It was a very long walk down. Part of Wash was grateful for the chance to organize his thoughts; the other part knew that he ought to be looking ahead, trying to figure out how to explain what had happened to a bunch of people for whom death was a pretty permanent thing. (Well, except for Bones in extremely specific circumstances, evidently, but he was fairly certain that didn't apply here.) That was not going to be a fun conversation.
He did look at his communicator, flicking it open inside his helmet with an eye movement, to check the date. According to that, he'd been gone about 24 hours - 36 at most. That was not a hell of a lot of time - probably about as long as Greg had been out of commission, which meant the only two people in the city who knew that death wasn't permanent hadn't been around to pass that information on.
Yeah, this was going to be a fun conversation.
They stopped by Greg's apartment first; Wash couldn't say he was surprised to find it empty. Some people didn't handle grief well, and he didn't know Rose well enough to know how she'd take it. Avoiding the space they'd shared together was a fairly standard reaction.
He took the lead when it came to the shared apartment, pushing the door open and kicking it shut behind him once they were both inside. He led Greg over to the couch, only letting go of him once Greg had settled in. No use getting him this far just to have him keel over, after all. "How're you feeling?"
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He did look at his communicator, flicking it open inside his helmet with an eye movement, to check the date. According to that, he'd been gone about 24 hours - 36 at most. That was not a hell of a lot of time - probably about as long as Greg had been out of commission, which meant the only two people in the city who knew that death wasn't permanent hadn't been around to pass that information on.
Yeah, this was going to be a fun conversation.
They stopped by Greg's apartment first; Wash couldn't say he was surprised to find it empty. Some people didn't handle grief well, and he didn't know Rose well enough to know how she'd take it. Avoiding the space they'd shared together was a fairly standard reaction.
He took the lead when it came to the shared apartment, pushing the door open and kicking it shut behind him once they were both inside. He led Greg over to the couch, only letting go of him once Greg had settled in. No use getting him this far just to have him keel over, after all. "How're you feeling?"