Thirty-Five Bells: [Voice/Action]

[simplestgift]

[Archie is going to head into All Passions today, in desperate need of a dress uniform. When things are slow at work tonight, he'll speak a message.]

Is there anyone in the village who could perform a wedding? A priest or other official? I'm...getting married.

[He sounds a tad stunned about it, too. Even if it's been over a month since this was decided.]

Comments

[thedicearecast]

...If you bribe him, maybe.

[simplestgift]

He was decent for the Christmas Ball.

[thedicearecast]

Any particular reason, or was he just feeling nice that day?

[simplestgift]

Trying to impress Buffy, most likely.

[thedicearecast]

Think there's a chance he'll try to impress her the same way twice?

[simplestgift]

I've no idea whatever.

[thedicearecast]

Definitely try bribing him.

[simplestgift]

Not up front, surely.

[thedicearecast]

Why not? He's always wanting to steal people's things. He'd probably go for it.

[simplestgift]

Precisely. I should never use it as the first option.

[thedicearecast]

Then what are you going to do?

[simplestgift]

See if he'll do it out of friendship first.

[thedicearecast]

...Good luck.

[No, seriously. She means that. And she's hoping Jack is decent enough to actually respect Archie's wish.]

[simplestgift]

Ye of little faith.

[thedicearecast]

Pretty much. [No point in denying it.] At least it's not me of no faith at all.

[simplestgift]

I never subscribed to optimism till coming here.

[thedicearecast]

I still don't. Think of something to bribe him with just in case.

[simplestgift]

Most naturally, my dear Amelia.

[thedicearecast]

...'My dear Amelia?'

Look. I know you're happy about getting married, but don't get carried away.

[simplestgift]

...I'll never understand you future folk.

[thedicearecast]

It's not about being from the future. I don't go for nicknames. Which is why I tell Jack not to call me 'darling', Horatio not to call me 'Miss,' and Vash not to add '-chan' to my name.

[All to no avail, mind, but she does tell them to stop.]

[simplestgift]

..."Miss" is not a pet name. He is showing you respect.

[thedicearecast]

Either way. I don't understand why he won't just call me Amelia.

[simplestgift]

I told you, respect is assumed, intimacy is earned. Even husbands and wives don't always call each other by Christian names in public.

[thedicearecast]

...Wow. That's even stricter than I thought.