Lita listened to Olivia draw herself deeper into the nice little pity party she'd thrown for herself without comment. The younger woman's vehement statement of being fine rang a little too close to home for Lita. How often had the doctor uttered the exact same rejoinder in the exact same manner when inside she was anything but? Lita dropped off her handful of goodies at the bedside table beside Liv: a bottle of water, a moonpie, a few magazines, and a tattered book of crossword puzzles with a nubby pencil to go along with it. Lita crossed the room and sat down at the kitchen table and picked up a stack of paperwork she'd brought home earlier in the week in an aborted attempt to dig herself out of the mountain of overdue deadlines.
"Man, wouldn't it be nice if there was someone around that you could talk to that had been in a similar situation?" Lita deadpanned, picking up a pen and sticking it behind one ear as she pretended to skim the contents of one of the manila folders in front of her. "Wouldn't it be just crazy if there was someone in the direct vicinity who could commiserate with what you're feeling? God, that would be so convenient."
Her tone invited questioning, should the scout get her head out of her own ass to pick up on it. Olivia had no way of knowing what had transpired the day the patrolmen came upon her and James that day at the gym and Lita didn't expect her to be psychic. But besides that, Liv was more of less aware of Lita's part in the Annihilator case. All the girl need do is ask and she'd find out that she was hardly the first woman in existence, hell, in this damn apartment that has felt helpless, afraid, and angry out there in the miserable world they live in.
"Hmm...oh, this is a good one," Lita said idly over the file, as if she had more important things on her mind. "Mrs. Lungren's impacted bowel procedure. This one is a real page turner. Gotta fill the silence somehow and since you're not exactly talkative, this would probably be the perfect case to read out loud. There's a surprise at the end that you don't see coming."