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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[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."

[solo_sword]

"Did you forget the part where you started asking me when I wanted to talk about things?" Jaina asked. And then she'd do it, which was even more amazing. "I don't know, did I move past without you there?"

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"I remember the part where I started asking. Did we skip the part where you did?" He didn't recall.

[solo_sword]

"I ask. You don't always push. I don't push," she asked, blinking. "Like the night before we went to the cabins when you decided to start clamming up on me again?"

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"That was a month and a half ago! I don't even remember that night!" But it seemed to still be bugging her for some reason.

[solo_sword]

She remembered it. It was the first time in a long time she'd actually known he'd gone quiet on her. "Great, then that should mean I'm just being silly," she said dryly.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"So remind me," he said, dumping his bag and shutting the door to lean against it. No need to do this in public.

[solo_sword]

"Not much to remind you of. You were being weird and quiet, I wanted to know why, you said maybe half of one sentence and wouldn't talk anymore. Not really something I'd seen you do in a while." And she didn't want to admit it, but regression to their old ways now scared her kind of a lot.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"I'm sorry, I'm not trying to be weird or quiet." He didn't know how to tell her there were things he couldn't tell her. Or shouldn't. Besides the instinct to distance himself.

[solo_sword]

"Then what are you trying?" she wondered.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"I was just trying to get away and being alone would've meant too much thinking," he said, being completely honest.

[solo_sword]

"Away from what?" Not that her question didn't make her a little nervous, given this argument.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

From things he was supposed to be repressing so as not to share. "Look, there's just some stuff I promised not to talk about. So..."

[solo_sword]

Jaina sighed. "So it's a whole big theme of not telling me anything."

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"That's not fair. It's not like I'm telling anyone else!" He'd even argued that she deserved to know.

[solo_sword]

"I don't know about that. When this all started because I thought you were somewhere you weren't, when you had a thing to do for your brother and now you're saying you needed to get away, and I don't know what I'm supposed to think anymore, it sounds kind of fair to me," Jaina countered.

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"He called, I just didn't reject the idea like I normally would," John told her.

[solo_sword]

"Guess it had to be something bad, if you're willingly doing that." Someone was feeling bitter at the moment. "Not that I can say anything. Or help. Or apparently know anything besides the fact that you got arrested."

[missed-the-gate.livejournal.com]

"Sit down," he told her, walking closer. "And I'll tell you all about the weekend."

[solo_sword]

Jaina sat wordlessly, just waiting for the next thing.