“See, my food isn’t as bad as you all exaggerate it to me. Someone here appreciates my cooking.” Garret said with a slight grin on his face as he watched Vida eat her food. 

“Don’t get your hopes up Garret, the bullets might have not killed her but your greasy food will if you don’t change your cooking habits.” Dr. Wilson said taking two tablets from a pill bottle before placing the big bottle of pain reliever at the center of the table for the other to use as needed.

“I agree, the only food I can eat is burnt because of you. You do remember that I’m a vegan right Garret?” Daniel said as he picked up a slice of toast suspiciously and scrunched his nose before putting it back on the plate. “We might need more than you Josiah if there’s others that want to join us on a takeout run. Who knows, this might be a good opportunity to bring a few of the others so that they can get supplies that they may need such as clothes and toiletries especially for the gals since I think they’ll be a little more picky with what supplies we have.” Daniel continued as Josiah entered the kitchen, slightly damp in places due to Ester’s wakeup call.

“A vehicle then?” Josiah said as he sat down and watched the woman that was crying yesterday scarf down her food. “We should avoid using the trucks we acquired yesterday but we can use the twelve seater van later on if we want to run to town after our attempted breakfast, showers as needed and some Q’s and A’s that I know you all have. Let’s plan on heading out in a few hours for those who want to join us.”

Looking at her food suspiciously, Jenna was glad for an excuse to leave her mostly uneaten food at the table when Ester asked for some help. She tried to eat a few bites to be polite since Garret seemed to work hard making the meal but she didn’t think she had the stomach to eat it all. “Sure, I can show you the way. I passed it when walking past Sam’s room” Jenna said, glad to leave the plate behind and led to woman down the hall.

“Just make sure you don’t wander too far, our neighbors are not the friendliest of sorts.” Garret said to Ester, both to let her know she’s free to leave as well as a warning. “Besides a gas station and bar a little less than five miles away, the closest town is about fifteen miles away and there’s nothing impressive about that town. They don’t even have a frozen yogurt shop, what a shame I tell you.” As the woman that introduced herself as Vida began to talk, Garret listened with his ever-present cheerful face as she complimented his food. However that didn’t last long as she accused them of kidnapping her and trailed off from that. Standing up beside her, Garret carefully grasped the woman’s palms she held out lightly with both hand so that she could remove them if she wanted to. “Don’t worry Vida. You’re safe for now. You’re allowed to leave but everyone made a promise to stay a week so we can explain what has been happening. I don't know what powers you’ve been given from the bus crash but the Doc is smart, he’ll know what you have. But please stay for now. Okay? You said you liked my food, I can make more of that for you every morning or even try and see if I can make tacos. It’s only Sunday but we can have Sunday tacos if you like?” He said with a smile, hoping that a bribery of food would work for his cause and missed as Pat started to tumble towards the ground.

However Dr. Wilson was ready. He knew that caring for the injuries that the Charlies received the night before wouldn’t end once they went to sleep. There would be soreness and pain as well as a possible panic attack as it appeared to be the case concerning Vida. He was glad to see that no one had the ability over fire breathing and spewed out fire while yawning or anything too drastic but the incident with the young girl earlier that morning still concerned him. However the second biggest incident that morning happened while carefully monitoring the Charlies around him for any abnormalities that might be a sign for an ability or injury. He was the first to his feet and heading towards Pat and knelt down towards the man. “Are you okay?” The man said placing a hand on his arm. Jerking back from pain, the doctor looked at the man with a painful look of curiosity. Grasping his head with a hand, he spoke out as a warning towards the others nearby. “Don’t touch him. I don’t know what his power is but it might potentially be dangerous.” Turning back towards the man, Dr. Wilson continued. “Are you okay Patrick. Can you hear me?” The doctor said placing his hand back on the man’s arm again as he tried to reassure the man the best he could do while trying to keep the pain off his face the best he was capable of doing.