<strong>Name: </strong>Jack Harth<br/><strong>Time: </strong>About eight months ago<br/><strong>Tagged:</strong>Elena<br/><br/><strong>"A bit, at any rate."</strong>Not that bad of an idea. A heaping tablespoon of sugar should take the bite away from some of the bitter herbs, and give it a hint of sweetness.  While he left the stuff to cook on the stove, he quickly took out his phone, and disappeared off into his bedroom.<br/><br/>He called his boss at the bookstore. He explained, without going into detail, that something big had really happened, and he needed the week off. A bit of back and forth ensues; it was, after all, pretty damn hard when Jack had already been all set to work the entire week, now he wanted it off.  He said he'd find a way to make it up; whatever it was that was going on right now was just too important.<br/><br/>Come morning, he'd have to call the school and tell them he'd be absent. But, he'd need an excuse for taking the whole week off, and he'd hate to lie. Damn, what could he do?<br/><br/>Either way, he walks back out of his bedroom, and sees the stuff she's put down. He frowns, and while he does not know anything about drugs from first hand experience, he's seen a lot in movies, and read plenty of things about it. He knows what those things are, and he takes them all. Most of the stuff ends up just thrown right into the trash; not that it matter, a spoon was easily replaced, but the pipe? He had something more permanent in mind for getting rid of it.<br/><br/>He wraps several thick paper towels around it, and gives it a mighty whack against the counter-top. The sound of breaking glass is quite distinct and audible, but, he manages to not cut himself; nor did any of the glass shards escape from their papery prison. With it destroyed, he tosses it into the trash, too.<br/><br/><strong>"When you get better, we'll go to your place together, and we'll clean it out; together, alright?" </strong>He would say this as he strained out the bits of crushed herbs that didn't dissolve into the tea, and tossed those bits out; then he poured the tea into a big mug, and brought it over to her. Their were coasters on the coffee table, four of them, and he set her mug of tea down on one of them.<strong>"Let it sit for a few minutes, it's hot. Then, I really need you to drink it all. It'll help clean your body out of toxins."</strong>