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Kate Gregson ([personal profile] vanillajello) wrote2010-11-16 07:58 pm

A Hospital Waiting Area, Bristol, Tuesday

After smoking outside and making some calls, Kate was back inside the hospital again. She didn't go straight back to Mitchell's room, though. She was feeling too... something, to do that yet, and Mitchell would still be there if she went in later. So she'd wait a bit.

So, she conquered an uncomfortable chair in the nearby waiting area, and dug out her tiny pink iPod that she'd found (along with the single cigarette) on the bottom of her bag. There was a certain song she'd remembered earlier, while she'd been outside. She wanted to listen to it.

Or so she thought. Too bad she'd only remembered the hook, not the main part of the lyrics.

Pull the blindfold down so your eyes can't see; now run as fast as you can, through this field of trees. I can't shake this feeling I've got; my dirty hands, have I been in the wars? The saddest thing that I'd ever seen were sm--

She shut the player off and stuck it back into her pocket with a heavy sigh. She hated this place and everything it chose to be.

[ooc: Just for some of them Bristol folks. And NFB due to being off-island, obviously.]
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[personal profile] chosehumanity 2010-11-16 06:01 pm (UTC)(link)
A hand fell on top of the backrest of her chair, unobtrusively.

"Excuse me."
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[personal profile] chosehumanity 2010-11-16 06:15 pm (UTC)(link)
"You're here for Mitchell," the middle-aged woman greeting her surmised. "Hi. I'm sorry--" She offered the girl a hand. "I'm Josie."
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[personal profile] chosehumanity 2010-11-16 06:25 pm (UTC)(link)
"I'm his ex," Josie clarified swiftly, after giving Kate's hand a slight shake. She smiled a little. "From a long time ago. Can I sit?"
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[personal profile] chosehumanity 2010-11-16 06:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Josie's smile brightened, and she took a seat next to Kate, carefully, her hands folded together in her lap. "Were you there for the rescue?" she asked. "I've seen those two boys rushing about for the past day or so, but I haven't had the chance to ask." A pause. "And don't worry, I don't have to know if you're anything-- different."
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[personal profile] chosehumanity 2010-11-16 06:48 pm (UTC)(link)
"Oh, I doubt that, if you're here," Josie said, not unkindly. "If nothing else, dealing with this kind of thing... changes you."
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[personal profile] chosehumanity 2010-11-16 07:07 pm (UTC)(link)
"We can always use another one of those around." Josie's tone was indulgent. Just a little. "He needs a few humans around; it's good for him."
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[personal profile] chosehumanity 2010-11-16 07:22 pm (UTC)(link)
"He's trying very hard," Josie said, darting a glance her way. "He always has. It wasn't easy for him to quit the way he did--" She'd know. "...and it's still not easy to keep it up. He always comes back 'round, though. He can't... live like they do."
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[personal profile] chosehumanity 2010-11-16 07:37 pm (UTC)(link)
"And yet you're here."

Being old let you cheat, sometimes.
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[personal profile] chosehumanity 2010-11-16 07:44 pm (UTC)(link)
"So, who are you?" Josie tried, shifting to a different track. "A colleague? You're American - we don't get a lot of your like around here."
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[personal profile] chosehumanity 2010-11-16 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
"A student of what?"

Mitchell hadn't been all that forthcoming. Which, Josie supposed, shouldn't actually be that much of a surprise.
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[personal profile] chosehumanity 2010-11-16 08:21 pm (UTC)(link)
"There's a lot of things I don't know," she said, mulling it over in her head. "He didn't offer a lot about himself. I suppose I thought he'd been the same - he looks it." He always did.
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[personal profile] chosehumanity 2010-11-17 09:52 am (UTC)(link)
"That's a relief. I thought for a moment he'd been working in this hospital all this time," she said, relaxing a little more. "He was always a bit of a freeloader back in the old days..."

Josie was a little eager to start in on stories, if she were entirely honest with herself. She'd missed him.
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[personal profile] chosehumanity 2010-11-17 06:38 pm (UTC)(link)
"You made him muffins?" Josie asked, and she smiled a little broader, a little more lively. "Yes, he must have loved that."
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[personal profile] chosehumanity 2010-11-17 06:57 pm (UTC)(link)
She laughed softly. "I never did an awful lot of baking, I'm afraid," Josie shared. "We'd wind up at hotels and he'd order room service. I never did ask how he managed to afford it."
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[personal profile] chosehumanity 2010-11-17 07:10 pm (UTC)(link)
"1969," Josie said, fondly. "A good time to be alive, if anything."
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[personal profile] chosehumanity 2010-11-18 07:25 am (UTC)(link)
"It really was," she replied. "Everything seemed possible, then. You could even hear it in the air. Beatlemania. He actually dressed like them, at the time. Black suit, respectably scruffy hair..."