Private message to Rory

[alt_rabastan]

Rory -

Are you observing tonight? I forgot to look and see if it was cloudy. I should have remembered-

Well, I know it's not Saturday but if you want to have a drink I wouldn't say no.

Rod was just here, you see.

Well. I've already had a few.

Comments

[alt_sinistra]

Raz -

No, quite cloudy. I've got a student here for another minute or three finishing working through a puzzle, but I can be right down after that.

What's the matter? And should I bring anything down with me?

[alt_rabastan]

Ah, alright. That shouldn't take too long, should it.

Rod brought scotch, so I think there won't be need for anything else.

Barty's dead. I know you didn't know him too well, but he was a friend. A good friend. And now he's dead, so. That's why Rod was here.

[alt_sinistra]

Oh.

Oh, *Merlin*.

I had some idea what he meant to you.

I am so very sorry.

I'll be down soonest.

[alt_rabastan]

You know, I prefer to drink when I'm having a laugh, not like this. But it's here, so.

Barty was a good mate. So was Reg, and so was Evan.

What I really don't get is why I keep getting to live, you know?

[alt_sinistra]

Oh, my dear Raz.

I haven't faced the losses you have, but ... I keep wondering the same thing. Why do some people get the luck, the being in the safer place at the right time, the opportunity, and why do some people not?

And if Miles Bletchley does not get out of here in the next three minutes, I swear, I'm going to be tempted to do something quite unpleasant to him.

[alt_rabastan]

Well you know some losses are worth fighting for, or some rubbish like that. Except Barty would have rather gone out fighting and it sounds like he didn't.

Fuck, just got an owl. Meeting of the important parties at St. James tonight. Optional. Think I will option out, thank you very much.

[alt_sinistra]

Sensible of you, optioning out.

He is finally done asking me really quite silly questions. And no, I do not care to discuss the intricacies of charting comet orbits further tonight.

Let me just shoo him the rest of the way out the door, and I'll be right down. (You might understand my fondness for you by the fact I do not feel remotely guilty about getting him to shut up and go away.)

[alt_rabastan]

Don't feel guilty.

Except you said you don't - so, I'm glad you're on your way. Good.