Ruh Roh (One on One)

"Yeah," she said with a nod, lying back against him. "Yeah..."

 

She was quiet before standing up.

"I'm actually going to go up to bed. You don't have to stay if you don't want to, but..."

 

She hesitated before shaking her head.

"It's up to you if you want to stay or not."

 

"It's up to you," she repeated slowly, wrapping the blankets around her.

 

She nodded and began heading up the stairs, the blanket trailing behind her.

 

She looked over her shoulder once, her face falling slightly before she headed up the stairs again.

 

A muffled, new round of coughing answered him before she called down to him weakly.

"...you're leaving?"

 

She was sitting on their bed a little uncomfortable. The sheets had been bleached, but he would notice that the room looked unchanged since he had been possessed, and a thin layer of dust was on the tables. She had not been sleeping up here.

"What makes you say that?"

 

"Do you want to?" she asked, looking around with furrowed brows as she considered the room apprehensively.

 

Her head jerked to look at him in surprise and she fell silent, saying nothing.