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?

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[all7seas]

[Jack just MIGHT put two and two together actually, since Buffy very obligingly was tricked into spilling the beans about who didn't want her to tell the pirate about what had happened to his clothing. If that lace is in the pocket?]

I don't want any buggered milk. I want to hang that tiny cretin by his toes, is what I want.

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[simplestgift]

[Unfortunately for Archie, that lace will be in that pocket.]

At least he made you exquisite curtains?

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[all7seas]

Kennedy. I'm a pirate what's about to move out to the seaside any day now. Exquisite curtains are not my primary concern.

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[simplestgift]

And a couple of dishes of spoiled milk are?

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[all7seas]

Well I'm Captain Jack Sparrow, aren't I? And Captain Jack Sparrow's not one to suffer a wee fairy bastard to live.

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[simplestgift]

You suffered him well enough when he was making you curtains.

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[all7seas]

THAT WERE DIFFERENT. NOW THE MILK'S ALL TURNED ROUND AND SOMEONE'S STOLEN MY PIRATEY SHIRT!

[Not to mention Jack's temper is short now that his DP has come home to him.]

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[simplestgift]

[Silence on the other end. He's just going to wait until Jack calms down.]

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[all7seas]

[Right. He's calmer, now.]

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[simplestgift]

They're fine drapes?

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[all7seas]

Right--Kennedy, I'll bite. [He heaves a very small sigh.] Why are you so monomaniacally obsessed with the interior decor of a eunuch-built vampire house?

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[simplestgift]

I'm trying to get your mind off things. I should ask why you're so obsessed with eunuchs.

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[all7seas]

Oi---just because I live in their former house don't make me obsessed with 'em, Kennedy.

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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.