Re: [Gwen & Harry: Gotham]
[She smoothed down the skirt with pale fingers that were all practicality, nothing of showmanship and it wouldn't ever occur to her to attempt to seduce him with the dressing room's pop music playing overhead and the mirrors showing them in three pairs, like they were separate people with three alternative options for all actions and reactions, which wasn't a logical assessment. They had more options than could be tallied.
The movement of hand to skirt was without calculation, and she smiled when he said it looked good. Her fingers stilled on expensive fabric as he shrugged.] What would make me sad? I'm already sad, Harry. Don't you get tired of losing everything? We made all these plans when we were young, but now we can't even get through a week without something being taken from us. [Her shoulders lifted, and her shoulders fell.] I don't even have identification back home. I don't have a job, and I can't finish my advanced degree. I don't have a future. [Maybe that should be less important than a lot of other things, but Gwen always clung to plans, to certainties, to things that looked forward - accomplishments. Now, everything really sucked, and she didn't have any of those things.
But he asked about the room, and she looked around in confusion.] It doesn't make me uncomfortable. [She blushed, but only a little.] I haven't been with anyone since you. It's been a long enough interval that I'm not embarrassment by the proximity.
[Maybe she would've continued. She was certainly considering it, but the ground beneath them shook in a way that was barely perceptible, and her gaze dropped downward. They didn't have earthquakes in New York, and she just stared for a moment with complete lack of comprehension, though something was tingling along her spine and arms, but she didn't understand how the spidey sense thing worked either.] Do you feel that?
[And then the earthquake hit, and she only had time to reach out for him before the ceiling came down and the ground cracked, divided the dressing room, and the walls closed in.]