thebestseller: (depressed)
Richard Castle [Castle] ([personal profile] thebestseller) wrote2011-02-17 06:10 pm

Chapter 34. Do I have to fall asleep with roses in my hand?

[The writing is shaky, as though the writer were slightly inebriated, but still recognizable as Rick's.]

Don't mean to add onto everything else, but Nikki's gone.

As in disappeared.

[A clear drop appears on the page. Hmm.

Any characters who come to see Rick in person on the evening/night of the 17th will find him completely shit out of his head drunk and inclined to either not talk or mumble.]

[identity profile] stonyfaced.livejournal.com 2011-02-18 01:44 am (UTC)(link)
Damn. I'm sorry. She was a good woman.

[identity profile] bloody-pens.livejournal.com 2011-02-18 01:54 am (UTC)(link)
Best one I knew, sir.

[action] amen rick

[identity profile] man-genius.livejournal.com 2011-02-18 04:37 am (UTC)(link)


February is chicken fried?

[action] amen rick

[identity profile] bloody-pens.livejournal.com 2011-02-18 04:39 am (UTC)(link)


Fired. FIRED, I said. You know. Let go. Shown the door.

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[identity profile] man-genius.livejournal.com 2011-02-18 04:51 am (UTC)(link)
Oh. Yeah. Let's fire February. Can we retroactively fire January too?

Edited 2011-02-18 04:51 (UTC)

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[identity profile] bloody-pens.livejournal.com 2011-02-18 05:16 am (UTC)(link)
'm all for that.



Prob'ly should lay off for now. Don't need a hangover.

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[identity profile] man-genius.livejournal.com 2011-02-18 05:27 am (UTC)(link)


Considering you smell like a distillery, I think it's too late, man-twin.



Besides, if there was ever a time to get shit faced, this would be it.



But if you blow chunks, I'm sending Gai to clean you up.

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[identity profile] bloody-pens.livejournal.com 2011-02-18 05:50 am (UTC)(link)


'magine he'd do it with youthfulness, too.



Yeah, guess it's a good day to drink. Hate this, though.

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[identity profile] man-genius.livejournal.com 2011-02-18 06:10 am (UTC)(link)
He'd clean bedpans with youthfulness.



It's unfair. I finally find Catherine again and you lose Nikki. It's like one of us always has to be unhappy. I find my boss. You lose your wife. I finally finish the radio, the Tree gives us evil memory sharing radios. Grift still hasn't come back, the tree has suddenly become bizzaro world and the moment any of us find any piece of happiness it just gets taken away, over and over and--



UGH. RICK! This is foul! What the hell man? UGH, it's like licking lab alcohol off a beaker!
Edited 2011-02-18 06:11 (UTC)

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[identity profile] bloody-pens.livejournal.com 2011-02-18 03:53 pm (UTC)(link)


's why you usually mix it with stuff, brother dear. 's a bit of an acquired taste, too.



Not fair. No, it's really not. No gettin' around that. Makes me wonder what th' hell ELSE is going to go wrong next.



She wasn't my wife anyway. Made a stupid assumption and it was the wrong one.

[action]...ok KK, no, don't post with the my little pony

[identity profile] man-genius.livejournal.com 2011-02-18 07:08 pm (UTC)(link)


...I know that! But there's like normal people's vodka and then there's the industrial grade disinfectant that you're choosing to poison your liver with!



Don't say that! They're always listening.

She--wait what? How do you know?

[action] I'd LOL hard if that happened

[identity profile] bloody-pens.livejournal.com 2011-02-18 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Right, right. I forget there's always someone waiting to prove that, yeah, it CAN get worse. Zipping lips.



Her last memory kinda implied that we weren't. You know. We talked about it, and... well. It doesn't feel RIGHT. I know Promise had to come somewhere, but... guess it wasn't from her. Don't know what we were to each other, but 's not that.

[identity profile] grab-my-bells.livejournal.com 2011-02-18 06:16 am (UTC)(link)
[He's not sure what to say, so his pen just rests here for a moment] For what it's worth, I'm sorry.

[identity profile] bloody-pens.livejournal.com 2011-02-18 03:46 pm (UTC)(link)
It's worth a lot.
live_ringer: (Thoughtless men casting doubts on me.)

[personal profile] live_ringer 2011-02-18 06:46 am (UTC)(link)
Damn it. I'm sorry to hear that, Rick.

[identity profile] bloody-pens.livejournal.com 2011-02-18 03:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Me too.
treeleopardess: (melancholy)

[personal profile] treeleopardess 2011-02-18 06:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I'm sorry, Rick. We'll miss her.

[identity profile] bloody-pens.livejournal.com 2011-02-18 08:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Thanks.

And yeah, we will.

[identity profile] bloody-pens.livejournal.com 2011-02-19 02:32 am (UTC)(link)
Thanks.

[identity profile] brazo-izquierda.livejournal.com 2011-02-19 02:06 am (UTC)(link)
[ unnecessary-to-state pause goes here. He does not know who she is to him, and hasn't exchanged more than a few words with her, but that doesn't matter much in the grand scheme of things. ]

Let me know if you need anything.

<3

[identity profile] bloody-pens.livejournal.com 2011-02-19 02:33 am (UTC)(link)
Appreciate it.



She and I were from the same place. We were close.

<3

[identity profile] brazo-izquierda.livejournal.com 2011-02-20 03:58 pm (UTC)(link)
It's not a problem.

[ ...ah. ] I'm sorry to hear that.
ice_echani: (I look on things I don't know)

[personal profile] ice_echani 2011-02-19 06:11 am (UTC)(link)
[stab with a pen.]

[identity profile] bloody-pens.livejournal.com 2011-02-19 08:13 pm (UTC)(link)
Yup, pretty much how I feel.