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[fran_goldsmith]

[OOM:A death in the family, and a few days later, another to come?]

Fran thought she was going into the kitchen at her parents' house. It takes her a few seconds to process where she is instead. Exhaustion, dizziness and fever don't make for being quick on the uptake. She turns pale, whirls to grab for the doorknob

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[futures_of_ash]

Panic, Fear, and Blood.

How could Rachel not react? She was moving before she eve registered the fact, hand reaching out to sooth, to calm...

"Shhhh...it's alright...."

[fran_goldsmith]

Fran flinched as if she'd been hit. "Stay away from me!" She heard the near
hysteria in her voice, and shuddered. Nothing will ever be alright again.

[futures_of_ash]

"No" she said calmly, although she held her hand up, not trying to touch now, no. Instead, she began to ground stealing and absorbing pain, swallowing it safely away...

"You're bleeding too much to just walk away from" she sighed.

[fran_goldsmith]

Fran turns her head away, hands clenched, fingernails gouging into her palms. As horribly tempting as a meltdown sounds, she . Couldn't.
Because it might get someone else killed.

"Ma'am." She sticks by the wall like glue. "That may not matter. I," she stopped, began again. "Bleeding's about the least worry I've got."