Timeout

[Will Wright]

She could think of a million things that were never or very very unlikely going to be need in a school. ER was good, a lot of emergencies what with Battle Training and Elemental control as well as Art and all of the sciences, and the Field Carers, Will could work with everyone but it got to much and she needed some more help.
Then there were students and teacher who came in without knowing what was wrong with them and sometimes it took the Carers ages to find out what was wrong with them (another reason why Will was glad to have Cass back). So a Diagnostics department might be handy.
Then there were the ones who just needed to talk. Needed to talk to a stranger or someone who didn't know you very well. Someone you could rely on. Confidentiality. Will of course had Cass but the students who didn't have a Cass or even the teachers. So a Psychiatric department maybe?
Then there were the minor things, like headaches, papercuts, sore stomachs, all the general things. A department that just dealt with ordinary pains and sores. Just General everyday things.
She smiled as she thought about all of this.
"Yes Cass, I think we've got all the departments that would be useful here. They are: Psychiatric, Diagnostics, Field Caring, ER and General. But before we tell her anything, I think it might be a good idea to do some research on it first. Just so we can answer any questions she's bound to throw our way. And I will also be choosing Heads of Departments. Of course I will pick the best and do this fairly," she smiled and was about to lean forward and hug him before deciding against it. Yes, they were friends but were they hugging friends? Were they like Lee and Will were you held their hand for support and comfort?
"Help me with research?" she asked in a tiny yet hopeful voice.

[Cass van der Berg]

“’Course!”
He didn’t have a lot of time, now, true, but that didn’t mean he couldn’t help. He could pinch Cardo’s laptop and do a bit of research in his breaks, or something. Or he could just think, because it wasn’t so much research that was needed here as ideas, the way Cass saw it. They’d need to think about a way to do it that would apply to the hospital here, so that they could present it to Nurse Gornray in a way that would make it easy to put it in place, and in a way which showed that this wasn’t just a whim – it was a proper idea, it could properly help.
What they needed to do was organise it.
He suppressed a shudder at the thought of his attempting organisation, and focused instead on why this would be a good thing. It would be good to think about something like this. In fact, scratch that, it would be amazing – this wasn’t only something that he could use to get his mind off the situation in the hospital, but it was also something which he would feel like he could legitimately think about without wasting time or neglecting his patients. This was productive, constructive. This could end up helping the Carers, in which case it would help the hospital, so it would help everyone in the school.
He grinned. “It can be our project. We’ll get it all planned out, and then I’ll go with you to speak to Nurse Gornray, if you want me to, and it’ll be sorted.”

[Will Wright]

"It can be our project. We’ll get it all planned out, and then I’ll go with you to speak to Nurse Gornray, if you want me to, and it’ll be sorted.” Will clapped her hands excitedly. If they got this sorted out and thought through properly- oh the possibilities.
"Oh my god. Cass, I actually can't believe we're eveng going to be doing this. It seems...unrealistic. Thank you soo much for helping!" and she hugged him. Invaded his personal space without even thinking. They were really going to do this and it was exhilerating. She had soemthing to take her mind of things. Take her mind of itself. She couldn't stop smiling, it just seemed so surreal.
"Cass, imagine if we did do this. It would be like...like...a dream come true..well one of them. And a relief. God, I just..I can't get over this. If we do pull this off...it's gonna take a lot of conjurers and planning of the wings..." and then it struck her. Planning.
They'd have to do planning.
Planning.
Planning was not what Will really did, of course she did planning for what her Carers and herself would be doing and on what day but planning something this extreme was horrifying. Will couldn't plan. Blueprints and all that. Crap.
"Cass, do we have to plan the wings ourself?" she asked with a forlorn expression. She couldn't do blueprints. She didn't do that sort of planning.
Shoot.

[Cass van der Berg]

He laughed as she hugged him, and he hugged her back.
This was incredible. She was almost unrecognisable as the girl who had been crying just ten minutes ago. Was that all because of what had happened just there? Cass knew that it definitely made him feel better, helping that guy, but if it could have this good an effect on Will…
Well, he wouldn’t question it. It was a good thing.
“Cass, do we have to plan the wings ourself?”
…what?
“We need wings?” he asked, genuinely surprised.
Then he felt a little bit stupid for being so. Of course there would be wings.
This was the issue with Cass and organisation, he supposed. Most of the really organised stuff just flew right over his head. It didn’t even occur to him once.

[Will Wright]

Seriously?
"Of course we need wings, silly. Otherwise there'd be no point in having different departments. And it would make it look much more professional and add more space so they don't run in with each other. It's hectic enough as it is..it needs more...order so to say." she smiled at him and threw herself on the sofa.
"God. I can't believe we're actually talking about this. It's so surreal. I'm probably going to keep saying things like that, by the way," she giggled. She was excited. She never did stuff like this. She calmed down after a minute or two before a thought suddenly ocurred to her, "Do you think Nurse Gornray would let us do this? Even if we get all planned out and everything down to the last detail? When would we go to her about it? Obviously after it's done but we'd need to time it right, y'know, get her in a good mood day."

[Cass van der Berg]

“Well, yeah,” said Cass. “I don’t know why she’d say no… I mean, I think if we got her on a good day – well, we’d have to leave it for a bit, because she’s so stressed right now, but I don’t see why she should say no. It’s a really good idea.”
And he smiled.
Okay, so this hadn’t exactly been the break that he’d been planning. Yeah, so Will had been upset, and so there’d been that guy, but that was all right. If anything, it made Cass feel better, that
He guessed it was selfish, in a way. He’d come in here to relax, but relaxing wasn’t… relaxing, right now. It didn’t make anyone feel good. It made them feel jittery and anxious and nervous, like the world was falling apart right outside the staff room, and all due to their negligence in taking a few minutes to themselves. It wasn’t a few minutes for themselves, not when they spent the entire time in there fretting over what was happening without them.
Cass’s break, though… Cass had helped. Cass knew that. Or at least, he thought he had. Will seemed better now, and that guy was safe, and… and Cass felt better, because of that. He felt useful. There was nothing worse than for a Carer to feel useless.
Of course, he was sure that Cardo and Anna wouldn’t see it that way. He knew what they’d say, they’d tell him that he was running himself into the ground, tell them that his break hadn’t counted, that he would need to rest again.
Well, whatever. They could be as tired as they wanted to be; that was kind of what Carers did, anyway. It was more important if they were happy, and Cass still felt better for his being useful.
And, hopefully, Will felt better too.