after years of no contact, radio silence between the both of them that had drowned lisa in grief she had finally reunited with her old childhood friend. of course, not in the most optimal way considering their reunion was instead a rescue mission for john to repel the demon out of her body and prevent another incident of a hellish creature taking over with nobody but john to blame. what matters is that he saved her. he saved her and even after all the struggle he pushed through to get to her he was still suffering. lisa saw it clearly, he needed to get away from the eldritch horrors and just remain at peace for a good while.

lisa had scheduled a meeting with john at the local hole in the wall diner resting just on the edge of town, a quiet night to settle down and simply gaze upon the past with a certain awe that spoke the words "how did i get this far?"

she spotted john and gave an attention grabbing wave, broad and high, hard to miss. fit her perfectly.

as john sat himself down beside her she gave a small, lackluster grin as she huffed out a small sigh of exhaustion.

"glad you made it, sorry to suddenly bring you here- i'm sure you have- plenty to keep you busy." she greeted in her usual mellowed manner, she seemed relatively content and even relieved to see him yet john could notice the small tinge of sadness lacing her words at the tail end of her sentence.