Strange sensation

Justin is a little surprised when Sapphire stops him. He'd figured nobody would want to talk to him today, but maybe he was just feeling sorry for himself. Overcoming his personal feelings, he halts his route to talk with her.

"Hi there." He smiles gently. "Your brother is doing as well as can be expected." Searching Sapphire's eyes, he finds the same sorrow he had the last time he'd been here. He had to give her something positive... he just had to.

"He's responding to me well and we've talked a lot. We're also starting to touch on the Agency data." Talk had been less than productive and they'd barely even tried with the data, but it's all Justin had.

Continuing to look in Sapphire's eyes, he wonders if his next suggestion was even wise. "Would you like to come see him sometime?"


Chance scoffs at Destiny's implication. "You kidding me? A princess is a title earned, not a ticket to be a brat." A grin remains on his face. "Unless of course, you're going to buy enough things that we'll need to call in another officer to help carry everything. In which case, I would gladly watch and see how they do it while I hold doors for them."


Dani fumbles with one hand inside her purse as she tries to drive and find her ringing phone at the same time. It didn't work very well, so by the time she finally retrieved it, she sees she's missed a call from Dalton. Grumbling to herself, she's just about to call him back when the voicemail tone rings. She might as well listen to the message. Hearing his voice, she smiles, but his message made her wonder what had happened.

Stopping at an intersection, she finishes listening to his message. Odd. What was with the stapler? Had it been an accident or on purpose? If it had been on purpose, what had been the cause?

Her thumb hovers over her phone's buttons, but as she glances down the street, another thought comes. She'd been out running errands and had been on her way home. But TJY was right close, and if she turned left here instead of right, she could just go see what was up instead of relying on another phone call. Besides, any excuse to see Dalton was a good one.

Flipping her phone shut, she continues driving until she'd reached TJY. Making her way inside, she passes Sapphire and a man she didn't know, but she nods politely before heading for the hallway. Stopping in front of the office door, she finds it a little strange that it's closed all the way - Dalton usually kept it partway open.

"Dalton?" She taps on the door and opens it a little ways to peek inside. Seeing he was alone, she smiles and lets herself all the way in, leaving the door slightly ajar.

"I was out and about when I got your message a few minutes ago so I decided just to drop by and..." Her voice trails off as her eyes drift to the floor to see bits and pieces of metal, plastic and staples. Her expression shifts and she looks back to Dalton quickly. It had been on purpose, and apparently with quite a bit of force to have broken the stapler that severely.

"Um..." Her thoughts seem to have completely left her and she falters for a moment, not really even sure why, but quite suddenly, she could feel herself suppressing something in her mind that she didn't want to see. It caused a little lurch in her stomach and she clears her throat, trying to shake whatever the strange sensation was.

"If... if you want to have supper back at your place, that's fine with me." She nods. It wasn't about where they went anyway - it was just about spending time together. "Or..." Her eyes drift to the mess again, then back to Dalton, a strange new timidity in her voice that she didn't even realize was there. "If you don't feel like supper at all, that's okay. We can do it later this week."