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Constable George Crabtree ([personal profile] 19centconstable) wrote2011-12-26 08:27 pm

Case # 37: Video

[Someone is holding the communicator carelessly in one hand, as though they don't know it's on. The floor passes by slowly under the camera's lens. Whoever they are, they're walking hesitantly toward something. Bathroom tile appears, and then: the base of the toilet.]

Sweet wounded Jesus. I've died and gone to heaven.

[It's a boy speaking; his voice soft and high, his accent somewhere between Irish, British, and Pirate.

In other words: George Crabtree.]

Spam!

[identity profile] thebestnose.livejournal.com 2011-12-28 04:45 am (UTC)(link)
[Her childish voice replies:] It's me! Come in!

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[identity profile] 19centconstable.livejournal.com 2011-12-28 05:05 am (UTC)(link)
[Twelve year old George is skinny. Not scrawny, just a bit underfed and overworked. His hair is uncombed, and he looks a little dirty. He gazes down at her.]

You're tiny!

Spam!

[identity profile] thebestnose.livejournal.com 2011-12-28 05:07 am (UTC)(link)
So? I can still beat you! [She holds up the nearest object- a shoe- and grips it threateningly.]

And I'm really not tiny! I'm twenty!

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[identity profile] 19centconstable.livejournal.com 2011-12-28 05:32 am (UTC)(link)
[He shrinks back. He knows from his trillions of aunts just how scary women can be, regardless of size.]

I didn't mean...you talk like you're bigger!

Spam!

[identity profile] thebestnose.livejournal.com 2011-12-28 01:29 pm (UTC)(link)
[Satisfied, she put down the shoe and wandered over to hand him the horse.]

Because I am bigger!

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[identity profile] 19centconstable.livejournal.com 2011-12-28 09:04 pm (UTC)(link)
[He boggles at her. It's a difficult thing to wrap one's mind around.]

Was it...did a witch do this?

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[identity profile] thebestnose.livejournal.com 2011-12-28 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
No, the Admiral did. He might be a witch. [She thrusts the horse at him again. Insistently.]

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[identity profile] 19centconstable.livejournal.com 2011-12-29 07:38 pm (UTC)(link)
[He takes the horse, tapping a finger against it and frowning at the strange material. Young George doesn't have as many ideas as older George, though, so he doesn't theorize.]

I don't think you can be a man-witch.

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[identity profile] thebestnose.livejournal.com 2011-12-29 07:42 pm (UTC)(link)
Okay. [She shrugged.] Come on! [She raced for the door, the doll in her hand.]

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[identity profile] 19centconstable.livejournal.com 2011-12-29 09:24 pm (UTC)(link)
[He lopes after her, with the clumsy stride of all boys everywhere.]

Where are we going?

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[identity profile] thebestnose.livejournal.com 2011-12-29 09:30 pm (UTC)(link)
Outside! To play in the snow! [She took the stairs as quickly as she could, gripping the railing tightly as she did so.]

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[identity profile] 19centconstable.livejournal.com 2011-12-29 09:54 pm (UTC)(link)
[Now he's definitely forgotten how grown up he's supposed to be, because there's snow! And they can play in it!

He trails after her like an over-grown puppy. Some things will never change.]

Spam!

[identity profile] thebestnose.livejournal.com 2011-12-29 09:55 pm (UTC)(link)
[She had to stop a few times, but she was able to make it to the door and pointed at it, since she couldn't reach it.]

Open it!

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[identity profile] 19centconstable.livejournal.com 2011-12-29 10:16 pm (UTC)(link)
[Twelve year old George isn't quite as civilized as George will be, but he's a good boy, and his aunts have him well trained. He does as she says, then follows her onto the deck.

And stops in his tracks.]

This...is no boat.

[It's a space station?]

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[identity profile] thebestnose.livejournal.com 2011-12-29 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
[She sighed, shoving him.] No. It's a boat in space. It's...magic or something.

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[identity profile] 19centconstable.livejournal.com 2011-12-29 10:40 pm (UTC)(link)
[He stumbles slowly into the snow.]

The stars are so close. Can you touch them?

[George is not clear on what stars are made of.]

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[identity profile] thebestnose.livejournal.com 2011-12-29 10:49 pm (UTC)(link)
No, stupid. Don't be a dummy. [She reached out and grabbed his shirt.] Don't do that.

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[identity profile] 19centconstable.livejournal.com 2011-12-29 11:21 pm (UTC)(link)
[George is cowed by that, because at this age he was quite sure he was stupid. Or at least: not smart.]

Sorry.

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[identity profile] thebestnose.livejournal.com 2011-12-29 11:26 pm (UTC)(link)
It's okay. [She smiled at him, forgiving him as only small children can.] Ready to play!

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[identity profile] 19centconstable.livejournal.com 2011-12-30 12:36 am (UTC)(link)
[He nods.]

I'm not sure what Indians do in the snow, though. They might sleep through it, like bears.

[Oh, Jimmy McLeod (George's Native American manfriend): George will learn one day.]

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[identity profile] thebestnose.livejournal.com 2011-12-30 12:42 am (UTC)(link)
That's not fun. I don't want to sleep through the snow. [She pouted at him.] Oh I know! [She reached out for the horse.] I'll take your horse and you have to close your eyes, count to twenty and then find it!

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[identity profile] 19centconstable.livejournal.com 2011-12-30 02:02 am (UTC)(link)
[He hands the horse over and closes his eyes.]

One...two...

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[identity profile] thebestnose.livejournal.com 2011-12-30 02:05 am (UTC)(link)
[She giggled and ran off with it, hiding it underneath a chair and piled snow on top of it. Her eyes couldn't really see it that well, so she just assumed that George wouldn't either.

Laughing, she went to hide behind another chair to wait.]

Re: Spam!

[identity profile] 19centconstable.livejournal.com 2011-12-30 02:40 am (UTC)(link)
[He opens his eyes.]

...do I get hints?

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[identity profile] thebestnose.livejournal.com 2011-12-30 02:45 am (UTC)(link)
No! Indians don't get hints! [Not that she knew.]

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