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Jan. 15th, 2011 11:13 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
fiery_ringCarlotta didn't know what date she was supposed to have her period. But she knew it had come and gone.
Her feelings had turned from terror and emotion to a deep, almost numb terror. She had been starting to feel like she was walking through a bad nightmare, day after day, unable to tell anyone in case that made it all officially true.
And one night, she just couldn't cope any more. She took the bottle of whiskey from Will's caravan - bought before rationing kicked in - snuck it into her pocket and headed for the bar. She'd be back and sober before anyone would miss her.
When she gets to the bar, she goes straight up to her room, and has a couple of drinks. Slowly, her world starts to calm down.
She lies on the sofa for a long while. Then as she gets up to go to the bathroom, her world begins to spin. She feels something hit her head, hard, then everything goes black.
Her feelings had turned from terror and emotion to a deep, almost numb terror. She had been starting to feel like she was walking through a bad nightmare, day after day, unable to tell anyone in case that made it all officially true.
And one night, she just couldn't cope any more. She took the bottle of whiskey from Will's caravan - bought before rationing kicked in - snuck it into her pocket and headed for the bar. She'd be back and sober before anyone would miss her.
When she gets to the bar, she goes straight up to her room, and has a couple of drinks. Slowly, her world starts to calm down.
She lies on the sofa for a long while. Then as she gets up to go to the bathroom, her world begins to spin. She feels something hit her head, hard, then everything goes black.
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Date: 2011-01-17 11:57 pm (UTC)He knows Teja is offended, but he caught a snatch of the conversation before he caught up to them on the stairs. And really, discussing how Carlotta will one day bear a child is really not helpful to her right now.
He finishes cleaning Carlotta up, and hangs around with them through the night to make sure she's all right - admittedly asleep on the sofa in the office for most of it.