Two years, he's been out of his mother's house and yet she still calls him every Sunday. Not surprising, given it's the only day of the week he doesn't open the shop --
and on the seventh day God ended His work which He had made; and He rested on the seventh day from all His work which He had made -- and she calls him under pretenses of church and brunch. He goes, he always goes, because in two years, he still hasn't quite figured out how to tell his mother no, and they have God and brunch as promised. And then, predictably, she sends him off to run her errands, because in
more than two years, Virginia Gray hasn't left her home for anything short of the Lord himself.
He can't say it surprises him, but he can't help but sigh when she coaxes him into going to the grocery store for her, either.
Happy that she can still use her son, Virginia forces a list and some money -- his money that he's been sending to her, most likely -- into his hands, all but patting him on the head as he moves out. He goes, picking out the brands he's sure she likes, and comes back in record time, struggling up the stairs with an arm-full of bags that she doesn't bother to help with. He ignores it, though; his mother's always been like this. Just like he ignores her when she starts going through the bags as he sets them down, making faces at some of the things he's picked out, and muttering about how he's such a
smart boy and that he shouldn't have bought certain things things if they weren't on sale.
He sighs, holding in a acerbic response as to how it's his money anyway, and moves to help her unpack the groceries. Milk, eggs, the crunchy peanut butter he picked up on a whim. Household products -- the latter of which his mother was very specific about, and when he couldn't find what she written down, he'd grabbed what he thought was the next best thing. He thought it would be okay; Virginia, on the other hand, doesn't seem to think so, and she fidgets with it for a moment as she finds it, before turning to face him.
( "Gabriel?" )Muse: Gabriel Gray (Sylar)
Fandom: Heroes
Word Count: 865