavy shit.’’
‘’Yea…. Wait, shit? There was no shit, that would be dirty.’’ Says Drax confused.
You roll your eyes ‘’Shit is a human expression for…euhm…. Well it’s negative, let’s just keep it on that.’’
Drax hums ‘’Sure.’’ He looks at Gamora’s cell.
‘’What are you up to?’’ you ask while you observe Drax. He looked at Gamora’s cell with narrowed eyes, that meant something bad was going to happen.
‘’Nothing.’’ He says and stands up. Before you can react he walks away, leaving you behind by the table.
You puff ‘’That’s not going to be something nice.’’
You also stand up and walk to your cell. You open your glass door, and just as you were about to step inside of your cell, a strange feeling comes over you.
You turn your head to your right, still standing in the doorway of your cell. You see the raccoon from before leaning against the wall, eyes fixed on you.
‘’What?’’ you snap.
‘’Oh nothing’’ he says and stops leaning ‘’I’m Rocket.’’
You turn your body slightly to him, just to stand more comfortably, but Rocket clearly sees it as an invite to step closer.
‘’I’m (Y/n)’’ you say and flip your hair back.
Rocket looks at you from head to toe with his beautiful brown eyes –wow, did you just thought beautiful?
‘’You look human’’ he says
‘’That’s because I am’’
Rocket hums.
‘’You look like a raccoon.’’ You grin. Rocket notices and he looks at you with a no-shit-Sherlock face.
‘’That’s because I am’’ he smiles. You smile back and place your hand on your chest. Rocket’s eyes follow your hand, but as soon as he sees you place them on your chest he quickly looks away. Wow. Are you really flirting with a raccoon? You’re stupid, right?
‘’Well’’ Rocket says and scratches his neck ‘’I better get going.’’
You hum in agreement and nod quickly ‘’Yea, me too.’’
Rocket nods slowly and smiles at you. Damn. Was that a flirty smile? ‘’It was nice to meet you, (Y/n). Hope I’ll see you soon.’’
Okay. Okay. Breath in and out. Say something cool. Just, something. Doesn’t matter what.
‘’Y-yea, hope so too.’’
Shit. Now you sounded like some kind of nervous schoolgirl, which you totally are not. TOTALLY not. Rocket smirks and turns around, to his own cell.
When Rocket is out of sight you lean against your glass cell wall. You pant slightly. In and out, (Y/n). Slowly.
Okay, you definitely felt something back then with that raccoon. You don’t exactly know what, and you don’t want to know it either.
You flirted with him –No, I did not mind, fuck off.
You flirted with him. Admit it – No. I didn’t. He is a raccoon.
Does it matters? – No- I mean yes!
Fucker, you can’t lie to me. I am your mind – Go away now please? Thank you.
You shake your head in confusion. You never had this argument with your mind before, well, when you had them was probably years ago. Stupid raccoon. Just forget about him. Breath in and out. In and out. Slowly.
But it didn’t help. Rocket filled your thoughts.