For Dirk__Gently: Secrets

[axeprincess]

Today is a day that's been coming a long time. There are things that Noodle has been avoiding, things that she has managed to keep to herself for quite some time. Things that she won't share with Murdoc, with D, or with Russell. At least, not just yet. But she needs help, too - an impartial third party to help track things down, to find

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[dirk__gently]

Dirk is used to coach, but he's always happy to upgrade on other people's money. "I did try to get us on as expiditious a flight as possible. We leave very late tonight, unless that's inconvenient for you? Booking on short notice is, regrettably, an expense in and of itself. But no expenditure should be too high, no span too far to travel, in the pursuit of answers..." He frowns, feeling that this speech is not up to his usual standards. Clearly he needs more coffee. Usually he prefers tea, but it really was a long night. Dirk plunks down with his folder and spreads out the flight confirmations and the contract he's made up to prevent her from going into the PI business. It's neatly typed on the computer and everything, and full of big words, but it basically comes down to her agreeing by signing it to not practice the holistic detective schtick in either his world or the Nexus, except if it's just for her own purpose. How you can put a copyright on a method of investigation is a mystery, but if anyone can word it right, it's Dirk. "You'll want to peruse it at your leisure, I'm sure, but you must understand the necessity of protecting my domain, unique as it is."

[axeprincess]

"Is good to keep protecting what makes you you. Is okay."

She'll go through it once just to make sure there's no 'permanently hire Dirk on for gobs of money' clause, and let the rest go. She makes a mental note to try the 'I'm a rock star, can I please sit up front' with her credit card once they get to the gate. If the contracts are as big as Dirk's talking as, it may take her many many hours to go through it.

"What is oddest case you had to deal with, Dirk?"

[dirk__gently]

Dirk is pretty crafty, and it's not unkown for him to make some pretty ridiculous demands in his bills, but there's nothing too suspicious in the contract he's given her. Protecting his name and unique vocation is not something he wants to mess around with. He finishes his coffee quickly, stifling a copule of yawns, while she looks through the thing.
If anybody can talk them up to first class, it's Dirk, but her waving around a credit card and celebrity status couldn't hurt.
The question catches him off guard, since he's only half awake, so the answer is unusually short. "Err... what? I don't know, the one with the time machine was... convoluted. I don't know about oddest, certainly most heroic." Posing now? Just a little. Unfortunately he can't stick his chest out much without the stomach coming along with it.

((Yeeeah... this is me too tired to play wordy tonight.))

[axeprincess]

((Hey, DGmun - can you ping me when you see this? I need to apologize, and ask if we can talk about where the thread is going/what we want to do with it. I'm sorry I've been freaking about this and just basically dropping the character for so long - that was really lame of me. :/))

[reymonkey]

((DGmun reporting. No need for apologies, threads get dropped all the time for RL intruding, or sheer inexcusable distraction, or lack of interest or whatever. I'm as guilty as anybody else.
If you're interested in making it canon and going somewhere plotty, that's cool, I'm happy to get together and plot. If you're bored with the thread and have other characters you're more involved with right now, that's cool too.))