[ Things are going well, which means of course they're due for something terrible to happen. Wash has had a few little episodes, nothing too serious, mostly just forgetting that he'd already told Kyna something or completed a task, very short-term memory stuff... the worst was three weeks ago when he got a headache and tried to go home from work without Kyna and had a bad lapse, forgetting what time and place he was in entirely. The saving grace for these episodes is that he still remembers everything before the shooting, which includes Hadriel, so he didn't have a total meltdown. He found his phone in his pocket and Kyna's number, and she'd come to get him and take him home. She'd been endlessly patient with him for the few days it took for his memory to start trickling back, and he'd felt fine since but they still don't know what causes these lapses. What if one day he can't remember again, and the time lost for good is more important than paperwork or a trip to the grocery store?
They carry on because there's really nothing else to be done about it, but it weighs on Wash. He doesn't want to be a burden, for Kyna to feel like she has to babysit him all the time just in case. And he doesn't want to lose chunks of his life -- or maybe he already has and just doesn't know it. In any case, he knows he's very lucky that last major blip wasn't permanent.
Kyna's on a mission with counterspell, tonight. Wash was minding the office for them, not feeling well enough to join in on the adventures, but he should have closed up shop hours ago... it's getting late and they'll probably all go straight home from it at this point. He hauls up out of his chair and grabs the keys to lock up and leave, considering what he wants to grab for dinner on the way back to the apartment he and Kyna share. When he pulls his phone out to check the time again, it's dead... no big deal, he's pretty sure the place he was thinking of is open until 11 anyway, he'll just plug in when he gets home in case Kyna needs him.
But Wash never makes it home.
When Kyna finishes the job she was on she'll find the apartment dark and empty, and Provolone clearly not fed tonight. Wash's phone goes straight to voicemail.
three months later;
They carry on because there's really nothing else to be done about it, but it weighs on Wash. He doesn't want to be a burden, for Kyna to feel like she has to babysit him all the time just in case. And he doesn't want to lose chunks of his life -- or maybe he already has and just doesn't know it. In any case, he knows he's very lucky that last major blip wasn't permanent.
Kyna's on a mission with counterspell, tonight. Wash was minding the office for them, not feeling well enough to join in on the adventures, but he should have closed up shop hours ago... it's getting late and they'll probably all go straight home from it at this point. He hauls up out of his chair and grabs the keys to lock up and leave, considering what he wants to grab for dinner on the way back to the apartment he and Kyna share. When he pulls his phone out to check the time again, it's dead... no big deal, he's pretty sure the place he was thinking of is open until 11 anyway, he'll just plug in when he gets home in case Kyna needs him.
But Wash never makes it home.
When Kyna finishes the job she was on she'll find the apartment dark and empty, and Provolone clearly not fed tonight. Wash's phone goes straight to voicemail.
Uh oh. ]