Outside Meerkat for the moment, Monday early afternoon.

[izzyalienqueen]

After spending a lazy morning sharing coffee with Jack and then visiting Janet, Elizabeth, and Tempe over at Pangolin, Isabel changed into her running clothes and went outside to stretch.

[locked to someone who knows who he is. Okay to say they ran together. Conversation itself is NFB]

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"For the moment it's fun. Ask me again on Friday. I might be ready to burn the place down by then," Isabel smiled. "How's your cabin? Did Peter ever get to mess with Charlie's bed? By the way," she added casually. "I stopped by yesterday but you weren't around. I like the new decor."

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"Cabin's fine, Peter didn't do the bed thing yet, and yeah, he told me you were by," he said a bit shortly.

He veered off the path into a small clearing that overlooked the water as he felt a stitch start to form in his side, and slowed to a stop.

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There's only so long a person can stay happily oblivious. "What's up with you?" Isabel asked, curious because this was not the happy Greg she'd grown used to. She kept moving, slowly walking about the clearing as she let her heart rate slow down.

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"Nothing," Greg replied, stretching out his side. "Why?"

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Isabel paused, tilting her head and studying him, as she tried to find the right words. "You just don't seem like you. Is there something wrong?"

[like-a-sponge.livejournal.com]

Greg sighed, and with a shrug, finally said what was bothering him.

"Betrothed?"

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"Betrothed?" Isabel repeated. "Oh my god, you heard about that?" She sank down on a large, conveniently placed rock and buried her face in her hands.

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"Jamie told me yesterday," he said with another shrug. "It's not a big deal. I mean, I get having commitments or whatever."

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Isabel made quiet plans to kill Jamie. "It is too a big deal. Because it's really not a big deal no matter what he said. I told him it's a hell will freeze over before it happens deal," she said vehemently.