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breakmychest ([personal profile] breakmychest) wrote2011-01-21 11:01 am

XX -- text/video;

[Text: Locked to Elphaba and Drusilla (but separately.)]

You all right? Where'd you land?

[Video: Everyone]

[Where Spike usually is, there is instead a surly looking boy with very sharp cheekbones and hair that's been bleached and spiked. His clothes are all black, but there are more chains than Spike usually wears, and the t-shirt is advertising some death metal band. He's touching his neck, right where his pulse is.]

Well. This is an interesting port.

[He drops his hand and puts down his backpack to rifle through it.]

I hope the Admiral isn't expecting me to actually attend school here. Because there is no bloody way. I've dealt with enough teenagers in the past few years to hold me over for an eternity. And I'm not amused by being one of them.

[He pulls out a wallet and starts going through it, pulling the cash out first by habit. Even though it's his wallet and he doesn't steal anymore.]

Right, so apparently I'm William Pratt while I'm here, though people still call me Spike, thank god, and--

[He stops, holding a folded-up photograph he just found in the wallet. It's not viewable rom the journal, but Spike's face is. It's a mixture of horrified, sad, and general surprise. The picture is of the kid he's become and... his mother. Looking just like she did in life, though in more modern clothes.

After a moment he remembers the journal and shuts it off. He has to look at this more closely. It's an impossibility, of course. They didn't take snapshots when he was alive, and when he was a kid, he didn't look like that, but it's still his mother. He stares at it for another moment, then folds it up and slips it into his pocket.]

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[identity profile] vinkus-witch.livejournal.com 2011-01-21 05:14 pm (UTC)(link)
In a house. There's a child here. And Rose. Apparently my name's Eliza now.
bigbad: injuries ([Neutral] cheekbones)

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[personal profile] bigbad 2011-01-21 06:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you know who the child is?
bigbad: injuries ([Neutral] posing)

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[personal profile] bigbad 2011-01-21 06:53 pm (UTC)(link)
...well, have you tried asking? Or looking for clues?

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[identity profile] vinkus-witch.livejournal.com 2011-01-21 07:17 pm (UTC)(link)
I haven't tried speaking with the child yet, no.
bigbad: injuries ([Chip] headache)

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[personal profile] bigbad 2011-01-21 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
...all right, you should do that. If there's a child there, you're probably responsible for her, for now, at least. Go find out her name, then make sure she's taken care of, all right?

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[identity profile] vinkus-witch.livejournal.com 2011-01-21 09:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Rose can take care of him. She's a teenager, she can manage it.
bigbad: injuries ([Impudent] I object!)

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[personal profile] bigbad 2011-01-21 09:50 pm (UTC)(link)
Teenagers can barely take care of themselves, Elphaba. This isn't a suggestion, it's a bloody order. You're responsible for that child, and Rose too. Anything happens to either of them, it's on your head.
bigbad: injuries ([Impudent] born bad)

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[personal profile] bigbad 2011-01-21 10:10 pm (UTC)(link)
And so are you, so bloody act like one!

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[identity profile] vinkus-witch.livejournal.com 2011-01-21 10:12 pm (UTC)(link)
I am, but they aren't mine, I don't see why this is my problem.
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[personal profile] bigbad 2011-01-21 10:17 pm (UTC)(link)
For this port? They're yours. And they're kids, so it shouldn't matter whether they're yours or not.

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[identity profile] vinkus-witch.livejournal.com 2011-01-21 10:20 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't like kids.

Fine. I'll deal with them.
bigbad: injuries ([Impudent] born bad)

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[personal profile] bigbad 2011-01-22 02:29 am (UTC)(link)
Not just deal. You take care of them and keep them happy, all right?

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[identity profile] vinkus-witch.livejournal.com 2011-01-22 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
Liir wasn't this high maintenance.
bigbad: injuries ([Neutral] Claw)

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[personal profile] bigbad 2011-01-22 02:58 am (UTC)(link)
I'll bet he'd have liked to be.

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[identity profile] vinkus-witch.livejournal.com 2011-01-22 03:51 pm (UTC)(link)
According to all the evidence we were able to find, Rose usually takes the child to work with her. It would be suspicious if she didn't.
bigbad: injuries ([Impudent] You're kidding)

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[personal profile] bigbad 2011-01-22 04:01 pm (UTC)(link)
So because the woman you're replacing is a bad mother, you ought to be too? Is that what you're saying?

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[identity profile] vinkus-witch.livejournal.com 2011-01-22 04:02 pm (UTC)(link)
To avoid arousing suspicion.
bigbad: injuries ([Neutral] Games)

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[personal profile] bigbad 2011-01-22 04:03 pm (UTC)(link)
That's just an excuse, love. And not one I'm buying.
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[personal profile] bigbad 2011-01-22 04:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Were you like this with your own son?

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[identity profile] vinkus-witch.livejournal.com 2011-01-22 04:57 pm (UTC)(link)
I...was...slightly better. Maybe.
bigbad: injuries ([Neutral] Games)

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[personal profile] bigbad 2011-01-22 09:09 pm (UTC)(link)
Well, it's a bit tough to imagine you being worse. When we get back to the barge, we'll be talking more about this.

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[identity profile] vinkus-witch.livejournal.com 2011-01-23 06:14 am (UTC)(link)
Fine.
bigbad: injuries ([Dru] ripe wicked plum)

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[personal profile] bigbad 2011-01-22 02:30 am (UTC)(link)
Are you in a house with someone?
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[personal profile] bigbad 2011-01-22 02:59 am (UTC)(link)
Are you still you?

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[identity profile] deathly-dru.livejournal.com 2011-01-22 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
I'm not where you are.
bigbad: injuries ([Impudent] cookies)

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[personal profile] bigbad 2011-01-22 03:14 am (UTC)(link)
What, back on the Barge?

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[identity profile] deathly-dru.livejournal.com 2011-01-22 03:17 am (UTC)(link)
Mmm... Not alone, though.
bigbad: injuries ([Neutral] cheekbones)

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[personal profile] bigbad 2011-01-22 04:02 pm (UTC)(link)
Who are you with?

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[identity profile] deathly-dru.livejournal.com 2011-01-23 03:59 am (UTC)(link)
All sorts of people... Some metal, some not. Some dead, some live.

It's quite the mixture.