Room 313, Sunday evening

[solo_sword]

After getting that voicemail on Friday, Jaina had pushed aside any disappointment at not getting a goodbye when she remembered they weren't great at them anyway. It had been a while since she'd had any of those, she was allowed to forget for a second. And then she'd promptly set to work without distractions.

This was why she was on a conference call when the voicemail came through, and when she finally got a chance to check her messages, she was left staring for a while. There was a moment where she thought to to call his phone back ranting at him for her thinking he was miserable at home while he was really in jail, but logic won out and she turned it off. After all, he probably didn't have access to his phone there.

And then a moment later she turned the comlink on again to try and leave a message along the lines of "NO MORE JAIL FOR YOU," but that would be wrong of her. She'd save that for when she saw him in person.

The part of the call about the prostitutes didn't bother her, though, strangely enough.


[Today's post is open post with a scattering of open door, with a slight chance of SP later on.]

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[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

Late in the evening, John stopped on the third floor just in case he found a certain girl in her own room for once. "Hey, I made it out alive!"

[solo_sword]

Still toying with her comlink, Jaina looked up at him from where she was sitting on her bed, greeting him with, "Jail? Again?"

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"I missed you, too. No, no, they treated me just fine, don't be so concerned," John replied, having a conversation with thin air.

[solo_sword]

"I missed you too, and felt really badly about you having to be home for the weekend," she said pointedly.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"I had to deal with something," he told her, which was both the truth and something else. "Jail was all Gavin's idea."

[solo_sword]

"Sure you did. Where did Gavin come into this I thought he was in Valdemar," she remembered.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"I called him," John shrugged. "Valdemar was boring."

[solo_sword]

"You know what would be nice? Not thinking you're dealing with stuff at home only to get a call from jail," Jaina said, apparently crabby today. "So is this thing you were supposed to take care of what landed you there?"

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"Fine, next time I won't bother calling," he sighed, hefting his bag back to his shoulder. It was obviously a mistake to stop by.

[solo_sword]

"No," she said, standing. "Next time you should maybe consider keeping me in the loop. Are you even going to tell me what happened? Or do I just have to make it up based on two really different messages?"

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"Sharing isn't exactly the first thing on my list with you yelling at me," he replied.

[solo_sword]

"What reaction did you expect me to have, John? We've got a couple weeks left and you spent the weekend getting into trouble with Gavin when I completely thought you were somewhere else." She did try to at least lower her voice, though. "Guess what, I'm not happy right now."

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"I'm sorry I was vague with the details," he told her, unable to stop sighing. "I didn't think it was important enough to bug you with. Seems another poor decision on my part." He'd been talking about his poor decisions with Dave earlier.

[solo_sword]

For a moment she just stared. "It's not bugging me to tell me what's going on! I want to know. How many times have I said that?"

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"It wasn't a big deal! I was just picking up a car," he told her. "I missed my friend, so I took him with me. Happy?"

[solo_sword]

"Was that so hard?" she asked, even if she was a little stung he'd taken someone else for that sort of thing. She knew, she'd have to get used to it.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"Yes," he said stubbornly, biting back the urge to ask if he was free to go.

[solo_sword]

"Is this how it's going to be?" she asked, voicing a very real worry. "I get vague voicemails and never what's actually happening or what's going on? Is this something I should be worrying about?"

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"Maybe, I don't know," he told her. "I just felt like calling you before and I didn't have time to explain much."

[solo_sword]

Jaina was very stuck on that first part. "Wow."

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"What?" John was possibly on another page than her with this.

[solo_sword]

"You can't even try to make me feel better with a 'No, I'll tell you things, this was a one-time thing'?" Even if it was the second time.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"This isn't an every-weekend sort of thing I have planned, Jaina," John pointed out.

[solo_sword]

"I'm not saying it is. I'm saying I don't like having to think you're going to spend all your time away glossing over everything." Who knew how many times he'd get jailed in college. "I thought we moved past that."

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

She had no idea what he was glossing over. "Maybe you moved past it without me."