007. Light reflects from your shadow

[drydrown]

So does someone want to tell the hapless fool trying to steal my job that

1. law is difficult and there's a reason we have to get certified to practice it, and also
2. he probably doesn't actually want my job?

He can take the rest of my life, for all I care - the only possible exception to this is that I draw the line at all the befriending of my cat he's currently doing - but I'd really prefer to not have to deal with this at the office day in and day out.

So if anyone has any advice for dealing with the tactless pests, I'm all for hearing it - and don't start with telling me that I shouldn't speak ill of the apparently deceased. If they don't want me to speak ill of them, they'll learn their place.

Comments

[blondferret]

You too huh? Tatsuo and I are having the same problem. I just ended up flipping him off and we went out for drinks. If I had a spell I could use on them, I would have. Stupid bastard.

[drydrown]

Honestly.

It's completely tacky at best? You'd think that someone would teach them basic cause and effect - if they want to have some semblance of a life so badly, they can get their own.

[blondferret]

I think they enjoy stealing our lives. The one that "replaced" Tatsuo gave him a nasty smirk.

And it's not tacky, it's flat out rude! Plus, all of my co-workers are ignoring me. I came close to punching a few of them. So close...

[drydrown]

It's likely for the best that we don't do that, but believe me, the temptation is there.

[...Cumore, you'd be more likely to break your wrist than accomplish anything, you're back to being fragile.]

[blondferret]

Yeah... I just got this apartment a few months ago... I need my job to pay for it...

But STILL! Maybe we can find an exorcists or something. I had a friend who kicked me with these boots that turned me back into a human from a ghost last month. Only for like an hour, but that would give me enough time to do some damage. Sadly, she's not talking to me. Ghost me was a... well I was a really creepy jerk. Kinda of scared the shit out of her.

[drydrown]

Derek, what in god's name did you do.

[blondferret]

Well a couple of things...

Kinda ran into her at that haunted house and tried to infect her. Of course she then kicked me and made me human. But then the house manifested an evil wizard from Draco's world and he tried to kill us.

But uh... I think the main thing she has issues with is that I tried to infect her again and... it was an accident, but in the process of infecting her I just... sort of fell into her and ended up possessing her. And then I didn't leave for a bit.

Kinda freaked her out. Especially when I tried figuring out how to use her boots which can go faster than the speed of sound.

[drydrown]

...I can't say I blame her, honestly. Wow.

[blondferret]

Yeah... I know. I took me a few days to even apologize after I wasn't infected anymore. She kept running away from me! So I had to suck it up and text and apology. So impersonal!

[drydrown]

As long as it gets done in the first place, I suppose.

[blondferret]

Yeah, but then she told me she didn't want to talk to me. It's like, she saved my life last month (well assisted) and then all this shit happened, so it's like... wow, way to put a roller coaster on this friendship Retrospec.

[drydrown]

Well, I...can't say I exactly blame her? Frustrating, surely, but not altogether unwarranted.

[blondferret]

Alex, if I had done something like that to you, would you not speak to me for weeks?

[thisloveisjustice]

Ugh, at least the one stealing my job hasn't tried to steal my dog yet. Nothing I've tried to make him go away seems to work. He's even moved on to some of my non-app family members now. They seem to think he's their brother.

[drydrown]

I haven't even tried to check in with my sister yet; she's thankfully all the family I have in town, so at least that cuts down on the annoyance there, but I'm sure she'd be incredibly receptive to it just the same.

[...He does not get along with his sister.]

[thisloveisjustice]

It's rather unsettling really. Some of these people I've worked with for years, or I've known them since I was a child. And this ghost is just... taking my place. Our places. How is that even possible? I was always worried my past life would somehow take over my current life, but this is a whole other existential crisis.

[drydrown]

You know, on top of whatever we're currently experiencing, I actually hadn't even considered the possibility of our past lives doing that? So thank you. For that. It's greatly appreciated.

[thisloveisjustice]

You're welcome.

No, really, I'm sorry. I would say it probably won't happen, but who the fuck knows.

[Especially after this summer. But he should probably just let this lie...]

[drydrown]

I admit that I mostly try to ignore the entire matter of my past life, seeing as he wasn't a terribly pleasant person and I'd like to avoid his eventual outcome happening again. It's probably something I should consider in more depth sooner or later, however.

[thisloveisjustice]

TBH that's mostly how I was dealing with it too until this summer. My past self wasn't a bad person, exactly, but he made some really questionable decisions and was involved with a really questionable person, and I didn't want any of that bleeding over into my life.

[drydrown]

And how well did all of that end up working out? For your past life, I mean.

[thisloveisjustice]

It got him shot for one. And it put serious strain on his relationship with his partner. Why she didn't just turn him in, I don't know. Jury is still out on whether he got his revenge or got thrown in jail.

[drydrown]

At risk of being tacky - best of luck to you on that, I suppose.

[thisloveisjustice]

Heh, thanks. I'm curious how it all turns out, but at the same time, I can see so many ways for it to go badly. It's like watching a very slow motion trainwreck.

[drydrown]

In my case, I've already seen the collision. Not particularly pleasant or something I would recommend.