Taeja Kim ☠ Jörmungandr (jormungandr) wrote in paxletalelogs, @ 2011-01-29 11:04:00 |
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Entry tags: | dionysus, jormungandr |
my heart is on the ocean
Who: Stephen & Adam.
What: Strange things turn up with the tide.
Where: The beach.
When: Afternoon.
Warnings: None yet.
Notes: Lotto post! :D
It had been a long week for Adam, one filled with unexpected stresses and uncomfortable trials. Only three nights prior he had lost a patient during transport. The man had been a victim of several particularly nasty knife wounds, all of which had been difficult to treat while in transit to trauma, all of which had led to substantial blood loss before they had even arrived. Knowing this did little to assuage the guilt that nagged at him. It had been wholly unhelpful, too, in comforting the newest member of their small unit, a younger man whose first night on call had ended in such tragedy. Further frustration had come in the form of his schedule conflicting so sharply with Alex's; he had had no-one to talk to about these long, arduous nights, and felt her absence all the more keenly after their Christmas together.
Now, with every sinking step he took into the thick sand of the beach, Adam felt his tightly coiled tension begin to bleed from him. It was work of a different sort to push himself this way, abandoning harshly lit gyms for the glittering brightness of the ocean, but already he could tell it had been the right choice. The crashing waves seemed a comfort of a sort, familiar in a way they had never been in his youth. They called to him, and some part of him answered. His dark brow furrowed at the odd thought, but distraction proved soon in coming. He drew a deep breath, his footsteps slowing to a jog from his earlier, breakneck pace, his eyes narrowing as he saw a somewhat familiar face. He could not place the man's name, but he knew him for a relatively recent arrival at Pax - and though he could not recall precisely where, Adam felt he had seen him even before that. He gave a faint smile, one pale hand lifting in a tentative wave.