wadcock (wadcock) wrote in valesco,
@ 2013-02-11 21:53:00

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Henry :[
Seth didn’t even bother responding to Henry’s latest comment. Obviously he was in some sort of panic and he didn’t need to waste time with trivial platitudes. He was immediately regretting sending his nanny off on a well deserved vacation now that he didn’t have practice every day anymore as that left him few options of sitters on this short of a notice. And from what he could gather, it was not an environment he was about to introduce Leanne too.

By the time he found someone to watch her and made it over to Mungo’s at least a half an hour had past. If Henry was in a state before, Seth wasn’t sure what he was going to find now. When he finally managed to track his brother down he found him hunched over in a chair in a semi crowded waiting room. “Hey,” he said softly, resting his hand gently on his brother’s shoulder before dropping into the chair next to him. “I got here as soon as I could.”

He was at a loss for words, unsure what to say or how to ask the questions he wanted to ask. Asking if everything was okay when everything was clearly not okay seemed trite. As much as Seth loved to get under his brother’s skin, now was definitely not the time. So he settled for just not saying anything. It was the safest bet, if Henry wanted to talk about it he would and Seth would be there to listen. And if Henry didn’t want to talk about it, he would be there anyways.

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fictitious
2013-02-12 11:42 pm UTC (link)

Henry was experiencing the worst migraine of his life. The pounding in his head would not stop and it had been thudding against his skull for what felt like weeks. How had a short trip to the pediatrician lead to an overnight stay at the hospital? Not even for his son, but for--for the fiancee that he had insisted stay home. Henry had all but pushed Heidi back under the covers, and then he'd left her alone for hours! Precious hours that could have been spent keeping down the fever that had knocked Heidi nearly unconscious and unable to move on her own. He was the one that had joked with her about going to the healer, only to leave her behind when he went to Mungo's.

How could he have been so stupid?

He barely acknowledged Seth's arrival, only slightly nodding his head that was buried in his hands. Henry was so used to being the one cleaning up the mess, he was the fixer.

"I can't even see her," Henry said hollowly, as he finally set back. He stared hard at the wall across the room and shook his head. "I'm not allowed until---they run more tests."

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wadcock
2013-02-13 01:27 am UTC (link)

Seth knew exactly how that felt. Well maybe not exactly, as Henry was his brother and not the love of his life, but he figured it was close enough. It seem like too little of time had past since the last time he sat in the Mungo's waiting room feeling useless. He really wished these occurrences would stop.

"The Healers here are the best in the world, they will figure it out and everything will be fine," he said dropping his gaze from his brother to the floor. Empty words, really. Seth didn't even know what was wrong, let alone if they would be fine. But these were the sort of things you said in these situations. This was not the time to worst case scenario.

"When was the last time you ate?" Seth asked pressing his hands to his knees and standing. Sitting here and fixating wasn't doing his brother any good. He held out his hand to Henry to help him out of the chair. "Let's go get you some food, and the by the time we get back maybe the Healers will be done with their tests and you can see her."

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