Not down on any map
Welcome to a Halloween story with my police sims! It starts out with a murder case, and ends as… time travel? Or are things not as they seem? This chart shows the characters with their current life...
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Suddenly a man at the adjacent table explodes into shouting. Every second word he sputters is profanity, some four letter words, some more descriptive.
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“For the last time, I’m not going to leave the table before Rika, because she “outranks” me! First, I’m not finished yet, second half of my brain thinks it doesn’t even know who that Rika person is and third she is the receptionist, while I’m the Captain! So who outranks whom here, ey? Now you bunch eat up and when everyone is finished, we leave the table sorted by rank. I’ll call each one’s name when it's your turn.”
The DPD counselor has a profile of every cop that assigns them four traits and one of Gavin’s is “Ambitious”. Reaching the top of a career, pretty much any career, it didn’t have to be police work, had been the man’s lifetime ambition. Any doubting him in this regard is akin to a personal attack against the proud detective. No spellcaster, cop or deity must get away with such behavior. The attempt alone suffices to firmly root Gavin in his 21st century identity – at least for the time being.
“Geeze lousy, what a kindergarten… If this is what Danny has to deal with every day at work, then I envy him even less.”
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Upon hearing his nickname, Daniel turns his head towards the noise – and looks into the face of his partner beneath a crown of red. Daniel often jokes that he loves Gavin for his “inner beauty”, him being attracted to red hair and Gavin carrying a recessive allele for that from his mother. Under no circumstances should it have expressed itself though, not even in a magic infused world.
“Gavin? Gavin James Reed?”
Gavin stares, blinks, and then smiles wide.
“Danny! Right in time – your class trip kids are getting a little stressful here.”
His beloved… his marriage… everything comes back and now Daniel knows that whatever this time is going to throw at him, it won’t be sufficient to make him forget Detroit or his identity again.
“Oh my god, Gavin, you’re looking more adorable than ever!”
“You do, too, pity the same can’t be said for your makeup. C’mon, Danny, admit defeat. We aren’t guys for makeup. It’s just not our style.”
“Haha, you again!”
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The husbands leave their tables and fly into each other’s arms.
“I missed you so much…” Daniel whispers.
“I didn’t miss you. Can you imagine that? You were just… gone from my memory. There was no heartache… But I’d rather feel miserable all the time than forget you!”
At the adjacent table Sigstein abruptly stops chewing. What if he has a romantic partner back in the future, whom he doesn’t remember either? It’s certainly a possibility, and a very likely one, too. But what if he is attached to that person to the same degree as these two are to each other, who are shedding actual tears at their reunion? Now THAT idea is outlandish, but it opens a can of worms: Sigstein has to consider everything he isn’t interested in or bad at as something that he excels at or cherishes, and just has forgotten. It’s intimidating and he decides to not voice this concern to his companions, lest it renders them all incapable of acting.
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“For the last time, I’m not going to leave the table before Rika, because she “outranks” me! First, I’m not finished yet, second half of my brain thinks it doesn’t even know who that Rika person is and third she is the receptionist, while I’m the Captain! So who outranks whom here, ey? Now you bunch eat up and when everyone is finished, we leave the table sorted by rank. I’ll call each one’s name when it's your turn.”
The DPD counselor has a profile of every cop that assigns them four traits and one of Gavin’s is “Ambitious”. Reaching the top of a career, pretty much any career, it didn’t have to be police work, had been the man’s lifetime ambition. Any doubting him in this regard is akin to a personal attack against the proud detective. No spellcaster, cop or deity must get away with such behavior. The attempt alone suffices to firmly root Gavin in his 21st century identity – at least for the time being.
“Geeze lousy, what a kindergarten… If this is what Danny has to deal with every day at work, then I envy him even less.”
https://abload.de/img/16.10.22_00-18-228piiw.png
Upon hearing his nickname, Daniel turns his head towards the noise – and looks into the face of his partner beneath a crown of red. Daniel often jokes that he loves Gavin for his “inner beauty”, him being attracted to red hair and Gavin carrying a recessive allele for that from his mother. Under no circumstances should it have expressed itself though, not even in a magic infused world.
“Gavin? Gavin James Reed?”
Gavin stares, blinks, and then smiles wide.
“Danny! Right in time – your class trip kids are getting a little stressful here.”
His beloved… his marriage… everything comes back and now Daniel knows that whatever this time is going to throw at him, it won’t be sufficient to make him forget Detroit or his identity again.
“Oh my god, Gavin, you’re looking more adorable than ever!”
“You do, too, pity the same can’t be said for your makeup. C’mon, Danny, admit defeat. We aren’t guys for makeup. It’s just not our style.”
“Haha, you again!”
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The husbands leave their tables and fly into each other’s arms.
“I missed you so much…” Daniel whispers.
“I didn’t miss you. Can you imagine that? You were just… gone from my memory. There was no heartache… But I’d rather feel miserable all the time than forget you!”
At the adjacent table Sigstein abruptly stops chewing. What if he has a romantic partner back in the future, whom he doesn’t remember either? It’s certainly a possibility, and a very likely one, too. But what if he is attached to that person to the same degree as these two are to each other, who are shedding actual tears at their reunion? Now THAT idea is outlandish, but it opens a can of worms: Sigstein has to consider everything he isn’t interested in or bad at as something that he excels at or cherishes, and just has forgotten. It’s intimidating and he decides to not voice this concern to his companions, lest it renders them all incapable of acting.
Spoiler
Siggy is currently wooing Oliver, the Landgraab’s butler, to keep the mob/vampire conspiracy under supervision and has reciprocated feelings for the evil mermaid Kalamainu’u Iona.
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