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[watch-wait.livejournal.com]

[ooc: Charlie's dead]

The bar door opens, and Bartleby standing in it, holding a limp, blonde body in his arms. There's a heavily pregnant woman leaning against him, and when the door opens she gives a small cry and begins to slump to the floor. Bartleby can't catch her - he's cradling Charlie's corpse.

He looks around hopelessly.

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[youalleverybody.livejournal.com]

Liam hears Claire cry out from wherever he is in the bar, and looks round automatically.

And then he's staring, face abruptly white.

And then he's running.

Oh no, oh Charlie, oh God please no...

[watch-wait.livejournal.com]

Bartleby takes a few unsteady steps into the room, half-dragging Claire with him, and the door closes behind him.

[youalleverybody.livejournal.com]

Liam skids to a halt when he reaches them, and drops to his knees. His eyes are full of disbelief and dawning grief, and he reaches out to touch Charlie's hand.

It's cold.

[drama-coach.livejournal.com]

"Liam?" She isn't sure what's happened yet, but from the look on Liam's face, it's clearly something bad.

Then she sees the body on the floor, and knows right away who it is. ". . . Oh. Liam." She kneels next to him, at a loss for words.

[youalleverybody.livejournal.com]

He looks up at her, eyes desolate and full of tears.

"Dianne. He's dead..."

[notsoyoung.livejournal.com]

And David, still resplendent in his noisemaker and party hat, looks around at the cry from the door, and the noisemaker falls to the ground, David's face ashen.

He's on his feet in record time, cradling Claire though he doesn't know her; he knows her face from Charlie's thoughts, from Charlie's head and oh God, it can't be...

Charlie's...

"What happened?" he asks Bartleby with more venom than he intends.

[simple-creature.livejournal.com]

*Loki is seconds behind David, but he goes to Bartleby instead*

What the fuck happened, B?!

[watch-wait.livejournal.com]

"He was...." Bartleby breathes in. "Hanged. He was hanged."

[go-between.livejournal.com]

Richard walks over with Armand in tow.

"David what's going on? Jesus! What's wrong with Charlie?"

[watch-wait.livejournal.com]

"He's dead." Bartleby repeats the words he's just said to Echo.

[notsoyoung.livejournal.com]

"I don't know!" he whispers. "Bartleby said... he's..."

deaddeadCharliecan'tbedeadtellmehe'snotdead

[alas_alas]

Echo looks up and begins to smile when she sees Charlie, but it quickly fades. She walks over slowly.

"Charlie?"

[watch-wait.livejournal.com]

"He's dead." Bartleby looks at her. He's never met her before.

[alas_alas]

She stares at him, then back at Charlie.

"No. You're lying. He can't be dead."

[lorelaivictoria.livejournal.com]

"Charlie!" Lorelai calls out his name as she rushes over. "What's happened to him?"

[watch-wait.livejournal.com]

Bartleby doesn't think he can say the words again. "He... someone h-h-hanged him."

[lorelaivictoria.livejournal.com]

She swallows back tears, her hands shaking. No. Not Charlie. He was her friend.

She looks at the young pregnant girl lying there, and her heart bursts open, the tears flowing freely. "T-that girl. Her head is bleeding."

She stoops down, stroking the girl's hair, having no other skills to take care of her.

[http://users.livejournal.com/_courage_/]

Link saw Bartleby, heard the cry, saw the woman. Saw others springing to action. Then he saw the corpse. He sprinted over and practically skidded to a halt. "Shit. No. Charlie? What happened?" As he spoke, his voice edged closer to becoming hoarse.

[watch-wait.livejournal.com]

"He." Bartleby's trembling, and he buries his face in Charlie's hair for a second. "Hanged."

[eldorne-girl.livejournal.com]

[ooc: *checks milliways before running off to work and stares* Ok, there is no way I'm going to concentrate on work now.]

[watch-wait.livejournal.com]

[ooc: *pets*]

[gil-whimple.livejournal.com]

Gil approaches hesitantly, his face pale and set.

"What can I do?" he asks, then shakes his head. There's nothing anyone can do other than what they are all doing - being there to show they care and to share their grief.

[watch-wait.livejournal.com]

"He's... dead." Bartleby's eyes are wild.

[rob-anybody.livejournal.com]

Rob watched from a corner of the room, clucking to himself and shaking his head. It was always sad when someone became alive, when their soul went slam-bang back into the big cludgie in the sky. But then, they'd die and get back to this, heaven, again after all, so it wasn't so sad. It was a shame that the bigjobs never seemed to realize it.

Well, he was too busy drinking scumble to go and tell them and he doubted they'd believe him anyway, so he kept drinking and watching with bright* eyes.


*Albeit slightly glassy.

[watch-wait.livejournal.com]

Bartleby didn't notice the Feegle in the corner.