Father Mulcahy sits in an armchair tonight, busily bent over the crossword on his knee. Every so often, he pauses to press the tip of his pencil to his tongue and stare at the empty boxes
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"There is an epidemic going around it seems. Would have by any chance happen to have girl of your dreams who seem literally capable of doing everything and anything?"
Marian was watching him closely. "She might be a sister, or a lover, or a friend?"
Father Mulcahy -- chokes, a little bit, but he shakes his head. "No, I'm afraid that while I do greatly admire my sister -- I'm not sure that she fits that description."
After a long day of driving round the South Coast, Sam had been very much looking forward to her only moderately lumpy bed. The Germans had put paid to that notion -- the air raid sirens had gone off just as she put her head down on the pillow, and once the all-clear sounded more than an hour later, her head had still been full of the sounds of droning planes overhead.
The long and short of it is that a grand total of three-and-a-half hours of sleep and an abrupt arrival in Milliways at the end of another long working day means that Sam is slightly less than half-awake as she takes her cup of tea to a table.
So naturally, when she sees a gentleman in a clerical collar with a crossword puzzle sitting in an armchair, the half-awake part of her mind that is very much a vicar's daughter blithely informs her, Oh, there's my father.So naturally, she carries her tea in his direction, and sits down in the armchair opposite Father Mulcahy without so much as a by-your-leave
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Father Mulcahy glances up as someone sits across from him -- and then he sees that it is not, in fact, Carmela, and he nods to the woman with a smile, and then returns his attention to the devilish work of figuring out what is eleven letters long and means 'impossible to shatter.'
Sam looks up, returns the nod and smile and is on the point of opening her mouth when her mind finally catches up to reality --
'...oh!'
-- and she all but leaps out of her chair, startled and disoriented and completely flustered.
Thankfully, most of the contents of her teacup remain within the teacup, but a fair amount splashes over the side and lands on the floor not half a foot from the clergyman's shoes.
Sam's on the floor in a flash, doing her best to mop up the spilled tea with her pocket handkerchief.
Father Mulcahy glances up swiftly, startled, reflexively pulling his feet back as the tea splashes. "No, not at all," he assures the young woman in the -- rather familiar style of uniform. Familiar when compared to the wide variety of clothing that one sees in the bar, anyway. "Are you alright?"
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"Hello, sir. Would you mind answering a few questions?"
Lowering her pad would, indeed, reveal a shiny security badge hanging on her gown.
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Marian was watching him closely. "She might be a sister, or a lover, or a friend?"
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The long and short of it is that a grand total of three-and-a-half hours of sleep and an abrupt arrival in Milliways at the end of another long working day means that Sam is slightly less than half-awake as she takes her cup of tea to a table.
So naturally, when she sees a gentleman in a clerical collar with a crossword puzzle sitting in an armchair, the half-awake part of her mind that is very much a vicar's daughter blithely informs her, Oh, there's my father.So naturally, she carries her tea in his direction, and sits down in the armchair opposite Father Mulcahy without so much as a by-your-leave ( ... )
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'...oh!'
-- and she all but leaps out of her chair, startled and disoriented and completely flustered.
Thankfully, most of the contents of her teacup remain within the teacup, but a fair amount splashes over the side and lands on the floor not half a foot from the clergyman's shoes.
Sam's on the floor in a flash, doing her best to mop up the spilled tea with her pocket handkerchief.
'Oh...oh, gosh, I didn't splash you, did I?'
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