031: VIDEO

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[He's sticking a sign to the door of the clinic. Here, let him read it to you.]

Symptoms of seasonal flu: stuffy nose, sore throat, aches, shivers, cough, sneezing, headache, mild fever, and the incurable urge to spread it around in public.

If you've got one or more of these and you're not pregnant, suffering with a pre-existing health problem or at least reasonably certain you'll be dead before the weekend's out, don't come to the clinic. If imminent death is a possibility- [He taps the phone number at the bottom of the sign] call.

We've got a bigger crowd than usual in today already. Let's try not to turn it into a pandemic.


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[thesweetesthoney]

There's nothing left for me but a walled up a room with a woman who does not know I hate her.

[He wants Joseph. He wants Joseph so badly there is an ache in his gut for it, always, a hole that cannot be filled]

I need another drink.

[But he drinks his water instead]

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I'm not going to argue something you won't remember in the morning. Been there, done that one too often.

[The curl to his lip is empathetic.]

Think your legs work, yet?

[thesweetesthoney]

They do.

I'll find something outside the bottle to take the edge off.

[intheblanks]

[He stands, offers an arm.]

I'm not kicking you out. Just thought the fresh air might do you good.

[thesweetesthoney]

[Jack reaches for his arm]

Wind is a rare feeling. I shouldn't squander it.

[intheblanks]

I hope you know I'm sparing you at least ten terrible wind puns right now.

[One foot after the other. Slow progress is fine.]

[thesweetesthoney]

I'm grateful for that, then.

[intheblanks]

[Maybe jokes are pushing it. His legs work but Chase knows when someone's broken.]

I'm Robert.

[thesweetesthoney]

I'm Jack.

[He gets outside, and stands there in the air, eyes closed for a moment]

[intheblanks]

[Chase lets the silence sink in a while before breaking it.]

I don't have anything profound to give you about what freedom means. But you're never going to feel it while you're still hung up on what you should be worth, whether it's to God, or your Dad, or anyone. I know that much.

[thesweetesthoney]

I'm more concerned with the room I'm due to go back to.

[He does, at times, mean a more literal kind of freedom]

[intheblanks]

Can't help you with that. I might be able to come up with a room for the night.

[thesweetesthoney]

I'll find somewhere to stay.

[He offers a smile that says he knows how to worm his way into many places, even without his title or his name to back him up.]

[intheblanks]

[It's more or less what Chase was offering, in fact.]

Sure you don't need me to point out the difference between a bar and a clinic?

[thesweetesthoney]

I knew where I was going when I walked in here.

[intheblanks]

[Seriously.]

You weren't even managing straight lines.

[thesweetesthoney]

I know how to read. Hospital.

[intheblanks]

Alright, you knew where you were going. Then - why? You could have gotten a glass of water at the bar.