A Problem Like Maria, Solved. [closed/open]

[protagonized]

i - Blame the New Guy (3 May - locked to Lancelot and Faolan)

It turns out that putting a bounty on the head of a mostly harmless human stalker is not the best course of action when one is a Guardian representing the Night Council, particularly during the elections. Simon's made an even bigger mess of things than usual, it seems. Or at least that's the impression he got from Lancelot's reaction to the news.

"Daryl assured me he wasn't going to hurt her," Simon says for what feels like the twelfth time. "He just wanted to get information that I could use to get her off me." To blackmail the blackmailer. That was Eames' idea, though Simon isn't going to mention that to either of them. He's deep enough in the shit as it is without bringing a fae into things.

ii - Will Wonders Never Cease (7 May - locked to Daryl)

Simon has been expecting the worst for days now. It's hard not to, given his own overreaction and the reactions of those around him. So when he finally hears from Daryl that the job is done, he's mostly expecting there to be a body involved.

He certainly didn't think it would end up like this.

"And she just...agreed to stop?" He's completely dumbfounded. "What did you do to her?"

iii - Matinee Idol (13 May - OTA)

It feels strange to be around normal people. Simon has become so accustomed to being surrounded by the supernatural world in almost everything he does that even doing something as simple as going to the cinema with some friends from Uni and taking in Hollywood's latest semi-annual installment in one of its most venerable superhero franchises seems...wrong, somehow. It's a feeling he can't seem to shake afterwards, as he and the others loudly debate the merits of each member in the pantheon of heroes and how they'd stack up against each other in a fight. It's hard to compare hypotheticals when he personally knows people with powers just as fantastical as the ones dreamed up on screen.

After a while, his friends decide to continue the discussion at another pub, but he makes his excuses and stays behind, scowling at a mostly-untouched pint. The movie was supposed to take his mind off of things, and it was only making them worse.

iv - Choose Your Own Adventure (Anytime - OTA)

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Will Wonders Never Cease

[dirtyredneck]

"What do you mean 'what did I do to her'?" Daryl scowled in both confusion and offense at the implications of that question, stepping into Simon's personal space. He'd been paid to get her off Simon's back without anyone getting hurt and he'd done just that.

i

[knightscode]

"All right," Lancelot says, "I can't really judge this -- Faolan knows Daryl better than I do. Say this all goes well, you get her to be quiet, are we assuming he removes the evidence too? What if she still comes looking? You know better than I do how fixated she is. Is this about a story or, is it... personal?"

Because it's one thing if she's hoping to sell a story, it's another if she is actually obsessed with Simon. That takes a lot more to unpick.

iii

[emotioneater]

"Y'know, the pint only disappears if you actually drink it." The drawling Irish voice comes from the teen sitting nearby, a beer already three-quarters of the way gone clasped between his hands. He's been watching the various comings and goings in the pub for more than two hours. He'd watched as Simon came in with his friends and then as they'd left without him. Now there's a prime mark for a hungry vampire if ever Cooper saw one.

Of course, hunting was a task that required above all else a keen sense of patience. One had to reel in the victim first, put them at ease, and then figure out how to get them alone. "What's plaguing your mind?" He asks, turning his chair to better face Simon.