Prompt Post #7
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“What are your plans for today? Except for the homework, that is.”
“Nothing spectacular,” Kurt says cautiously. “Being at home, maybe watching something, making sure you don’t burn the house down or something, making pasta for dinner.”
“What were you going to watch?”
Kurt has no clue why Sebastian’s asking all this. But as long as it resembles a civil conversation, he’s willing to give it a shot.
He’s the good guy here, after all.
“The Sound of Music,” Kurt says. It’s true, after all. “I approve of classic things.”
‘And I like to sing along and cheer Maria on when she tries to get through to the children,’ he adds in his head. That would hardly be possible with Sebastian around, so what’s the point in mentioning it.
“Will you watch it with me?” Sebastian asks solemnly, looking like he’s asking Kurt to give half of his liver for transplantation.
Kurt would be more comfortable with giving up his liver, though.
“Erm… do you, um, do you like it too, then?”
“Please,” Sebastian rolls his eyes. “What on Earth would I be doing in a school show choir if I didn’t appreciate singing and dancing?”
Kurt snorts, feeling some of the remaining tension leaving his shoulders.
“I don’t even wanna think of it,” he says. “Something nefarious, I bet.”
“You bet, Kurrrrt,” Sebastian smirks again.
“Will watching The Sound of Music shut you up at least for while we’re at it?” he asks.
“Definitely,” Sebastian grins. “I can even promise to comment on what’s going on not more often than once every ten minutes.”
“It lasts three hours,” Kurt mutters, inclined to believe that Sebastian is the type to ruin a good movie or musical with a stream of witty comments. “Crap. Okay.”
“Okay?” Sebastian repeats.
“Yes. Whyever not, really.”
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One thing that i have to say threw me for a bit of a loop was the discussion of 20 unidentified bodies in one city, and 70+ in another. Holy crap, that would be front page news across the nation. The entire state of Ohio had 50 deaths with some connection to hypothermia in 2010; Lima had 3 murders for the entire year (Columbus had 1, Westerville had 0), Cleveland had 81 for the entire year. With body on the street, presumed homeless, found dead, it's hard to say how the police with classify it (presumed natural causes is a code often assigned when the medical examiner is swamped, and no one is pushing for an autopsy; so trends sometimes get missed) ... those numbers just really took me out of the story. I live in a large city with some harsh winters (not as bad as Ohio, with the lake effect), and last year we had 5 homeless people freeze to death, between November and March. I pulled up some stats from Los Angeles, which has a pretty good survailence system, and they have an average of 1 to 2 homeless people turn up dead every day. So the thought of 20, in a single week, in a fairly small town, I was like "Omg! It's going to be a crossover with Criminal Minds!")
You're doing a lovely job, I hope geeking out about expected homeless deaths versus observed wasn't too off putting (I have worked in mortality research too long, when I have become desentitized to talking about expected dead/observed dead), I'm looking forward to reading what's to come!
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Freud would be proud of me, I think ><"
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