Quirking an eyebrow, Zach wasn’t even the least bit bothered by the expression on Maddie’s face. “Nah, if I did that who would I bother?” A smirk slid into place at Maddie’s retort about patients. Zach wasn’t at all that desperate for patients, but it might be fun to screw with her just a little bit. “Yeah, haven’t you heard the medics are now inflecting harm just to keep busy? Thought Marchand sent out a memo for us and everything,” this was said with the most serious of expressions, though Zach was on the fence if Maddie would actually believe him or not. As it was he knew he only had a small window of time before his baby sister resorted to unpleasant tactics to get him to stop harassing her, so he was taking full advantage of it while it lasted.
Zach cast another sidelong glance towards the creepy rocker’s cell. It didn’t sit well with him that some guy was bothering his baby sister like that, even if he thought Maddie could handle herself just fine. “And that is why you don’t do drugs, you start losing rational thought.” Zach laughed at the face Maddie had made. He would have been surprised if she was actually okay with the attention from creepy rocker guy, and he was thankful she wasn’t. “That’s exactly the point Mads, I know you’ll never say no. Which, it sounds like this guy could use a wakeup call, and who better to give it than your big brother?” Although his tone was mostly joking, there was a note of seriousness to his words.
Shaking his head, Zach gave her a ‘are you serious’ kind of look. “Right, because I live in a fantasy world where I delude myself into thinking you’ve never done anything more than hold a guy’s hand.” He dodged her grab for the notebook easily, holding it above his head again in a very childish manner. “You want me to believe that you’re actually being helpful? If so has hell frozen over?”
“Doing my job,” he answered simply, holding back the part in which he was avoiding going back to his place so as to avoid the inevitable time spent with whatever liquor bottle he could find. “Checking on patients and making sure they’re doing what they should be doing to recover.” Zach continued, smiling slightly. “Sorry, nothing more exciting or anything to entertain you.”