Cue Cards

Cue Cards
January 2018
Sydney, NSW, Australia
Chuck thinks Chuck is pretty cool.
Herc is warm to the idea of Charlotte as family (as a daugh—)
Herc clues in that Charlotte's a girl and goes a little gray. He spends the rest of the day making cue cards and finally approaches her long after supper, so long after supper, in fact, that most people are getting ready for bed.
Charlotte's hair is free of its braid, and Herc realizes again that his little boy's Involved (however platonically) with a girl.
"Miz Dar ...,"
Charlotte barely contains a laugh. "Would you like to come in?"
Herc tries to continue, fails, tromps inside.
Charlotte plops down on her bed, offers the spare seat which is not a bed but was built from one because she's a single­ alone­ she a one­person assigned a two­person room.
"It­ ah­ m­," he sits down.
"Is everything okay?"
"Chuck ...­." He frowns.
"Yes ...?"
"My Chuck."
"Aha."
"My ...." He sighs, hands over the cue cards.
Charlotte scans through the stack. "What are my intentions ...? Intentions? Ducky's, like twelve."
"Fourteen."
"Whatever. They're entirely honorable." She smiles. "Well, maybe not really. I'm using him to get a Jaeger, after all."
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