ataraxion | [voice] dated to late wednesday "evening" - eridan's guide to finding dead bodies

[this is surprise.]
Oh.

[this is distress.]
I - I... uh - fuck -

[this is panic.]
I need - fuckin' son of a bitch I need, um, someone here, right noww, the pool - [there's a little gasping breath, followed by a more sincere attempt at deep breathing. eridan doesn't even try to sound Okay at all.] Someone's in...

[and finally, the verbal shoulder-slump of defeat.]
Someone's drowwned in the pool.

[this is not what he wants to be doing right now at all, in the slightest, he was just supposed to look around real fast, just a quick look before he kept wandering, there wasn't supposed to be anything wrong.] I need John Wwatson. 001, uh, just the 001. An', uh. Shit. [there's the sound of frustrated typing for a minute, then,] 002-215. That one. I need both'a you to... Talk to me.

Someone else come help me. He's definitely...

[there's a long pause here, almost a minute, and then:] He's been here for a wwhile. There's nothin' else to do.

[002-215, Neal Caffrey and 001-197, John Watson are getting a notification every minute for this post until they respond.]

((OOC: way to brutalize the /small tag, whoops. anyway all responses voice, it is completely likely that anyone who knew Sherlock will get a pretty clear idea of who Eridan's referring to with such a dramatic call-out to Neal and Watson. uuuhh other than that yep that's it Sherlock's dead guys.))

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Eridan?

[ A body. She can't help with that, she can't, and she's not sure she can help him. But she has to try. ]

Take some deep breaths, okay?

[He does the opposite of deep breathing, which in this case is to sigh heavily.]

Evveryone's gotta stop actin' like I don't knoww to breathe.

We're just worried about you.

[ It's not like they can do much else for the poor soul in the pool. ]

Wwell, I'm not the one floatin' belly up, am I? So quit it.

[It's more of an instinctual reflex at this point to act as though he's braver or better than everyone else, and his words are more bitter than arrogant.]

[ She can work with bitter. ]

I didn't know him and I can't help him now. I know Dr. Watson, but he's busy. You're the one I can do something for.

I think a lot of people might feel that way right now. They want to do something but they don't know what, so they look after the people they can do things for. The ones they care about.

[This is the second person this jump who's insinuated he's more than just an obnoxious background fixture. Eridan's not sure how to handle this. Any of it.]

--Wwell, don't wworry about me, I'm fine. I just got freaked out, is all.

That's understandable.

[ Eridan wasn't ever a background fixture to her. After Strela, after being fully assimilated, he's even less likely to be some sort of prop in her mind. ]

Though I'll probably worry anyway.

Sure, do wwhatevver you wwant. Just leavve me outta it.

[ She's going to worry about you even if you don't like it, Eridan. Deal with it. ]

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