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[Should you pay attention to the background framing the very irate young woman, the familiar articles and furniture belonging to the residential cabins will come into view, but that's not very important now, neither is the unfortunate state of the cabin. You should focus on the scowl that refuses to fade on Alex's face as much as she tries to maintain her composure. In her fury, none of this managed to be filtered.]

You know, I have been really sensitive about whatever it is you called your "personal space", Hal. All the "I have a lot on my mind, really." bit and the "I'm not quite adapt at the civilized art of phone conversation, I'm afraid," shite. I was even starting to feel sorry for you. Worry, even! Should've known you were doing all this cocking distance thing so I wouldn't smell the pissin' blood on you.

[She holds a depleted blood bag for emphasis, shaking and pointing at it dramatically] Want to bet on how many I've earthed of those so far? Or did you leave any for the starving vampire children in Africa?

You're a twice dead man when I find you, erse. And don't think I won't be telling Tom about this. Shatter his poor little heart, it will.

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[dilemma]

And now the whole ship knows about his dirty secret. Tom too. If I had to guess.

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The more, the merrier. He shouldn't have been doing it in the first place.

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[loyalpup]

That's just the fake stuff, Alex. Didn't Hal tell you about it?

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[Her face actually crumbles for a moment before she composes herself.] I want to believe that...

[So she holds a blood splattered shirt up to the screen] So, can you come sniff this for me? Just to make sure?

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[assumedposition]

... Alex?! Are you okay?

What on Earth happened to your room?!

[ Asking the important questions, Albert. ]

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It's not my room. Which reminds me, I could stand to do more damage, yeah?

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[passe]

[ there's a delay before he responds, tries to figure out how to respond. he's got plenty of excuses lined up, but as soon as the feed's actually on, all he manages is: ]

Alex.

[ it's desperate, slightly pleading - but probably not as ashamed as it could be. ]

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I expected porn under your pillow. Not this. [She's not exactly joking, but a touch away from sounding hysterical.]

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[prodigalbrat]

Think of all us who might actually need that blood. [ A beat. ] What a pig.

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So you weren't supplying him?

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[servant]

Is that really blood?

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And it smells even worse than it looks! You're lucky you don't have to put up with that.

That's why I'm liberating the bags.

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[ringbearer]

[ there's a small silence. ]

You speak of..these 'vampires', don't you? I've only spoken with a few, once.

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You got one of the nice ones, I hope? None of the snarling and the fanging and the crazy eye thing?

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[lifewithoutrest]

There are far less civilized ways he might have gained his nutrition.

[But then her experience with vampires is a little different than most people's.]

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You're telling me? But it's the whole dark and morbid act to validate every pissin' stereotype out there. [Yes. She's still pretty upset over this.] And it's not just the blood drinking. It's the lying.

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[dearlydeceived]

Okay, so, just to be clear. Where you're from - and I'm assuming Hal too? - drinking any fucking blood's a bad sign? Is it like cheating on your diet bad, or falling off the wagon into a pile of cocaine bad?

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Not sure about the synthetic tomato juice shite he's been telling everyone about, but this is the real thing. Soon enough he'll be so off the wagon he'll be chasing after the wheels.

It turns him psychotic with a side of charming sociopath.

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[ex_question191]

Jeez, I can't believe someone's been murdering the poor, innocent bloodbags.

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I'm sure that sounded rather intelligent in your head. Roll back the sass.

[jilt]

What a mess.

[ whether that means the room or the state of hal's life is up for debate. ]

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I'm not sure. I think it could stand a couple of gutted pillows. I haven't even gone through the closet yet.

NOT HERE.

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[ BUT STEFAN IS CHECKING THIS OUT LIKE WHOA. ]

ALSO NOT HERE.

[prima_facie]

[ HE SURE ISN'T THE ONLY ONE EITHER ]

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[notjelly]

Oh my! What's the saying? "Drama bomb!" That sounds good! So what happened? Friend of yours turn out to be a vampire of sorts?

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Sociopath friend of mine started drinking blood again, more like it.

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Are you trying to get us all killed, or are you just that stupid?

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Not all of us, blood fiend, but I won't be crying into my hanky the moment you're gone.

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[surrogates]

[ there's a great deal many things to be said about this and the only thing that comes to mind is possibly the oddest question on the planet. ]

How many of those have you unearthed? [ And almost as an afterthought. ] And if he didn't leave any bags for the starving vampire children, that's going to be a bigger problem than just him falling onto that wagon.

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[welp] Enough for me to scream about it into the network, I guess.


Oh... I suppose that could be a problem...

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[adlered]

Impressive way to call him out. Most would have opted for a bit of privacy in yelling at someone like this.

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The power of shaming does wonders.