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[1000_cranes]

The quiet days are difficult because they're both easy and hard. They're easy because she doesn't have to put a face on - she can cry a little, if she needs to but she can also realise that she's been happy for hours, without guilt.

And that's the part that's hard.

It's too early, really, for anyone to be hanging out in the bar, but Charlie's in there, with Cadi playing on the floor. She's got a book open, her hair scraped back and and up and her reading glasses on the end of her nose. She's got a t-shirt on that she's pretty sure is one of Ianto's.

Reaching for her tea cup, she flips the page.

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[merlotte]

"Well, if I can have a job, that's going to help me settle," Sam says, giving her a little smile. It's hard to comfort someone you don't know all that well but he tries.

"So thank you for that."

[1000_cranes]

"Least I can do," she says, echoing the smile and ignoring the little flicker of something nameless that she can't name.

"I'm always grateful for more hands, anyway. I'm learnin' this business as I go."