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[levelshift]

[It's the default request to leave a message that comes with every voicemail. Accelerator hasn't bothered to change it.]

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[reneger]

( from the same burner number jason had given accelerator before, just after the broadcast cuts out - )

if i don't hear from you in 20 i'm pausing my shit to come find you

[levelshift]

[What the hell is this message? He'd maybe expect this from Leo, but even that feels like a bit of a stretch.]

I'm not dead, if that's what you're wondering.

[reneger]

oh, good
i'd hate to have to scrape your corpse off the ground

[Discord Chat, Go!]

[purplexing]

Hey 'Rator, do you have access to any of your boss's stuff?

[Totally innocent question here.]

[levelshift]

[What the hell kind of question is this????]

Why?

[purplexing]

There might be a way to find her, but we need something that would have her "magic" signature or something.

text;

[faceguy]

this u

[levelshift]

[...........................................]

✅

[God, he's just leaving this on read for a while.]

[faceguy]

[Hm. Maybe he didn't see it.

(He's ignoring that read receipt.)

He'll send the picture again. And then a couple more times.]

[Text, backdated to before 11/15]

[robintohood]

[Shortly after his meeting with the Baron, Jason sends a text to Accelerator]

Had a talk with the Baron. I got us a new mission. It’ll be a good test for what you’ve learned so far too

[levelshift]

[Oh, huh. This is interesting.]

Yeah? What's the mission? Fetch?

[Hah, he's funny.]

[robintohood]

Actually, yeah. Kinda

There’s something at an Excelsior space exhibit he wants us to steal

It’s a weaponized flute called Canem Sibilus

text.

[reneger]

yo
you coming to dickie's get together?
i need someone to throw all the assholes out the window

[levelshift]

What? What the hell are you talking about?

Did you send this to the wrong person?

[reneger]

pretty sure you're the only 'ace' i know around here

Ho Ho Ho

[purplexing]

[The Halloween decor had been cleared out not long after the holiday itself had passed. But Donnie's still making good on his word, and once December rolls around, he's been in and out of the esper's apartment, setting up the more subtler components of his gift. Things don't activate until the evening of the 24th because Donnie anticipates that Accelerator's Christmas plans probably largely consist of sleeping in.

There's no lightning, no creepy laughter, but the lights dim subtly, and along the edges of the ceiling of the main room trace bars of soft grayish-white light, beaming upwards so there's no harsh glare when someone looks up at them. There's other lighting installments around the room, nestled cleverly where they can throw off soft but at the same time jagged shadows reminiscent of Accelerator's favored zig-zag patterning, not everywhere thankfully, but thrown in here and there to break up the monotony.

The regular lighting of course still works and the mood lighting doesn't clash at all, but everything still switches off as needed. Donnie's not trying to annoy Accy here.

...although there is a tub full of fist-sized plushies that somehow look like his favorite coffee can drink.]

Beautiful

[levelshift]

[Accelerator doesn't notice any changes, outside of the Halloween decor disappearing. He's never cared much about his residence (the sole exception the one day at Yomikawa's) and he isn't about to start now. Excluded from that indifference is the occasional bug check, due to the older Jason's paranoia and the issues the younger Jason had at the Descendant.

All that to say he's clueless right up until the new mood lighting actually starts. He had been indeed planning to sleep in for Christmas, maybe order some KFC since you apparently don't need to reserve it in advance in America, but that's all.

It's irritating when he sees it, because his response to most things is to be irritated. Unlike the Halloween stuff it isn't actually gaudy (it is, in fact, completely to his aesthetic), but he's annoyed Donnie went to all this effort when he could've spent it elsewhere for a more worthwhile return.

The plushies, meanwhile, do genuinely annoy him.

After an hour or so Donnie is receiving a text.]

I don't even celebrate the damn holiday, you bastard. And I'm throwing all those toys out.

ho ho ho

[faceguy]

[Unlike Donnie, Leo doesn't sneak into Accelerator's house to leave his gift.

He opens a portal and deposits it directly on the coffee table.

Part of the gift is a six-pack of some of the canned coffee he's seen Accelerator drinking more recently. The other part, however, is more interesting.

It's a stack of DVDs! Yes, DVDs - Leo is old school, okay? If Accelerator doesn't have a player, he'll fix that.

The stack is made up of around 10 movies, all of them from the list of Cultural Education that Leo has been putting together over the last year. Mean Girls, Legally Blonde, all three High School Musicals, Die Hard, Elf, etc. Basically anything that Leo thinks is highly quotable that exists in this universe as well as his.

There is also a very basic "Season's Greetings" card perched on top of the stack. All it says inside is "To Accy from Leo". He's never been great at the presentation part of gift giving.]

[levelshift]

[Accelerator is, unfortunately, home for this. He's stretched out on his shitty couch, reading some crappy YA novel when the portal appears and coffee and DVDs crash onto his coffee table. He very nearly throws the book in surprise, and by the time he's sitting up and has processed what just happened the portal is closed.

Fucking hell. He reads the card, looks over the DVDs (he recognizes none of these titles and they all look like shit), and gets his phone out.]

I don't fucking celebrate any of the holidays that are going on right now. Take your shit back.

deliveryish

[reneger]

( at some point during the day, the couch accelerator currently has in his living room will mysteriously--sink into the shadow sitting partially under it, reappearing in an alley visible from his living room window, where jason's kicking it over and shoving through another couch: one that's of significantly better quality, and stain-resistant. just in case.

he'll be out in the alley burning the old couch (after checking between cushions for remotes and other valuables) until it's charred enough to hide any evidence jason'd bled all over it. because he doesn't want that getting out anywhere. )

[levelshift]

[It's a good thing Accelerator wasn't napping on it when that happens. He's still home so he catches sight of the thing disappearing and the new couch appearing, which is all very what the fuck, though when he notices smoke rising from outside his window he realizes what's going on.

He opens up the window, switches choker modes, and hops out the window. Landing lightly on the ground, he walks on over to Jason and the burning couch.]

You didn't have to do this, you know.

Ho ho ho

[robintohood]

[A package waits for Accelerator the next time he’s at Society headquarters for work.

Inside the box is a cleaning and repair kit for Accelerator’s gun]

[levelshift]

[Accelerator isn't expecting any more gifts, certainly not any dropped off at work.

This is great, it's practical and he enjoys taking his gun apart. Of course, the fact that it's a good gift makes him feel worse (he doesn't deserve this, he doesn't), but that's an Accelerator problem, not a Jason problem.

When he gets home he's texting Jason.]

I take it your family celebrates Christmas.

text. backdated to before the chaos breaks out

[reneger]

got any alias preferences?

[levelshift]

[What even is this question.]

Accelerator.

[Yeah he's kind of being a shit, leave him alone.]