livingmyths | 055: Hangover Time

My head is throbbing terribly today and my tummy's all funny, but I guess I'm lucky I didn't get more sick. I think I'll work down in the dark quiet section of the Library for a while. Sometimes when I'm down there alone the Library seems like it's singing to me a little - even during the day.

Mat, thank you so much for taking care of me last night. I'm sorry I slipped out so early this morning, but I thought it might take me longer than usual to walk into work and you were sleeping so peacefully. I left Bunny to watch over you.

I have to stop and get more peanut butter crackers on the way home. Do you want or need anything? Maybe I'll get some soup, too. I haven't felt like eating anything, but maybe by tonight soup would taste good.

Tony, I think I'll take your suggestion about the drinking so it's not so unfair to Mat.

I wonder if I'll see Dr. Horrible around again. Seems like every time I turn around he's there. I guess he must really like books. It's a little odd to keep running into him like that, but he seems like a nice person and he always asks after Emma and how I'm doing and all that.

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"You are good," he reassured her, working hard not to let himself get angry. She would be able to tell if he was angry and she didn't need that right now. "If she's saying you're not good then she's definitely wrong."

"And you and Mat wouldn't let me do things that are bad."

It wasn't exactly a question.

"You're right, we wouldn't," he agreed with a nod. "And you are too good of a person to let yourself do things that are bad."

"And it's not the same and bad like what I had to do before."

"What you did before was to help the kids," he assured her. "You were helping. That makes you a good person."

"And just 'cause mat holds me doesn't mean good people won't want to be with me."

"Good people very much like to be with you," he told her, hugging her tighter. "Think of all your friends and think of how good they are."

She nodded. "She's very wrong. I don't understand, but she is."

"She's from a very different time and place," he said with a nod. "And you're right, she's very wrong."

Rain curled into him even more. "It hurts," she said quietly. "It hurts so much. Even though I know she's wrong."

"I know it does. I know it does and I'm so sorry."

"Thank you for just bringing me home," she said softly. "I didn't want to be at work or around people anymore."

055: Hangover Time

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