simplestgift | Twenty-one Bells: [ACTION/VOICE]

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Twenty-one Bells: [ACTION/VOICE]

[Archie has barely been around town lately, but he does appear in town this afternoon, dashing about to various shops and stores and picking up various one-use items and lots and lots of groceries. He seems to have one thing on his mind.

Later, he'll sit at the fountain and send out the voice message:]

This is Mr. Kennedy. If anyone is in need of me, I shall be at the beach house for most of the week. You can reach me there or on the journals.

Moreover, Mr. Hornblower and I are wondering if anyone would be interested in helping to build a ship. A sloop-of-war, to be specific, with room and ports enough for eighteen or twenty-two guns. I cannot claim we have a practical use for itm besides exploration, but it would be something to do. We have the plans drawn up, and all we need is enough hands to make it possible. We would be grateful for any help at all.

[After this, he'll be walking back to the beach house, where he's been babysitting Jack Sparrow since yesterday.]

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You once said that everyone's afraid of me!

[ look at the ice-and-steel warrior girl taking such things all a little too much to heart. ]

And well they should be. Doesn't mean we don't like you. [But then again, Archie fears almost everyone, in varying degrees.]

It's like saying you want to be BFFs with the monster under your bed.

There's something to fear about ~~everyone~~ nearly everyone, isn't there? That doesn't stop you.

You're pen-palling with a girl who's got two vampires on her dating roster. I think my understanding of fear's a little...broken.

I don't believe fear is something one stops understanding the more one experiences it.

Stops? No. Understands differently, maybe.

Then your understanding is unbroken.

You're too generous.

Just generous enough, I think. You, on the other hand

[After a pause, he just leaves that like it is.]

A grinch, right? A heart two sizes too small?

You're like Horatio. You never give yourself enough credit.

...Maybe we just feel like we've maxed out. Card declined.

[ another pun. wasted. ]

Horatio could rescue all the world and only remember the one life he couldn't save.

Sometimes, Archie...

[ a pause. it sounds corny, but: ] Sometimes, the most reassuring thing is to feel the weight of the world on your shoulders.

I don't understand.

There's a certain amount of motivation involved in guilt. That's all.

Sometimes he does it to stay humble.

It's cyclical. Wanting to stay humble betrays humble...ness.

[ she at least tries to be well-spoken. occasionally. ]

Why are we writing? [Yeah, it took him this long to wonder.]

I don't want Jack to hear me. You're out there, aren't you?

[Is that it? He switches to voice.] I went into town for groceries. Actually.

O-oh. [ well now she feels a little foolish; however, she at least sounds relieved to be speaking. buffy never is too fond of writing. ]

Still. Better safe than sorry, right? I don't think he'd...It wouldn't have been fair.

No, you're right. I shouldn't stay out much longer, anyway. I still have to cook supper.

...What are you making?

[ so curious. she tries not to sound almost desperate for the knowledge. ]

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