"I can't see you in the shorts and sash. You're too cool for them, kiddo," Clara says with a small laugh as she presses the button.
It's so weird, watching it just drain away into Alex. She knows that there's some reason Dr. Norton designed this system instead of letting Alex... She can't finish that train of thought. It's one she's started on for months and has never been able to complete because, fuck, it hurts her heart to think about. What if she had had more time? Could she have made sure that Alex would have come back slightly closer to normal? That he still would have been able to eat instead of needing something injected into him? Of course, it's something that hadn't occurred to her at the time. They had given her a rundown of Alex's injuries and how bleak everything was and that they could fix him.
She can't say she regrets accepting the offer because, for a while, she did have him back. But in moments like this she sometimes can't help but wonder if it was the right choice to make.
She laughs slightly at Dave's tasteless joke, if only because it gets her out of her head for a moment. "I doubt it." She almost asks Alex what it tastes like, if he can taste it, but decides against it.
Clara has the slightest hint of hesitation when the button turns red. She knows she can remove it. That she should remove it so Alex can go back to patrolling or whatever it is he's doing out there, but this is one of those rare, peaceful moments where she can almost pretend that things are something resembling normal instead of how things have turned out since he got back from whatever maintenance the Capitol did to him. She finally caves and begins removing the tube. "Anything else? Is that it?"
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It's so weird, watching it just drain away into Alex. She knows that there's some reason Dr. Norton designed this system instead of letting Alex... She can't finish that train of thought. It's one she's started on for months and has never been able to complete because, fuck, it hurts her heart to think about. What if she had had more time? Could she have made sure that Alex would have come back slightly closer to normal? That he still would have been able to eat instead of needing something injected into him? Of course, it's something that hadn't occurred to her at the time. They had given her a rundown of Alex's injuries and how bleak everything was and that they could fix him.
She can't say she regrets accepting the offer because, for a while, she did have him back. But in moments like this she sometimes can't help but wonder if it was the right choice to make.
She laughs slightly at Dave's tasteless joke, if only because it gets her out of her head for a moment. "I doubt it." She almost asks Alex what it tastes like, if he can taste it, but decides against it.
Clara has the slightest hint of hesitation when the button turns red. She knows she can remove it. That she should remove it so Alex can go back to patrolling or whatever it is he's doing out there, but this is one of those rare, peaceful moments where she can almost pretend that things are something resembling normal instead of how things have turned out since he got back from whatever maintenance the Capitol did to him. She finally caves and begins removing the tube. "Anything else? Is that it?"