IT'S THAT VERY SPECIAL TIME AGAIN.

[goodburger]

Time for.......


THE GODDAMN TEST DRIVE MEME

1. COMMENT WITH A JOURNAL OF A CHARACTER YOU'VE THOUGHT OF APPING/WOULD LIKE TO APP AS THOUGH THEY'RE ALREADY IN C&C
2. TAG AROUND WITH NEW JOURNALS OR OLD!
3. APP THEM ALL NOW!
4. IT IS PHYSICALLY IMPOSSIBLE FOR YOU TO BE LATE SO DON'T YOU EVEN GO THERE
5. LINK THIS POST TO ATP ADS YOU POST LATER
6. THIS TEXT HAS BEEN RECYCLED AT LEAST 25 TIMES
7. HAVE SOME FUCKING FUN

Comments

[enigmaestro]

Ah.. Then, if I may? Then this -- [And he steps real close, right into Gideon's face.] Will be rather notoriously hospitable to you.

[enabeled]

[ Gideon blinks slowly, not moving backward though his expression grows slightly perplexed. He tilts his head. ]

I'm not in the mood to play doctor. Really -- it's behind me now. Seems I have a whole new fresh start to figure out what to do with.

[enigmaestro]

Spoken like a man who's keen to flee something. [A casual observation and inference -- nothing psychologically probing. However.]

[enabeled]

[ His eyebrows quirk slightly, but Gideon holds up a finger. ]

Or a man keen to find something.

[enigmaestro]

And what do you think you'd find, I wonder? [Eddie, highly affronted by that finger, speaks through clenched teeth.]

[enabeled]

That's a very good question. I don't have an answer for you. At least not at the moment.

[enigmaestro]

I know what it's like to be a man in search, citizen. You won't be sated.

[enabeled]

What were you in search for? [ His tone is purely curious. ] Clearly you found something, Mr...?

[enigmaestro]

Deputy Mayor Nygma. I'm sure that answers both your queries.

[enabeled]

Then this really is an honor.

[ Yet his tone remains his thoughtful mostly-deadpan. ]

Was that not what you wanted? That'd be enough sate most people.

[enigmaestro]

[His frown is small, but persistent.] I'm hardly most people, Mr...?

[enabeled]

Dr. Gideon is fine.

So. What would sate you, then?

[enigmaestro]

Well, Mr. Gideon, goodness me. I'm hardly sure I want to share that with your charming self.

[enabeled]

You don't have to -- I was just making conversation. Most people only volunteer information they want to talk about.

And I know, I know. You're hardly most people.

[enigmaestro]

Our conversation seems to be hardening.

[enabeled]

[ Gideon holds out his hands, shrugging mildly. ]

You know surgeons. Always cutting deep even when they're off-duty. Better not to let the tools start to rust.

[enigmaestro]

You're so generous, to those of your... Profession. [The disdain hasn't even a synthetic shielding.] I've known surgeons, Dr. Gideon.

[enabeled]

Insufferable, aren't they? I'm generous more to myself than my colleagues. You aren't the only one with mixed feelings on doctors, I assure you.

Not all that different from politics, I imagine.

[enigmaestro]

I'm sure you care to explain your woven meaning at length, aren't you?

[enabeled]

I don't really care to. We did only just meet.

Besides, my last remark was only an observation. I haven't really known politicians.

[enigmaestro]

This nearly seems like an invitation to delve deeper information, doctor. Do you want to know politicians? In all honesty.

[enabeled]

I wouldn't mind it. Maybe I could use the perspective.

[enigmaestro]

I daresay it's more than merely perspective you could use. If I may? Why were you so keen to distance yourself from your presumed colleagues? Not for my benefit, I hope.

[enabeled]

Certainly not. I stopped practicing. So-- [ He gestures outwardly with his hands. ] I'm seeking a new profession. Just can't seem to... settle on anything. Maybe the change in location will make things a little clearer.

[enigmaestro]

Why did you stop? I assume it was a lucrative vocation.