Katherine "Kissin' Kate" Barlow (![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
ikissdhimbck) wrote2013-05-29 02:58 am
ikissdhimbck) wrote2013-05-29 02:58 am
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OOM: T-minus, mark one
[Sometime after this:]
Kate isn't sure she trusts the cavalier attitude toward illness in Milliways. Sure, they've made some remarkable leaps in medicine throughout the universe, but remarks like 'it's just the flu' and 'common cold' still make her gawp. This doesn't feel like just anything, and she's seen folk die from less.
She takes her medicine like a good patient, and agrees to bed rest to avoid staying in the infirmary. She mostly stays in bed — when nobody else is watching, even. However, that's to do mainly with how awful she's feeling, rather than any sudden change in disposition.
She's bored.
She's dying.
Doesn't anybody care?
She sets aside the last of the six books she borrowed from the library to keep herself occupied, and sighs. It quickly turns into a coughing jag. What's she going to do now?
--kismetBehest has logged on--
Kate isn't sure she trusts the cavalier attitude toward illness in Milliways. Sure, they've made some remarkable leaps in medicine throughout the universe, but remarks like 'it's just the flu' and 'common cold' still make her gawp. This doesn't feel like just anything, and she's seen folk die from less.
She takes her medicine like a good patient, and agrees to bed rest to avoid staying in the infirmary. She mostly stays in bed — when nobody else is watching, even. However, that's to do mainly with how awful she's feeling, rather than any sudden change in disposition.
She's bored.
She's dying.
Doesn't anybody care?
She sets aside the last of the six books she borrowed from the library to keep herself occupied, and sighs. It quickly turns into a coughing jag. What's she going to do now?
--kismetBehest has logged on--
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CC: LISTEN
CC: I'LL COME BY AS SOON AS I CAN, OK?
CC: MOST LIKELY SOME TIME BEFORE YOU DIE, I PROMISE YOU THAT
CC: I'LL GO TO THE LIBRARY AND GET YOU SOME BOOKS
CC: HOW'S THAT FOR AFFECTION?
CC: WHAT KIND OF BOOKS DO YOU WANT, JUST SO I DON'T BRING YOU STUFF YOU ALREADY READ OR WHATEVER
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CC: KATE?
CC: HONEY
CC: I KNOW YOU'RE NOT DEAD YET
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CC: OK HONEY, COME ON, STOP PRETENDING TO BE DEAD
CC: PEOPLE ARE GONNA GET SUSPICIOUS IF I STAY IN THE CRAPPER TOO LONG
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KB: ¿Qué?
KB: ¿Qué está pasando?
KB: ¿Tomás?
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KB: ¿Tomás?
KB: un momento!
KB: Ist das besser?
KB: Was ist passiert?!
KB: Ich weiß nicht, was zu drücken!
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KB: WAS HAST DU GETAN?
KB: TOMMI
KB: CETTE AIDE?
KB: 이 도움이 되나요?
KB: Αυτή η βοήθεια;
KB: Ayuda!
KB: Cabhair!
KB: Na pomoč!
KB: 助けて！
KB: Help!
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CC: THERE
CC: LOOK
CC: ENGLISH
CC: DON'T TOUCH ANYTHING ELSE
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KB: OK
KB: You know, this wouldn't have happened if you were here.
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CC: YOU KNOW I'M AT WORK
CC: SOMETIMES IT'S NOT THAT EASY TO SNEAK THROUGH THE DOOR, ESPECIALLY RIGHT AFTER WE GET BACK FROM A JOB
CC: THERE'S TOO MANY PEOPLE AROUND
CC: WHEN THINGS CALM DOWN A BIT, I'LL TRY TO COME SEE YOU
CC: WITH BOOKS
CC: AND CHICKEN SOUP AND TEA
CC: AND A DVD PLAYER AND SOME MOVIES
CC: OK?
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KB: OK.
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CC: ALRIGHT
CC: NOW TELL ME WHAT KIND OF BOOKS YOU WANT OR ELSE I'M GOING TO DUMP ALL THE BOOKS ABOUT BASEBALL ON YOU
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KB: Whatever you think I might enjoy.
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CC: AND I CAN'T TELL IF YOU SAID THAT WITH A GRUMPY/SARCASTIC VOICE
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CC: IT SUCKS BEING SICK BUT YOU'LL GET BETTER SOON, HONEY
CC: HOW ABOUT YOU TAKE A DECONGESTANT AND TRY TO GET SOME SLEEP UNTIL I SEE YOU?
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KB: I just wanted to talk to somebody.
KB: I'm better writing letters.
KB: At least they don't change languages on me.
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CC: A TEMPORARY SOLUTION FOR NOT HAVING ANYBODY IN THE ROOM TO TALK TO
CC: MIGHT CHANGE LANGUAGES, BUT HEY, IT KEEPS YOU ON YOUR TOES
CC: OR...FINGERS
CC: ANYWAYS, I GOTTA GO SOON, THE GUYS ARE ASKING IF I FELL IN
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KB: Have a good day.
KB: Sincerely, Kate
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CC: YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE SO FORMAL
CC: YOU'RE NOT SIGNING A LETTER
CC: YOU'RE ALLOWED TO SAY "SEE YOU LATER" OR WHATEVER, LIKE YOU WERE FACE TO FACE WITH ME
CC: ALSO I WOULD KISS YOU GOODBYE, EXCEPT
CC: 1) TIME AND SPACE SEPARATING US, AND
CC: 2) EVEN IF 1 WASN'T AN ISSUE, YOU'RE TEEMING WITH GERMS
CC: STILL, I'D LIKE TO KISS YOU
CC: BUT YEAH, I'LL SEE YOU LATER
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Kate isn't sure how to turn this thing off, so she has to watch the screen and wait until she sees
combustibleCombatant ceased trolling kismetBehest
before she assumes the conversation is over.
She sighs, setting the device aside before her latest coughing jag has a chance to dirty it up, and runs the last few lines of his dialog over in her head, wondering if he was being as mean as he sounded.
"Sure, s'a 'temporary solution' if the other person will actually talk."
No point to it if he's busy.
She debates playing around with it some more, trying to figure out what all the keys are and how they work, and decides she's not feeling up for it. She's not feeling up for much at all. God, she hates being in this room.
She engages in a staring contest with the cats for twenty-three minutes.
(They win.)
And then she thinks screw it, and gets dressed. Outside is on her Do Not Fly list, much to her chagrin. The main bar is as well, due to something called a 'contagion'. So she heads to the library.
Again.
You can never have enough books, right?
(At least there are rules of grammar and actual conversation in them.)
She'll figure out T-minus another day.