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Who: Brian and Marlowe
Where: On The Phone
When: Early Afternoon, 'round 1:30

Marlowe punched Brian's number into her cell as she retrieved a travel bag from her closet to toss it open onto her bed. Hitting the send button she listened as the phone at the other end starting to ring as she walked over toward her dresser and tugged a drawer open.

Brian was, at that moment, just finishing up washing dishes from cooking, breakfast, lunch, and Hunt's lunch. Well, and from the past few days when he'd really not been up for, nor in the mood for, washing dishes. They'd piled up in the sink, and he hated that. Someday he'd have to get a dishwasher. He picked up a towel before he picked up the phone, drying off his hands and catching the phone on the third ring. "'lo?"

"Hey Bossman." Marlowe answered brightly. The red head dug a couple shirts out of the drawer and walked back over to the bed to stuff the articles of clothing into the open bag. "Just calling to check on how things are going over there."

"Heeeey Sparky." Brian hung the towel over the oven-handle and limped his way over to the kitchen table to sit down. Sitting down was a very good thing today. "Things're better over here. Looks like everything's calmed down." Thank god. "Same with you, I hope?"

"Yeah. Now that we're done and home from the hospital." She told him. A return trip made back to the dresser to collect a few more things from the drawer which were then put into the bag. Marlowe taking a brief pause then in her packing to sit on the edge of the bed as their conversation progressed.

"Hospital?" Brian repeated blankly, taking a seat and staring out the window in the general direction of Marlowe's house. "What happened? Why were you at the hospital?" Had she been hurt bad, and wasn't telling him?

"A friend of Lucius'...well, actually a friend of both of ours, got hit pretty bad by the shadow things yesterday. We found him unconscious, and in a bad way, when we got to his house. We stayed with him until well into the morning. Just to make sure he didn't suffer any more harm." Marlowe purposely omitting the fact that she'd been hurt during the stay at the hospital due to her own misjudgment.

"Okay...." Relieved-- Marlowe hadn't been hurt, or at least not bad enough to need the hospital-- Brian asked, "How's he doing? Your friend? And you? Need anything, or just checking in?"

"He's doing ok. They're keeping him in the hospital though a little bit longer. Just to make sure no complications or anything arise from his injuries. Me? I'm doing as well as can be expected, and I called just to check in on you. Make sure you haven't been having any more shadow visits. And to let you know I'll be gone for a couple of days. You know, just so you don't start worrying if you didn't happen to see or hear from me for the next day or so." Marlowe told him.

"Oh yeah?" Probably smart, on her part, after everything. Getting away for a while. And with the diner closed until Tuesday, she'd have the time. "Hope you have fun, then. Where you goin'?"

"That's the plan." She told him with an unseen smile. "It'll just be like an over night thing. Lucius starts work on Monday, or at least he was suppose to," with all that had been going on in the town the past few days that was an uncertainty in Marlowe's mind, "So, we'll be back sometime Sunday evening. Driving over to AuTrain. Rented a cabin there." Marlowe filling him in a little bit on the wheres and whens of the trip.

"That sounds like a good way to get away, yeah," Brian agreed, sitting back in his chair. "You, uh, told him 'bout you yet?" Because he thought that was a pretty important thing, and with the shadows gone, it wasn't in the middle of everything anymore. Seemed like a good time.

"No." She replied. "Not yet" She added with a sigh. She knew how Brian felt about that. The whole keeping her fire elemental thing a secret. But it really wasn't all that simple of a thing. To just up and tell him. Not with her knowing how terrified Lucius was of fire.

Well, Brian didn't know how terrified Lucius was of fire-- and if he did, he might think this whole relationship was pretty doomed. "Probably oughta get on that," he warned her good-naturedly. "Honestly, I'm pretty surprised you didn't wind up using it just be instinct, during all the shadow shit...." Elementals usually jumped to that first, from what he'd read and heard about them.

"I know. I'm going to tell him tonight." Her words though not coming out as confident sounding as Marlowe wished them to. She could play it over and over in her mind. What she would say to Lucius, the different reactions she'd get after the revelation. But that was just looping the scene and its alternate over and over again in her head. The real kink in all of it was the actual speaking of the words. When it came down to it would she be able to get them out or would they get caught in her throat and never pass from her mouth to find a voice.

"Let me know how it goes," Brian suggested. "When you get back." He didn't expect to hear from her while she was gone. Unless it went really badly, in which case he might wait for a phone call to come pick her up, but he hoped it didn't go down that route. He'd have to track down this Lucius and kill him, or something, if it did.

"I will." She responded with a hint of uncertainty to her voice. The weekend was suppose to get them back to a little bit of normalcy, but Marlowe was fearing that with the revelation she needed to make it would be anything but that. "I'll call you sometime on Sunday, after we get back." That was if she was emotionally fit to do so.

"I oughta be home," Brian said-- unless he was taking Hunt to Isabella's, but hopefully that wouldn't take too long. Hell, hopefully he wouldn't have to, at all.... "Be careful, okay, Sparky?" The mantra of the town: be careful, stay safe. He missed spring when the mantra was more like "relax and have fun".

"You to. Be careful." And stay safe. I don't want to come home to another loss. That silent, unspoken thought crossed through her head. Marquette had never been filled with normalcy, but it seemed like within the last few months the town seemed to have found itself with more then its fair share of danger and death.

"Me? Always. Besides, I got Domino to watch my back now, right?" he said with a grin. "Ain't nothing gonna get at me now. I'll let you go-- I'll talk to you tomorrow, Sparky."

"Tell Domino I said hi." The mention of the guy had her remembering that Brian now had a housemate. That eased her mind a bit and brought a light smile to her lips. "Bye Bossman. Talk to you tomorrow." And with that Marlowe disconnected the call with a light press of her thumb.