If she was honest, Charlie was more than sick of the rain. She was huddled in one of Ianto's coats and her plastic boots, the jeans that she'd arrived in, blood stains and all. Wasn't the water for bare legs. Wasn't the weather at all. When she saw Bobby on the path ahead of her, she managed a smile, her red hair straggling hopelessly around her face.
"Didn't expect to see you out here, Old Man," she said, cheerfully. "I must like some kinda drowned rat."
"Didn't expect to be out here," Bobby replied, lookin' up at the familiar sound of Charlie's voice. "I stopped by to check on a - on someone I knew from back home, found out she disappeared." He didn't think Bela exactly qualified as a friend.
Charlie had never been good at hiding her emotions, and there was a look of sympathetic sorrow right there for a moment while she hurried to close the gap between them.
"Oh, Bobby. I'm so sorry. Here. Let me carry some of that."
"Come on, then." He jerked his head in the direction of his hut, not far off. "I think I got a towel somewhere you can use to dry off at least a little."
"I'm not gonna lie and say I won't thank you for that," she said, tucking her arm into his. "Miserable, ain't it? What do you reckon we did to deserve this?"
"I got no idea," Bobby said, bending his arm automatically at the elbow when she took it. "But if it's the way most crazy things are around here, it won't last too long." A month, at the most, if it was like the snow they had in December.
"Here's hopin'," she said, her fingers stroking against the sleeve of his coat. "It was rainin' like this the very first day I met Hiro. Day I turned twenty-four."
"Biblical," she said, smiling up at him through the straggling strands of her hair. "I about thought we were going to wash away. Midland's all built on dust, you know."
"Didn't expect to see you out here, Old Man," she said, cheerfully. "I must like some kinda drowned rat."
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Charlie had never been good at hiding her emotions, and there was a look of sympathetic sorrow right there for a moment while she hurried to close the gap between them.
"Oh, Bobby. I'm so sorry. Here. Let me carry some of that."
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"Why doncha come with me, though, get in outta this rain."
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"I could come with you. I spend any more time in this rain, I reckon I'm gonna sprout gills."
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"Yes, sir, he is."
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"Shaky, at first. Better now. I'm back home with Ianto. He told me he loves me."
She couldn't help but smile.
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