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[rubikscomplex]

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[rubikscomplex]

[You're speaking his language now.]

deal
i'll send my people to pick it up

[He means America. He's gonna send America to get his drugs.]

you have any medication allergies you're aware of?
any history of respiratory ailments?

[termineur]

[ That was actually a little easier than he expected. ]

Okay, sounds good. Let me know who when you've got it settled.

No allergies or respiratory ailments. I've always been pretty healthy.

[rubikscomplex]

[Offering him free drugs is a very effective means to court his agreement to a deal. Especially given the supply shortage announcement.]

contact the admin and tell her i'm your attending physician
i'm prescribing you vicodin
80 mg/day

you need to start off on about 5 mg/day if you've never been on narcotics before
and don't want to spend a day on the floor
high out of your mind
they're 20 mg tablets
so cut them into quarters
you can take a little more if the pain gets bad
and as you start developing a tolerance
spread out your use over the course of the day
morning, afternoon, night

[termineur]

Done. And thanks for recommending amounts. I'll be sure to start off slow. Being too high to be productive is the opposite of what I want here.

[ This is a genuine relief. ]

[rubikscomplex]

one last thing:
i need your real name for your prescription
if i put in zane taylor
am i gonna get the admin asking me who the hell that is?

[He doesn't actually need the name. He can probably use a username, but it's worth a shot to see if he gets anything.

That really is a stupid name, and he hopes for the other man's sake that it's actually a stage name.]

[termineur]

[ ...well, damn. Sylar sighs and thinks it over, so it takes him a couple minutes before he actually responds. ]

You're a veritable Columbo. It's Gabriel Gray. Try Zane Taylor first, though. And let me know what it gives you?

[ He'd like to know what he's in the system as too, after all. ]

[rubikscomplex]

[Oh, goodie. Another name! Might be fake, as well, but House will try both.]

Suresh found out you weren't really Taylor, then, is it?

[termineur]

Him finding out wasn't really the problem.

pretend that last message wasn't capitalized...

[rubikscomplex]

what was?

[Tell Uncle Greg all! He's here to listen.]

[termineur]

Hey, remember when he first got here? And he warned people about 'Patient Zero' on the network?

[rubikscomplex]

were you a very naughty boy back home, gabriel?

[termineur]

Why, Doctor House! I was an absolute angel.

[rubikscomplex]

y'know, the thing people forget about angels?
in the old testament they bring down cities and murder little children in their sleep
"and do not complain, as some of them did
and were killed by the destroying angel"

[Know thy enemy. House may not be a religious man, but he knows the books.]

[termineur]

That's right, people tend to just think of the sweet things on top of Christmas trees, and not the things made out of eyes and tongues and four wings. Even more people forget that Gabriel was originally the Angel of Death over kings. Other angels got things like 'children' and 'animals'.

But it's not too surprising that people forget. My mom was one of the few people really into that stuff.

[rubikscomplex]

wow
i'm sensing the beginnings of a carrie backstory here
what about daddy?
or was he never in the picture?

[termineur]

Carrie?

Dad left when I was five. Literally went out for cigarettes and never came back.

[rubikscomplex]

kids these days!
it's classic stephen king

carrie:
a quiet, bullied, misfit that no one ever really cared about
daddy's out of the picture
raised by a bible thumping, vindictive and crazy mom
discovers she has magical powers
and goes on a killing rampage after being humiliated at prom

[termineur]

We weren't really a Stephen King household. And Mom wasn't much of a bible thumper. She just liked angels. And snow globes. And angels in snow globes. She loves kitschy stuff.

Although I don't know what she'd do if it turned out to be one of those old-time angels. That's probably what'd be in the Norfinbury snow globe.

[ Man, he misses his mom, mess that she is. ]

[rubikscomplex]

but was she crazy and vindictive, gaby?

[He notices you glossed over that. The crazy is a probably, the vidictive is a maybe at this point in House's mind. Might explain a few things about Mr. Gray.]

[termineur]

Seriously. Gaby?

[rubikscomplex]

[He's taking that as a 'yes' on both counts given the deflection.]

gabe just didn't sound right in my head

[termineur]

[ Ugh. Gabriel is bad enough. ]

Most people in our neighborhood probably would've called her eccentric. I learned early on that she had panic attacks. I'd help her through them as best I could, but she wouldn't admit they were an issue.

[rubikscomplex]

[That's actually... legitimately pitiable. If it's true. At the moment, House is inclined enough to believe it. Maybe. Hmm...]

so was she your actual first victim?
or are we still going with the girlfriend story for the guy you were impersonating?

[termineur]

No, no. She's still alive. Or she should be, back home. I haven't checked in on her in a couple months.

Let's just say telekinesis was not my first or only ability.

[rubikscomplex]

and you talk about her in the past tense?
you're a shit son, son

the melting thing, right?
how do you get new powers?