#☆ in character ┊ thread: conzierge ; helen 004.

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☤  INTERACTION  ✭  STARTER CALL.

5x09 + 5x10 BASED.

STATUS:   open.

the fact that helen’s here at all is sort of incredible.   or maybe it’s just sad  —  the way lauren’s not used to the people really showing up for her   ❪  let alone coming from another country,  and without having to be asked  ❫.   no one else has stayed long,  which isn’t surprising given the fact that they’re all working  —  but @conzierge​?  helen’s pulled up a seat beside lauren’s own and kept her company for...  ha,  well,  to have an answer to that there’d have to be a grasp of the way time’s progressed today.  instead it’s all moved in slow motion...  and in a blur,  both at the same time,  somehow.

gaze is fixed in front of her,  focused on a random spot on the blanket that lays across her sister’s unconscious form.  absently,  lauren picks at the cuticles around her fingers before she speaks.  it’s quiet and strained,  almost as if she’s not quite aware that the words are being spoken aloud.   “the worst part...”   jaw trembles as she sucks in a breath,   “is that i think...  i think that if she didn’t wake up?  a...”   her breathing picks up even as she fights to steady it,  throat constricting with emotion as she reaches her point,   “a part of me would be relieved,”