Who: Riley Bryant and
Kate BryantWhat: Twin senses
Where: Riley's apartment
When: Day after
THISRiley and Gray had both slept the entire previous day away. It was Riley who ended up surfacing first, around 4am the next morning and found himself praying to the porcelain god for way too long than he needed to know it in exact minutes. He felt ill. He didn't know whether it was stress, medication side effects from what Lachlan had put him back on, or maybe picked something up on holiday that was flaring everything else up. It didn't really matter. All he knew was that after sleeping for 18 or 19 hours, he had woken feeling like he had been hit by a bus. After the episode of being repeatedly violently ill in the bathroom, he had weakly crawled back into bed with Grayson and crashed again for a few more hours. He didn't know if Grayson had been up when he had been asleep, but if he had, he was probably feeling much like Riley was, and that he didn't want to disrupt Gray's sleep. All of this, it was taking its toll on him. At least he and Gray could help each other through it. Unless Gray changed his mind about everything, which Riley could deny to himself that was what he was expecting to happen.
He re-awoke later that morning again around 10. He didn't feel much better. In fact, he wasn't sure what end to aim at the toilet first that time, and ended up burning the candle at both ends hugging a trash can. Even if it wasn't stress causing, it stress was making him feel worse. He was out on the balcony of his apartment now, shaking hand trying to pluck a cigarette from his pack when the sliding glass door opened and closed. Kate had a key to his place, just like Riley had one to hers. It was part of their twin-code, it just was what it was. They would never intrude on each other's private time, but if there was concern or, like now, one of them wasn't feeling well, the other had free pass to come check on them whenever they wanted and as much as they wanted.
He had to be looking like death warmed up. He was in his shaggy old bathrobe with a tank top and well-loved faded cotton blue and grey checked pyjama pants. His hair was a disaster zone, curls all over the place and he had his glasses on because his eyes and head were killing him, contacts weren't going to happen. It was a far cry from how put together and professional he had been the last time he and Kate had lunch together. She surprised him one day at work and shared nachos in one of the courtyards together. That was when things had still be going well for him, when he had hope. He lit up and took the first drag on the cigarette, hoping it might calm a bit of his nerves. "I'm not dead, I only feel like it," he told her, moving to the nearest seat to sit heavily in it and pulled the glass ashtray on the table closer to him.