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Kate Gregson ([personal profile] vanillajello) wrote2011-06-30 06:10 pm

Room 324, Thursday Morning

Fire. There's someone on fire. But Kate can't see who it is until the figure turns around and it's her but not her but her and she's standing there and the flames lick up her arms and she's on fire but then it's Mitchell, wild-eyed with a fire inside, and it's Hannibal and the flames go from hot to cold from hot to cold in time with his eyes, and then it's Jack and Emma and Karla and Sebastien and David and Bod and Marshall and Max and Tara --

And then it's Annie, serene calm beautiful Annie like that time in the cellar, and everything stops for a single awful second as she smiles.

And then the flames swallow her up and there's nothing but the fire.


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Kate had been very, very glad to not wake up screaming. She had been very glad to wake up, period. Her subconscious was not the place to be right now, her dreams had made that abundantly clear. She'd had no trouble getting out of bed since she'd craved a cold shower to fully wake her up and make sure nothing lingered on.

After the shower, she'd changed her clothes, put on some music, opened the door, made her bed and then flopped down on it with a notebook to make plans for a third floor welcome she wasn't sure she'd even organize.

Saturday wasn't shaping up to be a day to be bubbly and welcoming.

[ooc: Open post, open door. ETA: I would like to call all Mitchell stuff NFB, please and thank you!]
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[personal profile] therewaslife 2011-06-30 04:25 pm (UTC)(link)
Bod finally did make his way over quietly, settling down beside her and propping himself up against the headboard. He glanced over at her and smiled slightly.
therewaslife: (→ | thinking is a way of life)

[personal profile] therewaslife 2011-06-30 04:37 pm (UTC)(link)
"All right," Bod said slowly, starting to wonder if Mitchell ever brought good news with him. It didn't seem like it.
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[personal profile] therewaslife 2011-06-30 04:44 pm (UTC)(link)
"The name sounds familiar but I don't think I've gotten more than that," Bod replied, looking down at her. "Who is she?"
therewaslife: (→ | hear me now)

[personal profile] therewaslife 2011-06-30 04:49 pm (UTC)(link)
"All right," Bod said quietly, nodding and putting a few more pieces together. "You've told me you've met a ghost and now I know that Annie is that ghost. Go on."
therewaslife: (→ | infrequent)

[personal profile] therewaslife 2011-06-30 04:59 pm (UTC)(link)
Bod didn't really understand considering she was already a ghost. "She's already dead. Wouldn't she already be gone?"
therewaslife: (→ | ponder)

[personal profile] therewaslife 2011-06-30 05:04 pm (UTC)(link)
"So, she was...returned to her graveyard?" Bod asked, trying to frame this with what he knew. "Does no one know where that is?"
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[personal profile] therewaslife 2011-06-30 05:11 pm (UTC)(link)
"I don't...understand how she's just gone," Bod admitted, frowning. "Ghosts can't just be taken off their plane of existence."
therewaslife: (→ | sunlight on my face)

[personal profile] therewaslife 2011-06-30 05:18 pm (UTC)(link)
It wasn't something that Bod understood but he nodded anyway. "I'm sorry for your loss. I'm very sorry."
therewaslife: (→ | headtilt)

[personal profile] therewaslife 2011-06-30 05:21 pm (UTC)(link)
"Other stuff?" Bod asked, bringing a hand up to rub at a forming headache near his temple. "What else?"
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[personal profile] therewaslife 2011-06-30 05:35 pm (UTC)(link)
"That's unfortunate," Bod said quietly, nodding. There were a few things rattling around in his mind but he was intending on keeping them there. "I don't know what else to say right now."
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[personal profile] therewaslife 2011-06-30 05:40 pm (UTC)(link)
"I don't know the situation," Bod explained, frowning, "and I know comfort isn't all that helpful in actually helping. It doesn't change things. I'm sorry for your loss."
therewaslife: (→ | sigh)

[personal profile] therewaslife 2011-06-30 06:32 pm (UTC)(link)
"It means I sympathize with the fact that you lost someone and I'm here for you should you need it," Bod explained calmly. "It means that I'm sorry for your loss and I'm sorry that you're feeling bad."
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[personal profile] therewaslife 2011-06-30 06:40 pm (UTC)(link)
"Yes well, I'm not most people and I'm saying it because I sympathize and I'm sorry," Bod said, shaking his head. "I don't know why other people say it. That's not for me to know and it's not important right now."

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