Day Ten - Still Wearing his Face

[ashes_like_sand]

Who: Chase, Pepper, Caleb
Where: In or around the dorms
When: Later afternoonish, after his return
Rating: Chase is frustrated - R

Status: Closed, completed
Summary: Upon his return, still wearing his Caleb disguise, Chase returns to DauphinMare. He encounters Pepper who believes him to be Caleb, which makes Chase wonder if Caleb is here. Upon

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[yes_miss_potts]

Pepper was trying this whole leaving her room thing again, since it had worked out so well for her the last two times. It is with this in mind that she stiffened a bit when she saw who she assumed was Caleb.

"This day cannot possibly get any worse, can it?" she muttered under her breath before putting on her very best diplomatic smile and nodding to the approaching form. "Hello again, Caleb," she offered, and despite herself, some of her chagrin managed to work its way into her voice.

Cursing herself for that, she wondered if it would be possible to escape to her room again without being incredibly rude. She came to the conclusion that it likely wasn't and sighed inwardly, awaiting his response.

[ashes_like_sand]

"Funny," Chase said, thinking that she was just playing, but ...

... no. Something was off about her voice.

And he would have expected more of an 'oh thank god you're back' sort of reaction.

He let his disguise fade away. "What do you mean, again?" he said tersely. Because oh, wouldn't that just perk his mood right up.

[yes_miss_potts]

Relief flooded through her, and she put a hand over her heart and heaved a sigh.

"Oh, thank God it's you," she said, "I met someone earlier who looked just like your disguise, and I thought it was you. I ... well it was really embarrassing, actually. New arrival, I guess."

He didn't look particularly happy, but she didn't think much of it. He'd just come back from Riverfell after all, and that didn't seem like an overly happy place to be to begin with.

[ashes_like_sand]

His eyes were black and he was moving before it occurred to him he didn't know where to look.

And this was probably not a reaction he wanted Pepper to see.

And it could have been a look-alike, and he was jumping to conclusions.

So he made himself calm down. "Caleb's here?" he said. "Caleb Danvers?" He turned to Pepper once his eyes had lost their blackness, though his jaw was still set, clenched.