Just because her focus is on Jack, doesn't mean she misses the look on the doctor's face. What it does mean, is that she has a good excuse for pretending not to notice it.
(The lurching feeling in her stomach, however, is slightly harder to ignore.)
She's already backing her way to one of the chairs in the room when he starts talking to her, and under better circumstances he might have gotten a smirk -- or even a laugh -- in answer. Tonight, she simply shifts her hollow eyes to his face and half-shrugs.
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Date: 2010-02-12 03:06 am (UTC)(The lurching feeling in her stomach, however, is slightly harder to ignore.)
She's already backing her way to one of the chairs in the room when he starts talking to her, and under better circumstances he might have gotten a smirk -- or even a laugh -- in answer. Tonight, she simply shifts her hollow eyes to his face and half-shrugs.
"I can handle it."
It sounds uncannily like "I've seen worse."