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Date Posted: Tuesday, November 29, 11:04:29pm
Author: Diane
Subject: Turnabout - Idea and Some Dialogue Purloined from "Slipping Into Darkness"
In reply to: JayBee and Nell 's message, "Friday Challenge: November 18, 2005" on Friday, November 18, 05:59:47pm

Mick’s apartment. Nikita is at the door.

Nikita: Hullo, Mick.

Mick: Popsicle? (he glances over his shoulder, confused. It’s obviously the middle of the night.) Yeah! Be right there, love.

Nikita: We have a delicate situation here. You’re not alone.

Mick: Well, no, not exactly. You see, I ran into this bird at the library, Felice. I love reading, you see, and there was this book, "Great Chefs of the Thirties and Forties"...

Nikita: Shut up, Mick.

Mick: Do I need to go in? To Section, I mean? Is there something that requires Mick’s special, one-of-a-kind...

Nikita: Shut up, Mick. I’ll get to the point.

Mick: Because it’s the middle of the night, Popsicle, and I am, uh, entertaining, know what I mean? Got a bird looking at my etchings this very moment.

Nikita: Condoms. Don’t bother to count them. Just give me the box.

Mick: What?

Nikita: Don’t make me repeat myself, Mick. I am not a patient person.

Mick: What? You and Michael? Right now? I mean, my word. Things certainly have heated up between the two of you, haven’t they?

Nikita: Don’t make me hurt you, Mick.

Mick: Well, well, well. I’m certainly willing share. Company man and all that. But it’s a new box, and I don’t think...

Nikita: Just give me the box, Mick, and I’ll let you live long enough to buy another one.

Mick: All right! All right! Just half a mo. (He disappears into the apartment, leaving Nikita standing in the hallway. She is not pleased about any part of this situation. Mick reappears in the doorway and hands Nikita an unopened box of condoms.)

Nikita: Good-night, Mick. (She snatches the box from his hand and strides back to her apartment, leaving an opened-mouth Mick standing in the doorway. As she reaches apartment 412, Michael steps into the hallway, fully dressed, handing Nikita her coat.)

Michael: (to Nikita) Josephine. (Nikita tosses the package inside her doorway, Michael closes the door, and the two of them head for the elevator.)

Mick: Excusez-moi. Would a “thank you” have been too much to ask? After all, it’s not me who came rapping on your door in the middle of the night was it? Nikita? Michael? (Michael and Nikita stare stonily ahead as the elevator doors close shut.) Yeah, yeah, I got it. “Shut up, Mick.” (Mick stares at the elevator doors a few more moments, then looks longingly at Nikita’s apartment, where his freshly purchased condoms now reside).

Felice: (From inside Mick’s apartment) Mick? Are you coming?

Mick: (thoroughly dejected, sighs.) I sincerely doubt it.

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