Six Months Later, Oops You're in Space! ((Rp with morethananecho))
Six months later, and Alice does what she can. She gets up and goes to work. She buys a flat, but still looks after the old house on weekends. She can't live there, but the idea of someone else taking it is unacceptable. She even enrolls in a few classes at a nearby university, for fear of idle time on her hands.
She lives her life as best she can, because the only other option is to stop completely. Even if Alice wanted to do that (which she does, some nights), she wouldn't have a clue how. It was taught to her first by her mother, then her father, and then life itself -- the thing is to keep moving. The thing is, you don't stop moving.
She doesn't forget her old life, but she doesn't go out of her way to be reminded of it, either. She's drifted away from the friends that knew Steven, and towards people who don't even know his name. She knows his name, and that's about all she can take.
Alice has a life for herself. Or at least, Alice has a space for herself. It's one she's made, and it's one that's free of the sort of things that man brought into her life.
Which is why when Alice, while sorting through her lesson plans, suddenly finds herself instantaneously transported to what is obviously a space ship, she is momentarily surprised. Surprised, and then resigned. Of course -- things don't last. They never do. She looks up from her folder.
"What is it this time?"
She lives her life as best she can, because the only other option is to stop completely. Even if Alice wanted to do that (which she does, some nights), she wouldn't have a clue how. It was taught to her first by her mother, then her father, and then life itself -- the thing is to keep moving. The thing is, you don't stop moving.
She doesn't forget her old life, but she doesn't go out of her way to be reminded of it, either. She's drifted away from the friends that knew Steven, and towards people who don't even know his name. She knows his name, and that's about all she can take.
Alice has a life for herself. Or at least, Alice has a space for herself. It's one she's made, and it's one that's free of the sort of things that man brought into her life.
Which is why when Alice, while sorting through her lesson plans, suddenly finds herself instantaneously transported to what is obviously a space ship, she is momentarily surprised. Surprised, and then resigned. Of course -- things don't last. They never do. She looks up from her folder.
"What is it this time?"