callmeemily: ([with] hug)
The cruise had those cheap little pads of paper emblazoned with their logo, and the bottom said come sail with us. Raleigh'd found the pad of paper and a pen, and it'd taken her until the fourth day to actually decide to write the letter. She was sick; the wound in her side had gone bad, and she already was burning up with fever. She'd folded the pages and stuffed them in the pocket of Joel's shirt before she finally let herself take some painkillers, until she spent a majority of her time sleeping, forgetting she'd actually even put the letter there in the first place.

When they landed, when they were in the hospital, the nurse had been helpful. The folded up pieces of paper had somehow fallen on the floor- she'd thought they were trash at first. When she'd scanned the note, thought, it was addressed to Joel, and it was an easy thing to slip them into the pile of clothes that would be going home with him. It looked important, but Joel was sleeping while he was waiting to be released for the day, so she didn't say anything, and just moved on to the next patient.

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The letter: )
callmeemily: ([pleased] genuinely pleased)
She's sort of early for dinner, and Raleigh knows that, but Genevieve finished her hair and had to go get herself ready, and it wasn't like she was going to just sit there, now was she? Exploring was sort of secondary to just getting out of the freaking room, so she wandered the halls - and she'd done something else.

She was experimenting, because she'd done something else, she'd taken one of the potions she'd carefully kept. Joel thought she'd taken them all, but she'd stopped after the second one; yes, she'd been in a lot of pain, but she'd kept them in case of emergency, she'd kept them unless the pain got to the point she couldn't function... but right now? Right now she'd just decided.

She'd have tonight. She'd have tonight, and so she twirled in the empty hallway, her dress swirling around her, and she truly felt like a princess. The one thing she didn't expect - not at all, not in the slightest -was that she'd turn the corner and nearly run into Joel, who looked...... very, very normal, holding an ice bucket. Clearly, he was skipping dinner. "Hi!" Does she look surprised? Yes. But that was more because she'd nearly taken him out with how fast she'd gone around the corner - she knows that big social events aren't really their things.

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Raleigh Harper / Emily Watkins

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