104,42 - Sleeping Beauty

[ichoosefight]

[ Audio ]

[ Steph's voice is tired and a touch less cheery than usual. Yours would be too if you woke up to find your fiance in a coma. It's been a stressful morning. ]

Kon's fallen into a coma. I've got him here in our room and I'm keeping him here, since he won't need any kind of medical treatment anyway. [ He doesn't have to eat, so there's a plus. ]

If you need anything from him that I might be able to get for you, let me know.

[ Private to Cassel ]

That goes doubly for you. You need anything, anything at all, just ask.

Comments

[ichoosefight]

I've been here three years. It's supposed to get easier, you know? Some things just don't.

[godsays]

Missing people you love is supposed to get easier?

[ Because that sounds probably not true to Zane. ]

[ichoosefight]

Being here is supposed to, dealing with this... weirdness.

I'm just ready to be done with it all. [ She can say that because Doyle is in a coma too, so he won't hear. ]

[godsays]

Being here is about changing but maybe there are some things that shouldn't change. About us.

[ichoosefight]

There's a lot of things that shouldn't change. Sometimes it does anyway. That's the real kicker. [ This place can break people. She's seen it happen. ]

Whatever. I mean, I'll get over it. And he'll wake up, and we'll graduate our inmates and we'll go home, and everything will be slightly less screwed up.

[godsays]

...you're making it sound pretty easy.

[ When he actually finds it pretty god damn important.

It's... a little insulting to be relegated to one goal among a list. It's a matter of people's lives, here.

He shouldn't care. She's not his warden anyway. ]

I'll see you during shift.

[ He's always there. His shift is night verging onto morning, and he works mostly silently, and without tiring. ]

[ichoosefight]

I see irony is lost on you.

[ Items on a list. Help two men get their lives back. Wake up every day in a bed alone waiting for Kon to wake up, hoping he will and he won't just disappear, hoping that this is the last deal and she won't have to make another to bring him back to her. Plan a wedding. Save the world a few times. Convince herself to retire. Get a real job. Start a family. Some list. She's just too worn out and bitter and flat out of charity to even care anymore. ]

Yeah, I'll see you there.