Three Bells: [WRITTEN] - New Horizons in Lit Appreciation

[simplestgift]

They have everything Shakespeare ever wrote in the library.  Everything!  It's a fountain of gold.  I could spend days here.  I'd sleep here if they'd let me.  I don't think I've ever been happier.  And there's no theatre group here?  None?  Do people here not realize what they have?  What kind of a world is this?

In case anyone asks, I'll be in the library for the rest of my life.

[Or really just the rest of the day.   At some point he'll have to come up for air and grab something to eat at the 7th Heaven, where he'll be buried in 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.  It'll be dark before he goes home, carrying only a single book.]

Comments

[written]

[herotypical]

There was a sort of handsomeness involved, yeah. Secret government army branch, though. Not navy.

[written]

[simplestgift]

Sounds too complicated for a lady like you. You sound like you have quite enough going on.

[written]

[herotypical]

I think he felt the same way in the end.

[written]

[simplestgift]

I'm sorry to hear it.

[He's not that comfortable talking about other peoples' love lives when he doesn't know the situation, so he's not sure what else to say.]

[written]

[herotypical]

[ whoops. awkward. buffy quickly responds: ] That was a long time ago, anyway. And his commanding whoever? She was a total psycho-bitch. So we can set that all aside and talk about better things. Like -- oranges. Did you pick any up?

[written]

[simplestgift]

I did, actually. Very good ones. They're as bad as opium.

[written]

[herotypical]

Just wait till you get to the fresh strawberries.

[written]

[simplestgift]

I look forward to the spring. Or is there spring in this damned trap?

[written]

[herotypical]

There is definitely a spring. The snow doesn't last forever -- thank God.

[written]

[simplestgift]

To think I was in the Caribbean just a few weeks ago.

[written]

[herotypical]

Where it never snows. Jealous.

[written]

[simplestgift]

Don't be. I could hardly enjoy it. Well, I suppose that's not entirely true. I did leap off a cliff once. I may have enjoyed that in spite of the fact that I was running for my life.

[written]

[herotypical]

What's there to enjoy?

[ writes the girl whose longest death came from jumping off a metal tower. ]

[written]

[simplestgift]

The sheer audacity of it, I think. Being in the navy is so restricting. Everything about your behavior matters. After enough of that, jumping off a cliff into the sea like a madman can feel pretty good! Not to mention Horatio and I were defying our superior officer by doing so. And dragging him off with us, screaming that he couldn't swim. Astonishingly, we didn't let him drown.

[written]

[herotypical]

So I'll read between those lines and come to the not-afraid-of-heights conclusion.

[written]

[simplestgift]

No. Horatio is, and he still jumped.

[written]

[herotypical]

And the other guy? The one who couldn't swim? Well, I guess he was probably too busy worrying about something else.

[written]

[simplestgift]

More or less. I was honestly a bit surprised to find out he was afraid of anything. Took him long enough to show his human s

[He stops writing there as an uncomfortable thought strikes him. Horatio got on well with Bush. Hell, Archie got on well with Bush. Is he about to be usurped in his world?]

[written]

[herotypical]

[ she waits, then: ] Archie?

[written]

[simplestgift]

ide.

[He finishes the word as soon as he sees Buffy's note of concern.]

[written]

[herotypical]

...what is it?

[written]

[simplestgift]

Nothing in particular. Just thinking of home.

[written]

[herotypical]

I wish I could tell you that the home-sickness got better.

[written]

[simplestgift]

I know.

[written]

[herotypical]

It fades, a bit. Gets shoved into smaller compartments by other things. That's about the best of it.