Late night work

[Tanime]

"Dont work to late Sakuro." A coworker called. He turned with pat on Sakuro's shoulder as he passed by him and with a big yawn headed out of the workshop. Without looking up Sakuro grunted in responce to acknowledge the other had spoken but didn't look up from his task, soldering tool in hand and goggles fixed to his face. Little sparks coming off with each connection made. Hours past and it was about 2am. As he worked he didnt notice the hours go by, nor did he notice and little yellow four legged creature climb up onto his desk. It crawled closer to him, pausing and observing the human sorting through some screws looking for the right one. The yellow creature noticed what he was looking for. He scanned the item Sakuro was working on and then scanned the area. He located the screw needed and scuttled over to where it was. It was on a mini shelf on the desk. He couldn't quite reach it. He stretched as high as he could and grabbed the edge of the container. This mini shelf was litterly two beer cans with a piece of sheet metal on it. Sakuro wasn't fancy about his work station and to anyone else it was just a mess, but he knew where everything was. Nothing was holding this little shelf down so when the little robot tried to pull himself up the whole thing tumbled forward making the few dishes hold small random spare parts resting on top of it fall over and onto the robot, mixing all the pieces together. The robots gave a small shrieking sound and tried to run away only getting caught up in the mess, rolling into the wall and having a can block him into a corner between the wall, can and askewed piece of sheet metal.

Sakuro startled slightly at the commotion on his desk and he looked over to see the little robot get himself stuck. He sighed setting down the parts in his hands. He moved over pulling the sheet metal away and reaching out to pick up the little yellow robot. The robot didn't try to stop himself from getting picked up. He sat in Sakuro's hand looking up at him and rubbing the back of his head in a embarrassed way making a little robotic noise that you could tell was an apology. "Tinker, shouldn't you be on your charger for the night?" Sakuro said to the little robot obviously being familiar with the little guy. Tinker nodded and showed a low battery symbol on his interface. Sakuro looked up and glanced around. The workshop was very large and work areas were set up all over the place. He saw light from somewhere across the room and got to his feet starting to walk toward its, Tinker still in hand. As he rounded the corner he saw Gadget a fellow engineer. Their head on their desk, screwdriver still in hand and a small drool puddle forming on the desk. He was fast asleep. He watched him for a moment before stepping up and placing his free hand on the sleeping ones shoulder, giving it a soft shake. "Gadget..." he called in a low voice not wanting to startle him.

The sleeping engineer stirred, lifting his head up and looking around a little dazed and confused. He wiped his mouth with the back of his dirty hand feeling the moisture there and succeeded in transferring the dirt to his face but at least he removed the drool. "Sakuro? What time is it?" He asked looking at the tall dark haired man in front of him and then looking around for something that had the time on it.

"Its a little after 2am. Your little friend here got into my stuff again." He told him holding out his hand to reveal Tinker sitting there. He gave Gadget a little wave.

"Tinker!" He called suddenly fully awake and reach out scooping the little robot out of Sakuro's hand. "What have I told you about bothering the others. They have important work to do." He said in a scolding manner. Tinker started making beeps, whirls and other noises like he was trying to explain himself to Gadget. "Tinker your even on low battery. What if you had died and I didn't know ow where you were." He turned and set Tinker on his charging station. Tinker almost looked like he was pouting but he connected himself and started to charge. Gadget turned back to His coworker. "Sorry about that Sakuro. I hope he didnt cause to much trouble."

[Tanime]

"You need to keep a leash on that thing." Sakuro said only half joking. "Its fine. He just made a small mess this time." Sakuro explained to him. "You should probably head to bed before you short circuit something with your drool."

Gadget got a little red in the cheeks at the drool comment and rubbed the back of his head. "Your probably right. Here let me at least clean your station for you before I go to make up for Tinker." He said hopping to his feet, not waiting for a responce and heading over towards Sakuro's work station.

"No, its fine. I can do it." Sakuro said following the other. Gadgets work station was flawless. A place for everything and everything in it's place. He was a model worker in that sense. Sakuro's station looked like a train wreck. But it was his train wreck and he liked it that way. "Its not a big mess i can take care of it." He told him trying to politely refuse the offer.

"Its no trouble. Its my fault it happened so I should be the one to clean it." He said completely ignoring Sakuro's refusal to let him help. He reached the desk and starting to grab at things that weren't part of the mess Tinker had made. Everything was so messy he didnt know what was Tinker's fault.

Sakuro reached out to take the things from Gadget. "Stop. Really you don't have to. I like my desk the way it is." He didnt want to be rude but he didnt like people messing with his work station.

"I won't mess anything up, I'll just make it better for you." He insisted and picked up a tool to put it away. The cord, unknown to him was tangled around other things, so when he pulled at it, it caused things to move and fall. He panicked dropping the tool in the attempt to catch the falling things. He tripped forward falling into the desk reaching out to try and catch himself only to pull over the shelf above the desk that he grabbed and smacking his head on the shelf.

"Watch out!" Sakuro called moving fast. He wrapped his arm around Gadgets waist, pulling him into his chest, leaning forward and shielding him from the falling items.

Gadget felt himself get pulled. His eyes were squeezed shut but he felt the warmth of the other as he was held tight. He was very still until the sound of the last item falling went silent. He slowly opened his eyes and looked up to see Sakuro looking down at him. His eyes were piercing and it made Gadget blush. Sakuro was hit with a few items as they fell. He felt something heavy hit his shoulder and something sharp connected with his head. He held Gadget tight until there was silence. When Gadget looked up at him he made eye contact with the other. He never realized how small the other was until now. Not just in height but his body was thin and he could hold him well with just one arm. "Are you alright?"

Gadget looked like he was going to cry "I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I just wanted to help and I made it worse. Im so sorry. Please let me fix it I can.. " he paused as he felt something wet hit his cheek. He reached up startled and wiped at his face. Looking at his hand he saw it was blood. At this realization his eyes were wide and he looked back at Sakuro. "Are you bleeding? Are you hurt?" He called looking instantly worried.

Sakuro stood up letting the other go. He reached up to the back of his head and when he brought his hand back down he had blood on his hand. He wiped his hand on his pants. "Its fine. Its not serious." He said very clamly like it wasn't a big deal.

Gadget took the others hand and pulled him over practically pushing him down into a chair. "Dont move." He ordered him, but coming from Gadget it felt more like a question rather than an order. He ran off for less then a minute and came running back with a first aid kit in hand. He put it down, popping it open and grabbed some stuff out of it. "Let me take a look. We should at the very least clean and bandage it" he said looking very guilty and almost like he might cry.

"I'm really fine, your over reacting." Sakuro said as the other starting pulling out bandages. He wanted to say no and force the other away, but with the look on Gadgets face it felt like kicking a puppy if he didn't let him so he didnt try to stop him when he grabbed his head and started digging around his hair looking for the wound. "I'll never understand how someone as organized as you can be so clumsy." He said more matter of fact then like he was making fun of him.

Gadget looked sad as he located the wound. It wasn't deep which was good. Head wounds always look worse because of how much they bleed. He worked at cleaning the wound. "I'm sorry." He said in a small voice. He started to wrap the bandages around the other head to stop the bleeding. "You might wanna go to med bay to get it looked at." He told him as he tied off the bandage.

"Its fine." He said as the other finished up. He didnt even flinch when the other cleaned and wrapped his wound. He looked over his work station and internally sighed. He didnt want to deal with that right now. "Go grab Tinker. I think we both need to call it a night." He told him as he was closing the first aid kit.

Gadget felt so bad. He had only wanted to help and look what happened. He nodded at the others words and with his head hanging low he returned the first aid kit to its place and went to retrieve Tinker and its charging station to take back to his room with him. Sakuro looked over his station. He bent down to pick the things off the floor at the very least well the other put the first aid kit away and got Tinker. He turned out the lights at his station and headed towards the door pausing to wait for Gadget. Gadget walked towards the door and Sakuro followed him. Gadget was embarrassed and feeling guilty so in turn he was very quite. Sakuro was a naturally quite person for the most part so he didnt speak as they left the workshop together.

[Tanime]

As the two were walking down the hall Gadget stopped. If they went straight they would continue to head to their rooms but if they turned right hear they would head toward med Bay. "You should get your head checked. Im not a medic and I dont trust my ability to take care of a wound." He said to his taller dark haired friend.

Sakuro stopped and looked at the other. He really thought the other was over reacting but he just sighed. He wasn't that tired yet anyway so he might as well. "Fine, I'll go, but you have to go to bed." He told him.

"You don't want me to go with you?" He asked almost disappointed.

"You fell asleep at your desk. You need sleep. I'll only go to med Bay if you go to bed." He told him

He couldn't really argue with him so he nodded. "Ok. Ill head to bed. Im sorry again Sakuro." He said, head hung low. He felt a large hand place on his head.

"Your fine Gadget. Don't worry so much." Sakuro said then started walking away give him a a wave as he walked away.

Gadget watch him for a moment and a small smile hit his lips at the others kindness. "We are just going to have to harder Tinker." He said to him powered down little friend and then headed back to his room for the night.