Room 406, Late Monday Afternoon

[izzyalienqueen]

After Interstellar Relations, Isabel returned to her room, booted up the laptop and started to surf through political blogs in preparation for Wednesday's Political Campaigning class. Occasionally she needed to move Annie when she tried to curl up on the laptop keyboard.

The door was open.

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[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"I guess no matter how much I might want them to, not everyone here's gonna like me," Bridge says with a shrug. "I would've liked to help too, if I could."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"It's his loss if he wants to be a putz," Isabel said, squeezing Bridge's arm. "You can still help. If you don't mind me being a go between. I can help him with the basic telekinetic stuff since what I do and using the Force seem to work on the same basic principles. But the mental stuff that he should be able to do. I don't have a clue what to tell him. Dreamwalking is nothing like that."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"That'd be cool," Bridge says, smiling slightly. "I like helping people."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"And I for one appreciate your help," she smiled. "And I owe you dinner or something for helping me with this. She's been good so far but as she gets bigger I'm sure she's going to want to wander."

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"You gave me a project to work on," Bridge says. "Which was helpful for *me*."

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"Ah yes, the keeping busy form of coping. I know it well," Isabel said with a small smile. "How's that working out?"

[bridge-carson.livejournal.com]

"I still miss him," Bridge says, "but it... doesn't hurt as much as it did, three weeks ago," he admits, looking slightly guilty.

[izzyalienqueen.livejournal.com]

"I get that," she said quietly. "You have to deal because what's the other option? Staying miserable forever? He wouldn't want that."