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Night 53: Main Hallway 2-West

Dec 14, 2010 15:50

[From here.]Well... here he was. Ludwig's flashlight played along the empty hallway, and for the first time, he truly felt like he was alone in this place. Up on the second floor, he couldn't even hear the constant hum of activity and movement on the lower floor. In a way, it made sense, given how much distance he'd put between them. But on the ( Read more... )

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autophoenix December 22 2010, 03:05:24 UTC

Used to? She tried to hide the curiosity in her gaze at that remark, and instead just gave a nod. It definitely wasn't her business why his best friend wasn't his best friend anymore, and it was even less important given the long list of things they had to get done tonight that would be helpful. That curiosity did a good job of replacing the concern in her gaze at the thought of the messiness on the second floor ( ... )

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autophoenix December 23 2010, 00:03:18 UTC

Of course he had to pry. When didn't Pete feel the need to pry? A sour look twisted onto her face -- one that she tried to repress but found herself unable to. There was a lot that she could say about Mohinder Suresh, regardless of how little she knew about him, but none of it was something she wanted to drudge up at this point. She found herself chewing on her lip and she briefly turned her head away, clearing her throat.

This wasn't even close to a topic she wanted to breach. Not with Pete, not here, not out loud ever. It was just another item in the long list of things she'd managed to avoid bringing up with Peter and had hoped to dodge with everyone else on the sheer principle that they shouldn't have any reason to be interested. Having Mohinder as her therapist, however, had changed that ( ... )

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autophoenix December 23 2010, 01:38:02 UTC

The suddenness of his announcement more or less knocked Claire off her figurative feet, her attention inexorably fixed on Pete as he continued his explanation. He sounded so desperate to keep her from going in there with him, and honestly, the more he explained, the more she understood why.

Peter was probably equally concerned about a second trip into that hallway, given that he'd hallucinated blowing the whole institute up. If Pete was worried about hurting one person, she couldn't imagine Peter's hallucination-driven guilt and worry. It made her second guess whether he'd meant it when he said he was definitely bringing someone with him ( ... )

autophoenix December 23 2010, 01:38:13 UTC

"Hey," she reasoned, a prying look under a creased forehead urging him to stop with the worrying and get with the she was here to help him program. For better or for worse. Besides, better he jumped her if he went all Rambo again than someone else. She'd get better.

Probably.

"It's not your fault. You didn't know what you were doing, whatever they're putting in the air in there, it's …" She shook her head. "There's nothing you could have done. Pete, I -- " It took her a moment of obvious conflict to force the words out. She bit down on her lower lip, eyes shutting as she briefly looked away. There was only so much lying and hiding she could do before she realized he needed to know what was going on. If they didn't keep each other informed about this stuff, it was only going to lead to more trouble.

"I came up here the other night with my uncle. He and I both -- we saw things, okay? But, when you're hallucinating, there's no way of knowing that's what's going on. You couldn't have done anything to stop it." A pause as ( ... )

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autophoenix December 26 2010, 09:51:35 UTC

As discouraging as his refusal to ease even the slightest amount of blame off of his shoulders was, she forced herself to bite down on her tongue and hold back all that rebuttal she had prepared. Not only was it none of her business and something that she knew only his account of, but he didn't seem all that interested in pursuing it as their new topic of conversation, which was a fact she couldn't even come close to blaming him for. She wasn't exactly in the running for Most Likely to Share Intimate Details of One's Life for the institute's yearbook -- hell, ribbing aside, she wasn't even in the running for Most Chatty. She had to consider herself lucky Peter was filling that silence at all.

When he apologized, though, she began to shake her head. No way, no how, there was absolutely no chance that he was going to get away with guilting himself and acting like he dragged her into anything. Given how she'd twisted his arm at lunch, all brazen stubbornness and a pathological desire to help, she should have been the one ( ... )

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