#kit snicket

The nurses and doctor have all expressed various level of disapproval, saying something about Kit's current condition. Kit nods and promises that she will not overwork herself and that in fact sitting around doing nothing is making her extremely anxious which cannot be good for her, so this is actually very therapeutic. Which earns her several frowns and eventually the doctor looks at Bertrand, who's been busying himself with making tea. He takes a moment to turn to them and puts on his serious and concerned expression, and uses his diplomatic skills he's been honing since apprenticeship days, and promises them that he will keep an eye on her and not let her exhaust herself. They don't look quite satisfied, but eventually let the subject go.

After they leave, Bertrand drops himself down onto the chair and says, "You're a menace, Snicket."

"I need to work to calm myself down," Kit says, matter-of-fact.

Bertrand looks unimpressed. "You think you need to work, because you think last Thursday is your mistake to fix. It isn't."

"I don't think it's my mistake," Kit says, sharply. "I just think someone should fix it. And if no one else -"

"J is of the opinion we shouldn't jump into things," Bertrand interrupts. "And we should wait and see how things develop before taking a direction. We are, after all, still waiting to hear back from the Mountains."

"J," Kit says coolly. "Is always waiting. For the right time to step in, or something."

Bertrand is silent for a moment. He does not particularly want to get into what Kit thinks about Jacques's general policy in waiting, and he does not have any desire to hear about the fateful day when the three Snickets had been on the same train. Perhaps he should just let her carry on with her work.

It would be nice if he could offer to help with that, but due to complicated fragmentary plot reasons, and his role in the later part of the chain of events, involving things on stage, it is inadvisable for him to read the play script at the moment. In fact, him being in the proximity when she works on it is already frowned upon, but since she is hospital bound and he is here ostensibly just to help out on other things and they are both trusted enough, people turn a blind eye to it. But he should still avoid the script. Fragmentary plots.