[Permavoice - Screened from all known baddies/The Organization/Paixao natives]

[shout_geronimo]

[his voice is quiet, his tone still, but despite this, the anger is quite obvious by the way his words tremble slightly. He takes a deep, slightly shuddering breath before he speaks]

I assume that most of you have seen the new information that's come to light. I'm not sure when this started, or exactly why this started, but one thing is inescapably clear: this all needs to stop. All of this. The experiments, the disappearances, the arrests. All of it. And we need to stop it ourselves. I'm sure some of you already know what I'm going to suggest, and some of you might already be ready to suggest it yourselves. Maybe some of you did, before I got here.

We need to stand together. We need to be strong enough and brave enough to weather the storm that's ahead of us. The longer we stand idle, the longer this goes on, and the more people get hurt - and I, for one, am not willing to let this slide. We have to gather together, and I think you all know exactly what I'm talking about.

Oh, I'm angry. I've never done that before, not as this me. I honestly have no idea what I'm going to do now, or what's going to happen. [a shaky laugh emerges]

Anyway, who's with me? We can have meetings and get into group hugs and everything. [despite the lightness of his words, it's clear he's deadly serious about gathering an army, even though he - barely - refrains from saying it]

Comments

[somethingblue]

Him and his brainy spectacles.

That would be lovely, especially if I am to be her stepmother.

...it what whom? You know I can't exactly read your mind the way I used to. You'll have to actually speak up!

[shout_geronimo]

I liked my brainy specs! I sort of miss them, sometimes.

Stepmother? Well, yes, I suppose. It's not like she came form anyone but me.

It was Vyers. [brb, cracking up]

[somethingblue]

Nonsense, you look intelligent without them.

Still! If you're marrying me, that would make her my stepdaughter in a sense, since she is your daughter, after all.

Vyers? I'm not familiar with who that is. Did something interesting happen with the potion?

[shout_geronimo]

Oh, thank you!

Well, only if you want. To marry me, I mean. She's been a brilliant daughter.

You'd love him. Great comedian, though I'm not sure he realizes it. He doesn't think much of popcorn being nibbled on during conversations, though. And... well, I'm not at liberty to say. I might get him in trouble with his wife. [so cheeky]

[somethingblue]

Thief, darling, who wouldn't want to marry you?

Popcorn? Popcorn! That's a food I should look into trying, I think. Ah— is that so? Oh dear, something particularly nasty must have happened. But, it sounds intriguing. Maybe I should ask her for one of her concoctions. ( a beat ) It might help with my research.

[shout_geronimo]

Queen Elizabeth the First? Well, again. [a little guiltily] Can't say I blame her, really. [oh wait she said yes] Really? Well... good! Brilliant!

I can teach you how to make it later, if you like.

Well, from what I heard, it all turned out alright, in the end. [oh god what] Research? ... What research?

[somethingblue]

She got over it. Eventually. ( sort of maybe not ) But yes, excellent. I shall marry you!

Yes alright. That could prove handy, it would help for me to know how make simple things.

( all the scoffing ) ...we just discussed that. I'll speak with Urd about it and then acquire a potion to see what comes of it's use.

[shout_geronimo]

[guiltily] Yeah. Eventually.

Fantastic! Oh, wait, I almost sounded like my old self for a moment. But it really is fantastic! [GLEE]

Oh. Right. Yes. That. [nervous throat-clearing goes here]

[somethingblue]

...oh, the you with no hair! Yes, I liked that version as well. ( brief pause ) Actually I like all versions of you, to be honest.

It could be interesting!

[shout_geronimo]

I barely even got out, as that version. I think I did just fine, though.

Good. Interesting's good. [cough]

[somethingblue]

You've done very well in all your varieties of self, Doctor.

Good? I should think so, otherwise interesting in and of itself would then, well, would cease to be interesting.

[shout_geronimo]

Really? I dunno about some of them.

Oh, right. Yes, we wouldn't want that. [once again with the awkward]

[somethingblue]

You've always come round.

Judging by your tone, I would say, that this line of conversation is bothersome to you, Thief.

[shout_geronimo]

Well, yeah. I suppose I have.

Bothersome! No, it's not bothersome. It's just... [flustered] unexpected.

[somethingblue]

I've never worried.

Well of course it's unexpected, you can't know everything I'm going to talk to you about. But just the same, should I stop discussing it with you? I can only imagine the blush upon your cheeks, though...

The trailing off is because he's thinking of the Valeyard, by the way.

[shout_geronimo]

Not even with... [trails off, afraid to say it]

Well, no, I don't actually mind, but maybe we ought to discuss this when we're both home?

[somethingblue]

Time lines are not set in stone, Thief, you know that as well as I. That was not necessarily your outcome. ( she just knows, because she's awesome like that )

Is that so I get to relish in the delight of looking at your blush whilst we discuss it?

[shout_geronimo]

[sounding slightly reassured] You're right. Of course you're right.

What? No! You won't see me blushing. [SO MANY LIES]

[somethingblue]

You're so much more than he was, anyway.

No? Pity, I would have liked that quite a bit.

[shout_geronimo]

[unsure] Am I?

[mumbles] Okay, fine. Maybe a little blushing.

[somethingblue]

You haven't reached the state of mind he was in.

Only a little? I suppose I can live with that, if I must.

[shout_geronimo]

No, I haven't. [not yet, anyway]

Dear, do you want me to permanently resemble a tomato?

[somethingblue]

And there is no guarantee that you will.

I might, we did establish that I do like red!

[shout_geronimo]

Right! You're right.

I thought you liked blue better.

[somethingblue]

Don't fret, sweet Thief.

If you were blue, though, it would mean you were choking, wouldn't it?