"Yes," he says, and has to forcibly close his mouth before the ma'am comes out after it. This is good, comforting, familiar, after a very peculiar sort of day. He hangs his hat and ties on his apron - and washes his hands.
Just some good, simple work. He needs it; it's grounding.
He makes a start with the potatoes, and it's good, it's easy - something familiar and useful and mundane to do with his hands. He falls into a well-practiced rhythm, taking only the barest slivers necessary, wasting nothing.
"The Admiral returned his magic, and -- he said it was better to do it with someone else."
"He just - put something on my forehead," he says, still rather taken with
the utmost simplicity of it. "And it happened. I thought it would be
strange, or confusing, that I wouldn't know what to do, but it wasn't like
that at all."
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Date: 2017-01-10 08:23 am (UTC)It's strange. [She doesn't know if she likes it. She's so used to depending on herself, her wits, her body. This feels like cheating.]
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Date: 2017-01-10 08:24 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-01-10 08:27 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-01-10 08:37 am (UTC)Do you think you'll really have it forever?
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Date: 2017-01-10 08:40 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-01-10 08:48 am (UTC)Oh.
...Quentin turned me into a fox.
[He knows that's a nonsequitur but a fox, Elizabeth.]
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Date: 2017-01-10 09:01 am (UTC)He turned you into a fox? How did that happen?
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Date: 2017-01-10 09:05 am (UTC)He asked me to visit his room. He has his magic back, and -- he wanted someone to be a fox with. So I said it would be alright.
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Date: 2017-01-10 09:06 am (UTC)Would you like to tell me about it in person? I don't like talking on the phone like this for anything important. [And it sounds important.]
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Date: 2017-01-10 09:09 am (UTC)I don't know that there's very much more to tell, but - alright. [He does prefer speaking in person, he's finding.] Where would you like to meet?
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Date: 2017-01-10 09:54 am (UTC)[If Elizabeth were a warden, 90% of her strategy would be 'put them to work.']
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Date: 2017-01-10 10:02 am (UTC)Oh - yes, I'd like that.
[He's there not long after, a few minutes at most. It's not as if he has far to come.]
Elizabeth...?
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Date: 2017-01-10 07:39 pm (UTC)[She opens the door for him, smiling, and she puts a friendly hand on his shoulder, pulling him in.]
You made it. Hi.
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Date: 2017-01-10 07:46 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-01-10 08:00 pm (UTC)"Hang your hat on there," she tells him, indicating the peg the aprons are hanging from.
"Tie one of those on, and we'll get to peeling potatoes."
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Date: 2017-01-10 08:18 pm (UTC)Just some good, simple work. He needs it; it's grounding.
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Date: 2017-01-10 10:03 pm (UTC)"So," she says, then smiles at him. "A fox."
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Date: 2017-01-10 10:14 pm (UTC)He makes a start with the potatoes, and it's good, it's easy - something familiar and useful and mundane to do with his hands. He falls into a well-practiced rhythm, taking only the barest slivers necessary, wasting nothing.
"The Admiral returned his magic, and -- he said it was better to do it with someone else."
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Date: 2017-01-11 12:08 pm (UTC)"How did he do it?"
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Date: 2017-01-11 12:14 pm (UTC)"He just - put something on my forehead," he says, still rather taken with the utmost simplicity of it. "And it happened. I thought it would be strange, or confusing, that I wouldn't know what to do, but it wasn't like that at all."
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Date: 2017-01-11 12:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2017-01-11 01:00 pm (UTC)"It was..."
Animals can't speak. They don't think like humans do. So it's exceptionally hard to put into words, except:
"It wasn't like anything else I've ever experienced before. It was wonderful."
If giving himself up to the Obscurus is becoming anger and fear and pain, then the fox was curiosity and affection and joy.
Being Credence again, that's the hard part.
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Date: 2017-01-11 08:28 pm (UTC)"You should see those things. Things that make you remember how wonderful they were."
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Date: 2017-01-11 08:53 pm (UTC)"I'm glad I was able to - to give him something he needed."
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Date: 2017-01-11 08:55 pm (UTC)"He sounds like he needed that," she agrees. "Will you do it again?"
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