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[ring_for_giles]

Good evening, this is Giles speaking

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[text] the day after the zombie diner affair

[broshaw]

think this is ur #
<<< this is sharky

have u talked 2 ossie

[ring_for_giles]

Sharky,

Yes, this is the number to reach me on.

I have not spoken to Mr. Wuthridge as of yet, no. I am not sure if you are aware of the events that took place last night, but I do not think now is precisely the best time to burden him with such things.

Giles

[text]

[midnightroads]

(ooc: after https://come-sailaway.dreamwidth.org/70305.html?thread=17004449#cmt17004449)

hey im not sure who to go to but i need help.

i think theers something inside my partner. like a spirit or gost or something. riding him like a horse.

i dont know what to do.

[ring_for_giles]

Bash,

That's incredibly worrying. What happened?

Would you like company?

Giles

[stairwellshadow]

[ Late in the evening, a piece of black paper is slid under Giles' door. There's no words or signature on it, but there is a crude drawing of a gallows and several blanks in a row: ]



[ Perhaps it's time to play a game. ]

[ring_for_giles]

[ It's usually a rare event that Giles is in his cabin to receive such a thing, but given recent circumstances he's there a bit more than usual.

So when the paper arrives he stairs at it for a moment, and then with a shrug writes down an E in the 'guessed letters' before passing it back under the door.

Either that was what he was supposed to do or it wasn't, either way it's not his problem anymore ]

after a CERTAIN DOMESTIC SPAT

[cacophonish]

😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂

boyfriends, am i right??

[ring_for_giles]

Not worth the blasted effort if you ask me 🙄

[ring_for_giles]

Actually
You know what I hate the most??
He has this whole bloody song and dance about equality and other such nonsense how he doesn't want to treat Ernest like a servant or what have you
And then when I actually let him fucking do things
He attacks me with a FUCKING KNIFE 😡😡
He should just learn to count his blessings if you ask me darling 😘

text

[serialskiller]

Hi.

Surprise, bitch, SecUnit is...uh. Something.

[ring_for_giles]

Oh hello darling
I wasn't expecting to hear from you so soon
Miss me that much did you?

[text] Oct 11, dayish

[broshaw]

soooo ava knos im me
p simpathetic lik a hot kind angel
💃👙👼💢😞
n i think this doods frind prat gonna find out
hes mroe our speed 🔪👮‍♂️
but promisd ava id b good
🤷‍♂️ wcis shes hot🥵

im gonna 🤥👇 👻 4 now
but i think we need 2 talk

[ring_for_giles]

Ugh but I hate talking darling 😡
How'd she find out anyway?
I don't think you've been good a day in your life I'd love to see you try 😘

[ action ] 😭 im sorry fnjdkfns

[qliphoths]

Hey, you sicko!

[ she walks right up to him and smacks him in the back
of the head. she's super pissed, but isn't going to try and be
overly violent or anything just yet -- at least not without
hearing him out first. ]

What's this about you -- assaulting someone? Do you know
how awful that is? I just heard about it from Erin. What the hell
were you thinking?

[ neither she nor tear have ever spoken to this person
in their (?) lives, let alone the ghost possessing them.
but after that conversation, she can't just not say something.
not after everything that happened with that bastard, kamoshida. ]

[ring_for_giles]

Ow! Hey!

[ He rubs the back of his head, glaring daggers at his assailant, thought there isn't any real heat behind it ]

I didn't do anything of the sort! Erin Peters just wants to sully my good name because she's bitter she can't sell me off to the highest bidder.

[ Not entirely the truth necessarily, given he knows full well what is being referred to, but really. He hasn't been telling people who haven't even met her about the whole privateering business, why does she have to go around spouting his business to random people? ]

[text] nov 1

[broshaw]

[Sharky doesn't text Giles until late in the day, after Pratt has calmed him down and he's tried and failed to get his head around... everything. He's read through the texts between "him" and Giles, and the ones that followed, a couple of times now, repeatedly coming to the same conclusion based on the timestamps alone.]

im really sorry giles
idk what happend but i kno u came 2 check on me
but not me
then the txts all change n i kno that means somthin bad happned

im so sorry
i hope ur ok now
i hope ossies ok
i can return the key so u kno i cant come in if i get posessed again
im really sorry

[ring_for_giles]

[ It's during the afternoon of the 4th that Giles finally remembers his phone exists. He spends half an hour paging through and staring at message after message that he can't make sense of until he reaches the ones Sharky was referring to. The first ones that sound solid somehow, there's a memory of a dream of the person who sent them, but they still don't fully make sense.

It's another 20 minutes after that before Giles remembers there was a new message he had yet to respond to ]

Mr Wuthridge is as well as can be expected given the circumstances.
There is no need for you to return the key, but I would prefer it if you did not use it for the foreseeable future.

Thank you for the concern.

Giles.

November 6th, 6am

[midnightroads]

The morning, like every morning on the ship, is warm and pleasant, and Bash is dead until the very moment he's not.

It's not hard to tell when that moment is, actually. He goes from lying flat and still, silent and peaceful to gasping and curling up on one side defensively, letting out a sound that can only be described as a whimper.

[ring_for_giles]

Giles watches from the couch, he's been there since he'd come in sometime in the night and found Bash waiting to revive, keeping a vigil of sorts. He's not sure if it's the right thing to do, but it felt important nonetheless. A feeling that definitely seems more true with the way Bash whimpers.

He waits for a moment after Bash wakes up, before clearing his throat gently to make his presence known without startling too much and asking softly

"Are you alright?"

The answer is clearly no, but one has to start somewhere.

Text, Two Days After Daisy Reunion

[crushed_pearls]

Erin here. If it is at all feasible you may wish to sit down.

[ring_for_giles]

Why? What is it?

Giles

Post-price is right

[ossie_oswald]

Ossie remains stone-silent for the walk back to the cabins, all the way up the little path to their cottage door. He remains silent as Giles sets the piggybank on the mantle, and still as Giles organizes tea and something stronger to steady his nerves. It's only when Giles returns and places the teacup in his hands that Ossie seems to remember how to speak.

"Bloody hell," is all he offers, before taking a long sip.

[ring_for_giles]

"Quite" Giles agrees, settling himself beside Ossie as he tries to get his thoughts in order

"Perhaps it should have been anticipated that what seemed innocent enough on the surface would take a turn, and yet I still doubt anyone could have entirely predicted it."

[text] backdated to mid-nov (pick a date any date)

[broshaw]

[Ossie said "pick a day to text" and Sharky did! Then he forgot. Then he pretended to forget another day because he felt bad for forgetting the first time. But the third time's the charm, right?!]

hey
i was tlkin 2 ossie a wile ago n he told me mb i should txt u again
so i kno i said id leave u alone n i will
but i gotta lisen 2 him just in case hes rite
idk wat it proves other than im like super worried abt u but he siad u were ok so like
idk i hope thats tru n not just wat he thinks bc ur like super good at hidin shit from him
neway ya hmu or dont just hope ur ok

[ring_for_giles]

I am certainly improving, thank you for the concern, it means a lot.
I had actually been meaning to talk you, but I'm afraid time has rather gotten away from me of late.
Perhaps you could visit sometime, Oswald and I gave you a key for a reason after all.

[text] uhhh, time is dumb, let's not worry about that

[broshaw]

Giles,

lmk if ur not down 2 do the letter thing yet
but i was wonderin if u n ossie wuld let me n pratt burn somthin in ur fire pit
sorta a catheartic kinda therapy thing???
np if not but yk figure it cant hurt 2 ask

Sharky

[ring_for_giles]

Sharky,

You certainly may, it's always nice to see the facilities here put to good use.
Is this to be a private affair, or would the pair of you be amenable to company?

Giles

[ he's quietly ignoring the question about the return to the familiar format, because acknowledgement would mean admitting he'd missed it. ]

Early Afternoon, January 9th or so

[crushed_pearls]

Giles. My sincere apologies for disturbing you but I think I require you in your capacity as a son of autumn. If I am not having a severe fucking clarity break then there is no one else I trust to both see this and advise on it. Please do not bring Ossie. I cannot face him right now if I am not losing my god damn mind. I am in my cabin.

[ring_for_giles]

I shall be there presently.

[ Only a minute or two later, there's a knock at Erin's door. ]

[Note]

[midnightroads]

At some point after Bash's conversation with Number 6, he leaves a note for Giles in their cabin.

lemme no wen ur around sometime plz.

The veve of St. Expedit is at the bottom of the paper in lieu of a signature.

[ring_for_giles]

Giles doesn't know when the note was left for him, but when he comes across it while passing through to return to the cottage one afternoon, he naturally sends Bash a text message in immediate reply.

Bash,

I found your note, is something the matter? I am of course free for whatever it is you need.

Giles

[text] start of june

[broshaw]

Giles,

im throwin a gay bash 4 pride
the fun kind not the homophobic kind
r u n ossie up 4 a party + do u wanna help

Sharky

[ring_for_giles]

Sharky,

That sounds like a wonderful idea, of course I would be glad to help.

I am not entirely familiar with the concept of Pride, although I believe Oswald regularly attended the celebrations, what manner of party did you have in mind?

Giles

[text] like midway through his august radio show

[broshaw]

Dear Giles,

ppl r rly diggin the music after that BS recorder coever
they keep showin up 2 tel me how good it is

buuuuut uh ppl keep askin me abt our dance YK n that made me wonder sum stuff
like if ppl ask cna i tell them were dating
r we dating
wat like ARE we even
i def wont complian no matter wat u say i jst dont wanna do somthin 2 make u uncomf YK??

also JW do u want me 2 like
stop hittin on ppl
bc flans super hot but if u said i gotta knock it off i would 💯💯 for rreal

Sharky

[ring_for_giles]

My dear Sharky,

Your radio show has been wonderful so far, and thoroughly enjoyable to listen to. I'm not surprised people have been seeking you out to complement you on it, you definitely deserve it.

I am happy with whatever words you want to use to define our relationship, and I see no reason that you should not tell people if you wish to. Though you will have to forgive me if I am somewhat less forthcoming about it than you might be, some habits are hard to shake.

Of course you are welcome to seek... 'gratification', shall we say, elsewhere. After all, given the way our relationship developed it would be rather hypocritical for me to ask otherwise. That said if you would prefer a more exclusive arrangement, I would be perfectly happy with that as well, but from the way you ask I have the suspicion that is not the case.

Giles

[prince_of_beasts]

Are you safe.

Are you back.

Please tell me you're back.

The messages arrive at intervals of anywhere between a few minutes and several hours until Giles responds. Normally Dimitri would restrain himself to one, but impulse control, memory, and any sense of causality are all teetering on their last legs.

Are you here.

Please.

[ring_for_giles]

It's well into the evening before Giles responds to the mounting number of texts

My apologies, Dimitri, I was indisposed

Read: spent the entire day as a cat, vaguely contemplating never changing back.

I have returned and am quite well. You needn't worry after me.

He knows that won't necessarily help, but he can't truthfully provide much more without causing more concern.