[ accidental audio / visual ] won't someone make my heavy heart light;
For Jenna, things had recently been pretty normal as far as Taxon goes. Gain people, lose double. Lose one, gain none. She was starting to learn the ins and outs of the city and hated what she'd come to notice
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Would you like some company? [ It was the least that she could do ]
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Depends on how much you feel up to dealing with. There's a lot of glass here. [ she may or may not have dropped a second bottle by now. ]
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[ And ten minutes later? Have a polite knock on the door ]
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she pulls open the door with a weary smile. ]
Glad to see you could find the place. [ stepping back now. pause. well... helen's certainly proven she's trustworthy as far as jenna can tell. whether it's needed or not: ] Come on in.
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I'm always happy to help. [ Or perhaps more so willing? It's not been the most happiest of times, recently ] You've a lovely home, Jenna.
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Thanks. [ she sounds hesitant at that. oh the awkward... but it's not like it's a secret back home, so she goes to explain. ] I still don't really think of it as mine. It was my sister and brother-in-law's house. I only moved in to take care of Jeremy and Elena after Miranda and Grayson died.
[ it's still a fairly open wound, but at least now she can talk about it without sounding so upset about it. ]
Can I get you anything? A drink or something to eat? [ jenna, you are terrible about changing the subject. ]
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You've done a good job in taking care of it, for them then. [ Did that sound a little insensitive? She didn't mean it so, but it was a lovely home whether or not Jenna felt like it was hers ]
Do you have any tea? [ It's always worth a try, although she's used to the answer being no. And the first lot of glass will be making its way into a bin, now ]
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...Thank you. [ it actually doesn't sound negative at all to her. it's taken as a high compliment. ] It's all I have left of my sister now.
[ the question makes her pause for just a second as they both stick the bigger pieces of glass in the trashcan by the island counter. jenna grabs a dust pan and small broom, sticking them by the rest of the glass as she stands up and heads to her cabinets. ] Yeah, I do. It's- [ what elena used to keep her safe from vampires. ] -something my niece got my hooked on. What kind do you like? I probably have more than is healthy.
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Whichever your niece favours least. [ In case she comes back, again. And she's lived enough and tasted enough that she truly doesn't mind so much. But she's glad to here that there's someone else here that she can enoy some tea with ]
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[ she'll just set the kettle on the stove, turn it on, and start getting the cups all nice and ready. her habit is to stick vervain in the cups, but she hesitates for a second. this time, the vervain will only go in her cup, just like when caroline was living with her.
once it's a matter of waiting on the kettle to heat up, she kneels back down and starts sweeping up the remaining fragments. ]
Thank you, by the way. [ for coming to help her, mostly. ] Sometimes it's hard to be alone.
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You're welcome. It's something I understand all too well. [ All too well it was indeed. Although she'd shown no signs of ageing for over a century there was still something about her when you looked at her, if you looked closely enough, that told of her age. It was often said that your eyes were the windows to your soul. Although they didn't look aged in themselves they had something about them, something that made it seem as if she'd seen far more (and even lived far longer) than her body would ever show ]
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It was fine with my niece and her friend Caroline, but then they left and now... it's a little lonely. The house is big for one person. [ which was partly why she'd asked caroline to live with her, too. that and protection. ]
I'll get the rest up with the mini-vacuum later. [ at least the most dangerous pieces were gone now. a little bit longer and the kettle started whistling. that's two cups of tea now poured. jenna places helen's cup on the counter in front of one of the chairs, stirring her own a bit to get the vervain into the tea water. ]
You're... probably wondering about the smell. [ it does smell a bit, though it's a good smell to her. jenna makes her way to the other chair at the counter and sits down with her steaming cup. ] It's an herb, supposedly good for you.
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She gave her a smile when the tea arrived, popping the last few bits that she had in the bin before taking the seat ] Thank you.
[ She hadn't been wanting to ask, not to pry - she was all to aware of privacy and trust, especially with world differences and those here that you needed to be weary of, but hearing Jenna tell her on her own made her a little happy. It was a small sign of trust? ] What's it called?
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she took a small sip of her tea before setting it down on the counter and reaching up to show off her necklace. ]
This has vervain in it, too. A precautionary thing more than anything else.
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