2.1.F.1.C - Roleplay Prompt (with bigkitty75) - (<lj site="livejo

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1. For whatever in game reasons, you need to steal something. Roleplay the situation from one of these standpoints (or all three in succession if you like):

C. You have been caught, or confronted after the fact, and you have to deal with the consequences or deny.

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"Spencer! You got a visitor."

It might be enough to make an eighteen-year-old open his eyes but not enough by far to make him get up. No, not even solitary confinement is bad enough to get him to face his dad. Yet.



"Tell him to give it up. I'm not gonna talk to him, alright?"

"'s not your dad, Spency."

Shawn groans and shudders at the nickname. "Dude." He shakes his head in pity. "I told you, you have to stop doing that."

The jailer looks affronted. "The hell? You're giving out nicknames all the time, wiseass."

"Yeah. But see, that's the difference. I invent them. You give them a y. And y is a very ingrate letter because it has this little hook that says 'Hang thyself in shame for I am not made for silly nicknames'!" Shawn frowns. "So, who's visiting me?"

Jail-y looks down at his file. "Some college boy. Guster." His eyes still fixed on the paper he misses how the kid's eyes widen at the name. "You want me to tell him to go to hell as well?"

Shawn bites his lip and silences for a moment, thinking. Then he shakes his head. "Nah. I wanna see him."

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"You're not..." He idly plays with the slightly too long sleeve, avoiding eye contact. "You're not mad at me, are you?" he finally asks hesitantly. "Just because I was... kinda stupid? I mean..."

He knows it's a silly thing to ask and goddamnit, he shouldn't, but then again he would have never thought that his parents could break apart either. He would have never thought that his father would ever, ever do something like this, arresting him, having him locked up for six months. And he would have never thought that he could develop such deep, black feelings against his dad, like a dark, heavy blanket, slowly suffocating him.

What is he supposed to think about things that should make him feel safe?

"I mean, you're still my friend, right?"

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Gus blinks, not entirely comprehending just why Shawn is asking this.

"Shawn, the entire time that I've known you, you've been stupid." He struggles to keep from letting too much tolerant affection stain his tone. "Why would I stop being your friend over something like this?"

If he can survive though many, many, many dangerous science fair mishaps and still consider Shawn his best frien, one little thing like a prison record isn't going to change that.

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"I don't know." Shawn ducks his head and grins sheepishly, shrugging. "I'm gonna miss your birthday."

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"No you won't." Gus assures firmly. "Hey we've been down that road before, I'll just bring the party to you! Well, party may be a bit of an overstatement. But I'll be here."

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Shawn blinks and looks up. "What? Are you serious?"

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Gus just looks at Shawn. Do I look like I'm joking to you?

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"Sweet." Shawn can't help but grin, his spirits lifting a little. "That will be like the coolest birthday ever. We can play What movie is this prison conversation from?"

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Gus grins back. "That sounds like a good plan to me."

A guard standing off to the side clears his throat and that makes Gus aware of the fact his visitor's time is up. They really don't give you very much time when it's not regular visiting hours, and Gus is sure that if it wasn't for Henry's persuasion efforts, aka: demands, he wouldn't have been able to get in today. "Look man, I gotta go, but..."

He holds his fist up to the glass. It's the best he can do for a bump.

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Shawn's face falls a little but he quickly recovers. No need to make this any harder than it already is.

He bumps his fist against the glass. "... but you'll totally be back, right?"

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"Dude, sure I will." Gus just has to work it into his class schedual that's all.

8 am, math. 9 am, lit of the post modern aera, 10 am. visit shawn in prison, 12 lunch.

"I'll see you tomorrow."

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Shawn nods, smiling a little. "Yeah man. See ya."