Fiftieth Theory [Voice/Action for Housemates]

[i_speak_softly]

[When Don opens the door to the storage room, he immediately forgets what he went there for. His housemates will hear him shouting:]

No!

[Later, when he's calmer, a Voice post:]

Derek Bliss has gone home.

[... That's all he can manage.]

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[Voice]

[consultmybooks]

[...Giles' reply is a while in coming.

He has some feelings to sort out.

Finally:]

Th-Thank you for telling us.

[i_speak_softly]

Are you okay, Giles?

[consultmybooks]

[No. No, he isn't. "It's better this way" is far more of a lie than usual, right now.]

...I'll, um, I'll...be all right. It's just, um, i-it's...always a bit of a shock.

[Then he checks himself.]

I will miss him. A-And, I'm...s-sorry it had to turn out this way.

[i_speak_softly]

Do you think he'll ever come back?

[consultmybooks]

He might. H-He, um, he certainly might. Quite a few people do.

[Whether he'd remember? Whether he'd be cured? Seems another story entirely.]

[i_speak_softly]

No one else from his world was ever here, though...

[consultmybooks]

[A shade defiantly:][ That's the case with plenty of villagers. Why should that make a difference?

[i_speak_softly]

[That's an awfully strong reaction to a simple statement of probability. Don is a little taken aback.]

It would seem to mean something, Giles...

[consultmybooks]

So could the rampant number of Japanese villagers.

What do you propose that something is, then?

[i_speak_softly]

[He's really not in the mood for a round of Luceti Theories right now. Sorry, Giles, but he's closing the journal.]

[consultmybooks]

[Nice to know a quick round of Let's Divert isn't just effective on Sunnydale alumn.

Giles mutters a quiet thanks and goes off to be alone.]