perpend: (☂ puttin' on the ritz)
Inspector Cabanela ([personal profile] perpend) wrote in [community profile] trustfell2015-11-07 05:39 pm

It's time for an after party!

[About an hour after the trial and subsequent execution, Cabanela makes a decision.

They need to do something, keep the morale up, however little it may be.

Under each occupied room door people will find the following note written:


In difficult times such as this, it is important to carry on.
Don't give into despair; we must preservere.
If you don't want to be alone this evening, meet me in the dining hall.
-Cabanela


[Upon entering the dinning hall, you will find Cabanela sitting at one of the tables; he has lit two candles that are placed at the center of the table, but there's nothing else to note.

You'll have to supply your own food, since he doesn't have much of an appetite.]

housenurse: (upon a dream)

[personal profile] housenurse 2015-11-09 03:13 am (UTC)(link)
If it's never gonna improve, why not be happy? I don't need money as long as I have my family! [YEAH ABOUT THAT...]

... Your wife must be a very important person!
forcegalactic: (what the shit)

[personal profile] forcegalactic 2015-11-09 03:54 am (UTC)(link)
[And without her family...] Must be hard right now.

[He misses his wife so much right now, more than he would when she's away for just a day.]

She is. A Troubleshooter, to be exact, one of the best ones there is. [He's so proud of her. How incredibly lucky he is to have married someone as cool as her.] She goes around, rightin' software wrongs in space. Anytime there's somethin' glitchy goin' on with tech - and that's often, what with all the computers we used in my time, they send her there to fix it.

...And that's why she's out so much. It's a busy schedule, but we live with it.
housenurse: (and I serve it up fried)

[personal profile] housenurse 2015-11-09 04:50 am (UTC)(link)
Mm. It's hard for everyone.

[... okay what the fuck space????

WHATEVER she can roll with it.]


She must be so smart! And you must be so proud of her...!
forcegalactic: (dum dee dum)

[personal profile] forcegalactic 2015-11-09 04:56 am (UTC)(link)
[Thank you for not bringing up your skepticism he was getting tired of that.]

Oh, she definitely is! One of the smartest people I know. Why, she's the reason why I'm so up-to-date with tech developments, even if she doesn't like talkin' about work.

[She'd must rather rest and not have to deal with customer complaints.]

What about your husband? What's he do?
housenurse: (you'll love me at once)

[personal profile] housenurse 2015-11-10 04:12 am (UTC)(link)
He's a doctor! [just let that sink in]
forcegalactic: (Trouble's comin')

[personal profile] forcegalactic 2015-11-10 04:17 am (UTC)(link)
[Doctor, a respectable position, he must earn enough to provide for--]

Hold on, he's a doctor an' you're still poor?!
housenurse: (I know you)

[personal profile] housenurse 2015-11-10 04:20 am (UTC)(link)
[just ignore the full-body cringe that certainly didn't happen right as she realized that.]

... He's not a very good doctor!
forcegalactic: (thinking)

[personal profile] forcegalactic 2015-11-10 04:26 am (UTC)(link)
...Meanin' he's unemployed? [Or he flunked medical school??]
housenurse: (is so familiar a gleam)

[personal profile] housenurse 2015-11-10 07:43 pm (UTC)(link)
Ah, no, he's just... A "last resort option" kind of doctor! If that makes any sense. [she half hopes it doesn't.]
forcegalactic: (Trouble's comin')

[personal profile] forcegalactic 2015-11-10 07:45 pm (UTC)(link)
...No, not much...

...Unless you're talkin' about one o' those quack doctors. [His eyes widen in realization.]
housenurse: (WHEN A MERMAID COMES TO URSULA)

[personal profile] housenurse 2015-11-10 07:52 pm (UTC)(link)
... Ahh, I shouldn't have said anything at all! I'm such an idiot!

[she nervously wrings her hands together, giving him what she hopes is a pitiable look.]

You won't tell anyone, will you? I wouldn't be able to live with myself if I knew I got him in trouble! And Cabanela-san... It was never even a problem until I got here! No one back home even cares!
forcegalactic: (?!?!!!?!?!?!?!????)

[personal profile] forcegalactic 2015-11-10 08:01 pm (UTC)(link)
No, no! [Be calmed by his frantic hand waving and nervous smiling!] I ain't the Marshal, I'm not gonna report you for breakin' the law! What's more important is you don't go around causin' trouble yourself, right?

[He really likes Sukuyo, she's too sweet to be blamed for her husband's job.]

Well, he's a doctor poor people can afford, so...that's a good point for him! [Just how poor is she, anyway?] He, uh, how'd he learn to be a doctor, then?
housenurse: (give their belly a slice)

[personal profile] housenurse 2015-11-10 08:10 pm (UTC)(link)
Thank goodness... I've been so worried about it, these past two weeks!

[toot toot here comes the headcanon express.] He got kicked out of medical school, right before we got married! He's never told me exactly why, but I'm sure it wasn't very important! [medical schools are all just rude rich people tbh]
forcegalactic: (what the shit)

[personal profile] forcegalactic 2015-11-10 08:17 pm (UTC)(link)
...Can't blame you for pickin' up somethin' that gets you money. [This is the man who's fine with letting known bandits hang out in his saloon as long as they behave.]

I dunno, usually the reason for gettin' kicked out for any school is due to poor studyin', or some personal situation popped up, likely to do with family or money or...doin' some mad science.
housenurse: (what a loss)

[personal profile] housenurse 2015-11-10 08:20 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, it couldn't have been grades; he's the smartest man I've ever met! It must have been about money.

[and it was! kinda! about the illegal acquirement of it!]
forcegalactic: Will edit this art so many times (pondering)

[personal profile] forcegalactic 2015-11-10 08:23 pm (UTC)(link)
Oh, right. He's from a poor family?

[The salmon should be ready now. He puts on mitts and opens the oven.]
housenurse: (you'll be in my heart)

[personal profile] housenurse 2015-11-10 08:26 pm (UTC)(link)
We both are. I can't remember a time when I wasn't. [watches him with interest.]
forcegalactic: WM/IL looks like a Christmas sweater (Common sense activate!)

[personal profile] forcegalactic 2015-11-10 08:32 pm (UTC)(link)
And no scholarship?

[He takes out the salmon, wrapped in foil, and puts the tray on top of the stove. With a fork, he pries off the metal, steam bursting out from the bundles.]

Huh. Looks like I put it in for just the right time.
housenurse: (ah mais oui)

[personal profile] housenurse 2015-11-10 08:47 pm (UTC)(link)
Wow! [man how cool is that shit.] You're a really good cook, Mordecai-san!
forcegalactic: (yay no trouble)

[personal profile] forcegalactic 2015-11-10 08:54 pm (UTC)(link)
What, this? [He completely opens it, revealing the juicy salmon inside.] It's just how I learned to cook 'em, that's all. Get me some plates, I'll open up the rest.
housenurse: (just take my hand)

[personal profile] housenurse 2015-11-10 09:21 pm (UTC)(link)
You'll have to teach me one day, okay? I sure don't know how to cook anything like that!

[WOO GOES TO GET PLATES AND UTENSILS LIKE A BOSS]
forcegalactic: (dum dee dum)

[personal profile] forcegalactic 2015-11-10 09:25 pm (UTC)(link)
You don't have an oven, or is it the fish you're referrin' to?

[But hooray for dinner! The salmon are ready to be distributed among the lucky winners (including Mordecai and Sukuyo).]

Some vegetables--oh! Almost forgot the sauce! [He slips off the mitts and runs to the pantry to grab the lemons.] My wife never eats it plain, she's picky like that!