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[tehoniongirl]

Who: The Ills (Jilly, Billy and Willow)
What: Friends reconnecting to a bit of karaoke
When: About 8ish, Thursday evening.
Where: Caritas
Rating: PG-13 for Billy's secret evil motives.

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[need_to_rule_it]

Billy did actually show, and--more than that--he was on time. He was distracted, but his mind had been functioning under a sort of mechanical precision lately. It wasn't an often-seen state of his here-- with how meticulously this place had broken him down and made him forget who he was. It had picked him apart, and tricked him, and nudged him down paths he didn't expect until he couldn't even see where he'd come from when he looked back.

But, that was all better now. He remembered; he was focused. When his alarm went off to remind him about Caritas, he immediately up and went.

Not going might raise suspicion, after all.

So, he was still distracted when he showed up, glancing around when he wandered in, but not seeming to see Jilly right away. Almost as if he was looking for something that wasn't her. Hands shoved in his sweatshirt pockets, he was practically halfway to the table before he noticeably spotted her, giving a nod of greeting.

[tehoniongirl]

When she sees him turn her way she raises a hand to catch his attention, smiling.

"I wasn't sure you'd actually come by. You seemed pretty engrossed," she says as he gets close enough to hear. There's a faint teasing edge to her voice, but there's no actual judgment in it. She'd lost herself in more than a few projects, until the minutes slipped into hours where sleep and food were forgotten well beyond the point they should have been remembered.

[need_to_rule_it]

"Yeah, I'm working on a couple...breakthroughs."

But he moved right along, not stopping to spend time on the topic. He dropped down into the seat across from her, and nodded toward her mostly-untouched beer.

"Oh, good. Looks like you haven't been waiting too long?"

[tehoniongirl]

She shook her head. "Just about fifteen minutes or so. I came over a little early to say hi to Lorne."