"... The person you put up there ain't the person that comes back. It may look like that person, but it ain't that person..."
I'll be the first to admit that watching a movie called Pet Sematary just mere weeks after Mikal and I had been brought back isn't the greatest taste, but I digress.
Nothing else was on and I've only been half paying attention to it anyway.
Mikal walks in the room, right as Jud Crandall's warning Louis about the dangers of burying a person up in the Pet Sematary, with Luna in tow on her body harness and leash.
"I'm taking Luna out for her w-" she trails off mid sentence once she puts together what I'm watching.
"Really, Zia?"
"Too soon?" I smirk.
She reaches for the remote to switch it off "that's one way to put it"
"Well now what am I supposed to do?" I whine, only half seriously.
"I don't know, but not tha-" she starts. She gulps and her face starts to pale as she claps a hand to her mouth, then shakes her head as if to shake off whatever just came over her.
I raise an eyebrow at her, concerned now.
"Are you okay?"
She nods. "Yeah, yeah I'm-" she trails off and bolts for the bathroom, down the hall.
"Mikal? Mikal!" No answer, except for the faint sound of retching behind a closed bathroom door.
I run down the hall after her and knock at the door. "Mikal?"
She tries to answer but retches again instead.
"Alright, message received, I won't watch anything with dead things in it!" I tease.
This gets a laugh out of her. "Very funny, Zia!"
"Seriously though, you okay?" I ask again. "Can I come in?"
She just flushes the toilet and opens the door, nodding at me. "Must've been something I ate"
"I mean, I didn't think your cooking was that bad." I smirk.
She play shoves me back a little. "Fuck you."
"Where are you going now?" I ask when she goes to pick Luna's leash back up.
"Luna needs her-"
I cut her off by stealing the leash from her.
"I'll walk her" I sneak a kiss on her neck. "You stay here, get some rest."
"Ziiiaa"
"Hey, I found something to do!" I smirk as head out. She tries to throw one of the couch pillows at me but it's blocked by the door when I shut it behind me and Luna.
When I walk back in the door with Luna, Mikal's already laying across my spot on the couch, flipping through the guide on the TV.
I free Luna from her leash and hook it back on the leash hook which reads DID SOMEONE SAY WALK? right above it, that hangs near the door, before sneaking up behind her on the couch and resting my arms right around each side of her neck.
"Not too late to settle on Pet Sematary, ya know" I tease, coming around to sit beside her when she moves her feet.
She rolls her eyes at me and settles on a channel that's on a commercial break.
"So, how you feelin?" I ask.
Luna's sitting upright with her chin up on the couch, staring up at me like I took her spot.
Mikal shrugs. "Better, still. Pretty sure it was just something I ate"
"Hmmm, if you say so" I rest my arm up around her shoulders and she leans closer to me. "I do."
