Arica looked up as someone slowly entered her hospital room. A wave of panic had welled up inside at seeing movement, but she forced herself to relax when she saw it was David. Eric had stepped out to get them both something decent to eat and drink.

"Hey," she said softly. "Thanks for stopping by. It's really good to see another friendly face

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I'm at work with very little to do and it's Friday... near the end of the day. *sighs* I find that I keep falling into a pattern of thinking about the past. About what I've gone through the past few years. There's the whole incident with Sark that I'm still dealing with. Honestly, I probably always will be "dealing" with it ( Read more... )

Five years ago I would have said a Valentine's Day like this was a disaster. We spent the evening at the hospital, rather than whatever plans we had. I got home around 4:45 to find that David was already complaining of an earache. An hour later, he was screaming about how much it hurt. I remember my parents saying that the same thing happened ( Read more... )

It's such a rare thing to be able to have a quiet evening with Eric nowadays... between his work, mine, and the twins... it's always crazy. So there are some advantages of Eric's break from CTU, which I am convinced will end up just being that ( Read more... )

Eric got home later that evening than Arica. She only worked until 4:30, as she'd done at the lab. He'd had to work a bit later. He could tell that dinner was cooking and he could hear the squeals of excited two year olds racing out. David and Liya each grabbed one of his legs ( Read more... )

[OOC: EVERYONE is there -- This takes place in the CTU bullpen. Josh is the son of a billionaire and he's come to CTU to ask for some protection/assistance etc. I actually had a dream about this scenario a few months back ( Read more... )

It was just a few days into Eric's break when things changed dramatically. Arica came home from the lab with a serious look on her face. "There's something you need to know ( Read more... )

As they'd planned the night before, Eric and Arica went to go talk to Michael the next evening. "Hey Mike," Eric said quietly when the door opened.

"She left," Eric said, nearly startling Arica by his sudden entry ( Read more... )