one foot in front of the other
Mar. 22nd, 2011 11:24 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
It helps a great deal, having someone to care for, having something to focus on. He wakes up the next morning aching, but with a bit better of an idea of what to do with his day than he has in the months since his partner vanished.
He makes breakfast, and brings it to Liam's room. Knocks on the door.
"It's me."
He makes breakfast, and brings it to Liam's room. Knocks on the door.
"It's me."
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Date: 2011-03-23 10:28 pm (UTC)He admits, quietly.
"I find myself partially responsibly for the care and safety of two children. It has been an educational experience, to say the least."
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Date: 2011-03-23 10:30 pm (UTC)It's the second part that startles him.
"There are children here?"
The idea that something could be so malicious as to bring children to this place, tearing them from their worlds, is horrifying.
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Date: 2011-03-23 10:31 pm (UTC)He murmurs, with a nod.
"At a terribly young age, before they joined the Nightray household."
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Date: 2011-03-23 10:34 pm (UTC)But a child version of Vincent... He asks gently,
"Is Vincent... stable?"
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Date: 2011-03-23 10:37 pm (UTC)He says, quietly.
"With someone to read to him, cook with him, listen to him- I think he has a chance."
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Date: 2011-03-24 12:06 am (UTC)When he's finished it he asks,
"If I am unable to find you at any point, who should I talk to?"
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Date: 2011-03-24 12:28 am (UTC)The answer, however... He stares, then asks very slowly:
"Gilbertine?"
He can't have heard that right.
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Date: 2011-03-24 12:29 am (UTC)He sighs.
"And a troublesome young woman."
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Date: 2011-03-24 12:38 am (UTC)A female Gilbert? That's just... His mental image is Gilbert in a dress, and that doesn't help matters at all.
But even that brief little laugh makes him wince.
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Date: 2011-03-24 12:41 am (UTC)He chides him, immediately.
"You'll hurt yourself."
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Date: 2011-03-24 12:42 am (UTC)"I'm sorry... The image of Gilbert in a dress..."
He bites his lip as that nearly makes him laugh again, but he's learned his lesson and manages not to.
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Date: 2011-03-24 03:10 pm (UTC)"Oh."
Then she must have lost an eye in that encounter. He can remember, way back, Break acclimating to the loss of his eye, while he watched from doorways and windows, keeping out of the way.
"Did it... happen in her world? Or did the one you mentioned earlier do that?"
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Date: 2011-03-24 03:21 pm (UTC)He says.
"Although I'm not entirely sure if it was the same Glen that so mistrusted me."
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Date: 2011-03-24 03:26 pm (UTC)"There are multiple Glen Baskervilles here?"
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Date: 2011-03-24 03:29 pm (UTC)He reminds him, calmly.
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Date: 2011-03-24 03:33 pm (UTC)"And any of them are liable to start trouble," he says, not even bothering to make it a question.
It is, after all, common knowledge.
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Date: 2011-03-24 03:37 pm (UTC)He was contracted to- a very, very good man, who is no longer here. But the lesson has stuck."
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Date: 2011-03-24 03:44 pm (UTC)"What... was different about that one's Jack?"
The other part...
"A Glen Baskerville chain?"
He's so boggled that he can't stop his next question:
"Who on earth would contract with that?"
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Date: 2011-03-24 03:45 pm (UTC)He shrugs.
"Healing of broken hearts, that sort of thing. As to your second question, it was another Jack."
No disguising the way his hands fist in the sheets.
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Date: 2011-03-24 03:51 pm (UTC)He knows that such relationships can be frowned upon, but for it to cause something like this...
"That's..."
He doesn't continue that thought, startled by Barma's reaction.
"S-sir?"
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Date: 2011-03-24 04:03 pm (UTC)He reassures him, promptly.
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Date: 2011-03-24 04:10 pm (UTC)"Are you alright?"
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Date: 2011-03-24 04:11 pm (UTC)He informs him, determinedly.
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