#scarlettxruby

“Your unlucky day, Deputy Devereaux!”

Unlike pretty much everybody else at the SBSD, Ephram had still not tired of this ‘joke’ he made whenever he was beginning a day’s work with whatever Deputy he was paired with for that shift. Everybody ignored him, which did nothing to dent his enthusiasm as he filled his travel mug and ate an oatmeal-raisin cookie in two wolfing bites, grabbing another two for the road as he met Ruby at the door to the station. 

Freddie told him so often enough, and his own love for the job made it doubly true: Ephram was meant to be a small town sheriff. He threw himself not only into the work itself, but the philosophy around it, the persona to match, all of it, especially in the town he loved so dearly. And he took in some deep, glad breaths of the bracing winter air as they walked out to the jeep together, Ruby holding the list of incident reports they were to look into and follow up on.

“There’s that snatch-and-grab thing what’s been going on for the past week, right? At the top of the roster?” Ephram sipped his coffee and slid behind the wheel. “Mighty bold of the robber to go bare-faced in daylight, I tell you that much. Any fairies or whatnot able to say if it’s a glamour, and that’s why the robber don’t bother with concealing their identity?” Dispatch would be sending them some surveillance footage of the perp soon enough, but Ruby and Ephram had decided to start their shift running intstead of lingering at the station for it.

[ TEXT ]: Hope you’re doing okay, love. [ TEXT ]: Keep missing you at work, especially because I’ve been out on patrol more lately. [ TEXT ]: I was speaking at the school though and a bunch of kids had these. [ IMG ] [ TEXT ]: They said one of the older kids was giving them out. [ TEXT ]: Have you seen any around?

Who from the SBSD would she want as part of her entourage, though? The choices are slim pickings indeed:

flaccid fairy

drunk wolf 

narcoleptic fairy

ephram

She’d be better off taking a spiral-cut ham with her on her strolls through town. 

OOC: 

Chalcedony

Freddie was eight when his nanny - the only mother he had ever really known, and the only source of love and affection in his life, other than Ollie - left him without ever saying goodbye, and to this day he can’t adequately articulate the devastation he felt. 

Chalcopyrite

Is ‘not well’ too vague an answer? lol When Freddie’s relationships with both Elizabeth and Ruby ended, he dealt with the loss in fundamentally the same way he’s always dealt with loss and pain - he did his best to avoid it in every way that he could. With Elizabeth, this was made easier by the fact that she left Soapberry shortly after they broke up; but with Ruby, as they were still living together and things were much more complicated, avoidance of his feelings was very much harder to manage, and he ran away to stay with Iann in the immediate aftermath, hiding there until Ephram had had enough and brought him home again. But as he’s doing much better at acknowledging, confronting, and processing his feelings now (it’s a slow progression lol), and now that some time has passed, he’s very hopeful that he and Ruby can be part of each other’s lives as friends - which is indicative of some growth, I think.

Charoite

@scarlettxruby

txt: Hi. I’m glad you found a good place. Dani is amazing. And Ephram’s right. If someone’s looking for a runaway, a half-way house is a good target. I’m sorry I didn’t think of that before.

txt: Thank you for letting me know though. And you’re welcome.

txt: You know you can come by anytime I’m there right?

[TXT] Don’t worry about it. I didn’t think of it either. Besides if you hadn’t given me a place to stay I probably would’ve been living out of that rental. 

[TXT] Yeah, thanks

@scarlettxruby

It had been a very long couple of days, but Shivonne finally had a moment where she could feel normal. Well, at least as normal as she could while she still had stuff to do. She couldn’t remember the last time she showered, the house was a mess that she couldn’t find the energy to tidy up and the only thing in the house to eat was instant noodles and a few slices of bread that were an odd shade of blue. 

She took her beat up little mini and drove down to the grocery store to restock. The mess would still be there when she got back, Shivonne told herself. Wandering the aisles, she couldn’t read most of the labels because she had forgotten to put on her glasses after taking out her contact lenses. Shivonne only picked up what she thought was necessary, a few bags of frozen food that she could stick in the oven and jar of instant coffee. 

Written on the back:

HEY RUBY IT’S A DOCTOR APPROVED DRINK FOR UR CONDITION!! IF UR DOCTOR WAS A TOMATO WITH A MONOCLE RIGHTTTTT HAH HAH - E. PETTALINE ♥ ♥ HAPPY VALENTOMATO

[ IMG ] [ TEXT ]: Is this...is this your name? [ TEXT ]: The Scarlett in there might have thrown me off but I’m pretty sure that has your name on it. [ TEXT ]: I don’t see where you requested me as your partner though.