Two Can Keep a Secret // Jacques and Elena
The restaurant guaranteed the privacy that Elena needed. The brunette should still be in bed allowing her body to rest, but her doctor had something more important that needed tending. Jacques knew about her. The woman had no idea what sort of confession her guilty mind eased by the presence of drugs spilled. Her hands were covered in blood not belonging to herself. Her past was saturated with it. Either the doctor didn’t know the truth or did not care to inform the police of her past transgressions. The idea that someone knew her darkest secrets made the woman’s hands tremble as she wiped them on her pants. This was not a date. This was… Elena had no words to describe what was about to occur. Jacques half asked, half demanded that they go somewhere to discuss her secrets. The brunette refused to make an effort to look more than the sickly patient she was in an oversized sweater grey and a pair of black leggings.
Pressing her back to the cold wall of the hospital, Elena sighed in relief feeling a bit of the pain numbed by the cold. Checking her cell phone, she wondered just where the good doctor was. His shift was supposed to end at seven, and it was now seven thirty. While Jacques might have had the day off, with the recent events in Regium, Elena sincerely doubted that the staff would give the tired doctor a break when he was so good at his craft.
A grin grew on her lips as she spotted a familiar tall, dark shape emerging from the staff exit with a cigarette already clutched between his teeth. Pushing off of the wall, Elena made her way closer. “You know it is a bad habit, but you are in the right place.” She tilted her head towards the hospital knowing the retort about death was soon coming. “I’ve got us reservations for eight thirty. Shall I call a cab or do you need to go home and get pretty first?”












