There were some things Hope did not understand. People were one of them. The camp was just… suffocating lately. There was so much tension, so much fear and upset feelings she felt as though she had been dumped back in High School. Yes, admittedly, it was a bit more serious than that. Victor had sexually assaulted two women and she suspected someone
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Feeling safe enough to really let loose with his powers, his hearing was increased as his nerves were stimulated. There wasn't much but the occasional flutter of a wing bird taking off or the soft pad of a rabbit through the snow. And, hello, what was this? He could hear the woman jabbering away, for all intents and purposes to herself. Hope was almost on top of him before Ty spoke, a chuckle in his throat. "Do you often talk to yourself, or merely have a chatty imaginary friend?"
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Then she started laughing, like she always did when she was surprised. With Atticus, it happened quite frequently. Once she settled down she smiled at the man with an unfamiliar face.
"I talk to myself quite often, actually. It lets me sort through problems." She offered him a hand. "Dr. Hope Chandler, I don't believe we've met."
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Ty shook her hand, as he picked up what he could from her skin. They held the usual softness of a woman's, but not from lack of activity. He could feel the residue of something, perhaps ink, on her fingertips, and the nails were kept short, most likely out of practicality. "Ty Folton. Or Sensory, whichever you prefer. And I don't believe so, I only arrived this past week."
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She honestly thought they were silly, but saw the reasons for them. She never really used them though.
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Suddenly Hope Chandler went running past him. She seemed to be in her own little world, looking ahead and driven to just run. Dukes could swear he heard her talking to herself.
"Doc, wait up!" he called out, following her.
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"Hello, Fred. Didn't I tell you to call me Hope?" she asked brightly.
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"Yeah, you always do." Dukes had not spoken with the woman for a while now. The last doctor he had seen was Milbury, and he was a real piece of work.
"So where's the fire?"
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"Oh, just, trying to get my head away from camp for a bit," she explained. "It's getting a bit... tense there and I needed a break."
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Not having anything to do, she stuffed her hands in her pockets and watched Hope walk all the way around, and then come back. Maybe with a little amusement. Slowly stepping in front of her, Domino gave her a small look of concern.
"Hope? Are you alright?"
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"Just getting away into my head for a moment," she explained, aware her behavior usually baffled people. "I think better when I'm moving."
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She had a few things she wanted to get away from herself.
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She did tend to talk to herself when she was really thinking. And gesture. Really, she probably looked very similar to Martini in one of his episodes.
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"Hello, Jason."
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"Dr. Milbury," she said politely if clipped. "Do you need something?"
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His mask was perfect, however, when he nodded to Chandler. "I want to apologize for my behavior the other day." Sinister wouldn't have bothered except that he would have had to have been deaf, dumb and blind not to notice that Chandler's attitude toward him had considerably shifted since the Victor incident--even if she had taken pains to remain professional at all times.
"It was wrong to take advantage of," the feral's, "Victor's healing factor the way that I did." Victor had deserved everything and more. "I let my personal opinion of the patient impair my judgment."
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Their working relationship had become tense and strictly professional. She worked with him because she had to, not because she wanted to no matter how brilliant he was. She believed heat of the moment situations like the one with Victor revealed more of a person's true nature than anything else.
Still, it would be rude to not accept his apology. "Yes, it was. No matter what we think of a person or feel towards them we have a job to do. Apology accepted."
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