[AU - After dinner - Closed]

[kilnfired]

It had been a fabulous night, getting away from the colony for a while, a dinner out with someone who had no pain that pulled at her. She'd felt almost normal.

Until the burning had started in her stomach, turning everything she'd eaten to acid. The idea that she'd end the fun night by spewing because they'd been gone for a few hours had decided against dessert at the restaurant. But the chocolate cake had looked so good...

Now it sat on the coffee table in the efficiency apartment above her studio while coffee brewed in the kitchen area for them.

"Thanks for agreeing to come back here for dessert with me," Brigid smiled over at the woman sharing her couch. "I don't know what happened."