WHO: Pepper Stark & Ryder WHAT: Discovering a loss WHEN: Friday morning WHERE: Their house WARNINGS: tbd, probably just feels STATUS: Closed | incomplete
Pepper felt better after talking with Tony. They still had a lot to figure out, namely making her divorce official with Dwight and securing a marriage license with Tony here, not to mention figuring out where they would love and how they would blend their families. It wasn’t easy by any means, but she did feel better about the whole situation, like she was making the right choice for her. In a world without Tony, Dwight was it for her. With him in Madison, she couldn’t not be with him.
With that, at least, decided, Pepper knew she needed to talk to Ryder and fill him in on everything that was going on. She wanted to give him the choice of who to stay with, how to split things, so she texted Dwight to ask him to come over for it. The text failed to send, the bounce back message similar to what they would get if someone went home. Her heart dropped to the pit of her stomach as she went in search of her ward.
“Ryder, sweetheart? Have you seen Dwight?” she called, hoping against hope.