EVENT LOG: ON TODAY'S EPISODE...

[lucetimods]

Who: Everyone and everyone's evil twin.
What: Drama! Romance! Gripping soliloquies! Otherwise known as our SOAP OPERA EVENT.
When: April 26th - April 30th
Where: All 'round town and coming to a TV guide near you.
Summary: For more information, see this post.
Rating: Keep it PGish! Take anything too raunchy to your appointments posts, darlings.

Log for any and all events around town during the event. But also feel free to do your own posts as well! And yes, this will be the only mass log for the whole weekend.

HAVE FUN.

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[ribbonbon]

[She lets out a gasp as she is embraced. The embrace of parent, even one she has only just found, is something she has missed for so long. Pilouette's tears increase and she sobs wildly, overtaken by emotion.]

Father...!

[monocledman]

Pilouette...!

[A passing orchestra playing an uplifting crescendo would not be wholly out of place in the middle of this touching scene, but Luceti has no orchestra, so. Shortly, he draws back but keeps an agonized hand gripped on her shoulder.]

My dear girl. What did you ever do to earn such a cur for a father? I deserve no love or comfort, if there is any justice in the world.

[ribbonbon]

[She looks to him, her eyes still teary but her gaze unwavering.]

What? But Father, what do you mean?! If Mother...If Mother loved you, how can you possibly be a bad person?!

[monocledman]

[He looks at her with as much sorrow and regret as his dewy orbs can withstand.]

I have done... many terrible things, Pilouette. I have robbed men of their handkerchiefs, separated women from their umbrellas. I'm afraid I am no father to be proud of, as no one should ever be proud of a criminal.

[ribbonbon]

But you're still my...!

[She stops short yet again asif waiting to reveal something after the commerical break another thought enters her mind. Her father...is a criminal. He says she shouldn't be proud of him, but she hasn't exactly lived an honest life herself. If he knew of the things she did, who she worked for...would he be ashamed of her?

Should she tell him? She must! But she can't! But she must! But she can't! But...this is going to take some thought.]

But I...I...!

[monocledman]

[Oh, he is breaking his newly found little girl's heart. He can see it in her eyes! He has only been a father for two minutes and he is already abysmal at it! Carmelita's ghostly spirit damn him!]

It would be best if you turned away from me, dear Pilouette. Associating with me will bring you nothing but grief and trouble, and I would not do you any more harm than I already have.

[His hand drops from her shoulder

slowly

as if edited

in post-production...]

[ribbonbon]

But father! If I leave you now, will I ever see you again?! Besides...how can I be shamed by your deeds when...when I'm...

[She looks to him again, tears flowing as if there was an unlimited amount of water just...stored in her face somewhere, how is she even crying this much?]

When I'm a criminal, too?!

[Is that another piano chord in the distance?]

1/2

[monocledman]

[A silent but extremely visible gasp.] You?! But...

[She is so young! So innocent! Has his neglect driven this poor child to such miserable heights? He turns his gaze away and smiles with 100% dark chocolatey cacao bitterness.]

It seems we truly are of the same ilk. Very well. No more secrets.

[He rests a hand on his monocle...]

2/2

[reminded]

[... and removes it!!]

Behold!

Re: 2/2

[ribbonbon]

[ So many days she had gone to class, sat in her desk and listened to the before her now, never knowing, never suspecting. But now she knows. She knows that her father is a criminal, like herself. That her father is her teacher. That she spent so much time looking for him under her boss's employ, only to find she had found him without even knowing. This was the man her dear mother had loved so much.

Her hand on her forehead, Pilouette stumbles back, eyes wide. The shock is too much.]

How...how can this be...?!

[reminded]

[Layton takes one step forward, brandishing his monocle between them like an ace attorney with decisive evidence.]

And so you see the depth of my deception. Pilouette! I sought your trust as an instructor while giving you none in return. Every word I spoke to you as Hershel Layton was laced with dishonesty!

[ribbonbon]

...I suppose I really I am your daughter.

I've been pretending to be no more than a student just to see what I could find out about people. With the two of us having lied to each other for so long...to everyone...I wonder if we could even trust each other...!

[reminded]

[He lowers his monocle.]

True as well. But perhaps... that only means we deserve one another. I cannot ask you to love or trust me, or even to forgive me. But in my heart, I must know if you can at least accept me for who I am... as surely as I do you.

[ribbonbon]

Father...!

[Her voice trembles as she speaks and does her best to blink away the tears.]

Oh, Father! There's no way I couldn't accept you! I don't know what kind of person you were back when you met Mother...or if you were different at all! But you're the only parent I have now...!

Even if our lines of work make it impossible to truly be a family...!

[reminded]

[Could he give up his way of life for his newly revealed daughter? Could Mr. Tsuna really carry the business on his own? Could such a wicked family such as they ever find true peace?? Tune in next time...

Pilouette's words strike a chord within him, and tears spring to his eyes once again. His emotions are like a waterfall, overwhelming and strangely uncontrollable.] We will find a way. We must. I... never thought I might have a child of my own. I will not part ways with you if I can help it.

[ribbonbon]

[Could it be? Could she finally have a father? Could she finally be part of a family again? Part of her says it's too good to be true, that it's too much to hope for. And yet...!]

Oh...! If...If it means we could be a family...If I have to, I'll quit my life of crime, Father! I'll be a good girl, just like Mother would have wanted!

[reminded]

Indeed. We must make your mother proud. [He can almost feel Carmelita smiling down on them from Heaven, like a beautiful face superimposed on her united loved ones...!]

Will you be able to make a clean break, Pilouette? Is there anyone who would threaten you, ally or enemy?

[ribbonbon]

I'm not sure. The man I work for...he's ruthless. When someone owes, he always collects, no matter what. With the things I know, the orders I've taken from him...If I break ties, he might think I'm a...liability.

[She suddenly turns her head to one side, nervously staring at...nothing, apparently.]