Case #35: Video

[19centconstable]

[Now back to your regularly scheduled George. Who is looking slightly wary.]

Did I happen to fall prey to one of those comas? Only I can't quite remember anything about the last several days. Also, it appears as though someone has been sitting in my chair.

[Item one: chair. It doesn't look particularly sat in.]

And I also have reason to believe that someone has been sleeping in my bed!

[Item two: bed. It has been carefully made.]

I don't keep any porridge in my room, unfortunately, so I'm afraid I haven't gotten any solid proof, but I have got my suspicions...

Comments

[slayage]

[George, you are adorable. Have a smirking Buffy.] No bears. Promise. There was a flood. ..Someone else was here instead of you.

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

But perhaps they were a bear in sheep's clothing.

...Although sheep don't wear clothing...

[slayage]

[...] Considering I got into a fight with a couple of the non-barge-people.. I can safely say they weren't secretly bears.

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Were they little girls then? Bad ones, I mean. The sort you'd fight.

[slayage]

What? No. [So odd. So so odd.] No Goldilockses either.

[officerrenaldi.livejournal.com]

...I think your grandmother was here.

[That old lady was your grandmother right George? right?]

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

She was? Which one?

[officerrenaldi.livejournal.com]

Some old fat lady who looked really familiar. [frown]

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

All grannys do look a bit alike.

[officerrenaldi.livejournal.com]

[Her eyebrow raises] ...In some cases. My grandmammy's a... [Her grandmother looks like a Jersey Shore extra] ..She sure as shit wasn't mine. I'll put it that way

Also said she wasn't amused.

[expectremorse.livejournal.com]

[Hoffman lips on his camera to reveal A Spartan Helmet. Full on, probably several hundred years old.]

if you can figure it out pal, I'm sure as all ears.

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Oh my goodness, Detective, please tell me you haven't turned into a helmet.

[expectremorse.livejournal.com]

[The camera turns away to show Hoffman] No. Just this thing. And I woke up feeling like I had a five alarm hangover.

[he pauses, then, in a voice deadly serious] George, I wasn't drinking was I?

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

I have no memory of you drinking. But I have no memory at all, really, as I've said.

[expectremorse.livejournal.com]

...That means flood.

[he sets the camera down next to the helmet with a sigh]

[thinkb4ublink.livejournal.com]

You're making it up. An' Goldilocks wasn't there, it was Queen Victoria.

1/2

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Oh.

2/2

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

...

[Sorry, this George has fainted.]

Spam

[thinkb4ublink.livejournal.com]

I don't have bleedin' smelling salts. [He's going to find you, George. Hope your door isn't locked.]

Spam

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

[Of course it's unlocked: he's Canadian. He's also beginning to stir.]

Mr. Slater. I had the strangest dream. And you were there! And a scarecrow. And a man made all of tin...

Spam

[thinkb4ublink.livejournal.com]

You're not Dorothy, George, and I ain't a Cowardly Lion? [So much WTF about that.] Also, lock your door!

[thebestnose.livejournal.com]

There was a Queen.

She didn't look like a queen.

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Mr. Slater has said it was Her Majesty.

[thebestnose.livejournal.com]

Who? She said she was a queen.

[19centconstable.livejournal.com]

Precisely.