backdated to Monday 5/14 - for Claire

[visibleclaude]

Claude was, in a manner of speaking, working on the hut. He had some vague sense of obligation that if he was going to be living there he should be helping, but there was only so much of Peter's nattering he could take, and he lived in the constant fear that Gidget would show up just to swoon over her bare-chested Tarzan

Comments

[unbreakableteen]

Claire came to see how it was coming along. She'd talked to Peter the day before and he said it was still her place if she wanted, and she really, really wanted.

She just wanted to peek, to see how it was going, but then she saw Claude and smiled...ready to say hi...

When she saw under his shirt.

"Oh my God! What happened?" she asked, darting in.

[visibleclaude]

Claude's shirt was already back down by the time she ran into the room, and he nearly jumped out of his skin. "What? What?"

[unbreakableteen]

"What's wrong with your side?" she asked, more worried than she should be, but she'd never seen marks like that. She didn't touch, but pointed to where she'd seen them.

[visibleclaude]

"Nothing," he said shortly, "just scars." Then he realized how harsh he sounded, and he face fell, and... "I'm an old man, remember?" he added. "I'm bound to be all tore up by now."