Day 7 - Days

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Last week, the pretty young blond had been in the hospital.  There had been something deadly wrong with her and loved ones visited all day and night.  An older brunette knew what really happened, however.  She spent her time in the shadows, watching and waiting for someone to reveal her secret.

It nearly happened a few times but in the end no one suspected the truth.

That may have been because the police commissioner was going through a divorce, his child was acting out and his wife led a secret double life.

Days.  Janie somehow got herself hooked on the soap opera.  Someone new happened to be in the hospital this week, and she couldn't miss the paternity test!  The results would be fake as usual but watching the show?  Mandatory.  Every weekday at the same hour the familiar music played and her screen got filled with an hourglass.

Then the good stuff happened.  Days went best with a big drink and a nice snack, and quiet.  The quiet happened to be one of the best parts.  That happened to be the reason that Janie ignored the phone, and then the comm.  TWO minutes left in the episode, two minutes  She wanted to catch the last cliffhanger, watch the previews for the next episode.

You don't mess with Days.  Not while she watches.

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Xander flopped into the seat next to her, handing her a sandwich. "So, who's in the hospital this week?"

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"I love you forever." she said, talking to either the sandwich or the man who handed it to her. "Um, it's hard to tell the characters apart. This is the whiny one, but I think she has to be out soon because one of the old dudes has been coughing."

A cough meant a future hospital stay. A headache meant a hospital stay too.

She was far too familiar with the show.

[sees-everything.livejournal.com]

"So is the blonde girl still angsting about the baby she put up for adoption, or is she angsting about something new?"

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"She's not on the show anymore!" Janie revealed "The baby's Father's Mother paid for her to leave the country, but it turns out SHE and annoying blond's boyfriends grandmother were both hookers and they're trying to keep that secret from his father."

Sometimes she wondered how anyone managed to keep up with the plot lines.

[sees-everything.livejournal.com]

" ... that's an overabundance of blonde hookers," Xander said eventually. "And does anybody ever successfully keep a secret on this show?"

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"No." Janie admitted."I take that back. When a plot is needed later on, sometimes secrets are kept for a long time. They're getting ready to find out that the bad actress cheated on the doctor with her ex boyfriend from high school who got married to the teethy blonde... wait, what's that make the baby? Is she the aunt? Stepmother?"

[sees-everything.livejournal.com]

"You're asking me?" Xander said, sipping his cola and unwrapping his sub. "I didn't even know that Blonde Chick A was gone. And ... umm ... I gotta ask ... which of these folks do you label as the bad ... Oh, never mind, I see what you mean. How did she even get this job, anyway?"