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ways_infirmary2016-01-08 01:46 pm
merryeccentricities) wrote in ways_infirmary2016-01-08 01:46 pm
Infirmary thread for Valjean
Since his conversation with Javert, Joly's half-expected to see Monsieur Fauchelevent come into the Infirmary.
Maybe he hadn't expected everyone else who showed up along with M. Fauchelevent, but that's all right, it's a big infirmary.
((OOC: Infirmary thread for Valjean and his family.))
Maybe he hadn't expected everyone else who showed up along with M. Fauchelevent, but that's all right, it's a big infirmary.
((OOC: Infirmary thread for Valjean and his family.))
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"Thank you," Marius echoes with no less earnestness. "We-- we shall speak more very soon, I am sure."
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​Joly smiles at both of them. "I'm so glad I can. Someday, Madame, perhaps, you'll let me tell you about the friend your father has been to all of us, and you'll know something of how glad." He reaches out to press Marius' shoulder one more time. "--and your husband, too. We'll all talk soon." That's a promise, if Marius wants one.
And then they're gone,hopefully to find Fantine, and Joly is free to focus on his single patient again-- and make a few quick calls to his dearest friends, letting them know one more dear visitor is in Milliways.
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"You will have to show me the way, I'm afraid," he says bashfully once they've gotten a bit farther from the infirmary door.
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For an instant, there's a sharp, bitter thought: there, you can see how it feels. She squelches the thought before it's fully formed, with a reflexive surge of shame.
Instead, she rests her head against his shoulder as they walk. Even after everything, the comfort in that is nearly overwhelming.
"I don't know how to explain half of it, because I've never understood it myself. But I promise you I'll tell you everything in a little while. Everything I know about Milliways. Is that all right? Can you manage all this strangeness until then?"
Please say you can, Marius. She feels terrible for asking him to meet dead friends and all the bizarreness of Milliways without the slightest clarification, but she also can't bear the thought of pulling together an explanation now, and facing all the questions he has a perfect right to ask, after everything today has already held.
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Here in her pocket is the key to her Milliways room. She didn't keep a key to her father's house with her -- it never occurred to her that she might need it unexpectedly -- but Milliways shows up at the strangest times, after all. She passes it over to Marius, and tells him the room number, which is stamped on the key too.
"You see how these doors all have the numbers. That is mine, so of course it's yours as well. I'll go there as soon as I'm done speaking with Mother."
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He wants to offer to wait-- surely she shouldn't wander these halls by herself? But it's plain she doesn't want that, and she indisputably knows the customs of this place far better than he does.
He reaches for her hand and, as there is no one in sight, kisses it.
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She lifts their joined hands to press his hand to her pale cheek. "My Marius. I do love you."
After a moment, she smiles at him again, a little more composedly. "I'll see you in just a little while."
And her mother's room is just there. She'll just let herself in; she has a key. If Fantine isn't there, she'll... well, she'll figure the next step out from there. (But she might spend a few minutes letting her self-control fall in private, first.)