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[river_meimei]

It's been days since Kaylee was home. More than days.

She's looked, but Kaylee's good at hiding. Sometimes. Sometimes everyone is.

(When you're hurt so bad you just want to find a cave to hole up in, you can usually look hard enough to find one.)

And the few times River's found her, it's been...

Sometimes you want to be alone.

Sometimes you don't want even people you love to be near you.

(There have been days River's sat silently outside a door, waiting. Waiting until she had to go, hours later, and nothing had changed enough.)

And then it's later, and the world's too crowded or you've found another friend and the fragile peace there, or you've found another hole to hide in.

But, now: a door, down one of Milliways' shifting corridors. (Locked.) River tries the knob, stares at it for a moment, and then lifts her hand to knock.

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[river_meimei]

"I miss you," River blurts, low and thick with misery.

And then she's slipping out the door and away down the hall, and it closes quietly behind her.

[gonna_live]

And Kaylee doesn't throw anything at the wall -- not much to throw in this room -- and after a while the anger (because that's what it is, it's anger) passes and she can stare at the wall until she can manage to fall asleep.