[For Kate] Amnesia plot

[masochistic_lion]

When Bella had fled, I had considered pursuing her, but it had only taken a few moments to decide that we probably both needed some space and time to process what had just happened. I didn't move for several minutes once I was alone. It hurt, to have that taste of what I'd lost, to know it was probably fleeting, or possibly already gone again. I thought I'd made a sort of peace with my situation on the island, but it turned out I'd only done a good job of deluding myself. The wounds were torn open now, as fresh as the evening of my arrival, and at first all I could do was curl up on the bed and wait for the pain and the longing to subside until I could at least function.

Finally I managed to rouse myself, take a shower and change out of the clothes I'd been in since the day before. Then I looked around my empty hut, sighed and squared my shoulders. I wasn't sure if Bella would want to see me again, after what had happened, what I'd had to tell her. She needed someone else that could help her through this.

I went to Kate.

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[girlsolo]

Eddy's not the last person Kate expects to see cruising between the huts of New Atlantis on a mission. Really, not even all that close to the last person. Still, he's walking with enough purpose that it gets Kate's attention.

She makes a quick visual check for Lilo - playing with William and Bonny and Daniel's on his porch reading. Jonas is around somewhere and Sarah probably is too. So Kate rolls up off the blanket she's sunning herself on (multitasking, the single not-quite-mom way) and pads barefoot toward Eddy. If something's wrong, she doesn't want the kids to hear it.

"Hey." She studies him, trying to read the tension in his body for the meaning. "Something wrong?"