cape_kore | 013 ✳ day 149 ✳ audio

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013 ✳ day 149 ✳ audio

[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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Fortescue?! Are you alright?!

[ Worried mother hen is a-go! ]

Well, I don't usually do delivery, but I suppose I can make an exception just this once. What're you in the mood for, sweetheart? Chinese? Indian? [He affects a ridiculous London accent:] Bangers and mash?

[ The Doctor is fiddling with something. Yes, he is still at trying to solve some sort of frequency lock on the Science Center. He's dang well determined to fine one. ]

Another one who is back, eh? You've really got to tell me how you do that coming-and-going-away-trick. It would help loads. [ He glances up at the screen with a smile. ] I've got some jammy dodgers if you're interested. Although, I'm not sure where you're at.

Right. Hello.

[ Clara has the video on and gives a small wave. She's new, as Fortescue would probably be able to realise by her unfamiliar face. And then there's her words ]

One small problem there. Where is your room?

[ Because she's feeling generous. And if this woman's been here before maybe she can answer a few things ]

[ In all the time he's interacted with Fortescue he's about a hundred percent sure that none of it has ever been in person. Loads of flirting. Loads of toeing the line, but he's never actually met the woman face to face in a real setting. Now's a good a time as any right? Right. He's going to go ahead and swing by. She did ask for a snack and he wasn't going to be completely horrible and ignore her request. He hasn't seen her on the Network in a bit which generally means things have probably gone sideways for her. This place has the tendency to mess with you.

There's a definite sharp knock on her door. How'd he find it? Fortunate for her they share a few friends. Friends that actually like Alec as well. That's an amazing thought, but he's not completely ridiculous. Generally. ]

Delivery. Keep in mind if you don't answer I kinda just plan to eat it all myself and it'll all go straight to my hips.

Oh, wow. Are you -- [ ...okay?

Well, obviously not. Regardless, Chuck is concerned. She'd clearly gone home when she disappeared, and whatever happened while she was away hadn't done her any favors at all. Nor is he sure that returning to the Cape was any reprieve from whatever had happened in her home. Either way, she's here now, and she's asking for help. Help he can easily provide. ]

...I mean, yeah. I can -- I can get snacks. Is there, uh, anything in particular you want?

Fortescue!

[ yeah no she's a video kinda girl, sorry. ]

Hey, you okay over there? You kind of sound like hell frozen over.

Should I ask what happened?

[Darcy thinks she recognizes that voice, even though it definitely sounds different than before.]

Fortescue, right? You okay?

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