[John]

[jill_langston]

It was late afternoon by the time Jill found herself ready to return to New Atlantis. Rodney had gone back only a few hours earlier and she'd promised to be there that night, prepared to follow him soon after he'd gone, but her stop up at the Compound had changed her plans a bit. Information seemed to spread like wildfire on the island and she hadn

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[flyboy_shepp]

The first knock, John had studiously ignored. He'd been making a game out of staring up at his hut ceiling and seeing how long he could go without thinking about anything at all.

When he realized Jill was the one knocking, John considered still not answering for a second. He knew exactly what she was referring to, and while he still wasn't in the mood for company, drinking didn't sound like a bad idea.

He opened the door, unsurprised to see the bottle of wine in Jill's hand. An eyebrow went up. "Whole bottle this time?"

[jill_langston]

"The whole bottle," Jill agreed, nodding in the direction of the Compound before she took a step away from the door. "Between the two of us, we can probably knock this back with a disturbing level of ease."

She remembered the words she'd said to David, wondering if one day alcohol could be her addiction, but she wasn't going to dwell on that now. Maybe it was, maybe she was far too dependent on it, but right now she just wanted to get drunk.

"Let's go," she said simply.

[flyboy_shepp]

John didn't need to be told to do anything twice. He shut the door behind him a little harder than he normally might have, and followed Jill, hands shoved in his pockets.

The fact that this was normal enough that they didn't need to explain themselves to each other still made his head reel.

[jill_langston]

As they walked, Jill was silent, listening to their feet scuff in the dirt and the wind in the leaves. She didn't want to say anything to make it worse, but she didn't want to keep the information from him either.

"I just found out Chris is gone, too. Chris Cutter. I know you guys were on the Council together," she said softly, because he'd been her friend and it sucked to have to say it out loud. "Alec McDowell, too."