Chapter 2
Pain lanced through Travis's face as he came to, dimly he was aware that he was on a hard surface. He groaned as he yawned, his face throbbing in unison with the beat of his heart. Cracking his eyes open he noticed that the room he was in was semi-dark. he was vaugely aware of someone asking if he was ok, before he blacked out again.
A bright light woke Travis followed by a creak and a thud. A hand touched his shoulder and shook him gently, "Come on get up, morning shower, breakfast, cleaning, then cell inspections. You dont want to be in bed when they give us our clothes." Travis groand and rubbed his eyes but quickly jerked his hands away with a yelp of pain and surprise. Whoever was in thr room with him whistled "Yeah i can imagin that that hurts, your face is pretty messed up. what happened?"
Travis tried to open his eyes but immediatly screwed them shut again, the light was realy bright. "I dont remember," he said as the trobbing resumed this time seeming to come directly from his eyes, "all i remember is a gloved fist comeing at me then blacking out." he tried to open his eyes again this time with a bit more success managing a squint, at least he could sort of see now. He lookedaround the room. He was in a cream colored room 12 feet by 14 feet. The walls and door were blue. Several windows allowed a view out into the hall.
Foot steps followed by a loud clanging echoed from somewhere "Oh good they started with the other side today that gives us a bit more time to adjust but do it quickly they never take long on either side." Travis turned his attention to where the voice had come from. His eyes had adjusted nicely by now and he could see without squinting though his eyes still hurt, and things were a bit fuzzy.
He foucused on thesource of the voice and a cheetah came into focus, tail twitching behind hem. He sat against the opposite wall on a blue chain that was bolted to the floor. the boys ice blue eyes bored into him. Foot steps sounded closer " a quick at least sit up" the boy stood and walked to a slat in the wall as it clanged open "Morning Matt" he said to the guard on the other side of the bole "hows your morning going so far?"
"Not bad" replied the guard "another day another dollor" the guard set a pile of clothes down on the ledge, followed by another pile. As cheetah took the first "Yours?"
"Not bad. Got a new cell mate as you can tell" he motioned at the 2nd pile of clothes "Which one is mine? All these damn clothes lool alike."
"Ummm..." the guard looked at the tag on a shirt, "I think these are his." The boy took the pile of clothes and set them on the opposite side of the table. "Wait till you hear what you get for breakfast."
The boy rolled his eyes and chuckled, "This is jail, nothing is very good. About the only thing they feed us that they cant mess up on is oatmeal, and even that looks nasty."
The guard laughed then placed 2 towels on the ledge. "You guessed it, oatmeal, with all the usual amenities." 2 tupperware containers followed the towles as the boy took them.
"Dang oatmeal day already? I thought today was supposed to be french toast?"
"Yeah that is what i thought too but the kitchen called and changed the menu. I'll be back in a bit to get your dirty clothes." the little window shut.
Setting the tuppeware containers on the table the boy turned to Travi, "That was Matt, he is one of the nicer guards. The others on duty are Becky, Frank and Shelly. Shelly is shift supervisor and is normaly pretty cool, Becky is ok most of the time and Frank... just be sure to stay on his good side." The boy steped forward and extended a paw "I'm Greg by the way."
Travis took the boys paw, "Travis."
"Good name, my little brothers name is Travis. Do u want to take first shower? We need to get on them if we want to stay out of trouble."
"Sure, I guess," said Travis ans he picked up his clothes and moved to get his tupperware container. As he did so Greg jumped onto his bed and cracked open a book. Travis stepped into the shower and set his clothes around the corner on his bed before opening the tupperware container and looking at the contents. Picking up what he assumed was the shampoo the chuckled, "Is this a joke? I use more than this just for the top half of my body."
The bottle was tiny, only containing about 4 ounces, "Yeah no kidding they are too small, its an essential body part wash not a full body wash, you want one of those you gotta ask a guard."
With a sigh Travis placed the shampoo in the cubby beneath the shower head and began to strip down, placing his clothes next to his bed. Squinting at the buttons of the shower he pressed the H and yelped as a spray of cold water hit him. Shinking into the corner as much as he could he heard Greg laugh "Sorry about that, forgot to tell you its real cold right off." With a faint snarl Travis reach out to test the water, finding it to be warming up nicely. Stepping into the spray he quickly began to wash himself and quickly became frustrated with the shower as it cut out on him several times. "oh and it doesnt last very long" said Greg after hearing a growl at the shower, it having shut off as Travis was rinseing his hair.
"Alright," said Travis as the shower shut off yet again, but this time with better timeing. Reaching around the wall he grabbed his towel and dried off as best he could before grabbing the rest of his clothes and proceding to quickly get dressed. He normaly would take 40 minutes to an hour to dry off. Doning his shirt he stepped out of the shower and squirmed at the feel of his wet fur against the clothes, "your turn."
Jumping quickly off his bed Greg placed his clothes against the wall same as Travis before stepping into the shower as Travis laid down and squirmed once again. Clothes flew from the shower to the corner where the slat was as Greg quickly undressed and began showering. From further down the hall came the sound of a slat opening. A muffled word came from the shower followed by "When he gets to our door just push the clothes through."
Slightly nervouse Travis got up and went over to the chair closest the slat faced it and resumed reading the tips of his ears turning slightly redder as he saw the shower out of the corner of his eye. A few moments later the slat opened and he hastily pushed the clothes through the slat into the bin. "I'll be coming around in about 5 with food." Travis nodded his head and looked at teh clock on the wall quickly. "Dang only 6:30?" Shrugging he moved back to his bed quickly and resumed reading.
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Tried to upload in RTF but none the less was an epic fail but YAY for a badly placed split and more on the way.