Who: Stevie Wyrzykowski What: Waiting to get tested... When: Thursday, May 16 Where: Laramie Healing Institute Warnings: none
Stevie’s hands smoothed down her velvet skirt, from the top of her thigh down to her knee, again and again as she sat in the waiting room of the Laramie Healing Institute. She’d felt so sure about getting tested, and she still was, only now she’d had nearly a month to anticipate her appointment as it drew nearer. She wished they’d been able to test her right away, before she gave it a second thought, but that was never how these things worked. Having worked in a hospital, she understood the bureaucracy behind it all – but that didn’t mean she liked it.
She looked around at the other patients, wondering what they were here for and if any of them were… like her. It was something she found herself doing in any crowd of strangers, but here there was at least more reason to believe that there might be Others. After all, Stevie was here today because of her heritage – why not somebody else? And wasn’t Thorne always ending up in the hospital?
Stevie was pulled from her thoughts by the sound of her name being called. She followed a nurse through the hallway and into an exam room.