OH HEY, that gigantic pause there could mean anything. Harvestman doesn't sound dead, or injured, just tired, a weariness Arashi has yet to know is a common thing with him.
Arashi usually makes it a point not to answer his phone, and even getting him to return a message is a matter of luck. However, to say he wasn't waiting for this phone call would be downright stupid.
There is another pause, during which Arashi's mouth is silent but his head isn't. Instead of anything he actually wants to say, he comes up with "...Are you in one piece?"
He's smart enough to know Arashi won't take a non-explanation for an answer. He could do it. He could blow the vampire off, risk the job he almost had, risk whatever the hell he wanted from Arashi, if he even knew. He's done this dance before. He knew how it ended.
Arashi pinches the bridge of his nose. Maybe someday he'll be able to offer someplace that isn't seedy or austere or unfamiliar or crawling with demons. It is not this day.
"In the nexus," he says eventually (and that will never feel right, ever, directions involving an interdimensional vortex; everything about this is wrong), "there's a white door with 400 on it in gold."
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Date: 2011-09-02 12:12 pm (UTC)OH HEY, that gigantic pause there could mean anything. Harvestman doesn't sound dead, or injured, just tired, a weariness Arashi has yet to know is a common thing with him.
"I'm sorry."
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Date: 2011-09-02 02:11 pm (UTC)There is another pause, during which Arashi's mouth is silent but his head isn't. Instead of anything he actually wants to say, he comes up with "...Are you in one piece?"
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Date: 2011-09-02 02:16 pm (UTC)He's smart enough to know Arashi won't take a non-explanation for an answer. He could do it. He could blow the vampire off, risk the job he almost had, risk whatever the hell he wanted from Arashi, if he even knew. He's done this dance before. He knew how it ended.
"I can't do this over the phone."
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Date: 2011-09-02 02:24 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-09-02 02:27 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-09-02 10:59 pm (UTC)"In the nexus," he says eventually (and that will never feel right, ever, directions involving an interdimensional vortex; everything about this is wrong), "there's a white door with 400 on it in gold."