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

[Private]

[expectremorse.livejournal.com]

...It's November 5th.

[Swaying a little? Yep.]

[iam-aghost.livejournal.com]

When it is here is always a difficult question.

November, I do believe.

[una_persson]

Welcome back. It's early November, actually.

Are you all right?

[Private]

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Detective Hoffman! It's good to see you again. November 5th you say?

[what_ho_jeeves]

It's...

[Bertie takes out his pocketwatch.]

...quarter til.

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

That's true. Perhaps I ought to have asked how long I had been gone.

Video:

[vampish_aleera]

HELLO!

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

I suppose. A bit out of sorts. I'm afraid I've been gone for six months.

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Mr. Wooster! ...a quarter til what?

Video: Please say she is doing exactly what she's doing in that icon on video

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

[He jumps.]

Miss Aleera?

[what_ho_jeeves]

Quarter til one. [Then he frowns, looks at the watch again.]

That's funny, it was quarter til one last time I looked, too. [Someone forgot to wind his watch. But Bertie dismisses this strange phenomenon of unchanging time without much thought.]

I say, you're looking quite sharp, Georgie.

Video: Aleera does it upside-down! Jumping out at you, that is.

[vampish_aleera]

YESSS...

So pleased you remember!

[una_persson]

...It's been a week, perhaps, here? Certainly no more than a fortnight, though this last week has felt infinitely longer, so I may be misremembering.

[Private] [Video]

[expectremorse.livejournal.com]

Last I checked on the calender.

[It switches to video-he looks a little bleary eyed.]

Where'd you go?

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Was it quarter til one the last time you looked? That might explain it.

Thank you, I've been at a wedding.

Video:

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

How do you get your skirts to stay-...nevermind.

Of course. I haven't been gone that long.

...Although technically I hadn't remembered you until I got back.

[what_ho_jeeves]

As a matter of fact it-- [The penny drops.] Oh. [And he sheepishly winds his watch.] I think it might not actually be quarter til one after all.

But enough about the time, congratulations Georgie! Who's the lucky girl?

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

I'd never have stayed away so long, I just had no recollection of having been here.

[iam-aghost.livejournal.com]

I wish I could tell you. Unfortunately I've been a little more unaware of both time and comings and goings.

Re: Video:

[vampish_aleera]

Aleera was not in your thoughts...?

[Private] [Video]

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Home. I had been speaking to the Admiral about checking in on everyone there. It seems he granted my request.

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Are you alright, doctor?

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Ah.

Oh, no, it wasn't my wedding. There isn't any...lucky girl.

Re: Video:

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

No one was. It was as if this place was entirely erased from my memory.

[what_ho_jeeves]

Well, that's all right, then. I always thought that weddings were quite a lot more enjoyable when I wasn't the one being dragged down the aisle. And I'm sure you made an excellent Best Man. [Bertie will just keep making assumptions about George's role in the wedding. If he does it long enough, eventually he's bound to get it right.]