⠀⠀⠀⠀ she'll most likely remind her again but it was for a good cause . “ this surgery might be risky but if she doesn’t get it then she’ll die for sure , we have to do this . ”
⠀⠀⠀⠀ she walks with her , in any attempts to find violet and doesn’t she feel so bad for quinn who had to receive the news like this .
“ she’ll be fine once her head gets fixed , don’t worry . ” she knows violet will
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ㅤㅤ... shit, she must've missed out on a lot when she left ericson's. quinn's hands ball into fists, her nails digging into her palms. a harsh breath escapes her. her chest felt tight.
`` alright. `` ↝ㅤ
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⠀⠀⠀⠀ be fine . even not knowing her for long —— she seems like a tough cookie , adjusting the scarf that was around eleanor’s neck .
“ you need to wear mask and gloves while in the room , to be safe . ”
⠀⠀⠀⠀ “ intracranial hypertension is a condition she has , she had it since the bell tower fell apart , it's what's giving her memory lost and headaches . ” she tries to explain as gently as she can , but the reality
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ㅤㅤ`` intracranial what? ``
her attention flickers back up to eleanor, staring in disbelief. this has got to be some sort of sick joke, right? she takes a few long, hard moments of glaring, attempting to get a reading off of the other.
but she got nothing. ↝
⠀⠀⠀⠀ of it is that there's no gentle way to tell someone your love one is suffering . looking quinn sympathetically ── looking around as if violet would pop out at any moment .
she gestures the other to follow , they'll
⠀⠀⠀⠀ close enough for quinn to be in the same room as her , clearing throat .
“ if she doesn't get the surgery , she will die ᅠ .. ᅠ we have to do this . it starts on friday . ”
⠀⠀⠀⠀ eleanor knows how hard this was to process , she's been through this a few times herself . kinda surprised nobody told quinn about the surgery yet —— pushing forward despite the shock state quinn was in .
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ㅤㅤher raised brow drops, stunned. she stands up straight.
`` i— surgery? what? ``
immediately snatching the pamphlet, she flips it open, eyes scanning over the words.
`` what are you talking about? last i heard she was having some sort of check up or somethin'— ``
⠀⠀⠀⠀ “ she did have the checkup , the thing is we did a scan on her head and she has intracranial hypertension , buildup pressure in her brain . ” eleanor was unsure how close these two were but from what she heard ,
⠀⠀⠀⠀ something else . . . ” her voice drops to a grim expression , holding out the pamphlet towards quinn .
“ violet would like for you to be by her side when i do her surgery . ”
⠀⠀⠀⠀ the music didn't really bother eleanor , venus blasted music at times when she was in richmond so this wasn't anything new for her .
eyebrow raise with small smile , shaking head . ᅠ “ please , i'm here to tell you
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ㅤㅤshe jolts. turning towards her makeshift speaker, she groans, rolling over to turn down the volume.
tossing her half-made shiv to the side, she drags herself out of bed and makes her way towards the door.
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eventually, it opens.
⠀⠀⠀⠀ she's been looking for quinn everywhere , even asking around to break the news . one last place to check was mickey's and farris‘ .
stepping upwards toward the door —— giving a gentle knock , pamphlet in hand , waiting .
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ㅤㅤback at farris and mickeys now, she's sharping a crumbled can, rock blarring in the background as she falls backwards into her bed with an exhausted huff. she hasn't slept since she got here.