WHO Billy Henderson & Julia Davenport (Jamie Fleming) WHAT: After her conversation with Vince, emotions are raw. Billy attempts some sort of comforting. WHERE: Jamie & Billy's apartment WHEN: after this RATING: PG STATUS: In Progress
With an order of Chinese food in hand, Billy returned to the apartment with hopes that he'd figure out how to settle into this situation with as little awkwardness as possible. This place certainly wasn't his lab nor did it have as much space, but he was sure that he could at least set up part of his room as a makeshift lab without it being too noticeable. As long as he didn't blow anything up. All thoughts of scientific preparations left his mind, however, when he managed to get all the way into the apartment and realized that his roommate was curled up in a ball on the couch doing her best impression of a sobbing wreck.
"I got food?" Billy offered tentatively, eyes widening as he shifted from one foot to another. Billy's experience with other people was limited, positive experience even more so, so he was frozen to the spot unsure of exactly how to continue. There was a quiet indignancy forming in his gut at the fact that something or someone had upset his roommate, someone who by all observations that he'd been able to make was not at all deserving of such treatment nor was likely able to handle it how some people could. Setting the takeout down on the kitchen counter, Billy left it for later and crossed back to the living room and sitting down next to her.
Nerved and uncomfortable, Billy's touch was hesitant as he settled a hand on her shoulder, unsure of whether it would help or hurt, and bit his lower lip, his unconscious tick kicking in full force as he blinked rapidly and asked, "What is it?"