(HAHA! Wrong journal - sorry!!)
It wasn't his face (she avoided looking at anyone straight on; it was easier to be forgettable that way). It wasn't his body (she wouldn't have recognized it; the changes were marked, at least to her). Evey stepped quietly into an alleyway and took a few steps backward to watch the other side of the street because the bearing of the man there was achingly familiar. She'd never met anyone else who could execute the mien of assured command while also seeming blindingly lost.
She'd wondered about him. Wondered if he'd gone across to this new City, wondered if he'd been pulled in the same manner as Peter. She hadn't asked Peter; that would have revealed too much of herself. Perhaps that was laughable, given the circumstances of her relationship with her best friend. Then again, perhaps not. She'd been playing things very close to the chest, even with Peter these days. He was letting her - for now, at least. Evey worried about the day when Peter finally, in his quiet yet insistent way, pursued the answers she felt brushing gently across the barricades she'd thrown between them.
None of that had anything to do with John Preston.
Evey passed her hand over her eyes and squinted across the sun-filled street. It looked like him. It looked quite a lot like him. Was it him? She couldn't be sure. Something made her hesitate - namely, that he'd not come to the TARDIS during the time she'd been there. And she'd been there for some time, gathering strength and getting her bearings. That didn't mean anything. It could still be him. She tried not to hope that it was him.
Ducking from the alleyway, then, she shadowed him for a block, on the other side of the street... just a few paces behind him. When they got to a cross street with a red light that stopped them both, Evey crossed over, head down, hands shoved in her pockets, until she was standing quite close beside him. Another step, and she'd be in his personal space - too close for either of them to be comfortable if they were strangers.
She took the extra step and looked up at the red light.