[Video]

[whatwas]

[Horst is awake after the event ends, and for the first time all week he heads outside. He hasn't had his PCD on, or if he has he didn't answer it. And in fact he's not planning to now, but the verdammt thing is in his jacket pocket.

He has Basil the stuffed rabbit under one arm, and the sock puppet held in a fist. He fills it with a few rocks, ties it off, and throws it so far the PCD wouldn't have been able to see it even if it had been angled in its direction.

The feed times out before he can be bothered to realize it's on.]

Comments

[Video]

[exarmatio]

... what are you doing...?

[Video]

[soulcontracts.livejournal.com]

Quit sulking.

[Video]

[ahandsomedevil.livejournal.com]

Fuck off, Johannes.

[Video]

[soulcontracts.livejournal.com]

She's safer at home, you idiot.

[Video]

[ahandsomedevil.livejournal.com]

You sound like the doctors, do you know that?

Besides, your concern for her welfare is wasted now.

[Video]

[ahandsomedevil.livejournal.com]

[Flatly] A therapist would call it getting closure.

[Video]

[exarmatio]

... oh.

[A pause.]

I did that, once. I broke a whole store full of tiny glass animals.

[Video]

[soulcontracts.livejournal.com]

You're being selfish. She's safe there.

{Video}

[thewinterdoe.livejournal.com]

... {Lily watches the display sadly. She knows loss when she sees it.}

I'm sorry.

[Video]

[ahandsomedevil.livejournal.com]

Yes. Safe.

Oh, to be home, where no one ever dies, where no one is ever neglected, where no one ever forgets.

[He won't pretend he isn't being selfish. He rather hates himself for it, a fact Johannes knows him well enough to recognize, but this was Alice. The closest thing to a daughter he will ever have.]

[Video]

[ahandsomedevil.livejournal.com]

...So you're the one who caused the extinction of the tiny glass penguins.

[Video]

[soulcontracts.livejournal.com]

[Johannes stares at him for a moment, eyes still narrow.]

-- do you want to play a game of chess.

[Video]

[exarmatio]

... and the tiny glass unicorns, and a good portion of the tiny glass elephants. You've got me.

[Video]

[al_truism]

[Al sets his chin on his hands.]

... you throw things away too, huh?

[Video]

[ahandsomedevil.livejournal.com]

....Yes.

I'm heading home now. Should I bring you...anything?

[Voice]

[neverquitedies.livejournal.com]

Horst- are you alright?

{Video}

[ahandsomedevil.livejournal.com]

[He is very briefly surprised; she's a face he recognizes, and he's a little dismayed he hadn't noticed her arrival. Also, he can imagine Snape flipping out.]

...Thank you. I'm sorry, this isn't how I prefer to meet people.

[Video]

[soulcontracts.livejournal.com]

No.

Just get home, please.

[Video]

[ahandsomedevil.livejournal.com]

First time, actually.

{Video}

[thewinterdoe.livejournal.com]

It can't be helped. {She smiles faintly.} Who did you lose?

[Offline]

[ahandsomedevil.livejournal.com]

[He arrives quickly, looking just as miserable as he had on video.]

Johannes?

[Voice]

[ahandsomedevil.livejournal.com]

...No.

[Offline]

[soulcontracts.livejournal.com]

[And Johannes already has the chipped chess board sit up.]

It's your move.

[Voice]

[neverquitedies.livejournal.com]

Would you like to go out?

{Video}

[ahandsomedevil.livejournal.com]

Her name is Alice. She was...well, in this place, I suppose my daughter. My niece. It's hard to find the right term. I took care of her.