[038] - voice

[slaying]

[The Slayer comes to the journals with an incredibly officious expression. Time to get her meddle on, because being confined to a bedroom could only be so much fun. And that so much took a huge hit when her Captain was so rudely yanked from the house

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[slaying]

Can't go wrong with a good smoochfest.

[slaying]

The real ones have a habit of ending up in the complete opposite direction of happy. Ergo, fictional escapism is much desired.

[inabook]

[slaying]

The kind with the quintessential big romantic gesture.

[inabook]

[slaying]

They have the feel-good factor, you know? [There are no judgments here, Estelle!]

[miamijustice]

[H decides... he's in a nostalgic mood, so he decides he's going to tell her a "special" story. It's not one of his - too many of his own end in tragedy - but it's one of two people dear to him. While he's not positive on all the details, this should be the gist of it. And either way, it's the thought that counts]

Once... upon a time there were two officers. [He can't help but chuckle a little here before he goes on to explain a "story" which in some ways is true and in others is very fabricated]

These two officers had worked together for years, building up trust and a working relationship. One of these officers was a man... his name was Edmund. The other was a woman named Cathrine. Edmund and Cathrine had had many relationships over their career; at one time- [...] once, Edmund was actually known to be something of a lady's man.

However, none of their relationships ever seemed to quite... work. Edmund couldn't commit, and Cathrine... was usually too absorbed in her own work for the tastes of her boyfriends.

[A pause, and

[slaying]

[She quite patiently--and attentively--listens to the entire tale. There might be a little bit of a sympathetic sniffle. The good kind.]

See, now that? That's a love story. I hope there was a great deal of happily ever aftering.

[miamijustice]

There- [...] there was.

[Or rather, he hopes there will be]

[slaying]

Lucky them. The non-tragical endings have been getting a little rare.

[salvagedslayer]

[there's the sound of a totally unladylike snort of wry amusement from this corner]

[slaying]

[She heard that, Faith. And there's some pointed eye-brow raising and a little aheming]

[salvagedslayer]

Y'still looking for sunsets and happily-ever-afters too?

[she shrugs and spreads her hands]

Not exactly my area of expertise, huh?

[slaying]

Hey--karma owes me one. A happily ever after would be nice.

[hisonlytruth]

What kind?

[slaying]

The happy kind. Anything else would lead to eye-leaking and I'm not exactly up on that.

[hisonlytruth]

I guess the one I had in mind isn't that happy...

[slaying]

I'm starting to figure out that they rarely are.