River Tam (
river_meimei) wrote2010-01-02 02:18 am
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The rafters have a few advantages.
They're comfortable, for one thing! (If you're River Tam.) And interesting. And sometimes you find candy. And they provide a fun change of perspective.
And sometimes they're a good way to find people.
They're comfortable, for one thing! (If you're River Tam.) And interesting. And sometimes you find candy. And they provide a fun change of perspective.
And sometimes they're a good way to find people.
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Softly, "He likes to listen. Rummage and cover the tracks."
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And it's no guarantee that whoever this one is will be the same.
"Hmm," he says softly. "No, Nita could not remember much about her attack."
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Because: yep.
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Or she, Havelock.
But the victims have been all young women, so far as he knows, and there's a stereotype there.
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And shakes her head, reluctantly.
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"All right," he says, fairly gently, for him. It was a long shot, admittedly.
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Then she could
kill himkick him satisfyingly in the head and then turn him over to Security like the virtuous citizen she is!Sadly, she never picked up a name from Puck, and she can't pick up faces.
"Old," she says again. "Games in the shadows. He listens where they think it's not."
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Age is always a dangerous characteristic in a vampire. It tends to mean that they are powerful, which he already knew, and that they are intelligent enough to survive, which concerns Havelock more.
"I see."
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(Though, to give Puck credit, he mostly doesn't get trapped or manipulated by weak idiots. He saves his foolhardiness for use around competent and powerful bad guys, instead!)
River's silence says, Yeah. Pretty much.
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Havelock pauses there, then looks up deliberately.
"Is there anything I should do?"
It sounds as if it should have been is there anything I can do?
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Beat.
"He'd say be careful," she adds.
Because Puck is secretly a marshmallow. Um.
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Puck is also a POT CALLING THE KETTLE BLACK.
"Stipulations?"
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Puck said that one clearly.
Well. 'Said.'
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"I'd been meaning to keep a closer watch on him in any case."
Boyfriend-stalking is wrong, Havelock.
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Poor Havelock, stuck dealing with Puck all the time!
There's no accounting for taste, and all, but still.
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Then again, he gets in his own fair share of trouble, so maybe he shouldn't judge.
"Thank you," he says after that appreciated moment of sympathy. "For taking a part in that."
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River blinks at him. "Got no cause."
Well, he does, but -- "It's in the job."
"I'm on lookout."
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"You're efficient."
Perhaps some things might get lost in translation, but Havelock really likes crypic crossword puzzles; so talking with River is almost recreational, from a purely academic standpoint.
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"You too."
Well, he is. And it's always refreshing to talk to somebody who listens.