And I Turn Round And There You Go

[life_downsized]

[Over the whistling of the kettle, Mr. Bridges was humming a song...]Over the whistling of the kettle, Mr. Bridges was humming a song that Howard thought might have been My Bonnie Lies over the Ocean, although it was difficult to tell with such a lack of tune. Howard thought longingly of his own trumpet, locked in its case and tucked under a loose floorboard in his old bedroom in Leeds. He took a sip of tea that

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[ideserveyou]

Oh, Vince. Oh, Howard. Oh, my heart. Are you going to torment us all three like this for another seven chapters? This was a fabulously bleak and atmospheric setting - the sort of setting Howard would no doubt imagine himself in for this sort of story - and it made the heartbreak all the worse. Howard was so close to remembering there, just a little bit, that sort-of feeling that Vince's hair is the wrong colour... and Vince's story about the Goofy Lodge is pricelessly funny but at the same time so very sad, because he remembers it really clearly as a good time they had together, but Howard's forgotten it. Or this Howard never knew it in the first place.
Vince's weird watch-strap thingy has something to do with it all, doesn't it? It's some sort of amulet or time travel device or maybe it homes in on Howards in many different universes, and Vince only has a limited time until it stops working. My guess is it's some dodgy thing Naboo got hold of on the shamanic black market.
You are an evil genius. And the juiciest of juicy danglers. Can't wait for the next chunk!

[life_downsized]

Not another seven chapters...maybe just two or three more. Sorry! But Howard's beginning to get there, at least. Flippin' idiot.

The watch is significant, yes! I was trying to be subtle, but reading back I've realised I'm essentially pointing a big neon arrow that says PLOT DEVICE at it :D But, yes, keep an eye on that one.

I'm really pleased that this isn't getting boring yet, and thank you so much for reading! <3

[ideserveyou]

Phew, I didn't think I could take another seven chapters of this level of angst, although of course I would have read them anyway!

Nothing wrong with a good plot device - I use them all the time. (Somewhere I have a cartoon drawn by a friend of mine that has a torch shining on a notice that reads BLATANT PLOT DEVICE - I should really scan it and use it as an icon!) My shaman-senses told me there was something not quite right about that watch. Does canon!Vince even wear a watch, apart from his wonderful 'Top Goth' chiming one?

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[life_downsized]

I most definitely need an icon of that!

Vince's relationship to time is pretty nonexistent. He doesn't age (at least not in his own mind) and no matter how late he leaves things (like saving Howard in Bollo) he's never too late for anything. Time sort of stretches to accommodate him. At least, that's how I see it. So I figured it would be interesting to have him battling against the clock for a bit.