tearmeanewone | onze + voice/action

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Has anyone seen Booker DeWitt? Tall, sandy hair, typically frowning, has 'AD' on his hand? He's at Good Spirits usually, but I haven't seen him there in the past few days...

[She's been looking, too. Ever since that strange hole in everyone's memory, the destroyed wall in her bedroom, and Booker doing a disappearing act, she's felt very uneasy about his being missing. But all of his things were still in the house, so he couldn't have gone far...]

If anyone sees him, would you let him know that I'm-- that Elizabeth is waiting for him to come home?

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[In the mean time, there's a giant hole in her bedroom wall, and her bedroom is, of course, a disaster area. It's a little unnerving, truth be told, to not remember where so much damage came from, but she's trying to focus on Booker instead of her own memory. She's trying to distract herself with cleaning--moving chunks of wall out onto the grass outside, shaking out her bedding, attempting to put a curtain over the giant hole until it gets fixed...]

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[By the time Elizabeth arrives, Jack already has the kettle going, and Eugene set up in the bedroom with a colouring book. He unlocks the usual series of locks already ready with an apology or three, and finds then sidelined only by opening the door for her to see a shiny-eyed lump of fuzz in Elizabeth's arms.]

All right, now that . . . that is really unfairly cute. You didn't warn me you were bringing the strategic cuteness reserves.

Booker gave him to me for Christmas. [Elizabeth tries to keep smiling-- she's glad to see Jack, it's been too long since they had a visit, but the circumstances are fighting her tooth and nail.]

I told him one time, off-hand, that I wanted a puppy when I was younger. And he gave me one this year. [Her face crumples and she buries her face in Nemo's neck to cry. She hasn't cried this entire time, holding it all in for Gai and Robert's sakes. But now that she's faced with the most understanding friend she's had, Elizabeth feels safe.]

[Meanwhile, Nemo is trying very hard to turn his head and see what's happening.]

Oh- God, Liz-

[Jack flits through the motions, closing the door behind her and turning one of the locks before taking her by the upper arms, eyes flitting up and down once, helplessly as she crumples into the increasingly confused-looking puppy. It's a geometry that both really doesn't allow for a hug and promises only increasingly worried wriggling if he tries, and he ends up awkwardly hugging her around her back and one shoulder, squeezing her close.]

Hey, shhhhh, hey. It's all right. He'll be back.

Are you sure? [Elizabeth barely manages to get the words out she's sobbing so hard. It's like she's been waiting days to cry.] I'm so afraid that he's dead because of me, and he won't come back. And I won't even know what happened!

[Nemo is very uncomfortable, yes. He squirms until Elizabeth lets him down to explore.]

[Nobody knows what happened in those few days recently, is the problem, and Jack can't imagine that they'll be remembering any time soon if the Malnosso have some vested interest in staying ignorant. It is possible to make a pretty good guess if he's coming back just by taking a look through his things, seeing if a lot of it's disappeared, but he doesn't try to be that constructive just yet. Sometimes the first thing you need is just to cry - so when Elizabeth straightens again he pulls her into a proper embrace, tucked close around her until she's cried herself out.]

[Which does take an impressive amount of time. Elizabeth cries for at least three minutes, petering out and coming back strong a few times whenever she remembers something good Booker had done for her. Nemo is happy trying to get under the sofa.]

I don't want to cry in front of Gai. He's been through enough, he doesn't need to feel helpless while he watches me cry.

It's okay.

[He's fallen to rubbing at her back, and stills finally as she begins to speak, leaning back and canting his head, trying to catch her eye and share a very small smile.]

Your spouse is going to see you cry sooner or later, though. Pretty sure they actually make you promise to that stuff before the rings go on.

Sure they do-- but that doesn't mean anybody's going to hold me down and force him to watch. [Elizabeth is clearly in a difficult mood on top of being upset and raw.] And he's not my spouse yet. I don't even know if I can marry him if I can't let him watch me cry.

Wow- easy, hey. [Yikes, definitely the wrong thing to say. Jack actually draws back a bit, even if he doesn't let go entirely, expression pulling into an awkward half-cringe.] Sorry, didn't mean it like that. Honest.

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