Fourteen Bells: [WRITTEN/ACTION] Forward-dated to morning.

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I understand that Twenty-Six isn't any different from Twenty-Five, and that birthdays are no accomplishment, but I find myself especially grateful for this one. I didn't expect to spend it thinking about being thrown into the lions' den tomorrow, but one can't have everything.

Kennedy

[Archie will be about the library, the grocery store, and Good Spirits today, looking strangely neutral. Catch him pretty much anywhere. Horatio is permitted to tag along wherever, so responses might come from both.]

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[Kennedy makes a strangled, startled sound.] What the hell was that?

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I've injected you with an anti-parasitic immunity against malaria. You can thank me later.

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[He rubs his neck, looking annoyed.] Well...thank you, but a warning next time might be in order.

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Where's the fun in that? [ totally dead-pan. ]

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[Now he's glaring.] I suppose there are worse birthday-gifts.

[By this time tonight, he's wearing one--a St. Michael pendant around his neck.]

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[ glaring is the customary reaction when he gives people vaccinations and it's water off a duck's back at this point as he stares at the diagrams Aella gave him.] Drink your whiskey.

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[What's to do but obey? Archie downs most of his Scotch.] What's in the bottle?

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Tennessee whiskey, Kennedy. I can't speak for its authenticity, but it's the closest we're gonna get a taste for the south in this place.

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Can say almost the same about the Scotch whiskey as well.

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[ that elicits a grin out of McCoy. ] And here I thought I had Scotty to blame for you drinking that crap.

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I've been drinking it since I was around thirteen. After I became a mid, my father used to send me a bottle for Christmas every year.

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... I'm impressed, Kennedy.

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By what?

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Drinking at thirteen. When my folks caught me, I never heard the end of it.

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Well. I was in the navy by then, and found that with a winning enough smile I could get most anyone to humor me.

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[ McCoy rolls his eyes. ] Unbelievable.

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What's so unbelievable?