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 Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 8:32 pm
"Ah... Ah know now..." Sid said, some of the color draining from his face. He found himself staring at the raised tentacle, at least until what Billy meant fully sank in. He turned his head away and admired the lake once again. "Sss'very... Interestin'..."
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Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 8:34 pm
Billy cocked his head at Sid thoughtfully, "How... d'fish reproduce again? Somethin' aboo' eggs, righ'? Them fancy... eggs wha' posh rich people... eat..." He wracked his brain, but couldn't seem to remember the word, "T'ink they eat yer ...eggs up a' th'labs?"
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Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 8:49 pm
"Ah don' think Ah'm gonna lay eggs," Sid said, trying to keep his tone nice and level. Billy was drugged out of his skull, never forget that. Don't yell, don't upset him, and don't you dare hit him. Maintain...
Maintaining apparently meant he couldn't keep himself from saying the next thing to pop into his head. "Ah haf no ********' clue how these things... mate."
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Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 8:52 pm
At that, Billy laughed again, mellow and slurred, of course, but an honest laugh none the less. "Liss'in..... fer... th'smokes... in me bag... th'bottom. Shoved in th'... in the seam... there shoul' be... a wee pill. Y'can... y'can have it. S'vicodan. S'my t'ank ye' fer... fer th'smokes."
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Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 9:02 pm
There was just the slightest twinge of shame over the fact the mention of vicodin perked Sid right up. He looked at his leg, which didn't really hurt all that much... but if he bent down to rifle through the bag again it would surely start. It was a long walk back, too, so he was perfectly justified in getting up to retrieve it. He moved a little too quickly that time, and as promised it took a little digging... but it was vicodin all right.
He waited until after he returned to the rock to make an awkward attempt at swallowing without any water. He could have just dipped his hand into the lake, but things like Billy swam around in there.
"Yuh a fine man," Sid said. He managed to get the pill down on the third attempt. Without anything to go with it it felt like it was gouging its way down, but what did he care?
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Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 9:12 pm
"Thank Big Red," Billy grinned, "An' I don' need it... no more... do I? Been... hoardin' it... since they... took all tha' away. Missed one in th'grass. Found it an' stowed it, though'..." He seemed utterly proud of himself for this.
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Posted: Mon Oct 09, 2006 9:17 pm
"Ya dih good," Sid said, patting Billy on the shoulder.
Now it was just a matter of waiting...
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Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 11:52 am
Billy glanced up, sedative-enduced moodswings making his eyes water. He looked touched, possitively touched as he coiled a tentacle around the older man's more human arm, "Y't'ink so...? Really?"
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Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 11:58 am
"Shuah," Sid said. He fooled himself into thinking the pill was already taking affect, thus why he couldn't let the texture of the tentacle on his hairy arm bother him. "Ah mean, ih really ssomefin ta hide thah from 'em."
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Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 12:09 pm
"Swah' I... s'wha' I do!" Billy declared in a dumb but proud way. "Er... did anyway..." at that, he gave a miserable laugh.
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Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 12:12 pm
"Jus in a bad ssspell ih all," Sid said, trying to keep up the reassuring tone. It didn't come easily to him, but Billy seemed like he needed it. "Ih'll geh better... Comparatif... tively."
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Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 12:14 pm
"Y't'ink?" The shattered octopus sniffed, giving the fish'man's arm a squeeze.
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Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 12:15 pm
Sid nodded, then he wiggled his fingers just to make sure the circulation was okay. He didn't want to go so far as to say they'd sure take the collar off, so he left it at a nod.
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Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 12:20 pm
"M'jes'... so tired..." Billy sighed, slowly letting go to put his cigarette out in the water swirling about his lower tentacles.
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Posted: Tue Oct 10, 2006 12:24 pm
"Ih'll be okay," Sid said. The words sounded hollow even to him. He may have had a drop of optimism in him, but he'd used that up just a moment ago. He patted Billy's tentacle again, at a loss for what more he could say.
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