04 // text (day) [filtered to Noah Morgan]

[condorseeker]

Ms. Morgan,

Do you have time to talk?

If not, that's okay. I can wait.

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[text]

[chickbro]

Yeah. Do you want me to come over?

[text]

[condorseeker]

If it isn't too much trouble. [She's been to the beach often enough, but she's not sure she properly knows just where Noah lives.]

[chickbro]

I can be there ASAP are you in your room??

[condorseeker]

Yes.

I'm not hurt or anything, I just [She pauses here, not sure of the best way to put it.]

I just need to talk.

[chickbro]

Okay. I'll be over in a bit.

[ BLURGH BLURGH TIME LAPSE. Knocking on Dawn's door now. ]

[blurgh blurgh action]

[condorseeker]

[Dawn answers after a moment, trying to smile as she opens the door. She only half-succeeds.]

Hi. ... Er, thank you for coming.

[chickbro]

[ Quit the act, kid. ]

Hey. No problem. [ sliiiides on inside. ] What do you need? You okay?

[condorseeker]

Yeah, I'm...fine. I think. [She's pretty sure.]

It's just... Did you hear about what happened? With all the people who went missing.

[chickbro]

...Yeah. [ She was trying not to think about it, but after hearing it was that damn doctor--man. MAN. ]

I'm guessing you did too.

[condorseeker]

Yeah.

I was... [She sits down again, looking down at her hands.] I was there. When we found them, I mean...when we found Dr. Steinman.

[chickbro]

[ Sits down beside her with a sigh. ]

I'm sorry, Dawn. I know he was, uh, your friend...

[condorseeker]

[She nods at that, without looking back up at her.]

I didn't... He never seemed like the kind of person who would do something like that, but...

I'm sorry. Maybe it would've been better if I hadn't been his friend.

[chickbro]

[ ... Probably best not to mention the blood and everything she saw around his office when she was thrown in there, but then again she was delirious and extremely hurt. ]

Sometimes we just can't tell, sweetie. Don't go blaming yourself for it, you did what you thought was best.

[condorseeker]

But...people got hurt. [More than just hurt, really, but she doesn't want to think about it-she can't think about it right now.] If he hadn't come up to the surface, they'd still be... This would never have happened, right?

[chickbro]

I know, Dawn, but it's all ready been done. There's nothing we can do to change it now--

...yeah, but how were we suppose to know? He's gone now, right? Sitting here sulking won't change anything.

[condorseeker]

... [She nods again after a moment, tightly folding her hands in her lap.]

I know that... I know. [She knows what happened can't be changed, and she knows it shouldn't be her fault. But why does it still feel like it is?]