Issue 1 Downtime

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2015 3:31 pm**

Theresa set her tray on a table in the corner, sliding into a chair with her back to a wall. She opened a paperback book and started reading, munching on her meal with her free hand.

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Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2015 5:22 pm**

Brigid makes her way in and loads up her tray. She's a growing girl, after all.

She stops in her tracks when she spots Theresa. After a deep breath, she gives a nervous wave.

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2015 5:26 pm**

Theresa catches the wave and her body posture reflects the desire to bolt for just a moment. She covers it up pretty quickly and nods to Brigid, but doesn't look her in the eye.

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2015 5:31 pm**

Brigid makes her way over, trying not to seem confrontational.

"Hey. Things are still... weird, aren't they?"

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2015 5:35 pm**

"What gave you that impression?" There was maybe a little bit of acid in her tone. Theresa's body language might give the impression of a wolf trespassing in another's territory.

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2015 5:36 pm**

"Murphy and I have been talking. We're... trying to fix it."

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2015 5:37 pm**

"That's nice for you," Theresa said, looking somewhere slightly to the left of Brigid's face.

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2015 5:38 pm**

"Look, I'm... I'm sorry, Theresa. Things got really out of hand."

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2015 5:42 pm**

"Well, we've certainly learned that learned that words don't necessarily fix things, haven't we?"

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2015 5:44 pm**

"I know," she sighs. "I want to make it up to you. Working with Murphy is part of that."

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2015 5:48 pm**

"There's nothing to make up," Theresa said. "Shit happened, it cascaded into more shit and it all propagated from a mistake I made. I learned my lesson."

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2015 5:50 pm**

"Well this... hurts from both ends, I think."

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2015 5:53 pm**

"Well, I can cauterize the wound for you a bit," Theresa said. "I'm not your concern anymore. I won't be that sore spot in your pack."

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2015 5:56 pm**

"I just... want to be your friend again."

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2015 6:01 pm**

That seemed to sting Theresa a bit. "I don't know if the wolves will cooperate. Mine's certainly been a bitch since all this started."

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2015 6:04 pm**

"That night I just... felt backed against a wall. By everyone. And I didn't know how to back down."

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2015 6:06 pm**

"And I don't know that you'd ever really know how. I'm not looking to change you, Brigid." Her wolf was trying really hard to be civil and seemed to be on the edge of panic.

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2015 6:07 pm**

"So maybe we find something that... they don't enter into."

"When do you think you'll be back online?"

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2015 6:17 pm**

"Still waiting on a ship date for my new laptop," Theresa said. "I'm kind of SOL there. Expedited shipping was just a bridge to far to ask my parents."

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2015 6:18 pm**

"Well... let me know, okay? Maybe something less... physical... is better."

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2015 6:23 pm**

"You're serious?" She looked at Brigid incredulously.

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2015 6:24 pm**

"It's better than 'This is my friend Theresa who I can't talk to without freaking her out,' isn't it?"

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2015 6:27 pm**

"I'm not sure that's going to change," Theresa cautioned.

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2015 6:29 pm**

"We wouldn't have to deal with eye contact."

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2015 6:33 pm**

"We're not dealing with it now," Theresa pointed out, turning her eyes back to her meal.

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2015 6:41 pm**

"You can still hear me and... smell me."

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2015 7:02 pm**

Theresa nods and seems to be wrestling with herself, "You... you can sit down if you want."

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2015 7:04 pm**

"...only if you're okay with it," she says cautiously.

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2015 7:11 pm**

"Would you just sit? You deferring to me is sending so many mixed signals right now, it's a wonder I'm not having power issues."

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2015 7:13 pm**

She shakes her head, sitting down.

"Would you rather I bossed you around?"

It doesn't seem to be a serious suggestion.

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2015 7:17 pm**

"No. Maybe. I... shit." She sighed, covering it up by drinking some water from a glass on her tray.

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2015 7:19 pm**

"Wait, seriously?" She asks as she unwraps a burger.

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2015 7:22 pm**

It sounded like she was muttering "not my pack" a couple of times before she set the glass back down. "Mixed signals," she responded to Brigid.

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2015 7:29 pm**

"I mean, I wasn't... being serious about that."

"I just thought I was being as nice as I could, considering I was a total bitch when we last talked."

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2015 7:34 pm**

"I can't quite explain it," Theresa said. "It's... wolf shit."

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2015 7:39 pm**

"I won't lie and say it didn't feel... better... when all those challenges were over. I just can't get the human shit and the wolf shit to match up to the point that I can still have friends."

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2015 7:45 pm**

"It felt like shit to... lose I guess? Turned my world upside down," Theresa said. "Murphy's the only reason I'm still here."

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2015 7:47 pm**

"...damn," she sighs, deciding to fill her mouth before she makes things worse.

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2015 7:53 pm**

"I let shit get as much out of hand as you did, so I'm not blameless in this."

Posted: **Mon Jan 12, 2015 8:02 pm**

"Yeah, but... if I'm really..."

She sighs.

"It seems like I'm the one who needs to fix this shit."

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