When Meg got back from the hospital on Saturday evening, she found her suitcase sitting at the foot of her bed in the hotel room.

It was almost surreal to open it, to find all her things still neatly folded and arranged just so, from when she packed it in what now feels like a previous lifetime. She half-expects things to be jumbled, since the ( Read more... )

Meg gets back to the hospital twenty minutes before it's officially visiting hours, and isn't at all surprised to find Alain's parents and brother are already there ( Read more... )

They're only allowed to see Alain briefly, before doctors need to examine him and run tests and generally make sure that he was, in fact, all right ( Read more... )

Meg needed to be away, just for a little while.

But, things being what they are, she doesn't want to be far away. She needs to be where people can still find her if they need to. For whatever reason ( Read more... )

( It’s something . . . but it’s not enough )

( Meg feels like she’s been at the hospital in Winchester for a week. )

( Meg, où êtes-vous? )

( It is, all in all, a wholly unremarkable trip. . . Until it isn't. )