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Dec. 30th, 2025 09:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
justdidntseeit[ previously: "I'm glad you didn't leave when you saw me." ]
A month after her unexpected return to Milliways, Kate still half-expects every door she opens to reveal the bar.
(And Bill — maybe, just maybe, he's there again, too.)
But this morning, amid the loose-limbed rush of post-workout endorphins and the anticipation of a much-needed shower, she's caught entirely off-guard when she doesn't enter her two-room hotel suite.
"Oh," she breathes to herself, and swipes her sweat-slick nape with the small orange towel in her right fist as she glances around the room.
A month after her unexpected return to Milliways, Kate still half-expects every door she opens to reveal the bar.
(And Bill — maybe, just maybe, he's there again, too.)
But this morning, amid the loose-limbed rush of post-workout endorphins and the anticipation of a much-needed shower, she's caught entirely off-guard when she doesn't enter her two-room hotel suite.
"Oh," she breathes to herself, and swipes her sweat-slick nape with the small orange towel in her right fist as she glances around the room.
