Ā Ā Ā Karen doesnāt make her come homeĀ - not this time. Theyāre already in San Francisco, she murmurs ( too close to being within earshot of the boys she imagines ), after they saw the news they had gone. They had been trying to figure how to get into her apartment, how to begin arranging for her funeral. Thereās a relief in knowing sheās okay. But she knows that edge in her sisterās voice. Claire knows without asking that thereās something still wrong - something that wonāt be handled with only knowing that she is alive. That she made it. She survivedĀ again.Ā
Ā Ā Ā It takes her almost a day to get home, leaving Maisie with Owen at a barely finished cabin hadnāt been her choice but the boysĀ Ā - she had to go. The plan had been to go to her place first, hotel second but she takes a wrong turn and changes her mind. She doesnāt know if she was always, somewhere in the back of her mind, expecting to see him waiting for her. Because sheās not surprised to see him sitting, alone, in the lobby. Her chest constricts tightly and for a moment she canāt breath. Maybe some part of her still believed that they would have been gotten lost in the chaos again. That she wouldnāt be able to find them.Ā Ā
Ā Ā ā Zach. ā
@dinohearted. ( a starter you didnāt ask for but are absolutely getting ).Ā
