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Whiteman’s  lounging with a whisky, looking comfortably casual in a pair of chinos and a t-shirt—blazer combination. He might be taken for any young, up-and-coming London professional out for a drink to celebrate the long weekend. Hillinghead, by contrast, looks like he should be at a wedding- the man’s in a three piece suit and the most complexly knotted tie she’s ever seen.  Still, Shahara’s hardly going to judge him for feeling more comfortable completely covered up and the man is (she still can’t really wrap her head around this) a Victorian. He’s got a pint of beer in front of him, though it doesn’t look like he’s touched it. 

She takes the first of the two empty seats at their table, her coke sloshing over the side of the glass as she sits, and remarks: “You two found your way around alright then?”

Whiteman sniffs sharply and half shrugs. “Fine. Nice to see the place not bombed to bits and rationing over.”

“It’s so- loud,” Hillinghead murmurs. “And crowded, and it smells-”

“It’s always smelled,” Whiteman interjects. “What, was it all roses in your time? I don’t believe that.”

“No,” Hillinghead stresses. “But it is- more.” he rubs the bridge of his nose.  “Have you heard from-” He freezes, staring at something just over Whiteman’s shoulder. Shahara can read a shift in to flight-or-fight posture easily and from the way he’s suddenly more alert, Whiteman’s clocked that something’s got Hilinghead spooked as well.

“Problem?” he asks quietly, in his clipped, cockney accent; a half-strangled vowel slips from Hillinghead’s throat and Shahara turns to see what he’s looking at. There’s two men enjoying what’s clearly a date, holding hands and locking lips. Shahara sighs internally, bracing herself for a slew of Victorian attitudes- “Yeah,” she says, a little sarcastically- Hillinghead’s knuckles have gone white, he’s clenching his fist so hard. The gold of his wedding band stands stark against it. “That’s allowed, nowadays- we don’t care.” 

“Hm?” Whiteman glances around- there’s a moment where Shahara thinks she’s gonna have to deal with 1940s attitudes as well, but Whiteman turns back, uninterested. “Fair enough.” he starts patting himself down, like he’s looking for something in his pockets. 

“They can-” Hillinghead murmurs. “I could…” He swipes for the beer and downs a quarter of the pint in one. Now Whiteman looks interested, he pauses his search, leans right forward and says, smirking, “Detective Inspector Hillinghead. Do you have a fancy man?”

Hillinghead sputters and brings down the glass. “Are you twelve?” he demands, something of the outraged parent seeping into his tone as– he’s blushing, Shahara realises. He’s actually blushing. 

“Are you-?” She asks, leaning forward, and she knows it’s rude and none of her business, but still. “Are you gay?” The wedding ring. “Bi?”she suggests, as a follow up, and then: “Do you have a boyfriend?”

“I- what? I-” he looks back at the couple, then grabs his beer again. “I have- I have a- I have Henry,” he downs more of the beer. “It-it would be nice, to- to not…” he trails off, his eyes drifting away from both of them.

“See, I’ve always been a bachelor- a bachelor bachelor, not a confirmed bachelor, myself, but I - fuck, I left my cigars and my lighter in the other jacket-”

“Language,” Hilinghead reprimands at the same time as Shahara says: “You can’t smoke in here anyway.”

Whiteman drops his elbow to the table and points at her. “You what?”

“No smoking in public places, it’s banned.”

Whiteman flops back in his seat and grabs for his whisky. “The future is bollocks.” he drains the glass and slams it down. “Good whisky though. So. While we wait for Maplewood to join us….Hillinghead can kiss blokes, and I can’t smoke in a pub. What else should we know about this 2023, then…?”

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I really love how Gaius evolved trough the seasons. This will be perfect !

Yooo, I thought Gaius may be the centurion asking Jesus to heal his slave too!!! Granted, the slave mentioned might've been adult and I didn't recall Gaius specify exactly how old his son and servant are, but Quintus once addressed him as "centurion" soooo... I think they're heading in that direction.🤔

yess! i'm fairly sure it's Gaius. I also rewatched the s3 trailer and saw this:

so it's probably the servant boy that will be sick that this season!

you know what i loved about IP?

at the start, the episodes were just showing how hard everyone was working and the struggles all the trainees were going through 

but towards the end of the show, every episode was a 3 hour long meme-show with cold-jokes and stupid ass puns and bromances with shade being thrown left and right and people exposing each other all the time 

like even zhang pd was getting in on the ‘huba’ train, bu fan x xiao gui daily violence, cai xukun x wang ziyi x zhu zhengting love triangle family with their son qian zhenghao, zhu zhengting and his actual kids the yuehua sprouts, you zhangjng x lin yanjun couple goals, everybody loving xu shengen, everyone acknowledging that zhu xingjie is such a well-rounded artist and so much more 

MEME FACES ALL AROUND THERE WAS NO ONE LEFT OUT 

everyone genuinely supporting and hyping each other up in the waiting room?? like have you ever seen such a rowdy bunch of kids? every time there’s a performance based episode it was literally 5% rehearsal, 1% performance and 100% screaming 

ghost pranks?? fat suits?? zhang yixing being a little shit and coming up with that idea to swap mentors just for reality show content?? 

all of that behind the scenes and interview content that was apparently uploaded but you had to go searching to the ends of the earth to find? 

everyone going to extraordinary lengths to help people out even if they were in another team? everyone was always so focussed on working together as a team and making sure they succeeded together 

people being genuinely devastated when their friends are eliminated and promising to keep in touch afterwards? 

it just shows how close everyone was after four months of training together and i don’t think i’ll ever watch a survival show again because i’ll never get the genuine joy that i had watching IP anymore 

as much as it was a survival competition it definitely didn’t feel like it and that in short is why i love IP so much and prefer it over any other survival show that i’ve watched 

being on rh*enicent twitter during the alicole leaks pre s2 was the funniest thing ive ever seen in my life. two hot actors fucking on screen and you would have thought these women had seen active combat. people were saying they couldn’t eat or sleep because ryan condal and fabien frankel had personally come into their homes and forced them to watching 10 seconds of pussy eating with the machine from clockwork orange

Love it & them 💛

Just a quick Eyk and Maura before returning to rewatching 1889 ;)

Hi there,Maria.☺️

i actually thought about the Con&Mailin ship possibility,but it's obvious that Consti needs some one who has the positive energy of Josh fatou and sascha combined (or plus more) to save him from his constantin world.lol

On the other hand,mailin seems to have some problems on her own(she's sweet of course,but her conflict with ava and stealing the test answers really reflect that she herself needs some guiding.)

And god,how can we forget about lou.Consti&lou endgame probably?😅

Hi there !

Oh God, please not Lou and Const. ☠️

And yes I agree with you about Contantin and Mailin, I think in theory they could be the new Noorhelm/Winterberg, but obviously it wouldn't work.

I actually heard the rumors about Mailin/Finn if S8 is either one of them.

Never thought about the possibility but I think I could get behind these two, and you ?

Let's see what happens and be sure to support what ever crazy decisions the writers make 😂😅

thinking about how canonically the pevensie siblings are 13, 12, 10, and 8 in "the lion, the witch, and the wardrobe"

thinking about how lucy needed a stool to be able to get up onto her throne, how peter's sword is a little too large for him, how susan's bow is a little too difficult for her to pull back, how edmund's shield nearly covers his entire body.

thinking about the pevensie siblings and their first few months in narnia, getting to know their new people, and half the narnians sitting there horrified because WHAT have these literal babies been through to give them such traumatized, old eyes, and the other half of the narnians are preparing to adopt them, no it doesn't matter that they're the rules, they're children who are being put in charge of too many things, and if peter looks at the old man council long enough he's going to cry, so someone needs to give him paternal support while aslan is off doing Lion Jesus Stuff™️ and whoops oreius is being nice and encouraging and now he's adopted his kings and queens they're his kids now he doesn't make the rules.

just the narnians and the pevensies being thrown into it together, and just as the pevensies will do anything to protect their new kingdom, the narnians will do anything to protect their rules, because let's be honest, these children have no sense of self-preservation, and are far too overprotective of each other and their people to take into account their own safety, so a lot of battles it's just one of the pevensie siblings running headfirst into danger with oreius running after them because his kids are feral and don't know proper royalty manners and won't threatening old kings from different countries because they're being assholes and the last time one of them tried undermining the queens susan called him a self-righteous asshole and lucy tried to stab him SOMEONE help him corral his children please

Grandpa can smell lies a mile away

SO excited for this!!!

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