InsaneJournal

Who: Claudia Donovan, H.G. Wells, Myka Bering
What: Steve Jinks is gone, Claudia is distraught. She seeks out family.
When: Late Thursday evening, January 17th, 2013
Where: H.G. and Myka's rooms
Rating/Warnings: PG-13 / Potential for language
Status: Closed / Incomplete


Even as Claudia sent the response to H.G.'s text, asking if she could come over, she had left her rooms. She had discovered Steve's departure after realizing her best friend had been quiet beyond his normal semi-quiet state. She had first knocked on his bedroom door, then tried to text him to ask if he was ignoring her or out. After the text came back, a knot had formed in her stomach. A phone call to his number didn't go through and that was confirmation enough. She had opened his bedroom door and found it, of course, empty.

She had been worried about him. Worried about his lack of friends, wondering if he was okay. He had told her she could talk to him about anything she needed, but he hadn't really talked to her about his attempts to adjust post-death, pre-metronome-resurrection. He hadn't talked about what he felt in regards to his mother. She had been able to tell that it had been a sore topic with him, too, at that. It left her not wanting to burden him with anything else and...

And then there was no more Steve.

When her phone chimed and indicated she had a text, she pulled it out of her pocket and read it on the go. She knew H.G. would let her come over, of course, but somehow she had still felt the need to ask before just showing up at her and Myka's place. Even if H.G. was recovering from being sick, there was a potential for interrupting private moments that Claudia didn't want.

She wasn't able to fight the tears back for the small trek down the stairs to the floor below hers. When she knocked on the door, she was already standing there crying.