022 - Caramel Apple

[deadly_ned]

[Public]

Is there someone here with a camera? A regular...picture-taking camera. Not a video camera. I mean. I suppose I could use the one attached to the communicator but it's sort of low-res and I didn't know if there was actually anyone whose job it was to take pictures.

..So...camera.

I know it's an odd thing to ask with the Barge fractured and in pieces but I wouldn't have asked if it wasn't important.

[Warden Filter]

Is there a plan for Dr. Lecter? He's out - or should be out - of Zero by now. Is someone watching him to make sure he's not...I don't know...pointlessly slaughtered and/or slaughtering over and over again?

Just. Curious.

[Alpha]

I need your help.

I need...you.

Comments

[composited]

[ He pitches his voice husky and rough for the answer, voice only: ]

Well, Ned this is-- so sudden. I don't know what to say.

[deadly_ned]

Please stop.

[composited]

Okay, okay.

What do you need?

[deadly_ned]

This is going to sound completely insane.

[neuropathy]

I've got a couple. Couldn't tell you much about 'em, but I know they--you know, take pictures.

[ Policey-like pictures, usually. ]

[deadly_ned]

Could I borrow one?

[myresponsibility]

I've got one. Why?

[deadly_ned]

Felix and I talked. On his last day on the Barge.

I thought it might be nice to photograph everyone who comes to the Barge. And. Keep it in a book, or on a wall somewhere, or give copies to the people who graduate or leave for good.

[neuropathy]

I don't mind. I do wanna know why, though.

[ He won't actually push this, it's just in his nature to be cautious where possible. ]

[deadly_ned]

I want to photograph everyone on the Barge and make a memory wall.

People...ghost through here. I want to keep something real, to show that they mattered.

[composited]

Think of who you're talking to.

Go ahead.

[myresponsibility]

Yeah, that might be good. As long as you like, you know. Get people's permission and stuff.

[neuropathy]

[ Don't mind the second where Nathan's expression approximates a person who was just punched in the throat. ]

--Yeah. Okay.

[ A beat. ]

Y'might as well hang onto it. You're gonna need new pictures and it'd be a pain in the ass to keep askin' me.

[deadly_ned]

I need to bake again. Baking is the only thing that calms me down when something horrible happens.

But baking's been tainted. I can't....go into kitchens anymore. I can't step into that role. Not yet. I'm torn between needing and being terrified.

And. My solution to this is to bring you into a kitchen, with me. And I'll blindfold myself so I can't see it, and I talk you through baking a pie.




You can say no. I know it's crazy. It probably wouldn't have worked. Never mind.

[deadly_ned]

Thank you.

It doesn't...have to be a one-person job. I've never taken pictures professionally before. There's no telling how bad I'd be at it.

[deadly_ned]

I would never take someone's picture without their permission. It would be like stealing their image.

[surfaceshine]

[Someone is instantly, painfully suspicious.]

Why?

[myresponsibility]

Right.

If you need a dark room or anything to develop pictures, I could help.

[private]

[megamind]

Funny, since... Tosh left, I've been thinking about this sort of thing.

I've got some ideas, but I'd like to hear what you want to do.

[deadly_ned]

Dean, I'm not doing anything you wouldn't approve of.

[neuropathy]

I've only taken 'em at crime scenes. Y'could ask Peter, though.

[ Who appropriately is just down-thread! Nathan happens to know this for childhood hero related reasons, but there is no reason to bring that up. ]

[deadly_ned]

You have a dark room?

[surfaceshine]

You don't know what I would and wouldn't approve of.

[deadly_ned]

These would be significantly nicer than crime scenes. Although you might have trouble because the bodies here tend to. Move around.

Being alive, and all.

[private]

[deadly_ned]

I don't have any ideas.

Any specific...set-in-stone ideas.

If you have ideas I'd like to hear them.