Log - OTA! - What’s the difference between a corpse and a shirt?

[bossyboiler]

Who: Everyone.
When: Wednesday evening, Jan 11th
Where: A rented out bar, downtown.
Summary: The wake for George Milton.
Warnings: N/A (will update as needed)

If anyone of the forcibly kidnapped to Gloucester deserved to be remembered, it was George Milton. In many ways, he was the best of them. He had been kind. He had always been willing to help and lend a hand. Unlike some whose first choice was violence (because what else was there), he had chosen to forgo that route and had come up with a much more clever solution. The solution saved lives.

It had not felt right to have a formal service for him. To put it simply, he was not a formal person. And so after much calling around, a bar had been found where they could rent out the entire place before business got too busy. It was just for a couple of hours. People could come and say nice things about George. It's what he deserved after all.

So come on in, have a beer or two, and sit a spell. Maybe you'll feel like sharing a story about George or maybe you're just there to pay your respects. There's a break in the weather, the clouds only filling up half of the nighttime sky. No acid snow for tonight.

Comments

[bossyboiler]

"Valentine, I think is what his last name is." She works in Administration. She sees a lot of personnel files. It's innocent knowledge. "It's a good idea, calling the hospitals and police stations. It wouldn't be the first time I had to bail out an ADI employee." It had been Winter that she had gotten released from jail. "It sounds like you have some experience in this sort of thing."

[easilyamused]

Methos lifts his free hand and tips it back and forth - so-so. "A little bit," he says. "Nothing formal. A friend's daughter dropped off the radar for a while, and he couldn't get the police to take it seriously - adult woman not answering her father's calls for a couple days? Didn't rate, in their estimation."

He pauses a moment, then adds, "Turned out fine in the end, but it did give some insight into the sheer number of people who might have information when someone turns up missing."

[bossyboiler]

"That's a shame. Something could have happened to her. It's good you were there." She considers his words. "Do you think he really could just be laid up in a hospital somewhere in town?" Maybe Nick didn't have an emergency contact listed? Perhaps that's something they all need to consider.

They reach the front door and Kate looks back up at Adam. "You know we don't have to go back inside. We could go someplace else."

[easilyamused]

"I think we need to look at the mundane options, and not just focus on the magical," he says. He doesn't, in truth, think it's likely that Nick is just laid up in a hospital - not after so many days without contact. But dismissing the simple answers without ruling them out seems like a good way to go completely mad in a place like this, and that's not a trip he's particularly interested in making.

He's seen how that turns out, more times than he'd care to remember.

"We could." He looks down to meet Kate's gaze, smiling ever so slightly. "Is there someplace you'd like to go? Normally, I'd suggest just wandering a bit, but this isn't the weather for it."

Not the cold so much as the risk of acid snow, which still sounds faintly ridiculous to him, like the plot of a B-grade sci-fi movie revolving around the dangers of pollution.

[bossyboiler]

"That's a good idea. It's certainly easier to call all of the area hospitals than to figure out which Entity is at it again."

They should go somewhere and get out of the cold. She has a very good idea as to how they can both warm up. "We could go back to your place or mine. Or we could get a hotel room."

[easilyamused]

"A hotel room sounds like a marvelous idea," he says. "We can pretend we're just on a trip to the coast. No monsters, no responisibilities for a night."

No dealing with his teenaged flatmate, or her terrifying ones.

[bossyboiler]

"Just us. Alone. We can even turn off our phones and pretend that the outside world doesn't exist." It could be wonderful.

[easilyamused]

"Hmm. Best make our escape quickly. Before anyone thinks to come looking."

For her. His ties are, for the most part, loosely held, and by design.

[bossyboiler]

Kate giggles, she actually giggles a little bit. She reaches up for his hand to begin to lead him back to the van. "Shh. Don't jinx it."

[easilyamused]

It's a good sound, given the weight of the evening that's proceeded it. He lets her tug him along without resistance. "Do you want to drive, or shall I?"

[bossyboiler]

"I'll drive." She knows where they are going after all. They reach the van and with a click on the keyfob, she unlocks it. "Why? You're not scared are you?"