paradisa | 039; backdated to midnight

[Here Spike was, coming back to his room after some quality time at a bar, innocently going about his day. Usual stuff. When he gets there, he doesn't bother to flip the lights on, and throws his jacket to where a chair usually sits -- only to hear it fall to the floor instead (...coincidentally causing the journal to fly out of it...). Huh.

He doesn't dwell on it though. Maybe he moved the chair and doesn't remember. Or he's more tipsy than he thought, which is always possible. Then he takes a step and immediately runs into something.]

Ow.

[-- what the? That's when he flips on the light to see a pile of shopping bags. ...

Recognition (very) slowly dawns on him as he has a better look around and gets incrementally more disturbed. Why... is he in Faye's room? How does that even happen? Did he forget what floor he was on? That's when he hears someone (who definitely isn't Faye) call out from the bed to turn off the light. That snaps his attention back to ask a much more pressing question.]

Who the hell are you?

ooc: Continuing the loss! Open over the journal.

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[ Heheh don't worry he'll make it up to you. Not really but it wasn't malicious! He just sees no point in lying.

Curious what Faye might admit to, he stays quiet. ]

I didn't do anything! [might as well start there]

You think I want you two bozos stuck in there?? [--no offense, Joshua]

[The point in lying is you don't get yelled at, like he is now that Faye knows he's in here.]

Doesn't really look that random.

You're telling me!

[yeah, she sounds pretty accusatory... despite how ridiculous of a notion that would actually be]

[Yes. He is telling her, and suddenly he's wondering why he didn't start with the suspicion to begin with. There's no way she didn't influence this somehow.]

That's all you've got to say?

[ Oh this is interesting. He'll just stay right where he is and keep listening. Until he gets bored in about five minutes, anyhow... ]

[Joshua will have entertainment for a while-- they can play the blame game for hours. There are plenty of romance novels, magazines, and houseplant books to dig into while he waits. She obviously won't mind.]

A couple of other things are coming to mind, now that you mention it!

[Yeah, he's planning on winning that game by the way.]

You want to write them down and slide them under the door?

[ Yeah sure he'll be sifting through the closest book absently. ]

That won't work... Not even fire can get through.

[she hears Joshua's voice, but doesn't quite make it out]

--What did he say?

[kind of pressing her ear to the door, now. ...Man, this is embarrassing]

[He's glancing behind him, halfway wondering what he tried before...]

Hope you didn't want anything in here.

Don't worry, miss, your room is still in one piece.

[...and, it is now re-dawning on her that Joshua is in her room]

--Don't touch anything!

... [Hello leverage.] How about you work on getting the door open and we'll talk.

How mean. It's not like she can do anything...

[yeah, what he said!]

Why don't you start??

[a useless kick against the door]

What am I supposed to do from out here, huh??

[He frowns at Joshua's comment; stop saying that, he's getting out of here.]

Maybe track down who did it.

She's too stupid.

--Hey! [she only catches the "she's--" part of that, but it's enough to offend her. She can guess.]

What do you expect me to do, go door-to-door??

Whatever is causing this, it's because of one of you two!

[More like she's too stubborn to do anything he says. There's a measured pause while Spike builds up his wall of not-giving-a-damn.]

That solves the mystery. [If he sounds more distant, it's because he's now taking a closer look at her room and what he can make use of. If he's going to be trapped here...]

[ The air just got a little heavier in here, but...that's probably just because it's getting stale or something, right? ]

Oh? That's correct. It's probably because of me. What are you going to do about it, Faye?

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[there's a pause while she falters, just a little. Joshua using her first name like that stands out so strangely when she hears it. It's just enough wrong to break up her angry momentum a bit]

...I don't know what to do.

[ugh, actually trying to think now]

Neither of you has any idea what's going on??

[For once, Spike stays quiet, because suddenly he's very focused on what Joshua's playing at. Who (he has to remind himself) isn't human. And a friend of Faye's...

This is starting to feel too familiar.]

I keep saying! It's a loss. What else could it be? Nobody in the Peace Patrol would be stupid or reckless enough to trap me in random rooms with innocent bystanders or weaker members. And anyone else with a vendetta against me would have locked me in rooms with the few here actually stronger than me.

And then there are the people like you, who don't have the intelligence, abilities, or motivation to pull off such a scheme.

So I think that just leaves the castle, don't you?

[there's a frustrated sound from the hall as she slumps and rests her forehead against the door. Thanks for the insults, Joshua. That just makes this better.]

...If this is a loss, it's the stupidest one I've ever heard of.

[hope you're listening, castle.]

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