rivalsweetscent | 000// Phone Post-O

[Phonecall from one saur to another. Please pick up, please pick up...]

[The first thought was that maybe he needed a new ringtone. But oh hey no he's picking up his phone and.... Vin..nie?]

...Hello?

[That's right! And he's sounding... kind of nervous, actually. Rattled and rambling.]

Bulba how much do you know about Gideon and what happened that night with that shit in the hospital cuz he says you know but I'm not believing a word out of that son of a bitch's mouth and...

[You can practically hear the frowning in Bulba's voice.]

Whoa, calm down a second. Is he bugging you again? I've got my hunches about that night but I couldn't tell you one way or another... Why'd he say I know...

[Okay, breathe. Slow down, Vinnie.]

He came around looking for his book back. And I remembered... I dunno what I remembered. Just that I knew it had to be him. 'Cept he keeps pulling this bullshit about how you were a witness to his innocence or some crap.

I saw him the next morning, yeah, but I didn't really put a lot of weight into what he was saying with all the guilt trips he was trying to pin on me. Do you still have the book?

He was tryin' to guilt trip me, too, about the shit that went down last year. 'Bout being violent and having a bad temper and swearin'... Okay, that's all kinda true, but that's not what started the incident, so whatever.

I got the book though. An' I'm not giving it back 'til I get some legit answers.

That's a plan.

I don't like it. I don't know why he thought I was going to back him up but... hmm... You said you remembered? Sort of?

Yeah, but I get the feeling he's gonna search through my room with his invisibleness. I need a hiding spot for it...

Er... I don't really remember that much. I can't remember any faces or voices that clearly. But I was dead sure it was Gideon, I dunno how to explain it. Like when you know something but you don't know why you know it?

Hmmm... Yeah, I think I kind of know what you mean.

[Sigh.]

You can bring the book over here if you want?

Al'right.

...

[Long awkward pause where he doesn't know what else to say.]

Should I... come over now?

[That was awkward. Pause. This is awkward.]

... If you want? That'd be fine.

Oh... kay then. See you...?

[Another pause, then he hung up before it could get too overbearingly awkward.

Not too long later, a Venusaur poked his head in through the door just slightly. He was jumpy and nervous and pale, eyes darting around like his own shadow was out to get him. Ghosts could be anywhere.]

[And there was a Bulba, who raised his eyebrows a little at Vinnie's appearance but quickly averted his eyes just... sort of slightly over there.]

... Hi. I don't think he's here.

[Vinnie slips in as quietly as he can, and shuts the door behind him. He looks nervous about even speaking, lest he is overheard by Gideon's ghostly entourage. He book was tightly clutched in his hand.

Feeling scared made him feel like an idiot, and it showed. He probably wouldn't have come to Bulba (again) for help (especially since the guy was used to having a ghost on his team) if it weren't for the fact that they both silently, mutually agreed that the event in question was horrible.]

So... Uh.

What do you remember of that night?

[Bulba made a motion for Vinnie to take a seat, if only because it looked like he was about to jump out of his skin at any given moment and he might have been afraid that he was going to hurt himself. He moved to take a seat on the edge of his bed, having just been poking at a berry pot.]

Not... too much. [And then he shook his head.] Well, no, I guess that's not what I mean. I don't know how much I missed before I got there.

Sasha was freaking out over something and that woke us up... You were freaking out and it was like something had you. Couldn't see anything though, and then whoever it was spat a Will O Wisp at me so...

[He shrugged.]

[He wasn't going to say no to a seat - if only because his legs were feeling very weak right now. Like his bones were trembling under his skin.

Vinnie made a thinking face, trying to collect his memories as well.]

Didn't know about the Will O' Wisp part... But I know someone had me. It was like a ghost holding me down by the arms... I couldn't move. Fuckin' gagged me...

[The Venusaur grew quiet as his gaze turned introspective. All of this, coupled with his debilitating injury, was too much for anyone to take.]

[Oh, was that what the underwear had.... Bulba didn't make any effort to hide his grossed out look. He frowned, getting back up again to hold a hand out towards Vinnie.]

... Can I see it? The book, I mean.

Tch. Go for it.

[With a shrug, Vinnie passed the book onto Bulba. He'd already thumbed through it before, and most of it was... pretty uninteresting, actually. Just notes and observations and really inane assumptions. What an idiot.]

[Oh what. This was kind of disappointing after all the trouble that was surrounding it. Some of the observations about people were kind of interesting, but there were a lot that were just... kind of off. Bulba frowned, shutting it after a few pages.]

... I don't like it. He's been really bizarrely persistant since before it happened and that's not really helping his case out.

[Vinnie's eyes narrowed. He didn't believe for a minute that Gideon would've let up on getting what he wanted after all the fuss he made. The real question nagging at him was, what was the ghost's aim in all this?]

Yeah. He keeps trying to talk t'me, and I need to know what he's after. It would've been the perfect time to finish me off, while I was in the hospital. I don't doubt Ginny would've liked to see it happen.

Hell, he could do it again, anytime he wanted. The fuckin' ghost rooms two doors down from me. But I don't know how to get him to slip and fess up.

[He could see how that would be unsettling.]

I don't know if there's a way to get a ghost to do anything you really want them to. [Bulba was fairly certain the only reason Nyx listened to him as much as she did was because they were team mate's. Worked just fine for them, but wasn't going to help out in Gideon's case.]

Do you have any ideas why he's so fixated on you? Cause that's kind of weird too. Did you do anything besides freaking out at him that one time...?

[Ah yes, when Red Team first arrived at the school. That was a pretty graceful first impression. Gideon's fixation on him was just as perplexing to Vinnie.]

Not really...? I accused him of writing fanfiction in that book back during that goddamn fiasco, so I think this is his way of proving otherwise.

He's probably picked up on the fact that I don't like him. I ain't done anything to him if that's what you mean.

Huh.

[And then he thought about it. And then he thought about it some more.]

... Maybe that's it then. The fact that you don't like him, I mean. Now he's trying really hard to reverse it? ... In the most ineffective way possible, sure.

[Vinnie looked skeptical. There was no way that prissy ghost was putting him through all that misery in order to befriend him.]

What, by making me hate him more? Is he gonna kidnap me now cuz I said I didn't want t'have tea?

I don't buy it.

000// Phone Post-O

phonecall; after Jan 31st

[moshi moshi]

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[Then it turned into an action post?!]

[FUNNY HOW THAT WORKS]

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WHY... WHY DID THIS TAKE A MONTH...