On still having no home

[inhenrywetrust]

Well, you obviously like me. And I do enjoy this head-canon you've invented to explain what I've been doing since 1865. And Lord knows spending time in that Bakerstreet place with that exquisite creature has awakened in me more passion than I've felt since Abraham died ...

But yes. I must have a purpose and direction. So what is it to be?

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[16th]

Need I pray that this 'exquisite creature' of yours is not another you find too interesting to die, Henry?

[inhenrywetrust]

You need not pray, Abraham. [faintly disgruntled noise.] I will not give into the temptation. [A pause, and a quick lightening smile.] Still, you'd like her.

[16th]

I believe that I am adequate proof that temptation occasionally overwhelms you. Even so, I cannot but trust that you would find no pleasure in damning a young lady you seem so taken with-- by which I mean that I shall withhold my prayers for now.

I'm certain she's lovely. Does she have a name, then, or will she remain a mystery?

[inhenrywetrust]

You were an entirely different case altogether. The world should not have lost you so soon. Especially not to one of my kind. [He paused; quiet, thoughtful.] After all, there were still vampires to hunt.

She is ... lovely. [another smile.] Annie. Walker. Simple, where she is not. [a longing sigh] Four hundred years and even I can be turned into a schoolboy. [His hands fold behind him.] Go on, Abraham. You will not feel right in your guts until you have had your mocking.

[16th]

It was not your place to decide. Even so, the deed is done, and I am weary of bitterness.

I find myself too old for mockery. In any case, love should never be cause for it.

[inhenrywetrust]

No, I suppose it was not. [He is quiet, once more.] I was selfish, I admit it. But I shall never regret it.

[He falls silent once more at the word 'love', but does not look like he is going to dispute it.]

Forever late to the party

[therailsplitter]

It sounds to me that you have found a purpose in someone already, Henry.

Re: Forever late to the party

[inhenrywetrust]

Perhaps I have, Abraham.

[therailsplitter]

Well. It's about time. [Insert shit eating grin.]

[inhenrywetrust]

[One corner of his mouth lifts up, before he gives Abraham a mock-stern look.] That's not to say I am not right about everything else.