Owls and Open RP: Nothing says Thanksgiving like Pharmaceutical Fruitcake

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((Backdated to Thanksgiving Day))


Geoffrey-

Happy Thanksgiving! I know fruitcake’s more Christmas-y, but it’s my friend’s special recipe. Just don’t drink or drive after you’ve eaten it, okay?

-Molly



Nny and Devi,

Hi guys! Happy Thanksgiving. I’m a shitty cook, but I made fruitcake--Nny honey, you might want to avoid this, since it’s got Vicoden and stuff in it, but Devi might enjoy it.

Love,
Molly



Arya,

Happy Thanksgiving! (It’s a fairly major holiday in the part of the world I’m from--basically you get together with your family and eat yourself sick.) Here’s some fruitcake, though don’t eat much at once and really don’t mix it with alcohol. Let me know if you want to get in some sword practice soon.

-Molly



Cyclona-

Hi! I met you at your Sorting, though I don’t know if you remember me. Anyway, happy Thanksgiving--this is some of my friend Mavis’s fruitcake, which is tasty and fun but which you shouldn’t mix with alcohol. Like, ever.

-Molly




Doctor Maturin,

Hi. I never did give you a proper thank-you for the potion you made me, so I made some Thanksgiving fruitcake. It’s my friend’s recipe, and it’s good, but you really want to avoid drinking or operating heavy machinery for four to six hours after eating it.

-Molly



Jaime,

Happy Thanksgiving! I made some fruitcake, but don’t take it eat it with alcohol, and don’t drive or anything for a while.

-Molly



Shaun,

I know you’re not American, but happy Thanksgiving anyway, and have some fruitcake. I’ve sent some to your friend, too, and I’ll tell you what I’ve told her: don’t drink, and definitely don’t drive after you’ve eaten it, okay?

-Molly



Susan,

Your buddy’s not American and you’re not even from Earth, but happy Thanksgiving--all you really need to know about the holiday is that it’s an excuse for people to eat themselves insensible. I made fruitcake, but it’s special fruitcake, so don’t drink, drive, or otherwise do anything requiring any kind of hand-eye coordination for four to six hours.

-Molly



Miss (Mrs.?) Evans,

Hi. I don’t know if you’d remember me or not--you fixed my back up after I went and fell off the roof like a complete dumbass. Anyway, it’s Thanksgiving in America, so I’m giving out fruitcake--this stuff is good, but don’t eat it with alcohol, and definitely don’t drive for a while.

-Molly



Attached to each owl is a paper cup of small, pretty fruitcake cubes done up in waxed paper. They certainly look and smell appetizing, whatever else might be said of them.

It wasn't until the owls had been sent that Molly realized she'd massively overbaked--she had enough left over to send out probably twice the parcels she had.

Damn. Well, it really would be a shame to let it go to waste. People could be weird about eating something left out for common consumption, but maybe if the person who actually made it was there, it would be a little better. Might as well try, at least.

Accordingly, she hauled all her goodies down to the Great Hall, dragooning a small herd of house elves to help her set up a little stall. Some of them got some fruitcake, too, and wound up staggering off and occasionally bouncing into the walls, giggling. Molly smiled--it was always nice to see people properly enjoying the holidays.

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Re: Return owl from Nny

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"Doesn't she?" He tipped his head and shrugged. "She should. It's probably one of the bigger open 'secrets' around. 'The caretaker is a murderous psycho'. It's hardly news."

Re: Return owl from Nny

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"There's a difference between knowing and knowing," she said. "I don't know, it might be that she really does understand, and wouldn't really mind if you went after her, but...well, not everyone's like me, Nny." She gave him a slight, oddly fond smile. "You know I'd forgive you anything, but Molly...I don't know. She loves you, and I think she might not always remember that part of you exists. From what I've seen, she sees the good in people, without necessarily realizing the bad."

Re: Return owl from Nny

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"Maybe you should warn her, then," he said tightly, crossing his arms across his chest, gripping his narrow biceps with hands gone white-knuckled with tension. "I can't... I can't make anyone get it."

Re: Return owl from Nny

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Devi stood, crossing the room to him. She didn't touch him, but her hand hovered over one of his. "Maybe you ought to talk to her," she said. "Have you ever really talked to her about that? I know she wouldn't think any less of you for it, and it might be good for her to hear about it."

She paused. She wasn't any good at articulating this sort of thing; she knew what she wanted to say, just not how to actually say it. "I think Molly might be like me," she said at last. "I know about that part of you, but to me it's only part--and not the important part, at that. I just know about it better than she does, because I've known you so much longer. To me you're Nny, not 'that homicidal groundskeeper', and I think you are to her, too. So maybe you need to remind her, because she's not the kind of person who's going to automatically think of it."

Re: Return owl from Nny

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"Maybe," he whispered, glancing away. "They never seem to believe me, though. The people I like enough to warn. I'm not... I'm not safe and I don't know if she wants to believe that."

Re: Return owl from Nny

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Devi smiled again, just a little. "Nny, she runs around with a samurai sword and occasionally kills zombies," she said. "If you want to be technical, she's not safe, either." If you wanted to be really technical, Devi herself wasn't, either, but that wasn't something she was about to point out to Nny. "Nobody wants to believe the people we love aren't safe, but if we love them enough we just take it in stride, you know?"

Re: Return owl from Nny

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"You shouldn't take it in stride." He gave her a long, serious look. "You shouldn't ever take it in stride."

Re: Return owl from Nny

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Now she did touch him, laying her hand over his. "Taking it in stride doesn't mean forgetting it," she said. "It doesn't mean lulling yourself into thinking it can't happen. It just means...fuck, I don't know how to say it. I guess I mean that it doesn't have to be at the forefront of your mind. If you're me, or Molly, I mean." She paused. "Oh, hell, I'm screwing this up. I know what I want to say, I just...don't know how to say it. I guess I just mean...we don't ever forget it, but sometimes it might be good if you could sort of remind her. I live with you--I know you well enough that I don't ever forget what you are. She doesn't, and maybe you ought to really talk to her about it."

She put her other hand on his shoulder. "You can't change what you are, Nny, and none of us would ever ask you to. What we would ask--what I'm asking, anyway--is that you help us all work with it. Any of us that love you don't think of you as this dangerous killer, you know? We know you are, but that's not what we see when we look at you."

Re: Return owl from Nny

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"I know you won't forget. You know... well, firsthand, really. But. But she doesn't know directly... and I don't, I don't know if just saying it can get it through to her."

Re: Return owl from Nny

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Very true. Devi had, after all, seen things...well, firsthand; it was easy for her to remember. Molly, though...hmm. Well, the woman had bitten through a man's leg once; she clearly had some idea of what crazy violence could be like. That was definitely something to build on.

"Have you ever been out with her, when she practices her swordwork?" she asked at last. "You might talk to her, see if you could go with her. Even if you don't go up against each other, she could see what you can do, and you can see what she can do. I don't know if that would help or not, but it might."

Re: Return owl from Nny

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"I'm... really not sure if that's a safe subject to discuss with weapons in hand." He sighed. "Even with the no-kill rule."

Re: Return owl from Nny

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He had a point. "Well, I'll think about it, and you think about it, too. There's got to be some way you can talk to her about it. I mean, it's the kind of thing she'd probably understand." Molly had told Devi that she'd once bitten through a man's leg, after all. It wasn't like the woman didn't understand the concept of violence.