InsaneJournal

Characters: Peter Hale + Cora Hale.
Location: Cora’s place.
Time: Tuesday 12 August, late afternoon.
Warnings: None/TBA.
Summary: Some time to catch up.
Status: Complete, closed.

When Cora had left for Habitat for Humanity again and Derek off on his own things, Peter had focused back on work, moreso than he had previously only because there wasn’t anything else to take up his time. By this point, the patterns in his life were insanely obvious to his coworkers. When his family was away or busy, Peter almost never left the office. Every once in a while, he wouldn’t leave, instead falling asleep right at his desk more out of exhaustion than choice. His work habits had never been questioned because he was always exceptional, though once or twice he had been urged to take a vacation. If there had been more to come home to than an impeccably clean house that looked like it had never been lived in, maybe he would. Or maybe if Peter had something outside of work and his sister’s kids. All maybes. He had heard that Cora had come home, though he hadn’t gone to see her right when he’d found out. Cora needed some time to adjust to being back in California and to spend time with her immediate family and her roommate. As far as he was aware, she wasn’t going anywhere right away and he was in the middle of a big settlement with the company and couldn’t really afford the time away until everything was settled. While at work on his lunch break and browsing the news, however, Peter saw the big headline; that yet another famous actor had passed away recently. For most things like that, Peter didn’t really spent too much time thinking about it, but this actor in particular had been in a movie he had seen so many times in his life by this point that he felt attached to that particular actor in a way he couldn’t really define. That thought led back to Cora, the reason he had actually seen that movie so many times and he decided that he was going to stop putting off seeing her now that she was back. Once he’d gotten home, Peter had spent a few minutes on the phone with his sister, the usual small talk they tended to keep their conversations focused on. It wasn’t that they really fought otherwise, it just seemed easier that way for them. What he did want to know was it Cora had already headed to her place or if she was still there. When Talia said she had already gone, their conversation only lasted a little while longer, ending with slightly stilted farewells before he grabbed his keys and made his way to his niece’s apartment. After knocking on the door, Peter just hoped it wasn’t a bad time.