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[OOM: Sixth night with Ruin - Gorlim arrives to find Ruin with Gabriel, who has been mistakenly handed off to the wrong Slim Shady Constantine Maroulis by Nerdanel. They have a hell of a fight which neither can win because they are identically matched. It ends when Ruin tells Gorlim about him and Mary Anne in Angband. Gorlim takes his son and leaves, claiming he doesn't need to stay any longer tonight because Ruin broke his word when he took Gabriel.

This is not threaded because the muns don't feel like it, but that's what happened.]

And now Gorlim is in the bar with murder in his eyes, blood on his clothes, and a terrified small child in his arms.

You needn't worry about the baby, though: just worry about what will happen if you come too close to this man and look at his son the wrong way. Go on and try it. This particular spot in the bar could use a bloodbath.

And oh yes, he is heavily armed. Approach at your own risk.

[ooc: But by no means should the narrative be considered a plot lock. All are welcome, as usual. :)]

[ooc the second: All threads below Guppy's to be millitimed after Nerdanel leaves with Gabriel, say thankya.]

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[namo]

Námo sees the murderous Man and the terrified child and frowns.

He brings over Gabriel's favourite new food, softened and mashed apricots with mashed apples.

"Here. Give him this. It pleases him," he murmurs, offering the special child's spoon with the soft rubber over the silver. "And... do you want to tell me what has happened?"

The Vala slips into the booth seat beside Gorlim, ordering them both some apricot brandy, since he knows how much Gorlim likes it.

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"Ruin," Gorlim growls. "Had him. In his room. With that DOG."

He takes the food, but Gabriel seems too terrified of whatever Gorlim did in there to even want to stay in his arms right now.

[namo]

Námo carefully extracts the child, settling him in his lap to begin feeding him the mash.

"You have scared him, Gorlim," he points out quietly, Gabriel's wide, wide eyes never leaving his Ada as he eats mechanically.

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"So I see." He closes his eyes and takes a deep breath.

"He scared me too."

[namo]

"How could a baby scare you?"

He wipes sticky fruit from Gabriel's mouth before continuing with the feeding.

[nerdanel_the_wise]

Nerdanel slips through the bar from outside, having spent the late afternoon swimming in the lake.

She takes one look at Gorlim and Gabriel and is there in an instant.

"Gorlim! What happened?"

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Gorlim stares at her.

"Did you give Gabriel to Ruin??" he demands angrily. He hadn't believed it when Ruin said so.

[nerdanel_the_wise]

She steps back.

"To... Ruin? No. You were in the hall. I gave him to you..."

Hadn't she?

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He holds the frightened child close, heedless of his squirming.

"That... was NOT... me."

[nerdanel_the_wise]

"He... looked like you... He didn't even stop me before I walked away..."

She reaches for her wriggling son.

"Gorlim, you're frightening him!"

Even more!

[guppy_sandhu]

[ooc: Mun will have to go to bed in a few mins, but couldn't resist.]

Guppy gets up from his table and goes over to Gorlim. He approaches from the front, hands out of his pockets.

There is a dangerous look in Gorlim right now, and he doesn't want to take chances.

"What has happened Gorlim?" he asks softly, wondering not for the first time when this poor man's suffering will end.

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Gorlim jumps and holds the baby a little tighter.

"Ruin had him. In his room. I got him back. He's all right."

[guppy_sandhu]

"Gorlim, you're squashing him. You're safe now."

He moves forward a little. "Is that your blood?"

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"He's fine." But he loosens his grip just a little. "I'm fine." He doesn't know whose blood it is. SOME is his certainly. Technically, it ALL is, if you want to go that path, Ruin having his body and all...

Never mess with this dad.

[guppy_sandhu]

Guppy tilts his head a little.

"Will you let me check you both over? Please, just in case? I'm worried about you both."

He reaches a hand towards the frightened child, making hushing noises as he tries to soothe and distract him with finger wiggling.

[iambetadraconis]

Is he brave? Foolish?

Foolishly brave?

Bravely foolish?

Something else entirely as he approaches Gorlim, albeit tentatively?

"Gwador why are you so angry?"

Eyes sweep the state of Gorlim's attire.

"And bloody?"

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Gorlim scowls vaguely in Rabastan's direction. "Fuck off, Rabastan. You probably come to fight with me too. I'm not interested."

[iambetadraconis]

"Well if that's the way you treat your brothers, especially when they come to help you," he says with considerable heat, "Then maybe I should reconsider the whole 'gwador' thing."

He does.

He can't quite bring himself to blow off Gorlim like that.

"I'm not here to fight," he says after calling Gorlim several unpleasant names. "Or to hex you or cause you more pain than you're already in.

I saw you distressed; I came to help."

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Gorlim reconsiders the truly pissed-off look and stares into his half-filled glass with an air suggestive of a kicked puppy.

"You'd be better off hexing me. I'm no good to you. Just like I was no good to Lee or Namo or my son or Eilinel or anyone else."

He may have been drinking for a bit by now.

[iambetadraconis]

He might even smell like he's been drinking too. If Gorlim has, that is.

"Oh for Merlin's sake don't start beating yourself up now. The universe knows I do enough of that, and look where it gets me."

Too bad Rabastan is unlikely to heed his own advice on being both whipping boy and the one who weilds the whip.

So he sighs, grabs a chair, runs a hand through his hair.

"What's wrong now?"

[song_tra_bong]

Mary Anne comes downstairs, looking no worse for wear given her...activities of a few days ago. Not that anyone would know about those.

Her mind is focused on whether to order a drink or food first, until she catches sight of Gorlim.

There is something very wrong here.

"Dove?"

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Gorlim sees her.

He stands up. Menacingly. A hand on his knife.

"You." He steps closer to her, growling every word. "How much did you enjoy that show? Liked it so much you decided to screw the director while the world crumbled around us, didn't you?"

...He's had a bad night.

[song_tra_bong]

With every step, her face turns a shade paler.

hetoldhimhetoldhimhetoldhimhetoldhimhetoldhim

"You think I liked watching you die?"

She's wearing all three knives, as usual.

Her hands stay at her side.

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"YOU PAID HIM OFF LIKE YOU DID," he shouts at her.

Ohh, rage does not even COVER this. She's not the only one who's stung him tonight, either, and the others won't come near him right now.

"Am I going to have to make deals with you, too?? Do YOU want to see me bleed like he does and shove me down even FURTHER?"

[song_tra_bong]

"I AM NOT HIS WHORE!" she yells back.

Fuck the bar.

Fuck anyone listening.

Just yell.

Yell, and don't think.

Don't think, and don't cry.

"Don't you ever say that; don't you fucking dare. I am your FRIEND, goddammit and I would keep you from ever hurting if I could."