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iamhismummy) wrote in
milliways_bar2015-02-01 06:50 pm
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Nancy comes in, smiling, from a clinically white corridor.
Things have clearly been advancing in her world, because she's wearing a nurse's uniform.
Things have clearly been advancing in her world, because she's wearing a nurse's uniform.

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"Ooooh, pretty!" he says, from above, when Nancy comes in. "Nice uniform!"
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She pauses, momentarily confused, then peers up at him.
"...what are you doing up there?"
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"Well, get down before you break your neck."
She can't help mothering, it's in her nature.
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"How did you even get up there in the first place?"
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Beat.
"Nah, I climbed up a pillar."
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She shakes her head, trying not to laugh.
"I can't talk to you while you're up there, I'll put my neck out."
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"It's not looking up", she protests, amused. "It's keeping looking up. Which pillar?"
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"...where would you get a line from?" she asks dubiously. "No, don't answer that. I'll get a stepladder."
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Nancy laughs and heads for the Bar to borrow a stepladder, as promised.
It's not long before she's stepping lightly along the rafter to join him.
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"I've never tried, but I can't see why they wouldn't." She takes his hand demurely and sits down. "Love some/"
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Then, he turns to Nancy.
"So, what put you into that lovely uniform?" he asks, conversationally, as if they were sitting around a posh tea table.
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"I'd been thinking about it for a while now", she tells him. "And a doctor I know, Dr Constantine, he helped me get into the college."
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"I still check on them every night. Some of them found their way home... and I went to your house."
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"You were", Nancy says with a nod. "Or a version of you was, don't know if he was exactly the same. But I gave him your card, and he helped."
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She glances at him sideways.
"Exactly like you, actually."
She chose not to ask at the time.
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