So take it as a song or a lesson to learn
Who: Steph and Tim
What: Tearful reunion
When: The morning after the flood is over
Where: The dining hall
Warnings: Girl tears. I know they scare some people.
[ Stephanie had been keeping to herself. She continued her daily exercise, of course, but she did it in her room. She crept out of her room to grab food from time to time.
The flood was over, she knew that much, but she hadn't spent a lot of time on the network. Just enough to get a few of the details straight. It didn't matter anyway, she hadn't been affected. She told herself she had a schedule. A few days of mourning, and then when wardens and inmates were assigned again she had to get over it. Either she would have a new inmate to look after, or she would have two weeks to convince the Admiral that she was still fit for duty before she was assigned again. It made her feel better, being alone like this, in that guilty self-serving way it always had.
Of course, morning was her time of weakness. She wanted to just go in and out, but she needed coffee. So when she dragged herself from her room, she at least took the time to make sure she was fit to be seen long enough to get her coffee and sweeten it up. She needed the sugar.
When she saw him, it was all she could do to stop and stare. Standing in the middle of the doorway to the dining hall, Stephanie stared, mouth agape, at what couldn't possibly be Tim Drake. ]
What: Tearful reunion
When: The morning after the flood is over
Where: The dining hall
Warnings: Girl tears. I know they scare some people.
[ Stephanie had been keeping to herself. She continued her daily exercise, of course, but she did it in her room. She crept out of her room to grab food from time to time.
The flood was over, she knew that much, but she hadn't spent a lot of time on the network. Just enough to get a few of the details straight. It didn't matter anyway, she hadn't been affected. She told herself she had a schedule. A few days of mourning, and then when wardens and inmates were assigned again she had to get over it. Either she would have a new inmate to look after, or she would have two weeks to convince the Admiral that she was still fit for duty before she was assigned again. It made her feel better, being alone like this, in that guilty self-serving way it always had.
Of course, morning was her time of weakness. She wanted to just go in and out, but she needed coffee. So when she dragged herself from her room, she at least took the time to make sure she was fit to be seen long enough to get her coffee and sweeten it up. She needed the sugar.
When she saw him, it was all she could do to stop and stare. Standing in the middle of the doorway to the dining hall, Stephanie stared, mouth agape, at what couldn't possibly be Tim Drake. ]