Room 323 [Saturday, Afternoon]

[comeoutwrong]

Sleep, still not the easiest thing to come by, and when it finally did, the timing was all off, leaving Effy crawling her way to consciousness in the early afternoon. Not that it mattered, really, since it was a weekend anyway.

There was the surfacing of the realisation she should probably get up, get dressed, go out, do something... But not really the inclination. Too many other things spinning around in her head. A brief investigation down the side of her bed revealed the bottle she kept there was empty. Well. There went that solution. Shit.

Eventually, she made the effort to slip out of bed and turn up her music loud enough to almost drown out most of the snippets of conversation in the back of her head making her twitchy, and slid down to sit on the floor, back against her bed and head dropped back against the mattress. Picking up bad, floor-sitting habits. Wonder whose fault that was.

[[Door is closed, post can be open with the warning the girl is extra messy and broken. ETA: aaand I should probably tack on an extra WARNING for delicate subject matters ahead: discussion of alcohol abuse, mental health issues, etc.]]

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[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, really. I don't want sex," he said flat out. "I'm too tired and I'm too sore. It wouldn't be good."

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

"Probably not." And really, it wasn't worth it when it wasn't at least going to be fun for someone in the equation.

But she exhaled a little wry laugh, and shifted up against his good side, tucking her head in against his shoulder. She could go for that sort of distracting comfort instead.

Any pretense of it being all about sex between them, well and truly gone when they were alone.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Comfortable?" he asked, glancing down at her and half smiling. "Good thing I didn't fuck up both shoulders or you'd be losing your pillow."

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

"Yep." Getting used to having a human pillow from time to time.

"Dunno what I'd do," she said, circling her thumb on his arm. "Would be hard on me." Or, she'd kind of miss being able to be this close without causing him extreme pain, at least. "... And probably pretty shit for you too." It was bad enough, as it was.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"That's what I get for letting a house fall on me, I guess," he said, moving to rest his lips against the top of her head and taking a few slow breaths. "Just glad that was all that happened."

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

"Me too." She didn't voice it all that often or that well, but she did care, and she did think about that, and all the 'could have's'... Made this look like a best case scenario.

"Should try not to do that again." Calm as her words might have seemed, a momentary grip on his arm, betrayed a little hint of her attachment to him.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Don't worry, it's not something I wanna repeat," Alex said, shaking his head. "Getting hurt wasn't fun. The buried alive even less so. I'm fine. I'll avoid that again."

Hopefully.

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

"How long?" she asked quietly. Hadn't really found the right time, to ask, but here just might be it.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"What, how long was I underneath the rubble?" Alex asked, shrugging his good shoulder. "A couple hours, I think. Emma had to dig us out because I couldn't. It could've been longer but it sucked how it was."

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

"Long enough," she agreed. It didn't take long, she imagined, stuck under crushing rubble, before you were well over it.

"S'good she was there." Even if Effy had never pictured Emma as the 'digging out of rubble' sort of girl. Apparently, she was when she had to be.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Yeah, I suppose," Alex said, not really wanting to think about what would have happened if she hadn't been there. "I'd rather not think about the what if's there. Not fun."

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

"Nope." Not exactly cheering for her either. Losing him, wasn't something she wanted to contemplate more than she already had.

"Still hot with a few bruises," she assured him, in something a little lighter.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

Alex snickered lightly. "Well, I've got a few of them so I guess that means I'm still hot. Good to know. I was worried."

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

"Liar." He was never worried about that. Certain areas in which his confidence was pretty much unflappable, and that was one. Today, she wasn't even in the mood to rib him about his incredible ego.

Normally she'd be right there with him, but really, she didn't much care what she looked lie at the moment. Bottom of her priorities.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Liar?" he asked, laughing quietly. "Is that any way to talk to someone who's got one arm and probably ripped up the muscles there?"

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

"Yep." Come on, like she was going to go easy on him, just because a house fell on him. "Rather I go all cutesy and soft on you?" she wondered. Didn't think so, somehow.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"I don't think you have the ability to be cutesy and soft," he snickered. "Not a talent of yours. Be like me being modest or some shit."

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

"Sure I could pretend," she considered. "But don't think you're into that anyway."

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

"Maybe if we were playing doctor and you were the nurse," he decided with a chuckle.

[pastmewrong.livejournal.com]

Effy smirked a little, and kissed the closest bare skin of his arm. "Sometime," she murmured. When he wasn't quite so achy and in pain, and they both had the energy to play with it. When all that would be good.

This level of cutesy and soft would have to do for now. It... was something.

[fratboybitch.livejournal.com]

It was enough. He wasn't up for much more and he knew she wasn't so this level of whatever this was was fine. He didn't wanna move, she didn't wanna move so they could just sit here and do nothing. It worked.