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4. What is this blood in your throat?
Is it mine? Is it ours?
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Julia had bad days.
It's a fact relatively common for anyone to have bad days, so why would Julia's get any sort of note? What was so special about it? Nothing, really, at the end of the day. Her bad days were like any others.
She sat on her couch, covers around her shoulders, knees gathered under her chin. She's not wearing pyjamas or scrubs, for once – her high waisted tan pants stretch over her legs, her black sweater damp around the sleeves were she rubbed her eyes.
It's a little embarrassing. At least, she thinks it is – but she thinks that of most of her quirks, so again, no real difference there. It's just... having to put down someone's best friend was never pleasant. Sometimes, it got a little too close to Julia. If she made it any bigger a deal, she would need to start looking for another job.
Especially when it was a young woman carrying her cat of twenty years to her, holding him as he quietly went to sleep. That cat had been there most of her life, she had raised him and cared for him and when she left her parents' house, she took him with her. And then, it came to an end.
Another sob escapes her lips. This is exactly why Julia will never, ever get a pet. Why risk being left again? Death was still an out. Death was still a man carrying a suitcase and closing the door on his way out.
She sniffles, wipes her face with her sleeves again. She really should invest in tissues. That's not just embarrassing, it's gross.
"You're hurt?"
Julia nearly falls off the couch. Six months of this, and she still wasn't used to the Batman showing up at her door – well, window – unannounced. She jumps to her feet, tries to say something as she walks to him in the dimly lit apartment, shaking her head, but the lump in her throat makes it impossible for her to speak out as of right now.
"Where?" he asks, eyes scanning and hands twitching at his sides as if he was fighting himself not to reach for her. "Who?"
"No," she chokes out along with a laugh. "I just had to put a cat down."
