Eight Bells: [Action/Written]

[simplestgift]

[Luceti, Jack Sparrow now has drapes. They are lovely drapes, made of something like spiderweb silk and dyed a nice, neutral, manlyish color. The furniture and silver are both polished. There is even a new rug on the living room floor. Everything looks very home-ish.

Jack's clothes, on the other hand, are strewn all over the place, and every drop of dairy is badly curdled. Missing is a pair of trousers and Jack's Jolly Roger t-shirt.

Archie Kennedy comes dashing into town from the Cullen House wearing a pair of trousers and a Jolly Roger t-shirt. He'll make his way as quickly as is possible to his own apartment to get dressed properly so no one will suspect he spent the week with Jack--least of all Jack. He can be run into at any point.

After all this is accomplished and he's eaten something at Seventh Heaven that does not include porridge, honey, or cream, he will sit down to write this note.]

May I speak with a tailor in this town?

Comments

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[simplestgift]

I'm trying to decide if I should be foolish enough to ask how you know he's a eunuch.

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[all7seas]

Simply buckets of hair-and-shower-care products labeled "Edward"? His Flosty Gritter Bubble Bar? Sparklesheen Face Powder? Eunuch, mate.

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[simplestgift]

You do understand that eunuch doesn't mean fancier of other boys, don't you?

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[all7seas]

Pfft. Eunuchs! They can't fancy much of ANYTHING, can they? It's all been snipped away, all the fancying bits! No, mate--that's not a belief I hold in any absolute sense.

...Though YOU seem to know a fair bit about eunuchs, lad...

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[simplestgift]

No more than you, apparently.

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[all7seas]

Dunno about THAT---I knew one once by the name of William Turner. Soprano.

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[simplestgift]

Soprano, was he? Wasn't you who made him that way, was it?

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[all7seas]

KENNEDY.

[Jack is horrified by that suggestion!]

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[simplestgift]

I thought you pirates were capable of anything. I'm disappointed, Jack.

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[all7seas]

Well we don't run about snipping off a man's Peter and Paul, now do we, mate? You've got entirely the wrong end of it, there.

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[simplestgift]

...




New curtains, then?

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[all7seas]

[Wow that boy can change tacks...]

Aye---new curtains. Rather lovely, actually; the old ones were a bit...funereal.

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[simplestgift]

[Expert subject-changer here.]

I agree. I've seen them.

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[all7seas]

Oh? When were you down at mine?

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[simplestgift]

Some while back, when the doctor was staying with you.

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[all7seas]

Funny, I don't remember that. Hmph. McCoy invited you, I suppose.

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[simplestgift]

I don't remember. I brought food. I don't remember seeing you there.

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[all7seas]

Kennedy? That sounds vague enough to be a lie to my ears.

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[simplestgift]

I'm not lying, Jack. It was some time ago, is all. Just after the draft was announced, but before I knew I was going.

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[all7seas]

Right. A captain likes to know what's going on on his ship, you know. He finds it tremendously disconcerting to discover that there have been stowaways long after the ship's come into port.

[Especially if he's been mutinied on before.]

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[simplestgift]

I didn't figure it had escaped your attention.

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[all7seas]

I'll have to ask Bones about that later, like. Perhaps he can remind me.

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[simplestgift]

Go right ahead. [He had actually been there, so he's not particularly concerned about this. What he is concerned about is whether or not Jack had the old curtains back then.]

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[all7seas]

[Jack sniffs; this only marginally quells his suspicions. It won't be until Buffy gets tricked into telling him later that he puts everything together and makes sense of it.]

Right. As you were, then, I suppose, Kennedy.

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[simplestgift]

So you'll be leaving us soon, I hear.