See, the thing about hospitals is that people tend to go into them and never come out. The last time he saw his brother was in a hospital, and Chris is convinced that if he hadn't insisted on going back to his and Cassie's, he wouldn't have made it out of hospital either. The compound clinic might not be an actual hospital, but it's as close as it gets on the island. So when he'd heard that Claire had fallen off of the compound roof and there'd been surgery and all that, he hadn't been able to help but think of Peter and when he'd found out.
It's likely a good thing that she hasn't been allowed visitors until now; it was days before Chris could wrap his brain around heading there anyway, at least not until he'd found out that she isn't going to die. It had seemed fair though; Chris isn't allowed anything good anyway. Not Peter, not Jal, not even his own fucked up life, so why should he get to have her as a friend? As an anything?
Still, it's more than a relief when he hears she's okay, and he'd feel like even more of a shit friend if he didn't visit her, so he finds himself there that day, as cautious about speaking as he was about entering the clinic in the first place.
"Alright, Claire?" he asks, and it's likely about the dumbest thing anyone's ever said to someone who's in hospital.
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See, the thing about hospitals is that people tend to go into them and never come out. The last time he saw his brother was in a hospital, and Chris is convinced that if he hadn't insisted on going back to his and Cassie's, he wouldn't have made it out of hospital either. The compound clinic might not be an actual hospital, but it's as close as it gets on the island. So when he'd heard that Claire had fallen off of the compound roof and there'd been surgery and all that, he hadn't been able to help but think of Peter and when he'd found out.
It's likely a good thing that she hasn't been allowed visitors until now; it was days before Chris could wrap his brain around heading there anyway, at least not until he'd found out that she isn't going to die. It had seemed fair though; Chris isn't allowed anything good anyway. Not Peter, not Jal, not even his own fucked up life, so why should he get to have her as a friend? As an anything?
Still, it's more than a relief when he hears she's okay, and he'd feel like even more of a shit friend if he didn't visit her, so he finds himself there that day, as cautious about speaking as he was about entering the clinic in the first place.
"Alright, Claire?" he asks, and it's likely about the dumbest thing anyone's ever said to someone who's in hospital.