RP for twmagdalena AU VERSE
Jack sits in his office, leaning back in his chair and a pen gently resting against his lip. It had been so many years waiting for this moment. So many years that he'd almost convinced himself that it never happened. That Gwen Cooper was merely a figment of his imagination. But then he knew she wasn't. He'd seen her name, more than once. He'd searched her out, read her arrest reports. He was content that the strands were pulling together. And he waited.
He waited until a cold and wet night in a back alley behind a car park. Until an over inquisitive PC watched something she shouldn't and until he looks up and asks "What do you think?"
She didn't give up, and he knew that, of course. Past another chance meeting in a hospital, another step in the right direction. But not yet, not just yet. She needed to make the steps, needed to get there for herself.
And she's got there now. Jack waits and attempts to settle his nerves. Nerves he never shows but they're here now. Here for this. They've been watching her, PC Cooper, as she wanders around on the Plass above. Suzie commenting on the fact she must be mad to brave the cold. Jack just smiles, saying nothing.
And then PC Cooper finds her in. So they wait and they sit and they attempt to pull a joke. Jack moves to the boardroom upstairs to busy himself, to fill the time. And she arrives. His hands in his pockets, Jack descends the stairs and makes a slow stroll back to his office. Not for one moment aknowledging the woman standing there with the pizza boxes, looking more lost than he's ever seen her.
He moves into his office. Sits at his desk, and keeps up the charade until laughter and voices spill from the Hub. Jack looks up and grins "Come on! She was gonna say, "Here's your pizza," and I was going to say, "How much?"" he stands, moves over to his doorway, standing in it, "and she says, "Oh, whatever, twenty quid," and I say, "Oh, I don't have any money." I was working on a punchline. I'd have got there. But it would've been good!"
He waited until a cold and wet night in a back alley behind a car park. Until an over inquisitive PC watched something she shouldn't and until he looks up and asks "What do you think?"
She didn't give up, and he knew that, of course. Past another chance meeting in a hospital, another step in the right direction. But not yet, not just yet. She needed to make the steps, needed to get there for herself.
And she's got there now. Jack waits and attempts to settle his nerves. Nerves he never shows but they're here now. Here for this. They've been watching her, PC Cooper, as she wanders around on the Plass above. Suzie commenting on the fact she must be mad to brave the cold. Jack just smiles, saying nothing.
And then PC Cooper finds her in. So they wait and they sit and they attempt to pull a joke. Jack moves to the boardroom upstairs to busy himself, to fill the time. And she arrives. His hands in his pockets, Jack descends the stairs and makes a slow stroll back to his office. Not for one moment aknowledging the woman standing there with the pizza boxes, looking more lost than he's ever seen her.
He moves into his office. Sits at his desk, and keeps up the charade until laughter and voices spill from the Hub. Jack looks up and grins "Come on! She was gonna say, "Here's your pizza," and I was going to say, "How much?"" he stands, moves over to his doorway, standing in it, "and she says, "Oh, whatever, twenty quid," and I say, "Oh, I don't have any money." I was working on a punchline. I'd have got there. But it would've been good!"