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Office hours [all day]

Oct 11, 2007 09:14

Josh was catching up on radio.

Josh was hearing about Deadpool and Aly.

Josh...was plotting.

Plot, Josh, plot.

The door was open.

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Lana stops by lovelylana October 11 2007, 19:01:12 UTC

At some time when things seemed quiet in the office, Lana stopped by to see Josh. She brought a cup of coffee for him, of course.

Re: Lana stops by professor_lyman October 11 2007, 19:22:44 UTC

"Hello, Lana," Josh said with a welcoming smile. "I got donuts. Oooh. Coffee?"

Re: Lana stops by lovelylana October 11 2007, 21:51:16 UTC

"Wasn't sure I was allowed to stop by without coffee," Lana said with a smile.

Re: Lana stops by professor_lyman October 11 2007, 22:00:21 UTC

"It's not a rule, but now I'm thinking it kinda should be," Josh decided.

Re: Lana stops by lovelylana October 11 2007, 22:05:20 UTC

"Well, it's not like it's a difficult thing," Lana said with a smile.

Re: Lana stops by professor_lyman October 11 2007, 22:16:34 UTC

"Exactly," he replied. "I'll put up a sign for next week."

He took a sip from the cup. "You're smiling. That's very good to see."

Re: Lana stops by lovelylana October 11 2007, 22:20:57 UTC

"I'm trying," she said. "I really am. It's just hard. I've lost everyone I've ever cared about and... I guess stupid as it sounds I'd let myself believe that I might not lose Jim."

She shrugged. "Makes it even worse."

Re: Lana stops by professor_lyman October 11 2007, 23:15:03 UTC

Josh pushed the box of pastries closer. "I'm not going to pull out the Useless Adult Book of Platitudes," he said. "Break-ups suck. But it's not the end of the world. The school year's not even a quarter begun: drop into a few club meetings." He grinned. "Fake an accent and pretend to be a twin from a different dimension for a weekend just to see if you can."

He frowned. "What you shouldn't do is get drunk and do something you'll regret in the morning. That way leads to radio humiliation and sometimes antibiotics from the clinic. No one wins there."

Re: Lana stops by lovelylana October 11 2007, 23:38:27 UTC

She took out a pastry and broke it into bite size pieces which she didn't actually eat, though she nibbled on one. "I think it's less the break-up as just the reinforcement of the feeling that I'm never going to be able to keep anyone in my life. I have no family, no home, my friends and boyfriends all die or leave and..."

She made a face. "I know it's really selfish, but I just feel very alone in the world. I shouldn't, I know. People have been very nice, nicer than I deserve, but... And then the stress kicks up the nightmares I've had all my life."

Re: Lana stops by professor_lyman October 11 2007, 23:49:15 UTC

"Traumatic stress thing?" Josh asked, alarm bells going off in his head. "Is this taking you back to how you lost your parents?"

Not that Josh had any experience with PTSD. Really.

Re: Lana stops by lovelylana October 11 2007, 23:54:01 UTC

"A bit, yeah," she said. "They were killed in front of me when I was three. Hit by a freak meteor shower. And a lot of... bad things happened back home. I've been stalked and kidnapped and buried alive and... a lot of bad things. I think I mostly deal pretty well. I have nightmares regularly, but they're not usually too bad."

Re: Lana stops by professor_lyman October 12 2007, 00:14:55 UTC

Josh's jaw dropped. "What the hell kind of place do you come from?"

Re: Lana stops by lovelylana October 12 2007, 00:17:49 UTC

"Smallville, Kansas. Meteor capital of the world. And home to more crazed meteor mutants than you can shake a stick at," Lana said a little ruefully. "Something about prolonged meteor exposure changes some people. And they always seem to end up evil."

Re: Lana stops by professor_lyman October 12 2007, 01:19:37 UTC

"So I'll be skipping that on my next vacation," Josh said slowly. "Yikes. You still have friends there? Um, non evil ones?"

Re: Lana stops by lovelylana October 12 2007, 01:30:47 UTC

"My former guardian," Lana said. "Though I'm not sure I'd consider him a friend. And the Kents. I lived next door growing up. Their son, Clark, we kind of toyed with the idea of going out, but... I couldn't trust him. He was never honest with me. That's pretty much it. Chloe was here, but she's moved on."

Re: Lana stops by professor_lyman October 12 2007, 05:26:01 UTC

"I work with politicians," Josh said with a wry smile. "Honesty is entirely relative. You don't have to spill your guts to have a good relationship. You just have to have faith there's a reason to what they're keeping to themselves."

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