who: lucas & @cassieconrads what: a little coffee chat where: hawkins community hospital
lucas had made friends with half the nurses on the med-surg unit a few years ago, but that didn’t mean he got to bypass visiting hours. he and his friends had a bad habit of ending up in the hospital. usually, it was for stitches or the occasional broken bone, but this time had been a little more...serious. he’d been poking his head in on the group (okay, mostly on steve) when he’d been ushered out. so, he was standing in the little alcove near the waiting room, staring blankly at the selections from the vending machine and ultimately settling on a package of cookies before shuffling over to the next machine and feeding a couple of dollars into it so it would dispense him some shitty coffee.
he added a splash of cream to it and stepped off to the side as he stirred the cup, offering a quiet apology to someone who’d been waiting for the machine. he did an almost comical double take when he realized it was cassie conrad. “hey,” he said around a too-big gulp of coffee, effectively burning his tongue and swearing under his breath. “how...how are you?” a beat. “...nancy?”
