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[horrible_penny]

Hey. I just wanted to say that I'm okay. Safe and at home. Um... I know I've said this a few dozen times already, but Rosella, Claire? Thank you. You're both amazing and brave, and I owe you both big time.

[A pause while Penny collects her thoughts. Unlike her previous post, her surroundings are mercifully quiet.]Welcome Center volunteers

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[justcautious]

[Chris sounds a little bit muffled somehow.]

I'm dead glad you're okay, love.

An' I'm okay. I'm fine. Just 'ave a...bit of flu. Nothin' serious. Anyway. When I'm back t'work, me an' Ray prob'ly won't...well, I reckon s'important t'get folk out of the way but I think it's a bit more'n a gang war by now. Can't tell angels an' devils t'stand down. Or y'can't make 'em, anyway.

Um. Dunno if I want t'talk about them either but I will if y'want to. It's...dunno. S'a rubbish thing to 'ave t'dream about. For you, I mean. An' you aren't really like that.

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[horrible_penny]

The flu? That can get pretty serious, but you're resting?

It'd be nice if normal people could help, but I don't think there's a lot that anyone who doesn't have superpowers can do. The angels and the demons're both kind of unreasonable right now.

Not talking works. ...I mean, not talking about that. Talking about other things is good. I'd really like to stay with you, Chris, and if you're sure that it doesn't get to you...

...Is everything else okay? Besides not feeling great?

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[justcautious]

Oh aye, s'basically all I'm doin'. Barely movin' I'm restin' so much.

I s'pose there's bound t'be copper angels out there doin' their job anyway.

...look, I-- [He stops dead, and it's quiet for a little bit.] Sorry, Penny, jus'....hold on.... [Pause.] Okay. Um. Look, if...y'were shamblin' everywhere an' bits...um...fallin' off an' that. I'd still like you. Jus'....dunno if I'd be kissin' you or nothin'. But that were just a dream yeah? So it'd be daft t'break it off over sommat that's not 'appenin'.

Yeah, m'fine. I'm back t'sleeping an' that.

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[horrible_penny]

Do you need soup or anything?

I hope so.

[Have a pause in return.] Chris, that's so sweet. ...That you'd like me even if I was like that, I mean. And I'm glad you don't want to break up.

Try to get better fast, okay?

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[justcautious]

No. Um...I'm feelin' like I might be sick, I mean. Ta, though. Anyway, you've just lit'rally been through Hell. Should be me bringin' you soup. If I didn't have flu, I mean.

Course I would. Don't just like you cos of your looks. I mean, helps, but it in't the only thing.

I'll do me best...

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[horrible_penny]

If you're sure. And I'm really not too bad... just bumps and bruises. Nothing that'd get in the way of soup delivery.

That's good, because I'm pretty sure you would've ditched me by now if it was all about looks. Hearing that... that's good. I was kind of worried.

Thank you. But it's okay for you to be sick for the rest of this curse. That way, you won't be running around where all the demons and angels are. In bed resting is a good place to be, I think.

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[justcautious]

Well, s'good to 'ear. But, um...really, prob'ly won't be eatin' today.

...why'd I do that? You're beautiful.

Yeah...maybe. I 'ope not, though.

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[horrible_penny]

Lots of fluids, then. You won't get better if you don't take care of yourself.

Aww... [Chris has earned bonus points. Not that he really needed them, but they're good to have.] That--thanks, really. Have you looked around the City, though? The average here is soap opera star gorgeous.

Well... sick or not, stay safe.

[ooc: FOR MY OWN CURIOSITY. Is Chris enjoying today's zombie curse? If so, omfgIhadnoideahewasinanywaydead.]

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[justcautious]

You--yeah. No, I--I will.

I 'ave. Jus' means there in't any way they'd ever go out with me. You're normal-beautiful.

You too. 'Specially as you've already been put down there once.

[ooc: Well, still counts if they've been dead in the City at least once. So yeah. He's falling apart today, which is incidentally making him A LOT MORE SYMPATHETIC TO PENNY.]

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[horrible_penny]

[A normal person might be at least vaguely offended by that. For the sake of this relationship, it's a very good thing that Penny is, in some ways, rather abnormal. She sounds flattered, anyway.]

I'd say don't sell yourself short in the looks department, but then you might run off with a six-foot blonde.

Don't worry about me. I've had enough not-being-safe for a while.

[ooc: For some reason, the thought of Chris being dead, even just for a bit, makes me incredibly sad.]

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[justcautious]

[This is probably why Penny is officially the longest girlfriend Chris has ever had.]

That'd look daft, her towerin' over me. Wouldn't seem right.

Okay. D'you want t'go t'the pictures or somethin'? Once this all is over?

[ooc: D: Sorry. Well, it is sad! What *I* don't like is thinking of Chris as not being real. As in not fictional in the first place, but being fictional within the fiction, in Sam's head. I don't like to think about that.]

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[horrible_penny]

You could wear lifts. That's what Tom Cruise does.

The pic--oh, to a movie? That'd be nice... normal. I'd like that.

[ooc: Somehow, that is worse. Which is silly, since... no, that would make the ooc note really long.]

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[justcautious]

Don't even wear heeled boots at home...still wouldn't be tall enough, anyway.

Brill! Okay, um...won't set a proper date until I know this's done with.

[ooc: Go! Make a record for ooc notes!]

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[horrible_penny]

Then I guess you're stuck with me.

Sounds like a date. ...An indeterminate, future kind of date.

[ooc: Let me think about it for a day or two. I'm tired and incoherent enough that I might just be crazy.]

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[justcautious]

Guess so.

Yeah...I'll 'ave t'call you once I 'ave a better idea.

[ooc: You have me on tenterhooks for whenever you do or don't decide to recount the other 70% of the ooc note!]

[horrible_penny]

You can call me even when you don't have ideas, you know. You can even come visit sometimes.

[ooc: It's not profound enough to leave you hanging. XD While the thought of Chris not being real inside the fiction of the show is sad, it doesn't make sense that it should be any sadder than the thought that he isn't real at all... but it is. I don't understand why. Although maybe fictional characters attain a sense of... realness? I don't like that word, but I don't have a better one. They have a realness to them, even though we're quite aware that they're not real. If, however, they're not real within their canon, you're robbed of that bizarre sense that they could maybe-possibly-exist-in-some-fictional-kind-of-way, and then their canon interactions don't mean much of anything, and it's... just sad. /makes no sense]