Shivering on the doorstep, hugging his arms around his middle, Justin rested his head briefly against Ben's door as he debated what to do. He wished he could turn around and walk away to prevent Ben from being bothered by him, but his hand rose of its own accord to knock against the door with a defeated, tired series of thumps. "Herr Dawson," Justin croaked wearily. "O-oh vell, guess y-you're not home." And thus he turned to leave.
It's been a pretty average day so far. Research, making dates, meeting clients, declining cases, examining case files of petty thieves to murderers, all aiming to clasp their hands on the walking, talking "get out of jail free" card that was Mr. Dawson, competing silently for his attention in their files and the small print. But nothing seemed to weigh down his interest as of late. His attention had been elsewhere. Mostly on his blackberry. And its inbox of text messages. Always checking every hour, with or without alert, if a certain client of his had managed to get out of the hospital and into some kind of suitable arrangements. No word so far, but surely he would be busy. He'd need time to settle. Recuperate. Not worry about the legalities.
Hearing the knock on his door, Benjamin Dawson, looking a tad overworked, set his scotch on the table beside his armchair, dragging his deadpan gaze from the news as it droned on and on about some kind of attempted robbery, and shuffled over to the door, wondering who could be at his house, of all places, this late at night. Cracking the door open without undoing the chain-lock [recent habit, ever since the whole stabbing incident], Ben saw the familiar hooded silhouette of a small german boy turned away from his doorstep, sunken blue-grey eyes lighting up for a split second.
"Justin--!" Closing the door, hands clumsily working at the chain before swinging it open, shirt not even tucked in, tie hanging, untied around his neck, Ben took one step out into the winter evening. "Justin, hey..! Justin...? ...Are you.. are you quite alright? What's the matter?"
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