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[of course she does.]

Laura?

Cassandra! Hey! It's, uhm. Really good to hear your voice.

[ She'd stopped calling after the second day, and stopped texting the day after that. It's not like it would have helped, right? ]

[she knows those messages exist, but she hasn't looked at them. more guilt.]

Hey. Sorry, I was... I don't know. Needed to get away, but--back now.

Yeah, away sounds good. [ running away is in fact a deeply legit reaction there ]

Uhm, what's up?

Mhm. And... I just wanted to... you're okay?

[ Her normal answer of "no of course I'm not" feels a little ill advised at the moment, but she's not sure how to handle this. There's no doubt in her mind that Cassandra blames herself, or at the very least is taking on all the guilt she can. Still, it's one lie she likes to avoid. ]

I guess. Went back to Miami. You know, Luci's place. It's . . . hot. It's so hot.

[look, she knows laura well enough to know that whether she's okay is always going to come with a lot of asterisks.

the mention of luci makes her take pause. that's a whole other can of worms. she almost teases her over the weather complaint, but.]

How is she?

She's fine. She's good, yeah. Uhm, actually she's been handling all the hazmat contractors. It's really sweet.

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Good. That's... yeah. Good. [she almost considers offering to help pay, but it's not like luci and laura are in dire financial straits. that'd just be to make herself feel better, probably.]

Look, um--I'm... sorry. For all of it.

Yeah. Me too.

[ She'd tell Cassandra it wasn't her fault until she was blue in the face, but what good what that do? There was one way to stop this from hurting her, and some job she'd done with that. ]

No, no, you--tried to help. Did help.

Uh huh. I do that.

[ "Try," that is. But she's still too worn out to argue the point. Cassandra will hate herself for what happened, Laura will hate herself for not stopping it, and the only one who actually deserves to feel like shit is feeling nothing at all.

Once more they fucking return. ]

Do you know when you'll be back? In town, I mean.

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[the fucked up thing is she did stop it, at least before it could get bad. cass did more than she wishes she'd done, and she can't stop thinking about how much worse it could have been, but. she has laura to thank for preventing the worst.]

I am. At the airport, waiting on a car.