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[Chase stays sprawled on the carpet, his fingers still circled around the absence of her wrist. Looking up. Where he'd expected a view into another world is just the same painted ceiling he's stared at a hundred times before when Cuddy's called them in to try and circumvent House's machinations. It doesn't feel right, though he tells himself there was no fanfare when he arrived in the City, why should there be anything to signify leaving.

And that thought itself is something to think about.

He twists, scuffing his shirt against expensive carpeting and pushing himself up on one elbow to watch her.]

Do you remember?

[He does. By all accounts he shouldn't. By all rationale he should be waking in bed, or a hospital bed, or under the car he figures he met six months ago on his way to get coffee. He's still the same as he was in the city, but this office, this world at first glance appears equally unchanged. Both can't apply at once.]

[Cameron nods at him, getting her bearings, then glances around the office. If it's an illusion, it's impressive; every detail seems identical, nothing out of place or provided by imagination.

Which makes it seem all wrong.]

I don't think we're home.

[No calendar at first glance, but there are patient files on the desk. She doesn't recognize any of the names or laundry lists of symptoms, but it all seems perfectly plausible. Cameron would desperately like this to be real. But it's logically impossible. Her hair, their clothes, haven't reverted; their memories haven't vanished.]

Don't you think someone would've heard us fall? They just walked out... Try the door?

We're right by the clinic, people are used to strange noises.

[It's a reason that undoes itself immediately by drawing attention to the quiet. No ambient noise at all, not even traffic noise. Far from the buzz of a busy hospital, the room seems to hold the hush of somewhere far larger, the kind of place that would echo their own voices back if they raised them. Chase has felt this way in cathedrals before, but not the ground floor of Princeton-Plainsboro. He nods at her suggestion and in a few seconds he's trying the handle, which rattles uselessly in his hand. After a minute he sets his shoulder against the door and shoves that way. Not even the faintest yield.

He tries but doesn't hide the worry when he turns back across the office.]

Wherever we are, looks like we're staying.

Great.

[She might have intended to deliver that with flat frustration, but the note of concern in her voice overwhelms her irritation. If they can't get out, and they can't get back-- there's no view of the City behind them-- well, Cuddy's office is not where she wants to live out her last few days.]

Now what? [Frowning, she looks behind her, at the windows, and goes to try one. It looks perfectly normal (though deserted) beyond the glass; but of course it won't budge.]

[Beyond the door it seems to be dark, as though the hospital has shut up shop and gone home for the night, left everything sleeping. Chase tries the handle again, putting the weight of his forearm against it and dropping, but all he ends up with is the possibility of a bruise later. There are already dressings under his shirt -- those fibreglass dragons don't mess about.

Exasperation slams his back up against the door next, rattling but not budging it. Damning his luck, damning himself for inflicting it on someone else. Again.]

Assuming I'm getting the hint, we wait. Maybe that's what this is, the waiting room. There has to be something more than just this.

Does there?

[She turns, annoyance a little more evident this time. She's madder at herself than she is at him, for agreeing to this. The City is never this simple; she knows better than to trust it. At least, she ought to.]

All that to lock us in a room? Considering we've all got apartments, you don't think it might be overkill?

[He's ready for the annoyance, so used to it it could be reassuring. Better she's pissed than afraid.]

No. There's got to be more.

You want there to be more.

[She lifts her chin, more contrary then pessimistic, really.]

Edited 2009-12-08 05:28 (UTC)

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