simplestgift | Twenty-Eight Bells: [VOICE/ACTION(ish)]

[It's around ten or eleven at night when the transmission begins. Two voices, Kennedy and Bush, are sounding decidedly sloshed. They are, in fact, sitting at the bar in Good Spirits, because how often do you get to introduce someone to Romulan ale twice and see their reaction the second time like it had never happened before? Only if said person went home and came back and doesn't remember the first time. Due to this, Kennedy sounds considerably more sober.]

Your attention, everyone. Mr. Bush has something he would like to say.

Yes, yes I would.....What was it again Kennededy?

Begin with "my profoundest apologies." And-and end with...with the hair thing.

Ah! Right, right. *ahem* My sensherest apologies to the ladies of Lusheti....I like all of you and your is - hair - is very pretty.

Nunno, William, it's...the envy bit, that was nice. Do add that in.

I envy all of your hair.

And how silly a man are you?

Extremely, Kennedy. Siller man there ever was.

Now recite an appropriate verse.

Help me think of one.

What about, "O woe! O woeful, woeful, woeful day!"

It is.

And...why is that, Mr. Bush?

Hm?

Why is it a woeful, woeful, woeful day?

This isn't England and there's no naaavy. Missthenavy.

And...that's the only reason you insulted the crew, isn't it? Just want things to be like they are at home?

Mmhm.

...Do you need a bucket to vomit into?

Please.

[OOC: This is a joint post with

wouldntbetonit]

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I've not talked very much to Ja--[She quickly corrected that bad habit.] Admiral Norrington. Seeing Jack does make things quite a bit easier. He has changed, in many ways, subtle though the changes are.

I've only known him a year. [A hesitation.] How has he changed?

I never thought he would find a single woman to be so utterly infatuated with! Captain Jack Sparrow! And yet here he is, settled happily as a pirate who misses his lady ocean can be, and very much besotted with Buffy.

Good God, he's changed that way since I've known him. When I first heard he pr--

[His lips seal shut. STUPID WHISKEY.]

[Oh, that has her turning her head.]

Begpardon?

[She leans a bit, an arm on the bar countertop.]

Pr... [No, there's nothing he can think of that starts with those two letters that works.] Nothing.

Something is not nothing. [She drinks again, beginning to feel the warmth of the liquor she's taken down.]

Are you not supposed to tell me, or do you choose not to tell me?

The former.

[A slightly disappointed sigh. Now you have her curious, Archie!]

Then I won't press.

[He looks relieved.] I am sorry, but he'd have my hide.

I would far rather you be a man of your word. [She hums and begins to wonder what it possibly could have been.]

...Would you?

[He lied under oath, after all.]

What promises you make to your friends should be kept.

[So too has this pirate lied.]

And I agree. [He sips OJ again, sincere.

...He also kidnapped Horatio for his own good, didn't he? Enh, well.]

More similarities between you and I. [So long as it's for their good, right?] It seems we are destined to get along quite nicely.

It gladdens me to learn.

I enjoy your company. [A playful smirk.] Even with too much whiskey.

And I enjoy yours even without it.

[She laughs and takes another drink.] That certainly works in my favour.

You may be less quick to judge before long.

Why is that? [She tilts her chin as she regards him.]

[That makes him blush. He's so used to popping out with self-deprecating comments that people protest out of hand that being asked to explain himself takes him completely aback.]

Ah...

I don't think I've any cause to worry. [She grins boldly.]

[Touching, but Archie can never shake the feeling that if people only knew, they wouldn't like him. Knew what? That's always vague.]

It's fortunate for me you think so.

I am not one to simply dismiss opinions, and you are certainly welcome to yours. Our only gauge is time.

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