> Julia kissed her cheek and sat in another chair, sitting Kat on her lap
> facing her so that she could brush the hair from Kat's face and answer her
> "She's at your house actually. Still sick but we're going to bring her
back
> here and let a doctor get her better. As soon as the doctor says so we
can
> go in and see her. We..we thought you'd feel better if she were here
close
> to you."
>
> Then she looked into Kat's eyes, her own gentle with just the barest of
> worry/sadness in them "Are you okay Kat?"
>
>
> Ingrid looked at him, then at Julia and back again, smiling her own quiet
> encouragement. She could tell they were both concerned "Of course I will.
> Will the two of you have enough time today to maybe meet us for lunch?"
>
> And without asking she could tell that her brother was all right. Even if
> he hadn't had sleep, he had found some kind of rest, which was good. That
> wasn't all she could tell but that was all she was going to delve into at
> the moment.
>
> "We both slept like babies." she said, answering his question with a
slight
> grin and then looked at Kat "The zoo sounds like fun, doesn't it Kat?"
>
> Julia smiled slightly and added "All those monkeys fighting to be the
center
> of attention and get the bread we're not supposed to feed them..."
>
> Kat wasn't off the hook about what happened but she just wanted to focus
on
> the fact she was, for now, okay. And she knew getting her out of the
house
> would help alleviate some of the feeling of being stuck here too. She
> remembered Miranda having tried to convince Kat about something along
those
> lines.
>
Kat:
Kat nodded, "i'm okay." Her face creased with worry when she heard about
Rachel. She hadn't realized her mother was sick. She'd just thought Rachel
had someplace she had to go like the hospital or something like that. No
one ever told her anything around this place. She looked over at Ingrid
when she spoke, "sure the zoo's usually fun," she agreed though not very
enthusiastically at the moment.
Derek:
"I'm not sure if we'll have time to meet you for lunch or not," Derek
admitted. "We can plan on it and I'll leave a message for you if we can't
make it."
