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[dr_robchase]

Chase was tossing the old rugby ball around as he sidestepped small remaining piles of snow, trying to ignore the general sense that the Island had been put through one hell of a blizzard, like it got turned upside down, shaken, and then put back on its head and expected to go about things as if it were just normal.

He was trying not to think too

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[whats_insideyou]

"Well, aren't you in a sunny mood?" she muttered from the clearing just outside the compound, her voice equally flat and cheerless, as always. She was without child today. Lily had gone through a bit of withdrawal from him, during the storm, and had come to pick him up that morning for a day with the Strombecks.

Sarah was immeasurably grateful for the few hours of peace... but part of her missed the warmth of her child in her arms.

[dr_robchase]

Chase glanced up from brushing the slush off his jeans with a thick slap of his hand, rolling his eyes. "I'm allowed to be in a dark mood when this place tried to turn us all into popsicles," he complained sharply. Normally, he would try and be the therapist for her, but he wasn't in the mood today. "This place...I swear to god, I hate this place."

[whats_insideyou]

"That's more like it," she said in her mother tongue, finding some rare amusement in his anger.

Anger, she felt, made him seem more human.

[dr_robchase]

Chase shot her a confused look and didn't even try to understand the words. "I'm not your doctor right now, not your therapist, so don't assume any of this is going to bleed over into the sessions," he warned. "I just..." He set his jaw, shaking his head. "I wish this place was more like a normal town."

[kirk_lazarus]

At least the actual blizzard hadn't lasted all that long, which meant Kirk and Tugg weren't stuck at the Winchester for long. Tugg still didn't like the snow and had more or less taken over Kirk's hut, so he was forced to spend most of his time elsewhere or risk getting a booting from an angry kangaroo. And when those sods kicked you, you felt it.

It probably wasn't cold enough for the three jackets and fur-lined coat. Probably. But it was colder than Kirk was used to, and he was bloody well going to make sure he kept all of his fingers and toes. It made it a little hard to move, though - he felt like he was wearing a fatsuit. If this was what it was like being Portnoy all the time, he owed the man a handshake, or at least a beer.

Pondering on this as he headed up to the Compound, he almost ran into some snow, which turned out to be another man in the snow. "You right, mate?" he asked. "Need one of those plow things?"

[dr_robchase]

"I need one of those cards that gets me out of being in a place where suddenly in the middle of June on a tropical Island, I get snow dumped on me," Chase complained heavily, glancing up through the fringe of his too-long hair to catch sight of Kirk. "It's not like I'm a kid. This isn't a novelty, this is just a nuisance."

[kirk_lazarus]

Ah, good old Rob. Kirk thought it was funny, sometimes, that he was stuck on an island where the only other Aussie was an altar boy, more or less.

"I don't think they make Monopoly boards of this place, mate," he said musingly. "This is more like Trivial Pursuit."

[dr_robchase]

"With the wedges all jammed in the wrong way and shoved down your windpipe maybe," he said, petulance flashing across his face as he brushed away the last of the slush and righted himself, staring at Kirk with a slight curl of despair to his upper lip. "Let me guess, you love the snow?"

[shot_my_shoes]

Harry frowned at the incongruity of an Australian talking about Jersey as if it had snow. Which it might well do during winter, it just didn't seem like a place Dr Chase might have been to often. But then it wasn't as if Harry knew him well, so perhaps he had.

"Is that a rugby ball?" he asked, because that part he could understand. Except he knew American football balls were shaped the same.

[dr_robchase]

Chase glanced over at the offending voice and gave a nod as he tried to keep his mind off the snow and the Island and the strange things it did to them. "One rugby ball," he confirmed. "Still in the form it was when I got it, which, considering this place is a miracle."

[shot_my_shoes]

"It is," he agreed. Although all he things he had were still in the same condition as he got them, for which he was grateful in the case of his boat in the recent weather. "Do you play?" He'd seen baseball and American football played here, but never rugby.

[dr_robchase]

"Ran a league here for a while before all the Americans got caught up in baseball and football." And beyond that, the constant disappearances meant that whenever he did get enough players together, they'd all be gone without a couple of months. He wasn't sure he was ready to think about that too in-depth, though.