Chateau Grief 12

Thought(Grant): This house is a mess. Those cheap-rate janitors have been a total disaster. Look at this dust! Do you want to live in a pigsty?

Thought(Grant): Maybe I should dump the chief steward job on parliament and walk away. But who am I kidding, they can't manage their own affairs, much less the telepath's.

Thought(Grant): Everything is done in the name of Evil Overlord Xander. Except when they dissolve into giggles pronouncing it. Which no doubt is endearing you to the people immensely.

Thought(Grant): Are you listening to me? Ha ha, of course you are.

Thought(Grant): Prime Minister Elect Diaboloniana Beelzebubba -- you remember the election last week?-- Her Wednesday night coven meeting got ... something...they claim it's ectoplasm... all over the ceiling.

Thought(Grant): Why don't you clean the ceiling? One of us has to actually work to get stuff done. Do I have to do everything?

Telepathy(Xander): 1981. The year you told me that a benevolent dictatorship was a human rights violation and suggested a constitutional monarchy. We could solve this problem by declaring women emotionally unfit to hold public office. Whaddaya say?

Thought(Grant): Get thee behind me Satan.

Telepathy(Xander): Are you sure? We have to perform the investiture in two days.

Xander: After you.

Grant: Not on your life.

Grant: Eugene, wait. Listen to me.

Grant: I'm glad that the surgery worked for the woman. You saved her life. But you can't steal her life from her now. You have to let her go.

Grant: Deep down, I know that you're still a good person. You can still choose the right thing. Be realistic! No one can stand to even be around your power. She's not like you. No one is you.

Grant: Besides, what was so wrong with the idea of a memory wipe. Then pack both of the castaways back to San Francisco?

Xander: Someone...who shall remain nameless...held a gun to my head and forced me to save their lives.

Xander: It was a very stylish gesture.

Author Notes:

forced’ you think Grant’s gonna fall for that, ‘forced’ ?

Episode Recap:

So this palace is huge. Xander and Grant are walking in hallways and Grant is think-complaining at Xander that the janitors aren’t doing a good enough job. Apparently Xander is the self-styled ‘Evil Overlord’ of this island. Chip on his shoulder much? Well there’s just been a political shakeup on his island and we get the first mention of Prime Minister Di, who Xander has to perform a ceremonial investiture of since she’s just been elected, the first woman PM of Eynhallow and a Satanist witch who contributes to the palace cleaning problem by holding seances that get ectoplasm all over the ceiling. I shudder to think, but that’s what Grant says. Xander suggests barring women from political office in order to avoid dealing with Di. Grant would love to do this, but resists on principle. As Xander is barreling along merrily, Grant stops him and tells him that even though Xander is a little rough around the edges, that Grant recognizes that he saved Kore’s life, and that he has faith that Xander will do the right thing in the end and let her go. Xander isn’t the easiest person to be around, actually if we hadn’t noticed, and Grant says he’s got no right to think that Kore would put up with him. Xander turns around and says that if Grant hadn’t forced him to save them at gunpoint, they wouldn’t be in this mess. Poor Grant has nothing to say to this. I would have had some choice words that would have probably gotten me melted into the pavement, but that’s just me. Grant is a Saint.