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[loyalpup]

[Tom is red-eyed and sniffling. It's hard for him to catch his breath, but he believes it's important for him to make this announcement, important to let people know that the vampire will be missed because despite everything Hal was a good person and Tom's best friend. His first friend really]

H-Hal Yorke is gone. I waited in the room with them pods 'til everyone was gone and he weren't there. I checked his room just in case, but...

Now I know some folk didn't like him, but he was my best mate even if he was an arse. 'e helped save the world and everything, so that makes him a good guy.

[Tears start to spill and Tom wipes his face with the back of his arm. The more the tears fall the thicker his accent becomes]

It maybe ain't fair that some folk just leave like that. He was doin' all sort of good ta make everythin' right and now it don't mean not since he ain't here. It ain't right that he just left like that not tell none, like we don't care. Like ah dick'ead.

[pause]

Probably best 'e's gone anyway since he was nothin' but trouble and too much work and complained and was jus' a stupid vampire that didn't matter no how.

[More tears and as Tom goes to wipe them away he drops the communicator so that the last image is of the floor in Hal's room]

Comments

[loyalpup]

Leo an' Pearl were a werewolf and ghost 'e lived with 'fore he came ta live with Annie and me.

Funny that, don't ya think? Werewolf, ghost, and a vampire all livin' tagether all them years ago, an' then you, Annie, and George, and them me, Hal, and Annie, and then me, Hal, and Alex. Maybe we're all s'pose ta get along but just keep fightin'.

[humanistic]

[Funny is one word for it, and probably not the choice of word Mitchell would use. What had once seemed like a fairly unique living situation is turning out to be weirdly common, and he isn't sure of what to make of that.

But, all right, there's coincidence, or whatever, and then there's blind optimism. Meant to get along, yeah right.]

If we were meant t' get along, then we'd get along.

[loyalpup]

Well, maybe there was some fight and now everyone fights. I mean, why do we even fight?

[They really just need to hug it out]