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[impure_tale]

This time, I'm not the one that started it.

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[alcoholit.livejournal.com]

Ah, so you're the rumour monkey about here.

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

Incorrect. I am a writer. One of my previous ventures are simply well-remembered, apparently.

[alcoholit.livejournal.com]

What sort of writer? Because if you're a journalist, rumour monkey's pretty much synonymous.

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

My works are pure fiction, I assure you.

[alcoholit.livejournal.com]

Oh, fantastic! I once wrote a book. Well, a few. Mainly of the unpublished type. Entirely of the unpublished type.

I have no idea why publishers were so picky about it being written on the back of my accounts. It was more interesting than the damn numbers.

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

Always best to have someone copy out the manuscript before sending it to anyone -- unless, of course, the publishers are desperate for more of your work to begin with.

[alcoholit.livejournal.com]

...yeah, but Manny would mess it up. There was that one children's book, but I couldn't let that be published. The fame would have been too much, it was that brilliant.

What did you write? I might have read it.

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

Most people tend to fill in that blank when I tell them my name. You might be one of the few who haven't heard it but you might not.

The Marquis de Sade, at your service.

[alcoholit.livejournal.com]

Really? Really? REALLY?

Okay, so that gets a lot of gold stars for this place. A LOT.

Excuse me whilst I go and double the price on any of your books I actually have.

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

I'm touched.

[alcoholit.livejournal.com]

Least I could do.

Actually, it is the least I could do, as I don't have any books by you and this place seems to be distinctly lacking in the monetary exchange department.

Care to donate to the Happy-Funtimes-Library-of-Bernard, Marquis?

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

There should be copies in the library for your use.

Once this play is finished I might consider writing you an original as well.

[alcoholit.livejournal.com]

Oh, I know. But I like having them in my little dank corner of the universe. I'll go look, though.

This. I approve of.

[tadwizard.livejournal.com]

Of course not. You'd have given a whole lot more detail. And it would've seemed sexier.

[soundof-drums.livejournal.com]

You're a revolting creature.

[tadwizard.livejournal.com]

I know!

[soundof-drums.livejournal.com]

I know who started it.

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

Pouvre chaton.

It brings back memories though, oui?

[soundof-drums.livejournal.com]

And people think my fixation on the Doctor is unhealthy. It holds nothing to the rest of you.

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

You know me, dumpling. Always looking for reactions.

[soundof-drums.livejournal.com]

Then you must feel so sad you didn't cause it this time.

[impure-tale.livejournal.com]

Quite the contrary. I wouldn't like to set a poor example for my Inmate, would I?

[soundof-drums.livejournal.com]

Of course. I keep forgetting about that.