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Shipmates and Stalemates

Chapter 22: xxii

Notes:

happy new year and my gosh it’s been a while
updates are so slow holy moly
enjoy!!

also keep in thoughts and prayers los angeles while they recover from the fires :( both the cities themselves that are in flames but also those struggling with air pollution ❤️

(See the end of the chapter for more notes.)

Chapter Text

 


[The Tortured Corvid Department]

 

coolest privateer: @Boss your friend has a problem

 

Boss: I don't have friends.

 

knife wife: :(

 

Boss: Oh, look. There is my friend.

Boss: Inej, what is your problem?

 

coolest privateer: fine your brother has a problem

 

bangbangbi: just say jesper saints

 

coolest privateer: ok jesper saints has a problem

 

Boss: Is he impersonating Alina Starkov?

 

coolest privateer: BLOCKING EVERYONE IN THE CHAT

coolest privateer: look what he brought to rehearsal.

coolest privateer: Attachment: 1 Image

 

bangbangbi: milo has a brother :(

 

coolest privateer: MILO DID NOT NEED A BROTHER BADLY ENOUGH FOR YOU TO BE LATE TO REHEARSAL

 

Boss: He was late?

bangbangbi: by like ten minutes

 

coolest privateer: it was not ten

 

bangbangbi: fine twenty

 

coolest privateer: have you looked at a clock??

 

bangbangbi: FINE IT WAS FORTY FIVE MINUTES

 

coolest privateer: …

 

bangbangbi: two and a half hours isn't that much longer than ten minutes

 

Boss: What were you doing?

Boss: Do I want to know?

 

 


[Jazhands]

 

jes: wylan locked me out

jes: he says it was by accident but man is Petty so idk

 

Kazzle Dazzle: Congratulations.

 

jes: no not congratulations

jes: wylan being petty is not congratulations

 

 


[bicons]

 

king: hypothetically

king: how likely would it be for wylan to take my comment about none of the rest of us having partners personally

 

queen: we're talking about the same person, right?

queen: Very.

 

king: fucking damn it

 

queen: dw he might get over it

 

king: he will?

 

queen: in about seventeen decades

 

king: unhelpful

 

queen: i know

queen: also if you weren't with wylan where were you

 

king: i may or may not have hit cloud cumulus on the way to rehearsal

 

queen: you didn't

 

king: milo has a brother :)

 

queen: idiot

queen: how much of the pay from the museum job did you squander

 

king: only all of it

king: shhhhhh

 

queen: you have a problem ❤️

 

king: i knowwwwwww

 

 


[The Tortured Corvid Department]

 

bangbangbi: my da arrives in two days

bangbangbi: kmn

 

merchling: My sister wants me to take her to the Barrel

merchling: Someone sane in this chat give me good reasons to feed her as to why it's a bad idea

 

bangbangbi: WAYJAY

 

coolest privateer: tell her it's boring here

 

Cultist: ah yes the notorious Boring Barrel

 

coolest privateer: i mean..

 

Cultist: day one of road trip is today

Cultist: why did i choose to do this :(

 

knife wife: because gas is way cheaper than plane tickets

 

Cultist: i could be eating shitty peanuts

 

knife wife: and instead you get time with your lovely boyfriend

 

Cultist: :((((

 

knife wife: :))))

 

bangbangbi: i expect updates, zenik

bangbangbi: until you're back in town

 

Cultist:

Dearest Jesper Llewellyn Fahey,

Day One. The Darkling is wearing the same shades of black that Kaz pulls off marginally better. Matthias is a pain in the ass, a thorn in my side, and a hundred shades of wonderful.

Sincerely,

Your Best and Dearest Friend,

Nina Zenik

Cultist: ^what i'd send when i got to the conference

 

bangbangbi: sobbing

 

coolest privateer: the only compliment from nina zenik kaz will ever get 💀

 

Boss: Good.

 

coolest privateer: goodbye, Nina. enjoy your trip

coolest privateer: and tell Matthias i said drive safe

 

Cultist: will do

 

 


[Jazhands]

 

jes: you're going to shows right

jes: with da?

 

Kazzle Dazzle: Yes.

 

jes: yay!

 

Kazzle Dazzle: However, if they are terrible due to you missing half of your rehearsals because you're back at the tables, I will not hesitate to tell him why.

 

jes: you have a death wish for me

 

Kazzle Dazzle: Maybe so.

 

jes: 😭

 

 


[escape artists]

 

Nikolai: do you want coffee after rehearsal? i'm going to stop at the shop

 

Kaz: Yes.

 

 


[The Tortured Corvid Department]

 

bangbangbi: i need coffee money

 

merchling: Ask Milo's brother

 

bangbangbi: why the fuck would a goat have money

 

merchling: he's more likely to hold onto it even without thumbs than you are, evidently

 

 


[theater kids]

 

galinda: scratch coffee money can i have money for chocolate, raspberries, and flowers

 

elphaba: ??

 

galinda: i owe wylan an apology, i think

 

elphaba: CONGRATULATIONS FOR NOTICING

 

galinda: i'll fight you

 

elphaba: what is this apology supposed to accomplish?

 

galinda: making him not hate me?

 

elphaba: what about your behavior are you intending to change?

 

galinda: i don't know?? but he's mad and it's my fault

 

elphaba: was the comment inaccurate?

 

galinda: not exactly

 

elphaba: are you intending to ask him to be your partner?

 

galinda: hell no

galinda: show season relationships, my friend

 

elphaba: he's not in the show though

 

galinda: nor was alexei

 

elphaba: i don't know if you've noticed but wylan is not alexei

 

galinda: i know

galinda: but still

 

elphaba: and alexei was on the crew which basically counts

 

galinda: i know

 

elphaba: so basically there is no comparison, except that while alexei wanted nothing to do with you except fuck and hang out backstage when you wanted more, wylan wants more now while you're pulling back

 

galinda: i guess

 

elphaba: so

elphaba: if you want to

elphaba: get the man, babe

 

galinda: i don't know

 

elphaba: you could at least talk to him

 

galinda: i will

 

elphaba: good

 

 


[my chemical romance]

 

flute: can i come by please after rehearsal

 

flute blower: yes

 

flute: slay

 

 


[The Tortured Corvid Department]

 

Cultist: entertain me i'm bored

 

knife wife: they're all busy

knife wife: Kaz and Nikolai are having coffee and Wylan and Jesper are doing something

 

Cultist: what are you up to?

 

knife wife: on the phone with Zoya

knife wife: she's about to leave for the airport though

 

Cultist: SO I GET YOUR UNDIVIDED ATTENTION

 

knife wife: soon :)

knife wife: will you want to call? or not distract Matthias?

 

Cultist: we can call and i'll put it on speaker so he can contribute

Cultist: unless you'd rather just text

 

knife wife: he can say hi to Trassel, i'm watching him while Nikolai's at rehearsal all the time

 

Cultist: matty says if zoya doesn't do it he'll marry you

 

knife wife: awwww

Notes:

wesper my loves

also milo’s brother hello