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Mar. 22nd, 2022 06:38 pm
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I'm sorry...did we have plans?

[Rey asked as she stared at Quentin as he stood in front of her place. Her face was flushed and her eyes glazed over. Telltale signs of a fever. There was little color on her cheeks, and it looked as though she hadn't eaten much in a few days. Her mind wasn't firing off at all cylinders, but she had lists--scraps of paper of the things she needed to accomplish. Papers to write. Reading to do--and spells to memorize.

A...a job she may need to go to? No, she didn't have a job right now. Dean Fog told her she didn't have to worry about funds. That wasn't a dream. That felt real.

But that didn't explain why Quentin, sweet and charming (and was he always taller than her?) Quentin was at her door.

Finn had stopped by yesterday to check in on her, even left a small bag of quick meals she could eat, along with a packet or two of cold medication. But, she wasn't sick. She refused to get sick. Getting sick meant Rey could not learn, could not go to work and make a living for herself. If she couldn't make a living for herself, then she would have nothing. She couldn't afford nothing.

Surely--surely the same principle applied at Brakebills. If she couldn't study, then she would be kicked out. The one place she belonged would be ripped out of her grasp.

But that still didn't explain why Quentin was there. Had Finn told him she was sick? Or did he notice that she wasn't as responsive to the notes they passed back and forth to each other?

No, it had to have been Finn. He probably told Quentin to check up on Rey, because the woman was so stubborn about things.]

Date: 2022-03-23 08:19 pm (UTC)
curlieq: (ϟ don't forget to breathe;)
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( ding ding ding, we have a winner! let's tell rey-gun what she's won —

no, in all seriousness, this is what you get for having a best friend that cares about you as much as finn does; quentin is pretty sure he'd sought him out the second he'd left his friend, informed him ( in perhaps not-so-exaggerated detail ) just how bad off she was, and that she insisted she wasn't sick. now, when it comes to his studies at brakebills he's practically bent over backwards to make himself known, or at least not get himself kicked out, so he knows a thing or two about pushing forward even if you're feeling under the weather —

… especially if one of your housemate's ( eliot's ) "fool-proof" remedies is a hot toddy that will, ahem, "knock any damned thing out of your system, and if it doesn't, you might need an exorcism."

that isn't to say it hasn't worked a time or two before now, and that doubly isn't to say that he might not have some of that concoction with him. amongst the other things he'd brought with the intention of seeing to it that she not overwork and underfeed herself. and under-rest. that's a really important one, too.

now. it's absolutely true that brakebills students have nothing to worry about financially when they're in school ( or after, to a point, but that isn't something they tell you in the show right out of the gate ); rey doesn't need to be worrying herself even sicker about having nothing when she already has everything she needs right there, and it isn't going to hurt anyone involved if she takes a couple of days for herself to rest up and get back to one hundred percent.

he'll even help her study, if she wants.

so when she asks if they have plans —
) Actually, yeah, we do. ( he holds up a bag containing cans of condensed soup, crackers, applesauce and the aforementioned cure-all remedy in a flask in one hand, and the first fillory and further book in the other. ) You're going to get a blanket and wrap yourself up in it while I make you some soup, and then I'm going to read to you while you eat it and rest. ( he pauses, and then has the decency to look a little bit sheepish. )

Finn found me. He's worried about you.
Edited (frickin forgetting to close parentheses will be the death of me) Date: 2022-03-23 08:20 pm (UTC)

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