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It's been a couple days since they stumbled into some sort of shared hallucination (which is really the best thing he can think to call it) and neither one has broached the topic. For Henry's part, he's decided it's either too weird to talk about or never happened at all.

Instead, he's working late on Thursday night fixing paperwork that tried to claim Gus' car insurance as a state billable work expense. Nice try.

Just after seven, the station had gone more or less quiet - the steady din of the workday tapering off to the solemn click of a few keyboards punctuating the otherwise still environment. It was kind of nice... perfect time to grab a coffee and check out the snack machine for options to stave off dinner until he went home.

Date: 2012-04-07 08:39 am (UTC)
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She doesn't have a good answer to that, so she just twists her mouth, and takes a sip of her water and stays quiet.

Stays quiet for a beat too long, because then she feels compelled to fill the space.

"This would be a nice time for a hallucination."

Date: 2012-04-07 08:58 am (UTC)
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She sits up straighter, turning a little to really look at him.

"Do you really think that's what it was, though?" The topic's been broached, she may as well ask. The whole thing still isn't sitting right with her. "Is that even possible?"

Date: 2012-04-08 02:58 am (UTC)
chief_mom: Chief Karen Vick, a blonde white woman, eyebrow raised in a questioning look (Hmm?)
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"What if we weren't in the station? What if we were somewhere else entirely?"

It's really the only thing that makes sense, when she thinks about it. They couldn't have just been in the station, or time would've stayed constant.

"I walked through the front door of the station and ended up in a bar. I know what door I walked through. How did you end up there?"

Date: 2012-04-08 03:42 am (UTC)
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"A random door?"

Now she's really intrigued. And a word comes to mind: portal.

"So we both went through doors, and ended up there. At different times. From different places. We weren't in the station. I don't know where we were but it couldn't have been. There was an outside, and that outside wasn't Santa Barbara."

Date: 2012-04-08 04:05 am (UTC)
chief_mom: Chief Karen Vick, a blonde white woman, looking down, a disturbed frown on her face (Disturbed)
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"I know. If you want my job, call Internal Affairs, tell them I'm nuts. I can't deny it."

She drains her glass of water and props herself on her elbow.

"Whatever happened it's always sitting right there just outside my thoughts and as soon as I'm not focused on something else, there it is."

Date: 2012-04-08 04:36 am (UTC)
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"I'm sorry, Henry." She touches his hand, but only briefly before looking away, a little ashamed to have brought it up, a little sad that it's still so present in her mind.

"I don't know," she admits at some length. "I can't go through a door, either. I hesitated this morning getting into the shower. I worried driving through the tunnel on Via Esperanza. Anything could be a portal. How do we know?"

Date: 2012-04-08 04:52 am (UTC)
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"I've been coming into the station from the back door. It's only halfway helped."

The waiter brings their food, hovering a moment to make sure they have all they need.

"Do you want to get a bottle of wine, maybe?"

Date: 2012-04-08 05:20 am (UTC)
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"I'm sorry I brought it up, I ruined our dinner. We should've stuck to talking about fishing."

Date: 2012-04-08 05:39 am (UTC)
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"Go back?" She gasps, pulling back and looking at him like he's nuts. "Go back there?"

In her wildest imagination she can't think of anything she wants to do less.

"Now who sounds nuts?"

Date: 2012-04-08 05:52 am (UTC)
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The words 'crime scene' make her gut twist and she has to drop her chopsticks. She sighs heavily.

"Well, we're our own eyewitnesses. We don't know how to get to the... scene."

She hates what she's about to say, but it's been niggling at her every time the matter comes up.

"If this is some otherworldly kind of thing, that's, well, it's rather in the realm of of Psych, isn't it?"?

Date: 2012-04-08 06:10 am (UTC)
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"We'll try the door, and maybe we'll get there, but what if we can't get back?"

The idea of going back is tempting, of course, to figure out just what it was that happened. But she's become the sort of person who likes to have some guarantees in life.

"I can't just disappear, Henry."

Date: 2012-04-08 06:37 am (UTC)
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Now that gets her. It wasn't like that place, wherever it was, was unpleasant. But it wasn't home. It wasn't work. Their friends, their families, they were all back at home, none the wiser.

And time didn't pass in their "real" world.

Would that be the case if they went back? Would they at least find out where "there" even was? And why they were able to get there?

Was it worth the risk?

"I think I need to weigh the pros and cons. Unless you want to sell me." She takes a long swallow of wine, food forgotten for now. She's more than a little off kilter.

Date: 2012-04-08 07:04 am (UTC)
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The wine is helping a lot. It's giving her courage, false or not, she'll take it.

"So when do we try? Tonight? Tomorrow?"

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