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It's sunny in Holby. Being near to Wales, that's pretty rare. That's why Guppy's happy to wait outside the hospital for his father to come out.
After these first few attempts, he is totally immersed in thought. Enough to stop him from feeling silly standing outside doing nothing. Earlier he was wondering if he should take up smoking just not to look so strange sitting there.
His attempts to make things up with his father have so far been as successful as trying to put a live ostrich's head through a cheese grater. Jas won't even talk to him, and until he does, they can't get any further. He wonders whether he is trying to go to fast, but then again, he hasn't gone anywhere at all.
He almost misses Jas when he finally emerges, walking past without even noticing his son.
"Hello Father."
Jas turns around, scowling with irritation.
"What do you want?"
"We need to talk."
"I told you, I don't want to talk to you. Nobody wants to talk to you. Why can't you just leave me alone?"
He starts to walk away until Guppy follows and stands in front.
"Get out of my way."
"I don't understand. What went wrong here? Why can't we be on good terms?"
"Why would I want to be on 'good terms' with you? A pathetic, snivelling boy who is no credit to me whatsoever. If it's money that you want then you can forget it. If you don't want that, then just get out of my sight."
"Why?"
"Because I am ashamed to have a son like you. Now get out of my way."
Jas is bigger than Guppy. He pushes his son forcefully away, almost knocking him over.
"Father, please! What do I have to do to sort this out? Think of the curse."
It slipped out without him meaning to say it. Jas looks back around, scowling.
"The curse, yes. Thank goodness for that. Doctor in Holby with a family feud? That must make you a prime target. Pity it doesn't exist. If you believe in it, then you're even stupider than I thought."
Jas walks away. This time Guppy lets him go. There's only so much of his father's abuse he can take in one day. For a split second he wonders if his father really would rather that he was dead, and decides not. In the end he slips away home, deep in thought.

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Summary for Guppy

Tuesday 21st June: Guppy comes back into the bar for Gil's party, after some hesitation. At the party he talks to David about kilts and swimming naked in the lake. He talks to Asar-Suti about his attempts to get on with his father and the urban myth of a Holby Curse. He also talks to Gil about his total inability to cook anything edible. Gil offers him cooking lessons, which he accepts very gratefully. Inside the bar he and Mitzi talk to Behrooz about why he might be Bound (slowtimed). Also Mitzi has adopted a chicken egg and asks Hagrid for advice on how to hatch it.

Thursday 23rd June: Guppy is cross with Mitzi for removing 480 eggs from a warehouse in Holby. He talks to Lucca, who tries to persuade him to come to Truce, but he wimps out, and then gets bleeped. He talks to Asar-Suti about religion, which ends in both of them accidentely upsetting the other. Mitzi tells them both not to be silly. Asar-Suti also agrees with Guppy that there is no way that egg is going to hatch. (Slowtimed). And at some point he talks to Andres about his sign.

Friday 24th June: Pre-Milliways Guppy attemts again to talk to his father without success. When he comes into the bar later he talks to Lucca about it (slowtimed). The mun gets interrupted by a phone call so he doesn't talk to anyone else except in the slowtimed conversations.

Saturday 25th June: Early in the day Guppy comes in for a coffee and talks to Asar-Suti about the Holby curse. He also helps Naraht carry some stuff for his stair-climbing device then talks to him briefly. He also chats (again briefly) with a sleepy Dr Venkman about being Unbound. In all three of these conversations he is bleeped and has to go. In the evening Guppy is glad to see Chase is alive and pleasantly surprised that Chase remembers him. Chase pisses off Mitzi by laughing at her egg, and is lucky not to end up in pond water. Guppy sees Naraht again following a large crash in his workroom. He is also concerned about Behrooz and wants to help him.

Sunday 26th June: Guppy's efforts to talk to his father go painfully wrong. He comes in with a black eye and is questioned by Carrot, who actually believes that he walked into a door, much to Guppy's astonishment. Also El Vago comes along to ask him the same thing. He doesn't believe the walking into a door story, and Guppy feels that he can't tell him what happened.