VIDEO ✍ 009 --> Backdated to prior to the Dreamwalking event
[The entire announcement is filtered from Alice Liddell. The initial part of this video broadcast is made via official channels, with the caller ID exhibited simply as SCPD.]Young women from their teenaged years to their middle twenties are cautioned to keep out of the dark. You have all heard the news by now unless you are blind to the papers. Or
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However, I trust your judgment, Inspector. I just want Alice to have a loving home and I will check in on her regardless.
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--You were her family once.
[The Inspector rarely acknowledges any references to the alternate lives many of the denizens of Somarium have experienced. Perhaps Tamaki was not even aware that Javert knew so much about the Valjean family during that first 'extra life.' Well, here is a rather large hint that Javert pays attention to certain details that may seem insignificant or irrelevant to him.
Not to mention the fact that Javert has thought about Valjean (alias Fauchelevent) and his family members considerably over the past several weeks, with Cosette's death lurking over his broad shoulders.
Javert's jaw twitches almost imperceptibly.]
What did the good Doctor tell you?
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Er, yes?
[oh wait he's asking a question!]
Ah-that Cosette had disappeared and that you were taking care of Alice until you found someone more suitable for her to stay with.
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[It is a blunt, calm observation, shockingly devoid of judging.]
What do you know of child-rearing? She is a restless girl. Prone to a terrible habit of wandering off. You know this already, I imagine.
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Yes, I am very well aware that I am still young, and I will be honest and say that I do not know much about parenting or raising children in general. However, in my time it is not uncommon for older siblings to raise their younger ones on their own, especially if their parents are either deceased or working. And despite not knowing, I would do whatever research necessary and do my best that she would be well cared and provided for.
Alice also wouldn't be living with just me. She would also have Haruhi, Kyouya, and our other housemates who are also adults. We live in a safe neighborhood and I would also leave my dog, Marie, with her as extra precaution. At the very least I can offer Alice a safe, warm, and loving home where there would always at least be one person there waiting for her.
[takes a breath.]I can't stand seeing Alice feeling so insecure right now. Because we're older, we ( ... )
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He looks down his nose at Tamaki and nods once, a curt motion.]
There! Now you have got it. That is the best answer I have heard all day, the devil take them all.
[He folds his arms across his chest. His head tilts almost imperceptibly to one side, a pinched frown at his thin, firm mouth.]
You're marrying your petite amie, aren't you? It seems I remember an announcement like that. I do not doubt it will be a... [he selects his word very precisely,] spectacle.
How will that interfere with the girl's adoption?
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-Eh?? [he wasn't expecting that kind of answer and he was trying not to get his hopes up. so it takes him a moment before he registers the question.]
Marrying-ah, yes! The wedding won't be until the spring, so it shouldn't interfere at all. I've also spoken to Haruhi and the others about possibly taking Alice in and they all consented to it.
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[Another silence. Javert loses himself to his thoughts, his lids dropping away from Tamaki and toward the papers on his desk. His pupils bounce, as if he were reading some invisible sheet of paper in front of his nose.
Something occurs to him all at once.]
How long have you lived here, Suoh? In the city. Is it a long while, more than most of these peope?
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[and...silence. it was both a little intimidating and curious at the same time. to see the great inspector's mind working...he really did have to wonder what he was thinking.
and then sudden question.]
Hm? Ah-a little over three years now. [...man it really has been a long time, hasn't it?]
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Indeed, longer than me, [he mutters.] I had forgotten.
[A stretch of silence. And then, suddenly, Javert's gaze snaps up like a magnet to steel.]
You will go to the central police station this afternoon. I will be out in the city after two o'clock. Come before then.
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E-Eh? The police station? Two o'clock? Er-okay!
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