A Slice of (Un)Life

Sixten: "Huh? The computer switched itself on? Must be the ghost again. - Hey, that's neat! I can see what you're typing! We can communicate that way!"

Gavin (typing): "Like this?"

Sixten: "Yes! I hope for your sake that those simoleons you just gifted away weren't ours."

Gavin (typing): "A little generositiy hasn't killed anybody."

Sixten: "So what did kill you?"

Gavin (typing): "I was too hot for this world."

His off-hand joke made Gavin painfully aware of his absent fiance. Yes, he had vowed not to look Daniel into the eyes again before he had his body back and become "someone", but then again, it hadn't been a real vow in the first place. More like... a suggestion. 

There is a cooldown on donating, so Gavin will have to fill the time between the five attempts he needs with something else (preferably more soul journey goals). I picked the woohoo-category of the journey goals and got "Under a Waterfall". 

If he could type, Gavin thought, then he could also caress his boyfriend and whisper into his ear. He wanted to hold Daniel so badly, tell him that he had things under control, that everything would be alright! 

Just like the times before, when a whim had struck the ghost, he had gotten whisked away to the place where it could get fulfilled. When Gavin felt the familiar tug, he fully expected to re-emerge on the balcony of Culpepper 19.

Instead, he found himself next to a waterfall in Sulani. How was Daniel to follow him to Sulani! The Chen household didn't have that kind of money.

Gavin seduced a very confused conservationist, who had come here to study the frog population but found something entirely different.

(I made sure not to give them romance bar, strictly "woohoo partnership". Did i mention that Daniel has both the Loyal and Jealous trait? This could backfire on Gavin so badly, lol.)

Sixten: "Look, who's back! Our do-gooder house-spirit, and it's making a family serving of pasta, haha!"

Gavin: "It's something Daniel would have done. You wouldn't undersrstand, not even if you could hear me."

Sixten: "But I can! Hear you, I mean."

The language the boy used for his reply chilled Gavin to the bones. It somehow bridged the realms of the living and the dead, a thing that was neither here nor there, irritating to both the undead and the living. And all of a sudden Gavin knew how to speak like this, too. 

Gavin: "Alright, newsflash for you, then! I understand now that your father's banishment of me was aimed at evil spirits in general, not me personally. So I won't let any further yelling get under my skin. Like or not, you're stuck with me!"

By now Gavin could afford "Always Welcome", so no more kicking him out of the house.

Sixten: "Nah, man, I still say you have goodie two shoes written all over you. What are you? A valiant wildwest marshall who died heroically in the line of duty or something?"

Gavin: "You wouldn't recognize any place or name I told you. I'm ancient and my goals are unfathomable for your kind."

Sixten: "You speak english..."

Gavin: "So do you, what should tell you that's it's not a difficult thing to learn."

Sixten Anderson was convinced that the new house ghost was a bleeding heart doormat type of person. Meanwhile all the good deeds Gavin had performed so far had served two purposes: Trick the universe into giving him back his body and honoring his memory of Daniel. Alright, that last one was a bit silly, after all, it hadn't been Daniel, who had died, but Gavin. Still, doing things the way Daniel would do them felt... right. As if they were still together.

Daniel couldn't see Gavin now and the universe didn't seem impressed, either. Maybe more do-gooder stuff was in order?

Quite literally: Gavin's next soul journey goal is to do five good deeds with ghost powers.