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Horst Cabal ([personal profile] whatwas) wrote2011-04-27 08:53 pm

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[If there's one thing Adstringendum is good at, it's yanking people around. Where Horst had been laughing and giddy the night before, he's...well, not now.]

Mina was sent home. I'm sure those of you who knew here are aware, but....

[But he personally checked everywhere she could possibly have gone. Just in case. Hope springs eternal, they say.

As he shuts off the feed, there's the faint sound of something German-sounding. Or maybe it was just static.
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[A few hours later: Private Video to Raven]

Are you awake?

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[identity profile] soulcontracts.livejournal.com 2011-04-28 03:03 am (UTC)(link)
[His voice is distracted. He may or may not be dissecting a rat.]

That little blonde girl?

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[identity profile] ahandsomedevil.livejournal.com 2011-04-28 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
...She's over 700 years old, Johannes.

[And that's not even the point, Arschloch.]

You're still up?

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[identity profile] soulcontracts.livejournal.com 2011-04-28 03:11 am (UTC)(link)
I slept a few hours.

[His tone is dismissive. He's got better things to do in this place than sleep -- something about it puts him on edge, anyway.]

I've been trying to setup a halfway worthwhile laboratory.

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[identity profile] ahandsomedevil.livejournal.com 2011-04-28 11:03 pm (UTC)(link)
[Horst sighs, but the work is better than dwelling. At least that's what he tells himself.]

I'll move some of the heavy things around for you, then. You're scrawny as a bird.

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[identity profile] soulcontracts.livejournal.com 2011-04-28 11:08 pm (UTC)(link)
[..]

Scrawny?

[Johannes is not a vain man by any means. There's just something about that word. :|]

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[identity profile] ahandsomedevil.livejournal.com 2011-04-28 11:10 pm (UTC)(link)
If you were any taller or paler I'd mistake you for a stork.

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[identity profile] soulcontracts.livejournal.com 2011-04-28 11:12 pm (UTC)(link)
[Blandly.]

This is the stunning maturity I have missed so much.

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[identity profile] ahandsomedevil.livejournal.com 2011-04-28 11:15 pm (UTC)(link)
You work on your charming social skills and I'll try to evolve into a more refined gentleman, hm?

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[identity profile] soulcontracts.livejournal.com 2011-04-28 11:17 pm (UTC)(link)
You're certainly more amicable than you were when I rescued you from the crypt. How long did you say you'd been here, again?

[He is choosing his words carefully. Johannes rarely says things without planning them first.]

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[identity profile] ahandsomedevil.livejournal.com 2011-04-28 11:18 pm (UTC)(link)
[Long, long pause. And a very cold look.]

'Rescued' me?

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[identity profile] soulcontracts.livejournal.com 2011-04-28 11:20 pm (UTC)(link)
[Johannes is assuming a very cavalier attitude about this entire conversation.]

I hope you didn't think it was my intention to leave you in there forever.

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[identity profile] ahandsomedevil.livejournal.com 2011-04-28 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Just until I died, then.

[Be glad Horst isn't home right now.]

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[identity profile] soulcontracts.livejournal.com 2011-04-28 11:25 pm (UTC)(link)
[Oh, don't worry, he is.]

And that's what I don't understand. You didn't kill me then, either, when you had the chance.

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[identity profile] ahandsomedevil.livejournal.com 2011-04-28 11:32 pm (UTC)(link)
I didn't kill you when, Johannes? You left me there and she killed me.

[This conversation should be private, and had Horst been just a little bit less disturbed and hurt he would've switched the filter.]

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[identity profile] soulcontracts.livejournal.com 2011-04-28 11:34 pm (UTC)(link)
When I came back for you, idiot. This place has pulled us from different times, or hasn't it occurred to you that I'm almost nine years older than the last time we saw each other?

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[identity profile] ahandsomedevil.livejournal.com 2011-04-28 11:36 pm (UTC)(link)
As I said: you didn't leave me any way to keep track of time, du Hurensohn. And it--

[He has to swallow; his voice had cracked, and it wasn't exactly dignified. Cabals are always dignified.

Or not. When he speaks he just sounds small, defeated.
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You didn't come back the next day. You let me die.

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[identity profile] soulcontracts.livejournal.com 2011-04-28 11:44 pm (UTC)(link)
[He was expecting anger. He knew how to deal with anger -- he and Horst grew up causing hell for each other.

He wasn't, however, expecting that.

Really? A part of him asks, and he has the uncomfortable sensation that it's his soul rearing its ugly and nearly worthless head again.]


Horst.

[His voice is a little baffled. The venom is suddenly gone.]

I'm sorry.

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[identity profile] soulcontracts.livejournal.com 2011-04-28 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
-- don't get any ideas, Horst, it was just an apology, even children are capable..

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[identity profile] ahandsomedevil.livejournal.com 2011-04-28 11:46 pm (UTC)(link)
[Even after that long silence, Horst opens his mouth and has nothing to say. Except:]

why?

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[identity profile] soulcontracts.livejournal.com 2011-04-28 11:48 pm (UTC)(link)
This isn't a conversation I want to be having now, and especially not over one these devices.

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