IC CONTACT - DRIFT FLEET

[onlyanapple]

Hi, this is Anthony Crowley. Uh, I’m probably not in right now, or asleep, and busy, or something, but leave a message after the tone and I’ll get right back to you. Ciao. BeeeEEeeeEEeee.



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FROM: SUBJECT: FIE did you hear about the guy... FIE the past, the present, and the future walk into a bar... it was tense FIE did you know babies are cooked at womb temperature? JAYDEN Happy dawning WOLFE Ten months late for work FIE You're doing a grape job with your bar. FIE Your decor remains fruitiful. FIE You have a bluetiful establishment. FIE Thank blue for the service. ALLEN Okay Castiel's been in the fleet several days and you haven't turned up in my quarters drunk... ANDERS I just wanted you to know that you've ruined my happy home life. ALLEN Crowley ALLEN Crowley I have some really good news!! ALLEN I got a bottle of Varric's newest product NANAKO Crowley I hope you've been doing ok! FELIX This planet is miserable ALEX PRESENT COMBO BREAKER INO Meet me at Allen's room -- ALLEN Ino's birthday is the 23rd INO So not only did I get Allen TWO different dates that he ENJOYED... ALLEN I haven't seen any magazines appear in my room lately. INO Alright, I need you to help me with something. ALLEN Who's Adam? INO Alright, you win. We're dating. ALLEN You're okay, right? INO You are SO dead the next time I see you ALLEN CROWLEY I THINK INO'S FOUND ANOTHER GUY

TO: SUBJECT: SAM Got something I need you to do for me. NAMI Sam's in the garden and he's being weird ALLEN ACTION TEK ACTION INO Okay so Sudden pop quiz question ALLEN You've been on two whole dates now and haven't even reported back to me once. INO Someone stole your face

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Comments

[save_the_souls]

I found him annoying. He asked me if I was a homewrecker when I said I knew you. Then he started going on about kettles and metaphors.

[Yes. That's absolutely the reason this guy bugs him. Totally. The metaphors.]

Wait. What do you mean the charm's there on purpose?

[onlyanapple]

Sounds like Adam. He's was pretty fucking weird when he was eleven, I dread to think what adulthood has done to him.

Well. He had to live on Earth for eleven years until it was time so to speak. The Boss wouldn't want his kid getting someone all uppity and chance harming him. Got to make him amenable. Unsuspecting.

[save_the_souls]

So he gave him unnatural charisma to make sure his son was protected.

Well no wonder he ended up liking humanity, anyone would if almost everyone was nice to you. [coughSPOILEDcough.]

[onlyanapple]

That's just nature, right? Protecting your young? Most things do that.

I'm sure he had some people who didn't like him.

I'm sensing a lot of bitterness.

[save_the_souls]

[A pause, because it is the Devil he's talking about] I..guess...

What? I'm not bitter!

[onlyanapple]

You sure about that? I've never seen you so testy about someone before.

[save_the_souls]

What?

I've gotten testy about plenty of people before!

[onlyanapple]

True, but never about someone you've just met.

[save_the_souls]

I-

[But he stops for a moment, what with Crowley hitting it on the head and all. You can almost hear that shameful admittance in the text]

- No, you're right. Usually I try to give people more of a chance.

[onlyanapple]

So why sin't he getting one?

[It's a genuine question. He means no malice. ]

[save_the_souls]

[A long pause. Why wasn't Adam getting a chance? Logically, he knows...Adam hasn't done anything. He's been completely innocent, even if he is the Antichrist. And he didn't even know Adam was the Antichrist before he spoke with Crowley, well after he started feeling dislike for the guy. He was being unreasonable. Completely unreasonable.]

[But yet, he couldn't shake these feelings. The feelings of dislike, of jealousy and of resentment. Adam was an intrusion and a threat to the little scraps of life that Allen had built for himself. Scraps left from the last times someone came and ruined everything.]

[He thinks about lying. About saying nevermind, he's fine and he'll be nicer to Adam. But he knows Crowley will probably call him on his bluff. It's better to be honest.]

It's just-

He shows up out of nowhere with that stupid smile and charm of his. He says he's known you longer than I've known you and he's from your world. And on top of that he sounds far stronger than I'll ever be. I mean, he saved the world when he was eleven? My biggest accomplishment when I was eleven was being able to shuffle a deck of cards after months of struggling with physical therapy!

[Even if that wasn't the exact root of the problem, it was still an irritation. And that's not even getting into the whole how easily Adam just decided to be good. Ugh.]

I know he hasn't done anything, and I know it's not right for me to give him a chance. It's just...The last time someone like that suddenly appeared in my life, always smiling and knowing people I've care about all along, I-

I ended up losing things that I never thought I could lose.

[onlyanapple]

[Wow this is what he gets for asking questions. He was expecting a trickle and he got a flood. Crowley doesn't reply for a while. He doesn't like talking about feelings, or even admitting he has any to begin with. If it were anyone but Allen, he might of not have replied at all.

But it is Allen, and even Crowley can recognise that this is a crucial moment. That, perhaps above any other time before, Allen absolutely and positively needs him right now. And this can't be glossed over by idle banter and some bummed cigarettes.]

Okay, first off. I've known you longer than him. By the time I found him, the end of the world was starting. I've known him, technically, for about four hours? Unless you count the time as a newborn as well. I wouldn't, personally. He's known me longer, being all grown up now, which is quite frankly a mindfuck I'm still trying to deal with, but for me? He was a kid I knew for a small amount of time who just happened to be the center of potential world collapse.

And in case you missed it already: he's the fucking son of Satan. He had all that potential pre-programmed into him. A literal bomb that just needed to grow up enough to learn how to set itself off. Everything else about him was regular, boring middle class human. Trust me. Comparing yourself to him would be like comparing yourself to Jesus. Except the opposite direction. Don't do that, it's stupid.

You're not going to 'lose' me, if that's what you're worried about. If I didn't give a shit about you, I would have brushed you off years ago. But I haven't, and I am an expert at brushing off, so the fact you've clung on like a moody little limpet says a lot. Adam is a good kid. Man. Whatever. But you're family. I guess. Seen as you're making me say it and all, you little shit. I'm not going anywhere.

So get your head out of your arse.

[save_the_souls]

[He's a Noah, okay. Noah can't do anything without a flood.]

[He stares at this response awhile. It's a lot to read, first of all. A lot of information. And second of all....]

[Well, if Crowley hates dealing with feelings so much- it's probably a good thing this was done over text, because there may be some definite tears on his end. Good tears, at least. Harsh as the words were, it's what he needed to hear. And maybe with that level of harshness. He would have been suspicious if Crowley had been sentimental, like Master had tried to be in those final conversations. But this? it tells him what he needs to hear. His worries were nothing more than irrational, he wasn't going to get left. He was freaking out over something ridiculous.]

[He'll wipe away some of those tears, and let out a little laugh before typing.]

...Did you just call me a little shit?

[onlyanapple]

[It's a good thing he can't see the tears, he'd feel even more gross than he already does. He's going to have to do something really demon-y to balance this out. Like flip off a kitten.]

I call 'em as I see 'em. Now if you don't mind, I need to use my five minutes of shower time to try and cleanse myself of all these feelings.

[save_the_souls]

[Wow flipping off a kitten Crowley. How diabolical.]

[He almost wants to say thank you, but he knows Crowley hates that, so he bites back the urge. Or rather, just tries to be sneaky about it]

Alright, fine. I guess I was being a little shit with my head in my arse.

You only have five minutes of shower time on your ship?

[onlyanapple]

[RUDE, it's absolutely diabolical. ]

That's exactly what you were, yes.

We rarely get around to getting upgrades.

[Because Jove is literally the only one who does anything. ]

[save_the_souls]

I see. Too much paperwork?

We like to keep up on upgrades. My ship has forty minutes of hot water per hour. And there's a bath with a...jacuzzi setting? Whatever that is. [Lies. He knows exactly what it is and it is awesome]

[onlyanapple]

Exactly. Far too much of it for that sort of milarky.

Oh come off it, you must have seen the jacuzzi in the castle. It was where the hot springs were. Though good job on the bragging, it's really coming along.

[save_the_souls]

[He's laughing on his end]

I wasn't bragging. You can use it sometime if you'd like.

[onlyanapple]

I forget. Do you have any more weirdoes on your ship?

[save_the_souls]

...What qualifies as a weirdo again?

[Seriously Crowley. His standards of normal is kind of shot to hell thanks to well...his whole life really.]

[onlyanapple]

[Give him a second, he has to think. ]

Do any of them keep dead bodies which they talk to?

[save_the_souls]

[A normal person would be appalled to think that that was even a possibility. Hell, even Allen finds that practice disgusting and terrible. But sadly, it's happened enough in his life that the idea doesn't even get a rise out of him.]

[Jesus christ Allen get a new life already.

No, no one does that on the Blue Fish.

Why? Is there someone in the fleet that does that?

[onlyanapple]

[There is no new life for them. Only this. Forever. ]

I don't think so? But you can never be too careful. You never really know a lunatic until they announce themselves as one.

...Or start kidnapping people and tying them up in basements.

[save_the_souls]

[ Uuuugh don't remind him of that. Goddamn Riful ]

No one has a basement here.