A reunion

[kingsroad]

King hadn't been able to keep track of the days too well, but he was pretty sure it was close to a week before he eventually got back to the compound. He was more than glad to leave dino territory behind, and especially glad to finally have Billy properly taken care of in the clinic. King had refused any care himself, because really, he was fine.

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[thecivilianaid]

Frannie could tell there was someone hovering in the doorway and she wished that these people would just knock or clear their throats or something. So many people had come to the IPD office since the hurricane and just stood there, waiting for her to help them.

"If you're here to report someone that's still missing, just take a seat," she said, gesturing at the other chair without looking up. There were still names on the list that belonged to people she was worried about, and she wasn't really doing paperwork so much as she was making plans to go out looking for Fraser, Billy and King.

"My replacement is going to be here right away, so you can--" Frannie looked up then and her sentence was cut off sharply.

[kingsroad]

"Your mountie's back." It was all King could think of to say, but it was probably something she needed to hear. If Frannie had been safe back at the compound the whole time, she must've been worried about people she knew. It was entirely possible she knew Fraser was back already, but King felt the need to share the information anyway. Fraser was back, Billy was back, and now King was back too. And from what King had heard, probably the last to actually return.

And now, standing in the doorway, he thought that Frannie was possibly the prettiest thing he'd seen in a good long awhile. It wasn't something that showed much on his face, but he was definitely thinking it. And it didn't surprise him as much as it confirmed how he really felt about the situation. He was glad to be back. And he was glad to see Frannie.

[thecivilianaid]

That snapped Frannie out of her daze and she stood up from her desk quickly, nearly knocking her chair over. "He came back with you?" she asked, her palms pressed against her paperwork as she tried to figure out what to do. She'd been so worried about him, scared that he was dead or worse. Scared that he'd been taken from the island like Turnbull, but now he was standing there in the door to the office like nothing had happened.

"When did you get back?" she asked, finally lifting her hands from her papers. She still didn't know what to do and she hesitated before coming around the desk to look at him.

[kingsroad]

"Just now, sort of," King replied, watching as she came around the desk, his expression not revealing much. She was the only one out of the two of them that had moved, and King was grateful because he was pretty sure all he would've done was stand there and stare. "This guy, Billy, he came back with us too."