Issue 1 Downtime

Posted: **Wed Dec 07, 2011 6:26 pm**

After a shift from the infirmary, Claire headed to her room. She started to unlock the door, looking pretty tired in general.

Posted: **Wed Dec 07, 2011 6:27 pm**

Claire wouldn't really have much time to get settled. She'd been in for possibly three minutes before there was a hesitant knock on the door by a rather ragged-looking Victoria.

Posted: **Wed Dec 07, 2011 6:29 pm**

Claire opened the door, looking surprised at seeing Victoria.

Posted: **Wed Dec 07, 2011 6:31 pm**

"I sleep with people because it hurts less than opening up to people," Victoria said, without preamble and before she could (probably deservedly) get the door slammed in her face. She swallowed, not making eye contact. "Well, and because it's fun, but mostly because that way I can pretend that someone gives a damn about me without having to give them anything about myself that they can use to hurt me."

Posted: **Wed Dec 07, 2011 6:38 pm**

Claire suddenly pulls the girl into a tight hug.

"...I'm sorry," Claire says, "I said a lot of awful things to you."

Posted: **Wed Dec 07, 2011 6:50 pm**

Victoria bit her lip as she hugged her back. "I started it. I'm too much of a bitch to admit when someone's right that I might just be a little screwed up." She swallowed. "I'm sorry. I... don't have any friends, and it scares the hell out of me to think about opening up to someone again.'

Posted: **Wed Dec 07, 2011 6:53 pm**

Claire shakes head, "I was the one pushing you. Trying to force you to open up to me."

"I'm sorry," Claire says, "I'm really selfish sometimes."

Posted: **Wed Dec 07, 2011 6:58 pm**

"You're selfish? You tried to help me, and I grabbed the nearest low blows I could use that would hit hardest and opened fire. I don't deserve to have a friend like you... but..." she swallowed. "I miss you. I'm sorry."

Posted: **Wed Dec 07, 2011 7:04 pm**

"I missed you too," Claire says, "Let's just admit we're both terrible friends and be done with it, alright?"

Claire smiles at Victoria.

Posted: **Wed Dec 07, 2011 7:25 pm**

"Please. You're wonderful, I'm a bitch," Victoria said, wiping her eyes on her hand before she pulled back from the hug. "And no one else will eat things that are ungodly spicy with me."

Posted: **Wed Dec 07, 2011 9:48 pm**

"You're better then you give yourself credit for," Claire says arm lingering for a moment on Victoria before pulling away, "...After all, you were the one that had the guts to come apologize."

Posted: **Wed Dec 07, 2011 9:56 pm**

Victoria made a face at the unpleasant memory that came along with that. "...complex rituals and self-delusion don't mix well," she admitted.

Posted: **Wed Dec 07, 2011 10:05 pm**

"Sorry," Claire says, looking guilty, "I should have been there for you. Even if I was mad."

Posted: **Wed Dec 07, 2011 10:11 pm**

"I should have been a human being for once and just come and said I was sorry but I... um... have some trust issues, i think..."

Posted: **Wed Dec 07, 2011 10:14 pm**

"Don't worry about it," Claire says, "Really."

"Want to come in?"

Posted: **Wed Dec 07, 2011 10:16 pm**

Victoria nodded. "Yeah, I..." She shook her head, resisting the urge to look up the hall. "Sorry. Have someone else watching Vivien tonight and I..." she swallowed, then walked in. "Yeah. Um... trust issues. Anyway."

Posted: **Wed Dec 07, 2011 10:22 pm**

"Just let me get out of my work clothes and we can go to your room, if that makes you feel better," Claire says, opening the door and letting Victoria inside.

Posted: **Wed Dec 07, 2011 10:24 pm**

"No, it's okay, I... need to get used to that, right?" she said.

Posted: **Wed Dec 07, 2011 10:26 pm**

"It'd probably help you be a little less stressed at least," Claire says, dropping her bag off on the couch before heading into her room.

Posted: **Wed Dec 07, 2011 10:34 pm**

"Me? Less stressed? Don't know if the universe could cope," Victoria chuckled weakly as she walked in, lingering outside the bedroom.

Posted: **Wed Dec 07, 2011 10:38 pm**

Claire grabbed some clothes from the closet, throwing them on the bed before starting to strip out of her dirty scrubs without a second thought.

"Remind me to take you to a spa or something then," Claire says, "A good massage would do you a world of good."

Posted: **Wed Dec 07, 2011 10:42 pm**

"I believe that that's the first time I've heard someone say that who wasn't using it as an excuse to get me to take my shirt off," Victoria mused with a little smirk, reflexively glancing at Claire as she spoke to her.

Posted: **Wed Dec 07, 2011 10:56 pm**

Claire drops her clothes in a laundry bin before heading to her dresser to get fresh socks and underwear. She sits on the bed and begins to change as she continues talking.

"I wouldn't mind giving you a massage, if you promise not to enjoy it too much..." Claire hesitates for just a moment as she changes her bra, blushing as she realizes what she's doing.

Posted: **Wed Dec 07, 2011 11:15 pm**

Victoria laughed. She didn't not look at Claire, but she also took in the room, possibly removing some weirdness factor from changing in front of someone. "I need to take you to what serves as my spa sometime. Nothing like it, I promise," she said.

Posted: **Wed Dec 07, 2011 11:23 pm**

To her credit, after the brief hesitation Claire just went about her business like it was no big deal.

"Sounds like fun," Claire says, "I'd love to go."

Posted: **Wed Dec 07, 2011 11:25 pm**

"Precautions to take, naturally. Probably would take a week to get you properly used to wording every request carefully and not get suckered into a bargain with faeries."

Posted: **Wed Dec 07, 2011 11:26 pm**

"That bad?" Claire asks with a laugh, quickly pulling on the rest of her clothes.

Posted: **Wed Dec 07, 2011 11:32 pm**

"Well, the last time I thought I'd covered my bases, I ended up pregnant while on the strongest birth control known to man, so you tell me," Victoria said, smirking a little.

Posted: **Wed Dec 07, 2011 11:39 pm**

"Well, I'll take extra caution not to sleep with any men after we go there. Deal?" Claire says.

Posted: **Wed Dec 07, 2011 11:40 pm**

"Again, you with the 'please spank me harder' comments," Victoria teased.

Posted: **Wed Dec 07, 2011 11:46 pm**

Claire blushes again, hard.

"You know that's not what I meant!"

Posted: **Wed Dec 07, 2011 11:47 pm**

Victoria laughed a little. "Of course not. It's just what all smartasses mean when they make a smartass comment at me," she teased.

Posted: **Wed Dec 07, 2011 11:50 pm**

"Or maybe you're just a pervert," Claire teases back.

Posted: **Wed Dec 07, 2011 11:51 pm**

"And when you wise off to a pervert, what do you think they're going to do?" Victoria asked with a little smirk.

Posted: **Thu Dec 08, 2011 12:00 am**

Claire didn't blush, but suddenly the temperature of the room seemed to kick up by a couple of degrees.

"Take it with good humor?" Claire suggests.

Posted: **Thu Dec 08, 2011 12:02 am**

Victoria smirked. "Very good humor."

Posted: **Thu Dec 08, 2011 12:10 am**

Claire rolls her eyes, "I'm going to assume you mean something perfectly innocent."

Posted: **Thu Dec 08, 2011 12:13 am**

"Might be best if you assume that, yes," Victoria teased, walking over and taking a seat on the bed, then flopping back tiredly across it.

Posted: **Thu Dec 08, 2011 12:24 am**

"Tired?" Claire asks, sitting next to her.

Posted: **Thu Dec 08, 2011 12:31 am**

"Always," she sighed. "Tired... worried... I think 'wit's end' would be a good way of putting it."

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