Jumpers

Date/Timing: 18 January 2019
Setting: The Shed; Vaucluse, NSW, Australia
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Logan thumps into Doctor Yarrow's office and flops down on the bean bag.
"Stole Little Hansen's dog?" she asks, swapping pens.
Logan shrugs, winces a little at the pull on his collarbone. "Jack's idea."
"Cool."
[Yarrow glances] at the clock.
Fifty-eight minutes left.
"Anything to add?" [she asks].
Logan just looks at her.
She shrugs, returns to her notebook.
Five minutes pass; Logan slumps in the bean bag and drops his head back.
After fifteen minutes, she announces, "That's nine."
Logan raises his head for a bland look and drops it again.
[Yarrow] takes her pen apart, replaces the cartridge and pitches the empty one in the trash, puts it back together again, and resumes writing.
At thirty-five minutes past the hour, Logan crosses his arms.
Around a quarter to, [Yarrow] exchanges her notebook for a stack of files.
Fifty-nine minutes into their session, Logan says, "You can't talk about this stuff, ay?"
"Bound by the confidentiality agreement unless you're a danger to yourself, Andrea, or Jackson."
He nods thoughtfully. "What does 'violet' mean?"
"In what context?"
"Personnel error code."
"That'd mean the personnel in question is on suicide watch and can't be transferred."
He nods again, gets up to leave.
"Why?"
"Thanks, Doc."
"Logan, you have to tell me."
He stops.
"Is this about you, Jackson, or Andrea?"
Shakes his head.
"Jamie?"
"No."
"Anyone else on your team?"
Logan digs something from his pocket. "Found Chantell's mobile."
"I'll drop it off in a bit," says [Yarrow] with a Look. "Are you worried for anyone else on your team?"
He rolls his eyes and tosses it over. "No."
"Alright then. See you in two weeks."
Logan saunters back to Team Vulcan's quarters (swinging by a supply cupboard for a box), pauses just inside the door, and listens.
Deserted.
He kicks the door closed, heads immediately to [Jack]'s room, and pulls open the second highest drawer of the dresser.
Lots of jumpers.
Logan takes two, tucks them under the covers in his room, slides the flattened box under his bed, casually strolls from the suite, and, with a not-as-well-placed-as-he'd-'ve-liked punch, plasters the first person he sees against the wall.
(As it turns out, that person is one of the teeny twin Kiwis (no wonder the kid went down so quick) which he finds out half an hour later when the other one comes flying out of nowhere, gets a knee in his neck, and fucking bites half his thumb off. 'least it's the left one, so he still has one good arm.)
At supper, Logan plunks into a seat with two calzones, hand taped up and comfortably numb. 
Andrea sits as far from him as she can and still be in /Vulcan's part of the canteen, as does the crew.
Juliet glares at him the whole time.
The rest of the 'Dome just gives him a wide berth.
Except [Jack].
[Jacks] drops down beside him. "What were ye /thinking?"
Logan shrugs.
"That punch fuckin' blew."
Logan grunts.
[Jack] sits with him.
Doesn't stop Logan from whacking his face into the table.
"Motherfucker—!" [Jack]'s nose gushes blood.
Andrea leaves.
"The fuck 're you—"
Logan hauls him to his feet, drags him into Medical, and ditches him.
Andrea's in the washroom when Logan reaches their quarters.
He grabs the box and pops it open, and gets back in the hall like he'd just arrived as Andrea comes from the washroom.
She fumes.
Logan saunters by and snags her collar as she storms down the hall—
Andrea squawks.
—and tows her to his room.
"I swear to god you asshole—"
Logan stuffs himself into one of the jumpers—
"Is that one of Jackson's—"
—pulls the other jumper over her head—
"The hell are you—!"
And hugs her.
(What, exactly, is the appeal to fitting someone under one's chin?)
"Am I supposed to ...?"
"Whatever."
She hugs him back.
Logan counts to ten, pushes her away, strips her—
"That's my shirt!"
—shakes the jumper free of Andrea (and her top) and tosses it in the box—
"Earth to Logan?"
—takes off the one he's wearing and drops it in—
"Is this it? Have you officially lost it?"
—and closes the box.
"Fine. I'm calling Jamie."
"Why're you still here?"
"What the fuck was that?"
"Go to hell."
"I'm already here," Andrea sneers.
Logan closes the door in her face.
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