[location: his apartment. time: backdated just after the candy plot]

[laughingmage]

After 60-odd years, John should be getting older. And as he looks at himself in the mirror, he starts to wonder for the first time why the opposite seems to be true.

The second thing he notices is that he has no desire for a smoke.

The third thing he notices is that he feels naked. I mean, he is naked, but he feels it in a different way. There's no magic.

John has never felt so isolated--he had finally started to adjust to how magic worked in this world, but now it seems to be gone. Just up and poof, like it was never there.

If this isn't a plot by the Lords of Hell, then he doesn't know what else it could be. And for the first time in what seems like forever, John feels fear. Not afraid--he's felt that a lot over the years, but blanket, all-consuming fear, that he won't make it out of this one.

Such fear that he doesn't even notice that the tablet is turned on and set to holo-broadcast. Helloooooooo nurse!

Comments

[genequeen]

Well, that was unexpected.

It takes Madelyne a little bit to actually say something. She clears her throat, transmitting on audio to John, "Ummm. Hi. It seems you're broadcasting to everyone. I thought you should know."

[loves_bitch]

"Oi, mate! You make it a habit to flash everyone when you're running around starkers?"

Seriously, Spike, like you have any room to throw stones here. Still, he doesn't mind looking. He's not usually one for blokes but the view isn't bad.

[skinandbone]

Metody politely ignores the initial transmission; clearly, it wasn't intentional, and she doesn't wish to embarrass him.

A few moments later, the picture comes through. She blinks at it, rolls her eyes, and deletes it. And then she responds, but only via voice.

"No, thanks. I'm not interested."

And since she has dealt with more than a few rejected men, she immediately clicks the transmission off. These things go so much smoother if you don't give them a chance to flail their egos about in protest.