Investigations

[therealpm]

*It has taken several days for Peter to finish cleaning up- both after the werewolf and John's children, but at last all of the above ground rooms are clean and tidy.  The bedlinen, musty after two months in a closet, has all been washed and dried.  Suits have been aired and mothballs replaced.  The windows have been wiped down- were it summer they would sparkle but today has been unrelentingly grey.

Peter settles into the sofa, cup of tea in hand and appreciates the view.  The house still feels empty, but not quite so desolate.  He sips th steaming brew and ponders the last of today' chores: the cellar.  He has a vague memory of some potion or other going awry before he left and doubts the mess has been improved by two months' absence.  Still.  It needs to be done.

He finishes his tea, squares his shoulders and picks up the bucket of industrial-strength cleaning products.*

Once more into the breach.

Comments

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

*How did he...

Peter narrows his eyes.*

Potentially, yes. It is, of course, as yet untested.

[bamfbercow.livejournal.com]

Another potential entry for the journals or was this one strictly a private endeavour?

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

All experiments are potential topics for a paper... until they fail, anyway.

[bamfbercow.livejournal.com]

*John laughs*

So no side effects from the failed potion? Other than the need for a new cauldron and ingredients, of course.

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

*...what do you know?*

No proven side effects, no. Mind you, I didn't drink the thing. It was clearly a failure.

[bamfbercow.livejournal.com]

If not proven, then perhaps suspected side effects?

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

Speculating about possible side effects without any data is useless at best, liable to spark a public panic at worst. Either way it is grossly irresponsible.

[bamfbercow.livejournal.com]

No data at all? Surely you've had The Machine run some diagnostics to ensure there's nothing still harmful in the house?

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

...the rements of the potion are two months old. Any diagnostics will be speculative- based primarily on a time reversed component decay model, a model which is very sensitive to certain input parameters and the results of which should be interpreted with extreme caution.

[bamfbercow.livejournal.com]

Peter, let me ask you a very simple question:

Did I put my children in danger by bringing them here to visit you?

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

No.

*He half shrugs and takes another gulp of tea at John's sceptical look.*

I would hardly build a laboratory under my house without measures to ensure any experiments did not... spill over, would I? You set up the wards to keep them in the living room and as far as I'm aware, not even Oliver can break through those yet. Not undetected, anyway.

[bamfbercow.livejournal.com]

I'd still feel more comfortable if The Machine gave them a once-over just to be sure.

With regard to the clean up operation - is there anything I can do to help, other than continue to make tea when needed?

[therealpm.livejournal.com]

Fine. I'm sure Freddie's hankering to see her again anyway.

*He drains the last of tea before it cools to being undrinkable.*

No.

*He stands up, grabs the papers off the side and folds them in half, hiding even the top sheet, then folds them over again so that they can be tucked into a pocket.*

Arrange a time for the children to visit. I have a lab to clear.