013 ✳ day 149 ✳ audio

[blackmagus]

[She isn't showing her face over the network, but still, Fortescue's voice sounds almost as bad as her numerous injuries. It wobbles every so often, from the abuse it's taken, and she can't even drum up the emotion to be angry about her lack of control over it. It is what is is.]

Hello, Science Center. Miss me? [Fortescue holds the phone away from her face, for a moment, to cough. She might sound dry, but she really is grateful to be back. Very grateful.] Had this place let me remember, I would have been able to return the favor.

...I don't want to inconvenience anyone, but I'm not... especially mobile, and the canteen is quite a distance from my room. If anyone feels like being generous, I wouldn't mind a snack. [Or maybe more than a snack, but she doesn't feel worthy enough, anymore, to ask for more than that. What is she, aside from a person who failed in her most basic duties as a sister?

She almost asks for alcohol, too, just for the hell of it, but she doesn't. She cuts the feed after a quick,]

Thank you.

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[intraining]

[ and when she opens the door, there stands charlie. she grins broadly and waves a little as if she wasn't expecting her. ]

'sup, homie. I made it!

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[blackmagus]

Hello there, darling. Come in, come in.

[She smiles and stands to the side to let Charlie in. Jazz looks up from the blanket he's commandeered for his own, but upon recognizing Charlie just goes right back to sleep again. There's no greater compliment in the world from him, really.

Fortescue rubs once, self-consciously, at her black eye before she closes the door.]

I see the Center didn't give you too much trouble.

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[intraining]

[ charlie walks in totally smooth and totally cool and totally on top of everything as she does it. there's a momentary stare-down with jazz where she wonders if she's going to get kicked out by the cat in question, and when jazz puts his head right back down again charlie doesn't even try to hide the smile.

she turns back to fortescue and the smile fades. ]

Nah, Center and me are buds now. Or, I guess complicated's a better way to put it, but we're cool. [ and then she'll take a very casual step in fortescue's direction. casual, in that it is so not casual but charlie rolls with it. ] You okay? [ she means the eye. ]

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[blackmagus]

Oh, I'll live.

[Her smile isn't as confident as usual. There's a veneer-thin layer of confidence over the expression of a person whose life has, metaphorically, crumbled to the ground. She's juggling the pieces, and doing a shoddy job at the moment.]

No permanent injuries. [Not anymore, thanks to Castiel's help.] Just a bit of stinging, that's all.