Re: log: cat, matt, emily
[Cat scoffed.] I'm here because I want to be. [She'd known Em for a long time now, and the other woman had gone beyond just being a casual friend. Cat, for all her prickly nature, had a thing about loyalty, even if people didn't always know it, see it. But she wasn't going anywhere, not until Em was taken care of, and that? Was, quite simply, that, and she watched as Em's attention returned to Matt.
Now, Cat didn't need to get involved, and she wasn't worried. The injury? Wasn't anything bad, not when you'd been in the service of several governments, and not when you'd seen how quickly life could bleed out of a person. Cat had grown up on battlefields, and that was long before leaving New Jersey. No, she just understood that humanity? That frailty? Was new for Em.
Still, she got the things Matt requested, and then she leaned against the counter to nurse what remained of her coffee.]