[Jack's voice is happy, nearly ecstatic as he speaks.]
Oh darlin'! Sweetness, light-o'-my-life darlin'? I got a surprise for us. Don't eat dinner tonight. Meet me at my house-- er-- an hour before the siren sounds.
[Oh, what's this? She sends a text back to say she'll be there, of course, and once she sends all the little ones to bed and has changed out of her work clothes, she heads over to Jack's place to see him.]
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:)
so
about
the other day
and kissing
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Yes?
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Oi, Alice. [A beat.] Er. Hello, I mean.
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Oh, hullo, Sirius. How are you?
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What are you doing?
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[She quirks a brow at her NV book.]
Why?
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Oh darlin'! Sweetness, light-o'-my-life darlin'? I got a surprise for us. Don't eat dinner tonight. Meet me at my house-- er-- an hour before the siren sounds.
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That's a lovely blue blouse you got on.
[Notably, he doesn't have his sonar device in.]
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Thank you. It's the usual, but--
[Wait. She pauses.]
...Jack?
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She's upright on the couch immediately, sleeping at the firehouse with Yorick in her lap. He yaps at her when she moves.
With shaky hands, she writes back.]
Jack?
[Of course it's him. This would be a cruel joke otherwise.]
Oh God are you all right?
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I Good. All right.
[She wants to ask him so many things but...but if he's in the hospital...]
You never left.
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