Open RP: Great Hall: It's Alive!

[ijk-mno.livejournal.com]

The circles under his eyes are more pronounced than usual today. L slips into the Great Hall, to get himself a pot of tea. Once it arrives, he sits and pauses, to wait for it to steep. It needs to be stronger than this.

He's been pushing himself on a case the past few days. It's resolved now, but it was the first real challenge he's had since moving here, so he may have dropped off the face of the earth a little. Time to emerge and make sure everyone is still alive and well.

As soon as the tea is finished steeping, that is.

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[ijk-mno.livejournal.com]

"Strawberries?"

The next best thing from cake, and a little healthier.

[ijk-mno.livejournal.com]

"The case? Yes, it's finished."

He presses his thumb against his bottom lip.

"He has improved, hasn't he?"

[noseymaddie.livejournal.com]

"A?" she echos. The B=murderer connection is easy. It takes only a moment or two to put together A with the information she's gathered. "That poor little boy in the sorting room?" Yes, this is still her impression of A. "Why on..." Her voice trails off. "What did...?" She shook her head. "I won't harass him!" she declares.

[mello-n-choco.livejournal.com]

"He has. I've seen him have some type of session with Kusu where he lies on the ground and Kusu's holds his hands over him. During those, Kusu's markings...they're not make up...change. After, A seems much more relaxed." I wasn't observed watching. I was just restless and wanted something to do when I saw them in the greenhouse.

"Have you neglected Matt, too? You are planning on seeing him soon, right?" Relationships need time together, after all. "Even if you just sleep on him, he'll feel better." I look at the table. It's just weird.

[ijk-mno.livejournal.com]

"Thank you. He grew up with B."

She's obviously intelligent enough to draw her own conclusions from that.

[gamerspy.livejournal.com]

Matt laughs, and gets up to chase down a house elf. He returns a few moments later with a very large bowl of strawberries and some shortbread, which bears a passing resemblance to real food while still being mostly made out of sugar.

"For justice, and all that."

[ijk-mno.livejournal.com]

"Sometimes he vanishes into his computer, sometimes I vanish into my cases. It's an understanding. I'll go to him after I drink this."

And L will no doubt sleep on him tonight.

[noseymaddie.livejournal.com]

Maddie shakes her head. "What I meant," she says, trying to gather her wits again, "is that I was told to find B and he told me you looked like him. And, you're going to send me onto someone else who will tell me another tantalizing bit but not the whole story." She shakes her head again. "There's no such thing as an impossible scenario, only improbable ones," she paraphrased what Jonathan had told her often enough. "Therefore, unless you're not thinking laterally enough, he couldn't have stumped you." She assumes much.

[ijk-mno.livejournal.com]

"I do love you."

Not only because Matt brings him food, too.

[mello-n-choco.livejournal.com]

I nod. "Good. Near and I have our own pursuits as well, but it keeps us from driving each other insane...which would probably be bad for everyone within the blast radius."

[gamerspy.livejournal.com]

Matt snickers, and steals a quick kiss as he sets the bowl down.

"Love you too. I hope you don't say that to everyone who gives you strawberries."

[ijk-mno.livejournal.com]

"I'm amazed- and glad- you get along as well as you do as it is."

It isn't a behaviour L would have predicted.

[ijk-mno.livejournal.com]

"Ask the FBI agent."

She's lived it.

"It's at her discretion, how much she tells you."

[ijk-mno.livejournal.com]

"Only handsome, begoggled redheads."

Letting his hand linger on Matt's arm.

[gamerspy.livejournal.com]

He laughs, looking pleased and just a little pink.

"If I see any of those wandering around with baskets of strawberries I'll be sure to take them out, then."

He's also totally cool with the hand-lingering, incidentally.

[ijk-mno.livejournal.com]

"For my safety? So I'm not overcome and seduced?"

With the other hand, he sips his tea.

[noseymaddie.livejournal.com]

Maddie frowns. "She wasn't forthcoming." But, that was fairly standard behavior for law enforcement with the press. She wasn't surprised. It was obvious, though, that this one across from her knew more than he was giving. It didn't help that he was ignoring her obvious compliment. How was a woman supposed ot work if she couldn't rely on her charms?

[ijk-mno.livejournal.com]

"Then I'll respect her wishes. Do you have any other questions you'd like answers to?"

The very image of politeness.

[mello-n-choco.livejournal.com]

I shrug. "Never thought we would, but it works. We've always been defined off each other. Without the...forced competition, we get along, as long as we make allowances." I look at the table. "It's not easy, but it wouldn't be worth anything if it was."

[gamerspy.livejournal.com]

"Something like that, yeah. And they might have a really big basket of strawberries. I might not be able to compete."

[noseymaddie.livejournal.com]

Maddie frowns. She hates being cut off, oh how she hated it. But, she'd find another way, she would.

She sighed. "A," what a horrid name, "mentioned being...trained?" How he took the question would tell her something and then she'd have a direction or three to dig.

[ijk-mno.livejournal.com]

L thinks easy is nice too (Matt is easy to be with) but he doesn't say so.

"He's well?"

[ijk-mno.livejournal.com]

"I love you more than strawberries," he tells him, which for L is romantic.

[ijk-mno.livejournal.com]

"To take my position should I die."

Absolutely calmly.

[mello-n-choco.livejournal.com]

"Near?" I nod. "He seemed well when I left this morning. He's working on something, though I don't think a case. He's not focused enough for a case."