[Closed] You're never strangers with compassion

[killedwithlove]

Who: Cole and Allison
What: Meeting your baby brother's boyfriend
When: Late at night, during the height of the plague
Where: The kitchen area
Warnings: None at present.


Cole senses her the moment she arrives, of course.

But until this night, she hasn't needed his presence. Her hurts are being processed in the healthiest way possible for the Hargreeves children, and he's a little more interested in Ben and helping him.

Tonight, she feels alone and it's too quiet, so Cole goes to find her, checks Ben is asleep and whispers for his dreams to be gentle with him and then he goes to the kitchen.

He starts the conversation and notifies her that he's there by saying "I can't get sick, so I won't be a danger to you."

Allison, meet Cole.

Comments

[hersay]

Between her injury, adjusting to Anchor, and now the plague, Allison rarely sleeps all the way through the night. Tonight it no exception, and this time, she wakes up hungry. Allison has been minimizing her time in the dining area during the day. There's too many potential carriers of the plague there, and it's not worth the risk. Besides, now she has time to eat her food in peace.

So tonight, Allison makes her way to the kitchen, where she finds enough bread and jelly to make a sandwich. She gets to work, silently and methodically spreading the jelly on the bread and then cutting it into little triangles, the way Claire liked. Likes. Allison knows that since they failed to stop the apocalypse, Claire is most likely dead. But she still can't bring herself to believe it, not yet.

She's so lost in thought that she jumps a little when she hears the voice, not expecting it. She turns towards the voice to find...a young man? With a big floppy hat? Allison doesn't like being snuck up on, but she's nothing if not polite, at least at first. Allison holds out her sandwich, wordlessly offering it to the stranger. She can always make another one.