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Connor ([info]leconnortemple) wrote in [info]vas_captio_rpg,
@ 2009-12-06 02:02:00

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Who: Connor Temple and Kimberly Corman
What: Look, she's not dead!
When: Bright and early in the morning
Where: Their library hideaway
Rating: Slap a PG-13 on it for safekeeping
Status: Active



He was still reeling. Sure, it had been more than 24 hours, but that didn't stop it from hurting. It had been weeks since Cutter, and months since Stephen, and those still hurt. Well... Less Stephen now that he was...well, here. But it still felt weird. And now, seeing it the way he had, unable to do a thing, had been downright painful. It had felt as awful as if he were sitting by Cutter's side, being told to do nothing all over again. Only Kimberly hadn't told him to do nothing. Well, she had. Sort of. But only if Fate were playing its part. That wasn't fate. That was cold, calculated, twisted and manipulative murder.

Connor slowly and painfully woke up from his position where he'd clearly just been dropped off wherever the powers that be had chosen. Fuckers. The others that had been in that stupid pharmacy with him were there, too. Was he going to stop and chat? No. As soon as he got his bearings, figured out where he was, and grabbed his well-loved fedora off the ground, he took off.

At first he wasn't sure where to go. Going back to the gym sounded possible. Go back to where he was at least somewhat safe, where Chris and the others usually were. Or maybe he could go by the clock tower, where they'd first met. A proper mourning, really.

But his body must have known before he did where he was going. It would hurt, but he had to go back to their saferoom. The place he'd worked so hard on for her, to keep her safe. The place where only a few nights before, he'd lay curled at her side, hoping she was warm enough and worrying about the next day. Even walking in there would make him feel about two inches tall, but he had no choice, really. His journal was in there and what few supplies he had.

The door to the library made an extra loud squeak in the early morning silence and Connor froze before realizing no one was actually around for it to bother. With a mournful sigh, he walked the rest of the way inside, glancing towards the office they'd been using. He couldn't do it. Not yet. So he wandered instead. Browsing the shelves, glancing over books that hadn't entirely molded and fallen apart. Maybe one day he'd get the urge to actually read one. Maybe.


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[info]cheatingdeath
2009-12-07 04:37 am UTC (link)
Blushing slightly, Kimberly rolled her eyes playfully and chewed her bottom lip as Connor looked up at her smugly. Her nose wrinkled with embarrassment and she shook her head. "C'mon, get up," she laughed as he sat up. Following him with her eyes as he stood, Kimberly weakly smiled with gratitude when he stepped up to her and rubbed her arms to warm her, pointing out the obvious.

Given the fact that when she'd gone with him to the thrift shop, all she'd been thinking about had been shoes, Kimberly didn't have any other clothes and thus was still clad in her tank top and pajama pants. "Yeah? Good to know, because you're right. I'm freezing my ass off," she replied with a giggle as he tweaked her nose and moved away toward the office.

"Yeah, well, it would've been welcome," she called back as she followed him. She stopped again, though, hugging herself once again at his absence, when he returned into the main room with his journal. "Oh, yeah, right?" she asked with a small smile. Connor sat down at one of the tables and patted the chair next to him. His smile and the gesture seemed a silent invitation, but Kimberly shivered and shook her head.

"Thanks, but...I'm going back in the safe room. It's way warmer in there," she commented, looking up at the gaping hole in the ceiling through which the tree was growing before looking back at Connor with raised eyebrows. "But take your time, okay? Don't feel like you have to rush writing the others on my behalf; I'm not going anywhere," she added quickly with a genuine smile before backing away and disappearing into the safe room again to curl up in a ball on the floor where she'd been laying before. When he was ready, Connor would come back in, she was confident, so she could wait. Knowing that he was alive and in the next room made her feel far more okay with waiting for him than she'd felt the night before, anyway.

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[info]leconnortemple
2009-12-07 05:23 am UTC (link)
Well if that didn't make him feel about two inches tall, nothing would. For a few minutes, he simply sat staring at the journal, wondering just what he'd done wrong. He'd have sworn she'd kissed him back. That second kiss, she'd initiated it. It wasn't too much, he was almost certain, and he was fairly certain it wasn't too little because at least it'd been something, right?

What if it hadn't been the kiss at all? What if he had said something wrong? Something about her wake up call, or maybe he wasn't supposed to want the journal back. Maybe she thought he was a rubbish friend for not going out there and finding them in person. Or maybe he was being a rubbish friend to her by taking the time out to write at all.

Sighing, he wrote briefly, journaling a few thoughts here and there as well as signing off on Stephen's roll call and checking in on a few others. No sign of Tonks, though, or Chris, and that worried him. He'd find them soon enough.

When he figured he'd given her enough time to stew over what classically stupid Connor move he'd gone and done this time, he gathered his journal and the pen he'd been using, plus a few of the books he'd found before she'd tackled him. Literally. He knocked lightly on the door to the safe room, poking his head in. "Peace offering?" he asked, giving a sheepish smile and waving the book in his hand. A very childish copy of The Wizard of Oz would be looking back at her, its smiling, happy cover offering her a cheerful read in the darkest of places.

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