- IC CONTACT POST FOR MASKORMENACE -

[slightlyoffchilt]

"Hello.

You've reached the direct line of Doctor Frederick Chilton. As I am not available at the moment, you might assume I'm quite busy with something pressing. State your name and business, and I will return your call."

Comments

[infomodder]

[Chilton's right in that thinking. Abigail comes before April, even. Will simply tries to put any worst case scenarios regarding picking and choosing out of his head and leaves whatever comes to him in his nightmares behind on the pillow as best he can.

His fears of being abandoned feel completely valid when he catches if. Will might not like what Chilton has to say at times (he figures this is something that goes both ways), but he'd be an idiot not to pick up on the fact that Chilton chooses his words with purpose, agenda. if if if, it sticks out like the only neon sign on a long, dark stretch of dirt road miles away from any other hint of civilization. A neon sign that points out a quicker road to where he needs to be. He turns, follows, replies quickly and with sudden renewed interest in using English.]

No one including Abigail and April, I assume? [Does that extend to Raina? To people Chilton thinks are worthy of knowing this? He wants to ask. But he wants to not be cut off completely more than anything else right now, and he knows thin ice when he feels it beneath his feet.] I can abide by this.

[slightlyoffchilt]

And April. [Of course. Chilton would include Raina in his business, especially when it became pertinent. Why wouldn't Will do the same, with his significant others? It was only fair, he supposed.]

She doesn't seem too involved with Crane's social experiments.

1/2

[infomodder]

She isn't. She also knows where to draw the line, what to make light of and what to keep hidden. I've never tried to keep this device away from her before. She'd know something was up if I started acting odd around it now.

[Unlike Will who apparently crossed a line with this whole mess, go figure. Keeping secrets from Abigail comes naturally enough. If Chilton's going to extend him the ability to discuss this with his significant other openly, that's exactly what Will's going to take away and that's exactly what he's going to do...provided it ever comes up, of course. Dumping it on April but saying she has to keep it from Abigail, too, isn't very fair. Rock and a hard place, and didn't he put himself here? Christ.]

You've got my other number on file if you'd prefer to use that.

[He's used his cell phone mostly for fishing-related stuff, and who cares about that boring shit?]

[infomodder]

Thanks.

["Sorry" is hard to type and could get twisted if he was that direct, but being polite isn't a crime. Being polite prevents crime, at least in Baltimore.]

[slightlyoffchilt]

Let's hope that your more obscured number won't be a necessary strategy. I would hate it to come to that.

[Because it certainly implied something even worse than Chilton had been anticipating. But he didn't believe that Crane was so invested as to snoop Will Graham's phone and communicator -- Will wasn't his Batman, after all, and Crane wasn't Will's Hannibal.]

Tread carefully.

[infomodder]

[He's just ready for that worst possible outcome. Except the worst possible outcome of "one of the two people he has from back home cutting him off entirely," that is, since it hadn't ever crossed his (waking) mind.]

Can do.

[The hoping, treading, not talking in public, lying as needs must...after finishing off what alcohol's in the house and spending the rest of this weekend reevaluating his life choices by going over every interaction he's had with Crane to see if Chilton's more on target with why Will did this than Will thinks he is, currently.]