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Nov. 25th, 2017 11:34 amShe should have checked on Coop sooner.
It's not like she's been completely out of touch, she's texted him a few times, she knows he survived the rest of of the Purge after they'd lost each other in their escape from the warehouse. She knows, too, that he'd lost someone close to him and that's part of why she's kept her distance. Chloe isn't very good at sympathy. She's good at a lot of things and some of those things might even make Coop feel better, but she has no idea how to offer that or how to even talk to someone after they've lost a person they care about.
Truthfully, she probably shouldn't even know, but Darrow isn't a very big city and word travels, especially when the man killed had been somewhat notorious himself. Especially when his killer had wound up dead not long after by the hands of someone she knows.
It feels like something private and sensitive and she doesn't like knowing it, because knowing about it means she should do something, but her talents fall incredibly short of coming up with an answer. So for too long she does nothing.
Then one day it comes to her in the form of a newspaper article detailing an auction to be held in early January. She scans the story and she almost goes after the list of items being auctioned by herself before she realizes this might be exactly the sort of thing to make Coop feel better and it's easier, too, than showing up at his door with nothing but a bit of sympathy for him. Nate might not want to be left out of this, but she decides since this is still technically her score, she gets the final word of who accompanies her where.
And so she goes to Coop.
When she knocks on his door, she's holding the newspaper in one hand, tapping it against her thigh, and she has a case of beer in the other. Maybe it's not entirely about work, maybe there's a bit of comfort to be offered, but she has to start with alcohol.
It's not like she's been completely out of touch, she's texted him a few times, she knows he survived the rest of of the Purge after they'd lost each other in their escape from the warehouse. She knows, too, that he'd lost someone close to him and that's part of why she's kept her distance. Chloe isn't very good at sympathy. She's good at a lot of things and some of those things might even make Coop feel better, but she has no idea how to offer that or how to even talk to someone after they've lost a person they care about.
Truthfully, she probably shouldn't even know, but Darrow isn't a very big city and word travels, especially when the man killed had been somewhat notorious himself. Especially when his killer had wound up dead not long after by the hands of someone she knows.
It feels like something private and sensitive and she doesn't like knowing it, because knowing about it means she should do something, but her talents fall incredibly short of coming up with an answer. So for too long she does nothing.
Then one day it comes to her in the form of a newspaper article detailing an auction to be held in early January. She scans the story and she almost goes after the list of items being auctioned by herself before she realizes this might be exactly the sort of thing to make Coop feel better and it's easier, too, than showing up at his door with nothing but a bit of sympathy for him. Nate might not want to be left out of this, but she decides since this is still technically her score, she gets the final word of who accompanies her where.
And so she goes to Coop.
When she knocks on his door, she's holding the newspaper in one hand, tapping it against her thigh, and she has a case of beer in the other. Maybe it's not entirely about work, maybe there's a bit of comfort to be offered, but she has to start with alcohol.
