Arms Hotel Lobby, Wednesday

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When Jeff entered the lobby that morning, he found that Gunther had something to say to him.

"Jeffrey," Gunther started. He didn't finish. Jeff grabbed him by the arm and shoved him into a cupboard, shutting the door behind them.

"Don't move," he warned, "Don't say a word."

"What is the meaning of this?!" the German chef raged, and probably added a few more colourful ways of saying just that as well.

"It's almost graduation," Jeff hissed, "She could be here at any time! I've tried to avoid it by not telling her, but she knows things, Gunther! She knows things."

"Please tell me this isn't about your mother again," Gunther started.

His sentence again went unfinished, as Jeff clamped his hand over Gunther's mouth. "Maybe that haughty blonde fellow from radio'll help us build a barricade," he mused, "We'll need a line to the outside world!"

It was just another day at the Arms Hotel. Jeff's almost-last-day, at that. All trembled.

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"I can't take Nana," Jeff said, plaintatively, "She won't fit on the plane." Oh, god. Don't think about planes. Don't think about-- "Although the new ones do have a really impressive wingspan," he blurted, "D'you think it's going to be a bit closer to that in 1991?"

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"Probably," Turtle said weakly, too distracted by something else in what Jeff said. "If you're not taking Nana, than what are you doing with her?"

[scary-jeff.livejournal.com]

"...I don't know yet," Jeff admitted, deflating a little. "Maybe I'll give her to Dor or something, he seems like he needs a good-- walking tank."

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

Dor was still here.

But Dor was not her.

"Dor's a great idea, Jeff!"

[scary-jeff.livejournal.com]

"I thought so," Jeff said, with a nod. "It's taken him a bit to adjust." To porn. "Nana might help stabilise him." Or traumatise him for life in the proud tradition of Jeffrey Murdock.

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Plus," Turtle offered, reasonably, as she tried remembering which floor Dor lived on, so she could avoid it, "she's not an inanimate object, so he won't have to worry about her talking to him."

[scary-jeff.livejournal.com]

"Right," Jeff said, nodding along, "It'd be like an early birthday present for him."

Of course, Jeff.

[stocksgrrl.livejournal.com]

"Do you even know when his birthday is?" Turtle couldn't help wondering.