Case #29: Video

[19centconstable]

[It's an extreme close up of a Victorian constable! George has accidentally turned the camera on himself while picking up his communicator in an attempt to figure out what the strange device is. He looks a little older; a little stockier, because no one escapes the ravages of aging, and 1898 has been kind of a stressful year, what with all of the meth, and Draculas, and outwitting the American government. All of the brass on his uniform is also particularly shiny, and he's wearing a pair of white dress gloves and an expression of general confusion.

And then you can see it slowly dawn on him. And then there's a dizzying shot of the floor flying past as George hurries to make sure that...

Yes. The toilette remains.]

Oh my goodness I'm back.

[There's the sound of someone flopping back onto a bed, and a close up of a quilt. The quilt has the spotlight for a good few minutes, until George remembers the communicator is still running. Normal view!]

Could anybody tell me when it is here?

Comments

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

I am glad you seem to be back on your feet now. Was it some sort of flood?

[iam-aghost.livejournal.com]

It was... quite a bit worse than a flood, but I'm relatively alright now.

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Oh my, that's right. There was all of that terrible business in October wasn't there?

[iam-aghost.livejournal.com]

Si, and there's people, who tend to be here the whole year around.

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

...sorry?

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[iam-aghost.livejournal.com]

My problems were slightly more... man made.

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[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

As in...but who would ever have something against you?

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[iam-aghost.livejournal.com]

...I'm not at liberty to say.

But it wasn't quite personal.

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[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

That seems worse somehow.

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[iam-aghost.livejournal.com]

In a way, it feels like it.

As much as it's nice to know nobody hates you that much.

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[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

I'm terribly sorry to hear you went through that, either way.

I suppose it does at least prove that you aren't a ghost here.

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[iam-aghost.livejournal.com]

I suppose it does.

...Although something interesting happened.

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[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

What was it?

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[iam-aghost.livejournal.com]

The same thing happened again - I came back. Not like people normally do here, but I talked to Rex whilst I was officially... dead.

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[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

How interesting. What was it like?

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[iam-aghost.livejournal.com]

It was...

Much the same as last time. It felt like being trapped.

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[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

So you could feel then?

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[iam-aghost.livejournal.com]

Yes. Both in life and when it happened here.

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[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Were you in any pain?

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[iam-aghost.livejournal.com]

No. Any... feeling was emotional, not physical. Spiritual, perhaps.

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[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

How were you able to, er, overcome it?

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[iam-aghost.livejournal.com]

Here? I was returned to life.

Normally... I have not overcome it. I am still bound, in one sense or another, to the place where I died. It will be where I return.

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[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Were you sort of...sucked back into yourself?

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[iam-aghost.livejournal.com]

I'm not entirely sure what you mean.

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[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Well, how did you go from being a ghost to being back inside of your body?