OOM: Movie

[the_gene_genie]

Room 6620 is a pretty generic sort of place. It looks like a basic hotel suite - double bed, table, a couple of chairs, a sofa. There are a few suits hanging, dry-cleaned, on the back of the bathroom door (he frowns at them, there are a couple there that he’s never bought so his future self must have been around again) and a number of half-full bottles of Scotch and Firewhiskey on the table. The only thing that shows this room is really reserved for one person’s use are the posters hanging framed up above the bed. Two, cinema-size vintage prints,one from The Good, The Bad and the Ugly and the other, Gary Cooper in High Noon.

He aims Kate towards the bed.

‘Here. Lie down before you fall down.’

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[the_gene_genie]

He can feel her watching him and it’s horribly uncomfortable. He feels under no compulsion to speak any more of it - she made her feelings perfectly clear there, to his mind. But he does like her so, after another few minutes of silence, decides to help her out.

‘I can bloody hear you thinkin’ nonsense over there. I said don’ worry about it, didn’ I? I’ll go home an’ give th’ missus one instead. S’no hardship.’

Seeing as she brought up his wife, he can too. And while he didn’t really mean to infer that Kate would just be another shag - because he does think more of her than that - this just seems easier all ‘round.



This is the first time in his life he’s been glad that High Noon is not a long film.

[ikissdhimbck]

It's quiet again, for perhaps the longest minute of Kate's life.






"That's probably a good idea."

Her voice is tight and affectless.


Stupid, arrogant, ill-tempered son-of-a-bitch, goddamn asshole...


She uncurls her legs, and shifts herself off of the couch.

"You're right. M'on drugs. An' I'm tired. I'm gonna go lay down, now."

She walks away.

And doesn't look at him again.

[the_gene_genie]

‘OK then.’

He doesn’t look at her either. Gary Cooper is far less complicated. But because he is making a pretence at being unbothered, he does add,

‘’night,’ to that. And he even turns the volume on the TV down.

It’s fine, see? He doesn’t care.