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tfln. 04.07.23.
Date: 2023-04-08 09:27 pm (UTC)2. I'm getting out of handcuffs then I'll give you a call
3. I crashed through a building. If that counts then yes, I went out with a bang
4. I didn't realize doing her laundry was included in the job description when we became fuck buddies
afineknight.
Date: 2023-04-08 10:04 pm (UTC)( hey Leon, maybe don't use your shared restraints to interrogate a guy if you'd like him to free you? whatever, fine, FINE. the guy made it, and apparently there were armored zombies involved in the rescue. he can unclench JUST a little. )
Fine. You're really committed to this knight in shining armor bit.
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Date: 2023-04-08 10:13 pm (UTC)[ WHATEVER, he's just going to hold out the boot knife. ]
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Date: 2023-04-08 10:37 pm (UTC)( one hit on the rap sheet is more than enough for a federal officer!! Leon still relents, relaxes a sore shoulder, tries not to get too in his head about this. he can Accept Help. )
How about you stop staring and get me out of here?
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Date: 2023-04-08 10:40 pm (UTC)[ He shrugs, taking a step forward, not at all put off by Leon's . . . well, leon-ness. With one motion, he flips the knife back around. ]
— most people, it takes multiple instances. You need, ehh, a pattern. One cannot be a pattern. That is mathematically impossible.
[ As he speaks, he gets to work, careful not to stab Leon in the process. ]
It's science.
[ and with a click, the cuff pops open. ]
"not put off by his leon-ness" lmao
Date: 2023-04-09 12:41 am (UTC)it is a relief to have his arm back, don't get him wrong. it is also excruciatingly painful, since it'd been held above his head about an hour. Leon makes a mumbled grunt of pain, rolling his shoulder to try and loosen it as the bloodflow tries to figure itself out again. he gingerly lifts his wrist to examine the damage from trying to break free. it isn't ... great. bloody and bruised. that isn't really anything new, though. )
Patterns, huh? That mean next time you'll leave me hanging?
that's the polite way of putting it.
Date: 2023-04-09 01:30 am (UTC)It depends on the situation. I could, if it seems like you will be fine on your own. Or I could help out, if it's more . . . dire.
[ He shrugs. ]
Three is a pattern.
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Date: 2023-04-09 07:38 pm (UTC)If we're talking patterns, it's probably your turn next.
( and Leon's pattern is much more obvious: he has always saved this rapscallion. or tried, anyway. even if there was some shoving and threatening energy involved. )
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Date: 2023-04-09 07:45 pm (UTC)Probably. But you will come to my rescue, si?
[ There's a teasing sort of tone to it, like he already knows the answer. ]
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Date: 2023-04-10 12:13 am (UTC)less redundant is showing some kind of gratitude for not being chained to a wall anymore. Luis has Leon's number on his general Leon-ness, even Leon can put credit where credit is due. )
Your odds are better after the gallant rescue. I guess I owe you one.
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Date: 2023-04-10 12:39 am (UTC)Which is to say, Luis grins at that. ]
You guess? Amigo, you definitely do. But I'll only hold it over your head a little bit.
[ He starts making his way down the tight hallway, careful not to jostle any of those chains with . . . spiked balls or whatever attached to them. Salazar really needs to make better decorating choices. ]
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Date: 2023-04-10 01:22 am (UTC)Sounds nice. When's that gonna start.
( because this feels like holding it over his head a lot 😤 )
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Date: 2023-04-10 01:30 am (UTC)[ He rolls his shoulder like that's no big deal. pshhh, just a couple of armadura, who cares?
(there's like five of them.) ]
I hope your aim is still good after all that.
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Date: 2023-04-10 02:17 am (UTC)Give me your gun and we'll see.
( if it wasn't already obvious, all he's got on him is a knife. and he had to dig that out of a skull before he followed, so who knows what condition it's in. )
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Date: 2023-04-10 02:29 am (UTC)Luis frowns slightly, tipping his head over to the side. ]
Where's yours? Don't tell me they took your weapons again.
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Date: 2023-04-11 04:13 am (UTC)( they did, though. what good would it be to cuff him to a wall if he had a small arsenal worth of equipment on him? the cultists aren't known for deep thinking but even they figured that one out. well, mostly, they did leave Leon with a knife. it was his secret knife, to be fair.
Leon grunts, and pushes a little closer. if there's armadura between them and the getaway, he should be in front. )
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Date: 2023-04-11 04:25 am (UTC)He sighs deeply, shaking his head even as he allows Leon to push towards the front. ]
Then we need to find them. They would not have taken it very far.
[ read: you're not getting his red9, leon. ]
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Date: 2023-04-12 12:58 am (UTC)( says the guy that bullied his way to the front with only a boot knife. he's trying to bully in more ways than one. look at him, injured, barely armed! practically defenseless, what could be around the corner??? let him at that fully upgraded red9, Luis, he'll be oh so gentle with it 👉👈 PROMISE!!! )
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Date: 2023-04-12 01:25 am (UTC)Luis reaches around his back, taking out his rifle. where did it come from? mercenaries space, of course. that's where. ]
Here. You can use this until then.
[ it's a COMPROMISE, amigo. ]
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Date: 2023-04-12 01:46 am (UTC)I can make this work.
( LEON ? ??? ?? A THANK YOU ??? )
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Date: 2023-04-12 01:53 am (UTC)He gives him a grin. ]
You see? Now you can have my back until we find your arsenal.
[ because god knows what's in that attache case, jfc. ]
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Date: 2023-04-13 03:07 am (UTC)( the math on there does NOT check out, but there's that wry hint to Leon's tone that implies he thinks he's funny. making """jokes""". what can he say, his mood improved drastically with a firearm in his hands. Leon will go to toe with only a knife when he has to, in fact he's quite good at it! still, a bunch of parasitic spaghetti clunking around in armor, some firepower is welcome. )
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Date: 2023-04-13 03:14 am (UTC)[ But he grins right back at him, because — he gets it. Leon can be funny sometimes. ]
HI IM ALIVE !!! do you want to keep going orrrr wrap here to skip the action sequence??
Date: 2023-04-24 01:44 am (UTC)We'll see how the dust settles after the tin cans are dealt with.
( though, credit where credit is due — Luis isn't a slouch when it comes to a gunfight. )
tfln. 04.15.23.
Date: 2023-04-15 11:36 pm (UTC)2. People don't believe me when I say the bruises are from work. They just smile and say "right."
3. Sorry you got stabbed. Just wanted to know if you had plans for the knife.
4. Got any eggs? It's important
5. ...or text him!
separateways.
Date: 2023-04-15 11:44 pm (UTC)he could reminisce. but he doesn't. )
You gonna cough up the eggs or what?
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Date: 2023-04-15 11:47 pm (UTC)[What does she actually get out of this tho.]
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Date: 2023-04-15 11:57 pm (UTC)( the obvious prize for helping with the creation of brownies! )
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Date: 2023-04-15 11:59 pm (UTC)[... and. She's not that much of a chocolate fan.]
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Date: 2023-04-16 01:21 am (UTC)( is that a picture of his fridge, complete with a gallon of milk? well, presumably, because it would be a weird picture to stage. )
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Date: 2023-04-16 01:27 am (UTC)Maybe he's losing it.
Maybe she's losing it and this is all a dream.]
You know, they sell eggs at the same place they sell milk.
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Date: 2023-04-16 02:39 am (UTC)Hot tip. If I were at the place that sold the milk, it'd help a lot.
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Date: 2023-04-16 02:42 am (UTC)You owe me.
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Date: 2023-04-16 02:50 am (UTC)( there's gonna be a lot of THC in them, he feels like it is a fair trade!!! )
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Date: 2023-04-16 02:56 am (UTC)[There's only one reason a grown man would actually be making brownies. Hell yeah.]
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Date: 2023-04-16 03:32 am (UTC)Guess that means you're still in town. ( he's somewhat astonished this hairbrained scheme maybe kinda worked??? )
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Date: 2023-04-16 03:39 am (UTC)[If you wanted to see her and get high, you could have just said so, Leon.]
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Date: 2023-04-16 06:43 pm (UTC)Only if they're rainbow. Otherwise I don't see the point.
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Date: 2023-04-16 07:02 pm (UTC)[Congrats, your first picture from Ada is just of a container of sparkly sprinkles.]
these two sext weird
Date: 2023-04-16 07:13 pm (UTC)You're always prepared, aren't you.
someone hacks their texts and is just like 🤔
Date: 2023-04-16 07:34 pm (UTC)some fbi agent trying to crack the code
Date: 2023-04-16 07:49 pm (UTC)lmao report on how agent kennedy has disdain for cocktails, but is obsessed with brownies
Date: 2023-04-16 07:55 pm (UTC)if you get that good kush in spain u gotta treat it nice!!!
Date: 2023-04-16 10:26 pm (UTC)( he can already imagine the nightmare concoction he's gonna have to drink after that confession. )
fr fr
Date: 2023-04-16 10:33 pm (UTC)[Because she's not about whatever bottom shelf nonsense she's sure he has.]
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Date: 2023-04-17 12:10 am (UTC)Should I leave the window unlocked or will you try the door this time?
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Date: 2023-04-17 12:41 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-04-17 01:33 am (UTC)( could she find a way to make that not awkward? well, yeah, probably. it just turns out he likes watching her do most things. so. )
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Date: 2023-04-17 01:50 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2023-04-17 02:26 am (UTC)IM LOVE HER ADA WONG LOML 😭😭 NO OK I'M GOOD JUST HER FACE THO
Date: 2023-04-28 02:25 am (UTC)gouges.
Date: 2023-04-15 11:47 pm (UTC)( get it? because... you know... whatever even through TEXT Leon can sense his hilarity is falling on DEAF EARS !!! )
What do you want.
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Date: 2023-04-16 12:16 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-04-16 12:39 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-04-16 12:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-04-16 12:48 am (UTC)( 😇 )
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Date: 2023-04-16 12:51 am (UTC)Feel free to look for them yourself.
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Date: 2023-04-16 12:59 am (UTC)And if you ever get more reasonable expectations for your produce, both of us only benefit from Wesker getting an egg between the eyes.
( what benefit? it would be really funny, bro )
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Date: 2023-04-17 01:10 am (UTC)Have fun with that then. Good luck finding them.
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Date: 2023-04-17 01:35 am (UTC)You got a beat on where to look or are you gonna charge me an RPG for the pleasure.
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Date: 2023-04-17 02:04 am (UTC)[ this is hunk being funny. ]
🎀
Date: 2023-04-28 03:05 am (UTC)Gee thanks. Good thing I'm used to creeps running at me with chainsaws, because I'm guessing the farm is my best bet.
impale. i have been laughing at that vid since last night
Date: 2023-04-15 11:56 pm (UTC)There's 4 eggs and 2 of us. I like those odds, don't you?
GOOD
Date: 2023-04-16 04:46 am (UTC)Wesker won't know what hit him until it's too late.
[ eggs. eggs will hit him. ]
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Date: 2023-04-16 06:41 pm (UTC)If we get teammates that can get the generators going, we might just get them out.
While I'm at it, if you need backup for another of these psychos, I'm on deck.
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Date: 2023-04-16 08:02 pm (UTC)The next time I see you, I'll hand over the eggs so we can get to business.
Also, I may need to take you up on that offer. I have reason to believe that I'm the flavor of the week for the Clown.
A big ask, I know.
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Date: 2023-04-16 10:33 pm (UTC)Why's that? ( Clown isn't super on Leon's radar, he's just a basic creep. but that heads up is enough to land him on the shit list. )
It's not too much. I've got your six if you've got mine.
And Redfield is about the size of a wall, if we loop him in on it we're nearly a full circle.
( Chris isn't even here and he's getting roasted, smh )
tricksie.
Date: 2023-04-16 12:07 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-04-16 06:05 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-04-16 06:46 pm (UTC)( 😇 )
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Date: 2023-04-16 07:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-04-16 07:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-04-16 07:30 pm (UTC)being assimilated
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Date: 2023-04-16 07:56 pm (UTC)( specifically: he doesn't like getting Ouroborosed. he already had enough spaghetti inside him, thanks. which really makes it so wise of him to try and punk Wesker. speaking of, )
If this trade is gonna happen, I want clear terms. None of this company bullshit.
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Date: 2023-04-16 08:16 pm (UTC)what are the terms?
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Date: 2023-04-16 10:38 pm (UTC)You seem prissy, maybe something in that glamping trailer.
( booze, shampoo, stilettos... look, no judgement! )
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Date: 2023-04-16 11:12 pm (UTC)give me something of yours then
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Date: 2023-04-16 11:33 pm (UTC)( with a hair trigger, probably 😇 )
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Date: 2023-04-16 11:37 pm (UTC)i want something a little more thoughtful than that
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Date: 2023-04-16 11:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-04-17 12:34 am (UTC)i'm giving you more than one egg, kennedy
how about a kiss then?
a kiss in exchange for some eggs seem fair, doesn't it?
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Date: 2023-04-17 01:44 am (UTC)A kiss for eggs. Sounds like the start of a fairytale with a sad ending.
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Date: 2023-04-18 12:47 am (UTC)yes or no? ( it's all he needs from him. )
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Date: 2023-04-21 04:31 pm (UTC)You that hard up you gotta pay eggs for it?
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Date: 2023-04-21 05:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-04-21 06:26 pm (UTC)( most of the creeps that get weirdly horny for him really beat around the bush! )
Let me guess, this is a limited time offer.
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Date: 2023-04-21 08:45 pm (UTC)i'm not going to stand here all day waiting on your answer, kennedy
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Date: 2023-04-22 12:22 am (UTC)Guess nobody ever told you patience is a virtue.
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Date: 2023-04-22 12:33 am (UTC)not when i have better things to do
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Date: 2023-04-22 01:29 am (UTC)Well in that case. I'll pass.
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Date: 2023-04-22 02:47 am (UTC)suit yourself
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Date: 2023-04-22 03:09 am (UTC)( it is truly the one bonus of the realm. he's not stuck asking how high when STRATCOM says jump. very nice! he enjoys it. )
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Date: 2023-04-22 03:18 am (UTC)expiar.
Date: 2023-04-30 11:54 pm (UTC)( does that count as a status update?? technically right? ??? )
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Date: 2023-05-22 06:26 pm (UTC)[ ha ha. because leon is so stabbable, or whatever the joke is here. anyway, that little update is kind of concerning. not... unexpected, considering what they're dealing with, but it does kind of pluck a little at the guilt and regret he's been carrying around for - a while. consequences of his own actions, etc.
he should probably do the decent thing though and offer some reassurance. ]
You got it to her quickly, Sancho.
The antigen will do its job.
[ it's getting to his lab that might prove a little more difficult, but he has faith in leon. ]
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Date: 2023-05-22 09:48 pm (UTC)( you got it to her quickly. did he? feels like there was plenty of bullshit between then and now. not Luis dying in an awkward crossfire between Leon and his crazy blonde ex CLEARLY, bc what? never happened )
How long does she have after this?
dyinglights.
Date: 2023-05-06 10:53 pm (UTC)This place isn't that bad, anyway.
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Date: 2023-05-06 10:59 pm (UTC)compared to what
cuz i dont know about you
but im stuck here with the literal guy who wants nothing but to get really familiar with my guts
not necessarily my idea of a cool and fun time
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Date: 2023-05-06 11:17 pm (UTC)That's not how it works in the real world. I know that you know that.
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Date: 2023-05-06 11:22 pm (UTC)its kind of the "next time" that i have a problem with
also apparently stuck here with you until the end of time so thats a major bummer too
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Date: 2023-05-06 11:26 pm (UTC)( so she's stuck with him slightly less than until the end of time. just most of it!!! )
If the next time is gonna happen anyway, why not make him as miserable as he makes you?
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Date: 2023-05-06 11:40 pm (UTC)hes a thing that just keeps coming
[ also, Laurie's fury just masks her abject terror. ]
what's the deal with the guy with the tentacle
he's yours right?
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Date: 2023-05-06 11:50 pm (UTC)( that's not how teachables work, Leon. but also, why not??? let EVERYONE become a head on bully!! )
If we're gonna be technical, mine is the one with the giant shoulder eyeball. Never had the displeasure of meeting Albert Wesker, only read about the thousands of deaths he was responsible for. Since I've got nothing but time to get on his case here, I make sure to.
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Date: 2023-05-07 12:58 am (UTC)shoulder eyeball
dont see him very much
lucky you
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Date: 2023-05-13 07:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-05-17 04:38 pm (UTC)do you want a ribbon
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Date: 2023-05-17 05:20 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-05-17 05:44 pm (UTC)[ she can find a ribbon. or a leash! ]
so was he born like that or did he gain the extra eyeball along the way
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Date: 2023-05-17 06:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-05-17 06:32 pm (UTC)that means theres at least 3 of them here
3 morons
youd think youd wanna avoid whatever weird serum youre cooking up
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Date: 2023-05-17 06:46 pm (UTC)( to themselves, and to anything in their way. if the creeps could just go grow tentacles on their own and not bother anybody, the world would be so much happier!! )
Long story short, go ahead and stab Birkin in the shoulder eyeball if you get the chance. Couldn't happen to a nicer guy.
sorry but also not sorry
Date: 2023-05-17 07:04 pm (UTC)so whats the blue tentacle guy's deal then
whats he have to do with you and jill
me too tw: eye gore & resident evil mechanics
Date: 2023-05-17 08:06 pm (UTC)More Valentines problem than mine. Some Umbrella bioweapon sent in during the Raccoon City outbreak. You two would get along, it doesn't like cops either.
( ha ha. bc Nemesis has the primary mission of killing S.T.A.R.S. members. it's an in joke that Leon will not explain. )
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Date: 2023-05-17 08:48 pm (UTC)i tried to steal your banner out of a trial once but the entity took it from me
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Date: 2023-05-19 09:32 pm (UTC)Of all the things to steal from RPD, that's what you landed on?
tfln. 05.26.23.
Date: 2023-05-30 04:00 am (UTC)2. Where's the biological superiority in 18 extra eyes, anyway? Contact fittings would be a complete nightmare.
3. You think they use chainsaws for landscaping or should I start getting concerned.
DEAD BY DAYLIGHT FLAVOR.
4. How soon is too soon for face off puns.
5. All right, you're on. First to six stuns wins.
𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘴.
Date: 2023-05-30 04:06 am (UTC)Re: 𝘳𝘦𝘴𝘵𝘳𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘵𝘴.
Date: 2023-05-30 01:49 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-05-30 02:36 pm (UTC)Eggs and sushi, breakfast of champions.
( "sushi" is very generous phrasing for "fish I found in an unrefrigerated sewer". )
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Date: 2023-05-30 03:17 pm (UTC)it's nice to imagine the us govt might care that he's assisting in the rescue of their princess, but there's all those pesky arrest warrants to consider. if he doesn't ask any americans in the vicinity for help, then he can't be told no and also to rot in hell. win/win. ]
Don't think I haven't seen you trying to catch the snakes around here. You know those things are venomous, don't you?
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Date: 2023-05-30 04:01 pm (UTC)and something something may be a pain in the ass with a questionable work history but doesn't deserve to be brutalized by parasite worshiping cultists if he's attempting a change of heart something something. )
Not if you take the heads off.
Better than the beetles, that's for sure.
( .... .... .. ...... he's joking. right? LEON SAY JK )
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Date: 2023-05-30 04:38 pm (UTC)also don't eat fucking beetles you lunatic. on that note, he's gonna be a srs science guy for a second: ]
A lot of the wildlife here has been-- contaminated.
[ do not give ashley double parasites, is what he's saying. ]
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Date: 2023-05-30 04:42 pm (UTC)I have a giant bug getting cozy in my chest cavity. I don't think it can get worse than that.
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Date: 2023-05-30 04:55 pm (UTC)EXTREMELY OMINOUSLY, ]
It can.
Oh, she won't be that big right now. She's working hard to keep you alive, and that stunts early growth. An advantage, in this case.
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Date: 2023-05-30 05:06 pm (UTC)And I'd appreciate if we did not gender the parasite.
( LIKE HE'S GIVING BIRTH OMG KNOCK IT OFF )
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Date: 2023-05-30 05:42 pm (UTC)You could also get worms from eating things you find on the ground. Then you'd have double parasites.
Right, right.
[ like 7 whole seconds later ]
They are sexually dimorphic, though, so technically!
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Date: 2023-05-30 06:38 pm (UTC)When my head bursts into a mass of tentacles, the worms will be the plagas problem.
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Date: 2023-05-30 07:24 pm (UTC)You're a pessimistic sort of person, has anyone mentioned that? You're going to be on a private jet back to the United States with the princess, drinking martinis and-- doing whatever it is that secret agents do, afterwards. Receiving medals?
You'll be fine. So will she.
[ if push comes to shove and they can't get to the lab, there's always the Super Extra Hard Way ]
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Date: 2023-05-31 06:16 pm (UTC)If you expect the worst, it's less of a surprise when it revs up the chainsaw.
And before you consider a career change, it isn't quite as glamorous as that.
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Date: 2023-05-31 07:20 pm (UTC)but they're definitely going to make it to the lab so luis won't have to try field surgery in an actual field, and everything will be fine! he is manifesting that reality, or whatever. it will count for one (1) atonement. ]
Sancho, are you saying that Hollywood has lied to all of us? I will never recover. You even look the part.
[ not that ada doesn't also look like a supermodel who would cut him if he said that to her face, but!! he'd been very impressed for the whole 2 seconds he thought leon might be his mercenary savior, back when they met, before that hope was cruelly dashed. ]
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Date: 2023-05-31 11:57 pm (UTC)Maybe buddy up with a British agent next time. Optics might be better.
me running back to edit after an hr: NO WAIT I CAN MAKE IT GAYER
Date: 2023-06-01 10:32 am (UTC)I'd say gentlemen prefer blondes, but I would not turn down a man with a car equipped with miniguns and a flamethrower.
LMAO very important i appreciate and support you
Date: 2023-06-02 02:21 am (UTC)Are you calling me blonde?
( Leon has been dodging all the flirty compliments like they're quicktime events, but apparently he IS hearing them and the idea he's blonde is where he has to put his foot down. )
:) :)
Date: 2023-06-02 01:42 pm (UTC)Do you want me to call you blonde?
[ YOLO + luis ain't never met a reckless slash potentially disastrous decision he didn't grab with both hands ]
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Date: 2023-06-02 06:22 pm (UTC)( so... no??? and honestly he's too tightly wound to just AGREE to a nickname, it has to be forced upon him unwillingly and he'll grow to accept it begrudgingly. )
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Date: 2023-06-02 07:16 pm (UTC)[ even over text, leon can probably imagine the dumb shit-eating grin on luis's face ]
Maybe I should say you're not not blond.
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Date: 2023-06-02 07:41 pm (UTC)I'm not blonde.
And pretty sure 007 doesn't have a flamethrower car, either.
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Date: 2023-06-02 08:20 pm (UTC)Of course not, of course not. My mistake.
;)
There's one that goes invisible, surely there's a model with a flamethrower.
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Date: 2023-06-02 10:20 pm (UTC)Seems a little ostentatious for him.
( Luis are you waiting for Chris Redfield to sweep you off your feet? because minigun flamethrower car sure sounds Chris-core )
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Date: 2023-06-02 10:52 pm (UTC)also not blond
also is leon just going to IGNORE HIS ATTEMPT AT AN EMOJI ]
It's stylish if it's hidden away in a very fashionable car. No points for something welded to the top of a truck.
Sancho, I can't believe I have not asked before now: you must have a callsign, yes?
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Date: 2023-06-03 12:08 am (UTC)Not much of a code name if I just tell people what it is.
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Date: 2023-06-03 12:38 am (UTC)ada left him on read rip ]
Who am I going to tell, the corpses?
Is it cool? Are you a double O?
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Date: 2023-06-03 04:49 am (UTC)Condor One. I said Turkey would do, if big ass birds was the idea. They didn't go for it.
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Date: 2023-06-03 12:41 pm (UTC)very
majestic
[ what could possibly be interfering with his typing, is it the fact that he's laughing so hard ]
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Date: 2023-06-06 06:57 pm (UTC)Yeah, yeah. Get it out of your system.
If cool code names is what you're after, you'll have to hold out for Bond.
( good news is if it takes a year or longer, he'll even be blonde !!! )
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Date: 2023-06-06 08:01 pm (UTC)also that is the exact same color as leon's hair ok!!!]It must be an American thing about size, as you said
[ Ostrich One. Cassowary One. Kori Bustard One, if it has to be a flighted bird. ]
Not that carrion birds aren't an important part of any ecosystem.
I will just have to lower my expectations, I think, and not rely on handsome strangers.
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Date: 2023-06-06 10:30 pm (UTC)but, he's not completely heartless. and Luis wanting to get the hell out of here, and being willing to help Ashley (and yeah fine, Leon himself by extension) despite the fact he's got to stick his neck out to do it, counts for something. he could leave Luis hanging on a prayer. but he knows what it is like to be stuck in a whirlwind of death and terror and not know if there's a way out of it. a bit of hope in a situation like that can go a long way. )
What happened to being a team? Pretty sure we have to rely on each other to make that work.
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Date: 2023-06-06 11:25 pm (UTC)You know I said that because you are a much better shot than I am.
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Date: 2023-06-06 11:40 pm (UTC)Still am, so until Bond shows up I guess you're stuck with me.
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Date: 2023-06-07 12:24 am (UTC)[ wait for it ]
Senor Condor.
i hope luis knows being tsundere is the only way he knows to flirt
Date: 2023-06-07 12:58 am (UTC)lmfa this tsun babygirl
Date: 2023-06-07 01:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-06-07 01:29 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-06-07 02:02 am (UTC)Hmmm or maybe one of the Bond girls.
[ maybe one that dies... ]no subject
Date: 2023-06-07 02:23 am (UTC)One of the Bond girls, huh?
( Luis how confident are you that Leon does not know his Bond references.... )
not me googling "which is the worst bond girl" so i'll recognize leon's inevitable suggestion
Date: 2023-06-07 04:19 am (UTC)My vote is for the nuclear physicist girl, who is also a supermodel and survives all the way to the end.
[ and isn't vesper the double agent ]
truly the fount OVERFLOWS with terrible bond girl code names
Date: 2023-06-07 03:29 pm (UTC)Log Cabin Girl could work.
( this is not an earnest suggestion. Leon is just being catty by not providing an actual name in his first bout. and they did have a memorable time in a log cabin together!!! )
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Date: 2023-06-07 04:05 pm (UTC)[ :C an irrelevant side character huh buddy ]
HI IM ALIVE
Date: 2023-06-12 08:42 pm (UTC)( Leon ... is this ... flirting??? if so please do better )
WELCOME BACK
Date: 2023-06-13 01:15 am (UTC)So you do have eyes for more than guns, hm?
I'd be a fool to disagree with that description.
ty the last few days of my vacay kicked my ass [affectionate / derrogatory]
Date: 2023-06-13 02:00 am (UTC)( on one hand, Luis should definitely pick Leon if he ever has to win a James Bond trivia night. on the other hand, ouch, Leon, jesus!!! )
when u need a vacay from your vacay
Date: 2023-06-13 02:26 am (UTC)also leon are u literally telling him you would DROWN HIM if he makes another pass. the mood whiplash is real ]
if this is your way of hinting that we have some things left to discuss re: previous and/or previous-previous employers
well
no time like the present
fr i think im coming out of the tailspin now but that was ruff
Date: 2023-06-13 02:55 am (UTC)Thought you'd like to know there's more to her than a dick joke before you commit to a code name.
Though if you'd like to explain why you thought going from Umbrella to developing brain control parasites for a megalomaniac was an upward career trajectory, I'm listening.
/cracks knuckles time 4 making shit up
Date: 2023-06-13 03:08 am (UTC)[ or retirement, if ada leaves him hanging. ]
it is the only way my friend u have my support
Date: 2023-06-13 03:22 am (UTC)( he is being rude, but, look. this team has a rocky "this bitch worked for Umbrella" foundation! is a little bit of uncertainty that unfair?? )
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Date: 2023-06-13 03:51 am (UTC)If I did, it wouldn't be in my best interest to tell you about it, hm?
Actually, I hired someone from the internet to come and rescue me, which is not going particularly well so far. I plan to leave a bad review.
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Date: 2023-06-13 04:31 am (UTC)( yeah, it's ALL ASHLEY. he has no say in it. Leon has grown out of his stupid bleeding heart phase, he's not that kid that has to try and save everyone anymore. just the ones the president's daughter has formed a soft spot for. no personal investment here at ALL. )
But I'd appreciate if I don't end up with you down my sights the next time some corrupt organization decides to weaponize an prehistoric parasite.
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Date: 2023-06-13 01:41 pm (UTC)What I meant was: you might have another option for extraction, if things go very badly. It is always worth knowing the exits, as long as you have the right key.
[ a pause. ]
The answer is rabies, by the way.
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Date: 2023-06-14 02:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-06-14 02:50 am (UTC)There's no cure for it, you know, even with modern medicine. But most people don't even think to worry. They don't have to, unless they happen to live somewhere very rural and isolated, with poor infrastructure and a bias against technology.
This place had a real problem, as anyone might expect out of 'the Valley of the Wolves.' An animal bite, and then a funeral. At the time it seemed like an obvious culprit. None of us knew any better.
now im like icly did leon read his sad lore or was he a speedrunner mashing x
Date: 2023-06-15 02:20 pm (UTC)good intentions being weaponized isn't entirely foreign to him either. it's all complicated. black and white would be easier. if only he were still a kid, looking at the world like it was a 100 piece puzzle. )
You being from around here wasn't in my dossier. ( maybe he's guessed, but little kids liking Don Quixote isn't definitive proof, now is it. )
hm some old photographs and shit I DON'T NEED THESE /tosses
Date: 2023-06-15 03:02 pm (UTC)Sometimes it's useful to come from nothing.
[ actually most of the time it's NOT but it's useful when you've got warrants out for your arrest and need to disappear off-grid ]
I'm not sure the government even considers this a-- settlement, just some people living out in the woods determined to make their lives harder.
Anyway, you know the story. Somebody grows up in a terrible small town, they leave as soon as possible, and then get dragged back just to prove that no one ever really escapes. An incredible cliche.
Oh, and the place is infinitely worse than they remember, when they do go back. Now it's run by a cult and a maniac in a castle. Now you are from the cult town.
[ it would be funny if it wasn't happening to him! a real comedy of bizarre events, highly relatable, like the premise of any hallmark movie. ]
unless it sells for 30k to the merchant he's not interested
Date: 2023-06-18 06:22 pm (UTC)( complete with when all is said and done, there might not be anything to come back to. Leon feels rather left-footed here, is he supposed to ... say something comforting? is there comfort to be had here? probably, though whether he's at all capable of providing it is a better question. )
Seemed like a decent enough place before Saddler happened to it.
Especially if you happen to be against toilets that flush.
( well he tried, nobody said a dumb disarming joke could not be included in his rusty attempt to connect to another human )
leon you are so bad at this
Date: 2023-06-18 06:46 pm (UTC)fortunately the only person he ever gave a shit about here died in a fire. everybody else is... already dead, even though they might still be walking around. ]
Fortunately it was not.
Sancho, please tell me you've been a little gentler about things, with the princess.
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Date: 2023-06-18 07:09 pm (UTC)( fine, is that better? raccoon city was a shithole, a town capsizing on itself after Umbrella severed its parasitic interest. and he still feels guilty about it, even close to a decade later. Leon isn't even from this sad little ramshackle "what a marvel to have an ironworks in 1996!!!" town and he can feel the loss of it. )
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Date: 2023-06-18 07:18 pm (UTC)Last time I checked, you're not a kidnapped coed. Didn't think you needed it gentle.
( if this doesn't work really WHAT will )
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Date: 2023-06-18 08:01 pm (UTC)also damn he just tripped over NOTHING AT ALL and dropped his phone, jesus christ.
this is probably payback for the blonde stuff earlier. leon obviously doesn't MEAN it ]
Very funny.
Well senor bad luck, at least you managed to acquire a native guide for your tour through hell.
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Date: 2023-06-27 12:17 am (UTC)I've had worse. ( tour guides through hell, that is. you met Krauser yet, Luis? yeah... definitely he's had worse. )
The Living Daylights. You see that one?
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Date: 2023-06-28 09:31 pm (UTC)You keep saying that, which is honestly concerning. When I suggested earlier that maybe you'd been in spots like this before, I was actually talking about the chains, not the-- everything else.
[ well at least leon hasn't told him to shut the fuck up or stopped replying entirely, although it still doesn't feel like luis has managed to improve his standing. honesty is so rarely the best policy.
if leon trusts him less, now, well. he earned that, didn't he? ]
I must have missed it. I didn't realize you were such an expert in everything double-O.
[ it's cute, actually. and literally the only personal detail he's managed to pry out of leon, aside from his anti-blonde stance. ]
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Date: 2023-06-28 10:17 pm (UTC)( Luis what does that even MEAN. he's too repressed to have much opinion of kink, hard to know if it's a compliment to seem like he's been chained to things before. )
Came out in '87. Weak villain, but not a bad first outing for Dalton.
You could be a decent Milovy.
( in over her head, still brave enough to take a stand when she figured out she had made some unfortunate bedfellows. she also survives to the end. and Luis thinks his opinion is fully sour! )
One of a few options that aren't obvious dick jokes.
𝘥𝘦𝘢𝘳_𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘳𝘵.
Date: 2023-05-30 04:15 am (UTC)Schlatt classic. Leather with wool lining. This old cop I met as a kid wore one, he was everything a ten year old could want a cop to be. When I had fed money I got it, figured why not.
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Date: 2023-05-30 05:01 am (UTC)Ugh. Sounds like a great jacket.
Can I ask what happened to it?
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Date: 2023-05-30 05:51 am (UTC)( in other news, WORK HAS BEEN ROUGH BESTIE )
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Date: 2023-05-30 01:53 pm (UTC)[Because when is it not rough, let's be honest?]
There's a joke in there about hive minds chaining you to a Spaniard somewhere, but out of respect for your jacket, I'm not going to dig it out.
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Date: 2023-05-30 02:40 pm (UTC)( there's always a lot of eyeballs and tentacles and zombies. )
I appreciate the restraint. The hivemind knew he worked for Umbrella, so clearly they don't know my type.
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Date: 2023-05-30 03:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-05-30 03:44 pm (UTC)How about you, been chained to any Spaniards lately?
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Date: 2023-07-19 01:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-07-19 05:17 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-07-19 05:25 pm (UTC)its big
and you can always hear that monstrosity coming
easy enough to stay out of his way
welcome leon
[ the banner is Funny. ]
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Date: 2023-07-19 11:04 pm (UTC)( usually his overbearing need to be the smartest guy in the room does blow a hole in his stealth. )
Used to be wellcome.
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Date: 2023-07-19 11:27 pm (UTC)wow
wellcome
how was the party?
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Date: 2023-07-19 11:39 pm (UTC)( Laurie may or may not heed this as a warning, but phrasing it like one means she definitely won't. )
Never happened. Hard to get a party going with half the city going nuclear.
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Date: 2023-07-20 12:17 am (UTC)next time i go i'll fuck up all his papers or something
damn
and nobody even threw you a party when you got here either
should we?
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Date: 2023-07-20 12:44 am (UTC)Do I seem like the party type to you?
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Date: 2023-07-20 02:26 am (UTC)you seem like a big fuckin stick in the mud
loosen up
whats in the drawers ?
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Date: 2023-07-20 02:56 am (UTC)He's a creep.
( putting it gently. he sort of broke his own rule by telling Laurie not to do something though. sorry, Rebecca... )
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Date: 2023-10-14 09:15 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2023-10-16 12:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-10-16 12:04 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-10-16 12:10 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-10-16 12:29 am (UTC)ok well spill em
i dont want you to be distracted
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Date: 2023-10-16 01:46 am (UTC)If this is about trying to buy a flashlight off you with chewing gum, it was a limited time offer.
( he knows it's not but he's playing hard to get 💅 )
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Date: 2023-10-16 01:59 am (UTC)who knows how long that shit has been in your pocket first of all
second of all thats now what i'm talking about
[ don't make her say it 😑 ]
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Date: 2023-10-16 02:20 am (UTC)Your loss. It's Big Red this time.
( he could beat around the bush some more (he he) but he won't. mostly because he's curious. )
It's been awhile. Why change your mind now?
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Date: 2023-10-16 02:37 am (UTC)[ ...
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maybe i want another opportunity to stab you again
[ or bite him or kick him or ]
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Date: 2023-10-16 02:45 am (UTC)Cute. When I said train, I meant train. Not sit around being your pin cushion.
( you know what, now that she mentions it... )
It's still on the table. With conditions.
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Date: 2023-10-16 12:35 pm (UTC)oh jesus
what are they
"you cant stab me laurie"
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Date: 2023-10-16 04:55 pm (UTC)If this is gonna happen, you need to listen. Pulling shit you're not ready for will hurt you, me, or both of us.
And since I'm on the wrong end of a chainsaw on the regular, I'm not signing up for losing a finger or pulling a muscle because you wanted to be a brat.
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Date: 2023-10-16 05:08 pm (UTC)stop calling me that. youre speaking to your elder here
[ which makes it all the more frustrating, that Leon could possibly have something to teach her. ]
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Date: 2023-10-16 10:12 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-10-16 11:58 pm (UTC)when do we start
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Date: 2023-10-17 12:14 am (UTC)( if she was trying to dodge that, NICE TRY )
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Date: 2023-10-17 12:57 am (UTC)i will listen
happy?
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Date: 2023-10-17 01:09 am (UTC)( why is he doing this again? )
Don't expect it to go anywhere fast. Krauser had me licking his boots for years.
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Date: 2023-10-17 03:17 am (UTC)what the hell does that MEAN
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Date: 2023-10-17 04:06 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-10-17 04:12 pm (UTC)okay OBI WAN
like what
teach me how to throw a punch etc
[ you know what a punch is going to do to a thing like Michael? NOTHING!!! ]
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Date: 2023-10-18 03:14 am (UTC)You can think that's bullshit as much as you want, but that's where we start.
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Date: 2023-10-18 12:53 pm (UTC)like you cant save the fucking world here
[ or even one miserable girl ]
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Date: 2023-10-18 03:14 pm (UTC)if only it didn't bother him. things would be so much easier. )
So, what. We should just lie there and take it?
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Date: 2023-10-18 03:18 pm (UTC)not necessarily
it feels good to fight back even if its pointless
you know that thing wont even let us die?
[ why couldn't she have just fucking died, like Annie?
maybe she already has the answer to that question.
having a conversation with her is probably like getting whiplash, her moods swinging back and forth rapidly: despair and then spite, over and over. in one breath she's ready to lay down and die, and the next she's ready to stab him again. ]
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Date: 2023-10-18 10:21 pm (UTC)After being chased by a girl chopped up with a katana, guess I'm not surprised.
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Date: 2023-10-18 10:34 pm (UTC)it doesnt even have the decency to let us go
so im stuck here with him forever
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Date: 2023-10-18 10:47 pm (UTC)If you're stuck here anyway, might as well make him just as miserable.
( should he navigate the conversation away from revenge? maybe. too late. Laurie should go to Kate if she wants a calm and measured beacon of hope. )
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Date: 2023-10-18 11:03 pm (UTC)and who are you making miserable while youre here
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Date: 2023-10-18 11:09 pm (UTC)Bonus points for shoulder eyeball or the dipshit in sunglasses, though.
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Date: 2023-10-18 11:16 pm (UTC)an axe to grind
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Date: 2023-10-18 11:31 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-10-18 11:38 pm (UTC)whatever
whens the first lesson
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Date: 2023-10-19 04:04 am (UTC)( don't pry if you aren't willing to hear dick metaphors, LAURIE )
I don't care. Pick a time we aren't both dying.
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Date: 2023-10-19 11:14 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-10-19 12:05 pm (UTC)I'll find a way to pencil you in.
Chances are good you'll get fed up and quit. Limited time investment.
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Date: 2023-10-19 12:08 pm (UTC)[ please don't use reverse psychology on her, she's fragile and it'll work. ]
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Date: 2023-10-19 12:52 pm (UTC)( he knows it isn't what she means. like people can know each other down to the marrow. he doesn't have her memorized but he knows the broad strokes more than either of them would like. knows well enough there's a 50/50 chance of this going up in smoke, why should he pretend there's not? )
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Date: 2023-10-19 12:56 pm (UTC)fuck offfffff
im going to do it just to spite you
and so i can kick you in the balls and write it off as an accident
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Date: 2023-10-19 01:01 pm (UTC)( he's aware that him being annoying is like 45% of the potential she'll quit, but strangely feels no need to be less annoying. )
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Date: 2023-10-19 01:27 pm (UTC)yeah yeah ill be a real obedient soldier at the end of this right
just like you
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Date: 2023-10-19 01:38 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-10-19 01:56 pm (UTC)okay whatever
guess ill come find you when were both not dying
dont die in the meantime
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Date: 2023-10-19 02:16 pm (UTC)( game respects game. Laurie's got surviving down. )
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Date: 2023-11-29 08:45 pm (UTC)you guys are always so weird in trials
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Date: 2023-12-02 10:21 pm (UTC)( 🚨 somebody sounds BITTER 🚨 )
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Date: 2023-12-05 02:52 pm (UTC)i'm sorry she hurt your feelings or whatever
must be hard
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Date: 2023-12-05 03:47 pm (UTC)She's not bad in a trial. Just don't trust her farther than you can throw her. And we both know you couldn't throw her at all.
onthejuice. 🧃
Date: 2024-02-11 06:14 am (UTC)So we're clear, this is all still hypothetical. But good news, just one hypothetical hand, not both.
( and in this hypothetical he already tried to get his stupid knife and couldn't REACH!!! 😤 so, he needs new hypothetical ideas. )
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Date: 2024-05-21 07:43 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-05-22 01:21 am (UTC)This motivated by something in particular or just felt like sharing.
( damn it )
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Date: 2024-05-22 01:28 am (UTC)[ she saw you palling around (read: having passing conversation) with Cheryl, Leon S. Kennedy ]
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Date: 2024-05-22 03:23 am (UTC)Yeah, well. Tell me something I don't know.
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Date: 2024-05-22 11:02 am (UTC)which would explain a lot about you
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Date: 2024-05-22 09:21 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-05-23 01:21 pm (UTC)i just wanna know what's wrong with you
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Date: 2024-05-23 08:44 pm (UTC)yeah, some gift.
but he can't just say that, can he. peel up the skin to show her where their scars look the same. not when he's determined to push her back with both hands. for her good or his, it's all so blurry, now, but the end result is the same. so, instead he says, )
Less lately, without your bullshit. So are we done?
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Date: 2024-10-02 03:18 am (UTC)( not that he's an expert on coed girls. but he would have figured she had a closet full of different sweaters, not three of the same. )
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Date: 2024-10-02 12:46 pm (UTC)Of course I do - spares, in case one of them gets a rip, or something spills on it like getting splashed by a mud puddle. I usually get them in different colors if I like the style, at least though. You can't tell me you don't have backups to your backups, right?
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Date: 2024-10-05 08:38 pm (UTC)( it's strangely practical, and very Ashley, to have backups to her backups. it's endearing. )
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Date: 2024-10-08 03:23 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-10-09 03:18 am (UTC)How old do you think I am?
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Date: 2024-10-10 06:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-10-10 07:36 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-10-10 07:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-10-10 08:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-10-10 09:38 pm (UTC)[ Which was very generous with what all he's been through throughout his career! She could have said eighty. ]
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Date: 2024-10-10 10:27 pm (UTC)( if she thinks he's mentally middle aged, he does NOT want to know how old she thinks he is physically. )
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Date: 2024-10-10 10:42 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-10-10 10:58 pm (UTC)( ...... )
Really. You think it's that bad.
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Date: 2024-10-10 11:20 pm (UTC)Okay SOME aren't, sure, and some old men have the mentality of a cracked egg, but i think it'd be worse if I said you were physically or even spiritually an old man.
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Date: 2024-10-11 12:47 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-10-11 01:21 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-10-11 01:46 am (UTC)If only there were some place in the middle.
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Date: 2024-10-11 02:05 am (UTC)Hrmmm. Well there's mentally deficient, to be tactfully rude, but that's waaaaaaaaaaaay at the bottom of the barrel there. And on the opposite side of the spectrum are the nosy know it all's who are probably more annoying. At the middle.. Lazy brained? You know, like when you're smart enough to learn more but too cozy where you are to put in the effort, I guess?
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Date: 2024-10-11 02:39 am (UTC)( but he appreciates how much thought she put into the hypothetical. )
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Date: 2024-10-15 05:55 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-10-21 04:00 am (UTC)( in plenty of ways, it's just a number. but somehow he feels both too young and too old. and that feels like an impossible conundrum to explain to a girl that is so young still, her whole life ahead of her. maybe it's good she doesn't get it, considering it all started when he was about her age and his entire world went to shit. if she doesn't feel like that after the fanatical cult tried to use her take over the world, maybe he managed to do something right for a change when he was hauling her out of Valdelobos. )
Do I guess now?
11.01.24.
Date: 2024-11-03 12:07 am (UTC)2. The movie was fine. Unless it was supposed to be scary. In that case, it was bad.
3. She picked trick and somehow I'm the bad guy.
dead by daylight.
4. Step one, make a dozen smoke bombs. Step two, rig everything in his office to explode. Step three, maybe put up a wire tap so we can watch.
5. For the last time, I am not helping you plot revenge over a pumpkin.
... or text him!
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Date: 2024-11-03 12:15 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-11-03 12:45 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-11-03 02:54 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-11-03 04:01 pm (UTC)easy i'll brain him with the radio then feed him the lint
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Date: 2024-11-03 04:33 pm (UTC)His head is too thick, cheap plastic isn't going to get you anywhere.
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Date: 2024-11-03 04:46 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 2024-11-03 04:54 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-11-03 05:00 pm (UTC)( to be fair he is hoping she will decide her thought experiment is more effort than Jonah is worth! that's an embedded lesson. )
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Date: 2024-11-03 05:14 pm (UTC)[ they've backslid a little, sort of. except that she's not in jonah's face, she's in leon's face, and that might actually be progress ]
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Date: 2024-11-03 05:19 pm (UTC)( which is honestly how a lot of his missions go, but look!! it is good advice to start with a plan. )
doxie.
Date: 2024-11-03 12:27 am (UTC)Not what I meant. Kids keep showing up, all I've got to hand out is protein shakes.
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Date: 2024-11-03 12:28 am (UTC)You do costumes? That cost more?
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Date: 2024-11-03 12:44 am (UTC)yeah, unless you furnish the costume. then it depends on how lame it is.
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Date: 2024-11-03 03:10 am (UTC)Isn't that cost effective. I'll make sure to have some trashy halloween costumes on hand next year. You got any in reserve?
( he's not entirely sure he needs Legs Avenue, but never hurts to contemplate options. and he's honestly curious what the normal horny guy options are. bunny ears? he's guessing bunny ears. )
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Date: 2024-11-03 04:22 pm (UTC)next year, huh? sure you won't be bored of me by then? right now i've got the usual: french maid, kitty cat, nurse. any of those strike your fancy?
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Date: 2024-11-03 05:52 pm (UTC)Pass.
But I'll give you the extra anyway if you bring a bag of Halloween candy that eight year olds won't give me shit over.
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Date: 2024-11-03 10:29 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2024-11-03 11:58 pm (UTC)chucktaylors.
Date: 2024-11-03 12:32 am (UTC)( this isn't a yes, he's just feeling things out. )
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Date: 2024-11-03 12:39 am (UTC)Creeps everywhere with fake knifes? Check. Kids that think resembling a bioweapon is a good idea? Check. Trick or treaters that make a face when the only thing you have to hand out is a protein shake? Double check. Really got the stink eye just now.
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Date: 2024-11-04 03:23 am (UTC)and he could have ignored it. gotten laid, gotten drunk, passed out more. ignored the texts from Hunnigan about scheduling a debriefing. actually, he's still ignoring the texts from Hunnigan about scheduling a debriefing. but the rest of the night has turned out surprisingly well, considering he was completely unprepared.
there's something pretty pathetic about paying a prostitute to watch him hand out Halloween candy. he's aware, but he will add that to the pile of self loathing to drink about later. it is rare he is in a halfway decent mood, it'd be a shame to waste it. the normalcy of a stupid Halloween movie, a trickling parade of trick or treaters, a warm body next to him in the downtime. Mariette isn't bad company, either — it's lucky she doesn't know she could charge extra for that. )
Why do people like these movies? ( he says, expression unimpressed, as a scantily clad coed runs shrieking from a murderer without looking where she's going. he understands there is supposed to be appeal, but whatever capacity he had to enjoy a slasher flick must have been firmly exterminated after Raccoon City. it's been a solid ten minutes since the doorbell went off, which does make him wonder if they've seen the last of the slow hoard of children. which means he is contemplating the second part of the evening's entertainment, the hand he's kept on her thigh (like he needs to be physically attached to someone to truly believe there's somebody else there) rubbing a little higher, thumb dipping on the inside of her thigh. )
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Date: 2024-11-04 03:57 am (UTC)when it becomes apparent that Leon is serious about handing out candy instead of getting right into it, Mariette relaxes into the couch, kind of comfortable in his space now. they've been meeting up for awhile now -- not long enough that he's started spilling secrets Umbrella might find pertinent, but long enough that there's a degree of familiarity between them. ]
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown was always an option, [ she points out dryly, paying a lot more attention to the hand on her thigh than to the movie. the slasher films don't quite interest her either, although watching something that isn't straight up pornographic is fairly novel. sometimes Leon just fucks her and sends her on her way, but sometimes their hangouts feel like dates, and that part she doesn't quite get. there's nothing wrong with him that she can discern; and she's seen an entire gamut of personality disorders from her johns. he could get a date if he wanted. she definitely doesn't spend any time thinking about this outside of this place. ] Maybe you should turn your light out. Put the rest of the candy in a bowl outside.
[ and in case he's not getting the message, she spreads her legs a little wider, the dress riding higher up her pale thighs. ]
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Date: 2024-11-04 05:01 am (UTC)he does make a hum of contemplation at the suggestion. let the final call fight over the lackluster remnants. probably some asshole would just dump the whole bowl and go on their way. surely he's gotten his money's worth, pretending to be an average schmuck. he could throw in the towel now, if he wanted.
it's not that it isn't tempting. turns out, he does not need cat ears or a french maid costume. a too short dress does him just fine. not to mention the way her legs spread wider for him. his eyes linger on delicate white of her skin as he pushes his hand a little higher. as far as the sex goes, he tries to keep it to the point. getting sucked off, fucking her in whatever position seems fun at the time. he hasn't eaten her out. it seems against the spirit of things, to pay to go down on a call girl. would she even let him? he doesn't know the etiquette. but if he had to guess, it'd cost him more.
he's curious if she's wearing underwear — if she's spent 3/4ths of this stupid movie with her bare cunt twelve inches away. his thumb presses on the delicate flesh of her inner thigh, not hard but not exactly soft, his body turning toward hers as his hand is nearly there. if he just shifted his hand, moved just a breath higher. his knuckles would graze her and he'd know. he could press between her inviting thighs and fuck her right here on the couch. why not? that's a normal thing to do, too. ignore unaffiliated children and get laid instead.
and then the door bell rings. he does hesitate. contemplates giving in to the temptations of flesh over self imposed responsibility to greedy kids that probably don't need the sugar anyway. he doesn't. but he does groan as he pulls back and heads for the door.
the kids are cute. trick or treat from sticky smiles. one is dressed up like an inflatable dinosaur, can't navigate taking candy from the bowl and putting it in their bucket without dropping most of it on the floor, even with the night already mostly gone to practice. he honestly should just give them the lot of it and get back to the matter at hand. but when he returns and drops back onto his barely lived-in sofa, he demurs, ) Ten more minutes. There can't be that many left.
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Date: 2024-11-24 05:13 am (UTC)used my power pack to charge my vibrator so i didn't have to unplug my switch or my galaxy lamp.
TECHNOLOGY!
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Date: 2024-11-24 05:56 am (UTC)Congratulations, though I think the problem could have been solved by walking as far as a second outlet.
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Date: 2025-01-11 04:25 am (UTC)the place is a ghost town, disheveled at best and destroyed at worst. like there's nobody left here but ghosts of how it used to be, just fingerprints in the dust and forgotten notes left in whatever mass exodus forced everyone out. to be fair, the faceless monsters and giant chasms everywhere you turn, it's not the most accommodating of neighborhoods. but how did it get like this? and more to the point, why has it been allowed to persist when he's one of the only living pieces of evidence that most times it's easier to go scorched earth than invest in fixing anything. all the same, he feels some strange pang of something to drip all over this room like a drowned rat. somebody had cared at some point, when they picked this ugly carpet. painted the doors badly, tucked the sheets just so.
Maria is back, and he takes the towel. it smells like the inside of a moth-ball ridden closet when he tries to dry his face. the pressure at his back surprises him, he stiffens on instinct. it shouldn't be a surprise, but he's more used to choke holds and maulings at this point. lots of maulings, just a little bit ago, actually! it is obvious and intentional as the strain in his muscle deflates. letting it happen, even though he's more than capable of drying himself off. or, more accurately, they're both equally incapable of it — because nothing he's wearing is going to dry any time soon, and no amount of towels and gentle pressure is bound to change that. )
If that's the case, I think we'll both have bigger problems. ( no point in trying to find things in a world set for biblical destruction, after all. he tries to wring out his shirt. it splatters on his shoes, a cruel cosmic joke. it's truly a hopeless gesture, somehow makes him more cold, now that the fabric isn't plastered directly to his skin and air sneaking in like an icy fire. ) I thought we had plans, but I guess I'll make an exception if you've got Monopoly.
( it's a gentle out, if she wants it — he can strip down somewhere she won't get an eyeful. he doesn't even have to go far! the bathroom has a door. it's not exactly a move, he's just being practical. he'll drip less without the sodden clothes. she's a flirt, that does not mean she's required to tolerate a relative stranger getting close to naked in her presence. )
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Date: 2025-01-12 11:14 pm (UTC)( tiny little houses and precious silver pieces and a neat spread of paper money wouldn't have lasted for seconds with whatever happened here, in this place. it feels like--somewhere she should recognize, and maybe that's the real reason that she's holed up here, where an old room at the rundown hospital or any number of abandoned apartments between here and there would have served their purpose. something beautiful and menacing about this hotel, something that feels like it needs protecting and offers protection all the same. pretty memories never last for long, because they catch fire too easily; but surely someone used this room for more than just trying to feebly dry a man from the torrential downpour outside.
the towel, at least, she drops to the bed; a plume of dust pillows and wafts off with even just the weight of it, which might also mean the dampness of the towel is now caked in it, but it doesn't matter. he's right: they had plans, up to a certain point.
which means he shouldn't mind the hands that wander, slow fingertips that feel for the wet hem of his shirt, plastered to his skin. there's a funny little splat of sound when they come apart, and despite his height, it doesn't take much except a lift onto her toes to start to roll the material away from his waist, up his stomach, peeling and tugging towards his ribs. )
You never said what we'd do after you got out of all your clothes.
( it's neat, matter-of-fact: just like he offers her an out, and she doesn't take it, he deserves one all the same. teasing, her gaze lifts, but she's not going to be able to get the shirt off entirely without his arms playing along with the movement; her fists give a pointed tug up to indicate. )
Got any fun, naked games in mind? ( her smile curves, a slow, curious flutter of her lashes, and if he lets her, she'll peel and smack the rest of that rain-soaked shirt right off his head. ) I know a couple we could try if you're up for it.
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Date: 2025-01-19 09:43 pm (UTC)it'd be a lie to say part of him isn't following that path, mapping it to remember later, enjoying the barely there hint of her touch. but even if he lets her drag the sodden, clingy fabric over his head, he's not thrown that much caution to the wind. he's being practical more than carnal in his desire to strip down. in another situation, who knows, but with skinless monstrosities roaming the foggy wastes outside their door — not a great time to get caught with his pants down.
unfair how it's colder now with the shirt off than it was with it on. his skin pebbles in protest. hopefully the dim light hides the worst of silvery scars, somewhat marring the otherwise enjoyable picture of a half naked, handsome, and unbelievably fit. he doesn't do much to hide, and if Maria wants to look she can, though he does try to reclaim one of the towels to chase off some of the damp clinging to his skin. ) Huh. All the games I know are about stripping. ( by the time the clothes are gone feels like a good time to drop the pretense and get to the point, as far as he's concerned. )
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Date: 2025-01-24 08:00 pm (UTC)besides, why leave when there are such nice things to look at? her wet hands curve in against her folded arms, twisting a step back towards him, and another still--unabashed, which he surely expects, her gaze goes down his chest, down his arms, dropped down to the waist of his pants before sliding back up again. )
Good thing I'm great at stripping.
( with a ghost of a smile, but rather than start to shed her own clothes, she only steps close enough to get another hold on his. her hands land on his hips, featherlight, wandering across the width of his belt to the buckle at the front.
he doesn't need the help, but it's polite to offer, isn't it? )
You probably have girls begging to do this all the time. ( a point for his natural, handsome features--but it doesn't sound jealous, or agitated, just amused; her fingers work the buckle loose, starting for the button of his pants beyond it. ) You were looking for a girl, is that right?
( she remembers, of course, but it's better to feign the foggy details; he might reveal a little more, that way, in explanation. )
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Date: 2025-01-28 05:03 am (UTC)to that end, it might be to Maria's benefit that she's so direct. hard to not notice the lingering glances, her hands bearing on his hips. the way she walks her fingers cross wet fabric and damp skin to pluck at the his buckle. Leon is not shy, he doesn't really have room for it, but part of him does wonder how wise it is to let himself get too comfortable around here. it'd probably be better to be half wet and half dry than all the way naked.
but he doesn't actually do anything about her plucking at his belt until it's already mostly over. the reminder of what he's doing here is like being back in the frigid rain, and sobers him up fast. )
Not a girl. ( Ada is a whole lot of things, but she's never been a girl to him. not even when they met. she'd been older, a woman through in through, in a way that had been tantalizing and intimidating all at once. it's been six years and he's grown up since but the picture of her in his head is still the same. maybe that's because she's supposed to be dead?
he pulls away, trying to regain some distance and some common sense. sits down on the bed and tries to ruffle the wet from his hair like a dog after being groomed. ) She's supposed to be dead. I know that sounds crazy, but if you met her you'd get it. ( Ada just wasn't the type to roll over and die. Leon doesn't know what she'd be doing in a place like this, but that's nothing new because he never really knows what she's after until she wants him to. )
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Date: 2025-01-30 10:44 pm (UTC)no, she hadn't been jealous. hadn't cared, really: she would help him look for the woman, of course, this ada, but then anyone with a heart would do something like that. it's expected out of a good person. the way that he talks about her, though, and speaks of her death: well, that gets under her skin a little, enough that she offers a slow nod, a twisting step back towards the bed.
the wet towel is between them, a barrier she puts there purposefully, as she sinks down onto the side of the mattress, near the end of the bed; another puff of dust jumps up into the air, starting to settle back down again. )
Not a girl. ( she agrees--her form of a wordless apology. ) But then...
Would she not be dead again, in a place like this? With monsters around, like this?
( she thinks she knows the answer to this one, too, but she's more focused on watching leon's profile, her palms behind her on the bed to lean her weight into them.
what would it feel like, to have someone be so desperate to find her that they would go to a place like this and weather all kinds of storms in search of her? feels like it would be nice. feels like it would be some kind of love. )
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Date: 2025-02-02 06:07 am (UTC)but nobody said he couldn't mourn the loss.
if he feels the eyes on him, Leon doesn't feel the need to try and evade. he doesn't look in Maria's direction, either, at least — not yet. the storm has found its way to his face, and he'd rather keep that to himself. because Ada, oh, she's complicated. there's a reason he'd avoided the question about being in love. because if he was, if he is, does it even count? when he's the only one that ever felt it?
because on paper, he knows how stupid it is. Ada played him like a fiddle. no, one of those party kazoos, all you gotta do is blow. he'd been young and dumb. it was the end of the world. he thought she was beautiful. that he could help her. that they were doing something good, something important, in all the ugly of Raccoon City. maybe that's why it stung so bad, that the kiss didn't mean anything and she was just using him to finish some job for some shady client. in the end, all of it, all of it, every failed attempt to save someone, watching the city cave in — it really was useless. nothing came from it all but blood and bitterness. ghosts and guilt.
Leon has never entirely believed Ada was one of those ghosts. she was too strong. too resilient. he doesn't know how she could have survived a fall like that, but it makes more sense than the alternative. and she didn't shoot him, in the end. she could have, and she didn't. and she's reaching out now, calling him to this shit hole haunted place. maybe it means something. even now, even all this time later — he's desperate for it to mean something. )
She's survived worse. ( Leon grimaces slightly, at his own words. because when he puts it that way, he's the monster Ada couldn't quite fight past. but he's not. she's alive. she's gotta be. he finally turns to look at Maria, pushing back thoughts of his woman in red to focus on the one next to him again. ) Why are you still here? Don't tell me you're a fan of the neighborhood.
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Date: 2025-02-10 12:18 am (UTC)it's turbulent, seeking, frustrated, worried. it's knowing that she has other things to do here, other things she should do here, than sitting next to leon in a bed that's caked with the memories and mistakes of someone else. but james isn't here, james hasn't been here, and she doesn't know where to find him--even though her memories, scattered as they are, tell her where to check.
is it wrong, to seek a certain level of solace from someone who truly seems like a good man? not that james isn't a good man. but this feels--different. she hadn't been told that leon had been looking for her, for one. )
Me? ( she plays at a smile, easy and warm, though it doesn't quite meet her eyes. ) I was born here. Don't think I could leave if I wanted to. You get caught up and tied to a place when it means something to you, you know?
( her smile falters a little, looking towards the one window in the room--the shutters crack against it, rattling with the wind and rain outside, which means that leon is still a captive for now. )
Someone is looking for me. Well, maybe not me. A me that isn't me, whatever that means. So I should find him, too, but it's been hard to know how to do that. Or if I really want to. Do you think Ada wants to find you, too...?
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Date: 2025-04-23 06:49 pm (UTC)he was wrong, though. he sees that now. he had made a nominal difference, perhaps more actively detrimental than helpful. sometimes when he picks apart that night, all the things he did or didn't do, the things he should have done better, he's certain that everyone he encountered would have been better off without him there in the first place. Claire had scraped by alone just fine without his intervention. their intersections had never been monumental. yes, technically, he'd been her ride into the city, but if he hadn't been there she'd have gotten there on her own, looking for her brother. and if Claire made it there, she'd make it out, and so would Sherry. he wouldn't have been there to distract Ada, maybe she wouldn't have end up injured in the first place. in hindsight, he should have just rolled over and given himself another hangover. instead of driving straight into the storm, trying to be a big damn hero.
he doesn't know how to relay this reality elegantly. that one person probably can't make enough of a difference that it would matter. that there's no point to sticking around in a place rapidly approaching its own self destruction. it doesn't matter if Silent Hill means something to Maria, that won't stop it from folding in on itself. sooner rather than later, if he had to guess. he frowns and stares somewhere beyond the dusty side table, hand that had been limitedly scrubbing the damp off his skin stalling as he gets lost in his head. chews through his thoughts for what he might be able to convince her with. because there's gotta be something. right? why would she want to stick around and burn with this place?
because some guy is looking for her, maybe, apparently. Leon turns back to Maria again, brow furrowed. ) If you don't want to, then why bother? ( a lot of what she's saying doesn't make any sense, but who is he to judge after saying he got a letter from a dead lady he mostly built up in his imagination, since he was only actively in her presence for a couple of hours. as for Ada; at least that answer is easy. ) Sure she does, but not in the way you're making it sound. If I had to guess she needs something and I'm the perfect sucker for the job. ( what she'll wring out of him, exactly, he doesn't know. it doesn't even really matter. seeing her alive, breathing, that smug little look turning up the corner of her mouth that she has him right where she wants him — it'll be worth the annoyance, the danger in getting there, and being wound right around her finger all over again. he would do anything just to know the truth, so she can't be his shrodinger's cat for the rest of his miserable life. even put up with the shambling melting monstrosities of this creepy little town in Maine. ) If she didn't she'd just have stayed gone.
( why does it sound like he's trying to convince her? maybe because he is. if he can convince her, then maybe he'll feel a little bit less like an idiot. already drug under by the idea of Ada Wong, without so much as a faint hint that it's really here. he'd like to believe he isn't a complete moron, despite all the evidence to the contrary. )
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Date: 2025-04-27 10:25 pm (UTC)( it's not something that she says with any amount of animosity; it's hard to muster that up for a perfect pretty boy that she's just met, even if the implication does make her stomach turn. a nice person would help. a nice person wouldn't ask questions, wouldn't keep asking questions, wouldn't turn her chin in against her shoulder and look down at leon's hands like she should really divest him of the rest of his clothing. and maybe she's wrong, anyway, and maybe it is love, a kind of love that she can't understand; then again, she can't understand anyone willingly coming to a place like this unless it's for someone that they love. a person whose only importance is being there to boss another person around and tell them what to do? she wouldn't enjoy that kind of person, but then again, those kinds of people are a dime a dozen.
but she doesn't think that fits, either. it's not an accusation, but she imagines that it will get the wheels turning, will get leon's lips moving, his tongue curving, will get more than just the gentle pussyfooting around that she's doing, like a cat sticking its paw in under the shadow of a door.
it's not like she's any better. she doesn't know much about james, she just knows what she feels about him, what feels correct, what her blurry memories seem to imply. a kindness that is sometimes cold, a gentle, deep voice, the kind of person that would probably lay on the ground and let her literally walk all over him to avoid stepping in a puddle. does that make james the perfect sucker, or does that make her it: staying in a town that's rotting away, with no hope for anything except some abstract idea of rescue?
her chin tucks against her shoulder, gaze pinned on leon's profile; if nothing else, he's much nicer to look at than the wallpaper, so she's grateful. )
Shouldn't we both leave, then? If we're just getting dragged through this place for someone else's bidding.
( her eyes soften, a twitch of her mouth into a smile. ) No, you're too good of a man for that. What will it take? Another few days, or a few weeks, here? If you don't find her? Maybe we make a pact.
( a bet she wants to say instead, but that's a little crude. ) Look, and if we don't find it here, then we leave. Do you think you can leave?
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Date: 2025-05-28 08:23 pm (UTC)even if it was real, it was only real for him. so how can it be real now, when he knows it was all a rouse to get him to do what she wanted. )
No, ( he says, even though the fact he's here, dripping into musty motel carpet with shambling monstrosities just outside the barricaded door, is sort of giving him away. love or not, he's so obsessed with the idea of Ada Wong he will walk right into a nightmare on a chance. that's not exactly a good sign as to the ambivalence of his feelings. still, even if he's not ambivalent about Ada, he sure as shit hasn't forgiven her, either. if he loves her, he hates her too. it doesn't really matter to him what the name on the feeling is — if she's here, he will find her. and he's too fixed on the objective to really contemplate the aftermath just yet.
so Maria is right. he won't leave. does it make him good? stubborn and stupid feels more apt. whatever she'd like to call it, the result is the same. he hasn't looked nearly enough to give up on what brought him here. if it isn't Ada, it's somebody who knows more than he'd like them to, which is plenty of reason to keep looking. no, he's not ready to leave, even if it'd be the smarter, practical thing. )
I don't know. ( what it'll take, that is. an answer? closure? why the hell would that be in Maine. still, he needs more than nothing, and that letter was the only lead he's had in years. Leon is nothing if not determined. he will find it or he will die trying. simply giving up does not occur to him as an option. and after that... )
Deal. ( Leon turns to face Maria, losing the slight advantage of distance to hide his expression. since he's considering the Ada conversation closed with their decision to team up for a scheduled departure, he has less to hide. not that it hasn't rattled him — if anything, it is like he has something to prove. that Ada hasn't been haunting him since Raccoon City, that he isn't in love with the idea of a woman he knows isn't real. which is especially stupid, all things considered. ) Getting naked helped the wet problem. Not so much the cold problem.
( sorry, Maria. Leon flirts back but he turns it off and on with little to no warning. )
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Date: 2025-06-08 09:19 pm (UTC)but it's a deal, anyway, which she answers with a smile, instead of agreement--a shallow lie, maybe, but it means that it could truthfully go either way.
and what does leon see, looking back at her, saying things like that? she writes him off and he comes back again with an addendum; she can't seem to find the right way to color in the lines, but then she's never been good at that to begin with. it's obvious, given the way that she's still seated next to him, given the way that she hasn't offered to find some other room in this hellhole to sleep in, or stay in, or get cleaned up in. the weather likely isn't going to let up for hours; there's no point in getting drenched in blood and rainwater when they can wait for the foggy, early hours of a grey morning.
so she considers it, as she tilts her head the other way, looking at the rest of the bed--and then tilts again, to look at him, smiling. )
Think the sheets are clean? I've heard getting beneath them really gets the blood pumping.
( as if sleeping is a foreign concept. as if she can't really recall it happening at all. as if some muddied memory of a bed and pain and torture are the only things she can dredge up. )
I might be willing to keep a guy warm, but only if he keeps me entertained.
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Date: 2025-01-18 06:27 pm (UTC)hell, he forgot his cover story trying to check into his accommodations. you're not supposed to have to look at your own identification to know who you're supposed to be. he'd about blown his cover before he actually investigated anything. instead, someone swanned against his side, a familiar note of perfume and red. easily joked about him forgetting his own name when he was jetlagged, providing the exact alias on his credentials for the concierge to look up his room. how Ada knew who he was supposed to be better than he did, Leon has no idea. the girl behind the counter asks if they need two keys, calls Ada Mrs. Greco as they leave. his cover is supposed to be married, but his wife was not supposed to be checking in with him. it's honestly incredible how she convinced a stranger of so much with only a casual conversation.
she saved his ass and he knows it. which means he owes her one — and Ada always knows exactly what she wants out of him. she probably knows already, and he's just along for the ride until she shares with the class. she doesn't drop the act to the elevator, either, arm tucked around his. tapping his bicep fondly to remind him he has to hit the button or they'll be standing here forever. he wants to ask what are you up to, but he can't until they have some margin of secrecy. so he plucks the elevator button, and maybe he's learning how to play the role, because his hand lands at the small of her back when the doors feather open for them.
(it's that or he just wants to.) )
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Date: 2025-01-21 04:13 pm (UTC)there's a part of her that misses the doe-eyed rookie she'd first met back in raccoon city, eager to help and all the more eager to lap up any lick of attention she'd offered as their paths wove together time and time again—whether purposefully, she'd never tell. or maybe she'd let her own guard down, let herself grow a bit too fond to the idea of being trusted, knowing the inevitable would follow where he'd learn the hard way that maybe it is better to bite the hand that feeds.
nevertheless, her original intention had been to meet him at the hotel later that evening alongside the drop off of a freshly-pressed suit courtesy of one of her contacts for the upcoming gala. however, sore thumb would be quite the understatement from what she'd witnessed since he'd arrived in the city, and the last thing she needed was any unwanted attention drawn to him, and consequently the pair of them, before they'd even gathered so much as a scrap of intel.
she drifts with ease through the lobby doors, professionally donning the appearance of a woman both tired herself from a long trip there but doused in relief to begin their stay nonetheless, waving off his floundering as if merely a wife all too used to stepping in when his tongue couldn't quite find itself as sharply as he might like. there's even the telltale glint of a ring on the appropriate finger as she presses a hand affectionately to his arm, warmth courteously beaming from her as the clerk hands them two key cards, and nods toward the elevators with a pleasant 'enjoy your stay.'
the thing with playing a character, she's learned, is to integrate it into her own mannerisms as much as possible, especially considering you never really know who's watching (or listening, a quick flit of her gaze in the elevator toward the camera in the corner.) they've always been quite the team, whether either of them cares to admit it, his brute force and her touch of finesse, and he doesn't need to ask for her to recognize the look, but another soft swipe of her thumb serves a silent assurance that she'll quell any questions he might have once she's sure they're alone. doors span open once more before them once the lift reaches their floor, and there's the faintest hint of a rise at the edge of her lips at the warmth of his hand settling at her back. in character or out, once again, a spy never tells.
hand curls all the more snug about his bicep as they head towards the room, giving an appreciative squeeze before handing him his own copy of the key card. he's always kept himself fit, but he's bulkier now than she remembers. a little rougher around the edges. ) You've been taking care of yourself, Mr. Greco. ( tone laced with a hint of teasing, but sincere nonetheless, greeted by a lone, sprawling king bed once he chimes them into their room—twin robes left folded at its end. )
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Date: 2025-02-04 05:29 am (UTC)he's a little annoyed, to have so thoroughly bombed his first attempt at it. he didn't want the job, sure, but he doesn't like feeling inept. even worse that Ada managed to witness it. it's nothing like the parlor in the castle, where he was in his element. step for step, or at least, close enough that he'd managed to surprise her into getting the momentary upper hand. nothing close to it now, he'd have been kicked out, cover blown, if not worse if it were not for Ada Wong.
it is difficult to bite his tongue as long as it takes them to get to his hotel room. if he actually has to bite the inside of his cheek to maintain his silence, it is thankfully his little secret. ) It's how the missus likes it, ( he says wryly. and maybe a little smug. since the girl at the front desk is entirely certain that Ada is his wife, it's especially pointed. that's all Ada gets out of him before while he canvases the small but luxurious accommodations, even checks the bathroom. nothing. or, at least, nothing blatantly obvious. )
Well? ( Ada will know better than he ever could if they're free to talk. or, free enough that he can start up some burning questions, like what she's doing here, how she knew his cover story, and what that ring is all about. )
dipdyes.
Date: 2025-04-23 06:00 pm (UTC)( he plays well at cold blooded, but honestly. he'd have to be dead to not see the patently obvious appeal. more fun on the strip side than the search side, but since they go hand in hand she's surely not giving herself enough credit here. )
Just so we're clear, I haven't had a badge for six years. You don't have to hide anything on my account.
Is the dressing room less creepy than the front? Never would have guessed neon could read ominous.
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Date: 2025-04-25 08:23 pm (UTC)costumes left behind. you can see if there's anything that gets you going.
( and, because she's curious-- )
what happened to your badge, handsome? did you quit?
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Date: 2025-04-25 09:49 pm (UTC)( but he'll go there anyway. the emptiness of the front feels especially overbearing, somehow. maybe there's just too much space to stay on top of. maybe it's the neon without the music. maybe it's the fact the place feels like it was barely inhabited even before the place went dystopian. maybe it's the wall of booze, or the HILARIOUSLY on the nose wedding ring in the lost and found. maybe it's some combination of all of it. who knows! the point being, it was getting to him.
the dressing room probably won't be much better, but at this point anything sounds better than hellish, otherworldly neon. )
Nice of you to assume I didn't get axed. ( no, YOU'RE avoiding the question! )
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Date: 2025-04-29 08:11 pm (UTC)i don't care either way. work is work, play is play.
so it's not going to change how i think of you.
( no, it probably will, but easier to encourage this way. )
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Date: 2025-05-28 07:30 pm (UTC)( that's kind of a gentle way of putting all of RCPD was annihilated when Raccoon City was wiped off the map, and being coopted forcefully into federal work. but technically, it's classified, and to be honest, he's not dying to talk about it. )
Not sure I was cut out for it anyway.
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Date: 2025-05-28 08:50 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-05-29 12:02 am (UTC)( he's joking. ...mostly joking. )
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Date: 2025-05-29 11:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-05-30 12:42 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-05-30 11:53 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-05-31 12:32 am (UTC)( HINT HINT BABE WHERE YOU AT 😭😭😭 rattles the bars of his strip club dressing room cage )
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Date: 2025-06-01 10:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2025-06-03 04:07 am (UTC)( and wouldn't that be a change? he's never gotten to be the damsel* before! )
* only because he is completely unaware of the multitude of times ada saved his dumb ass
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Date: 2025-06-10 07:30 pm (UTC)a familiar place, or so her thoughts say. a familiar entrance, that she shoulders through, a ratty convenience store bag hanging from one hand, a few holes punched in it near the top, as though it's seen just as much of the city as she has. up through the back entrance to the door that leads to the dressing rooms--a door that she stays behind, at first, leaving it shut.
rather than open it, she puts her back to it, shoulders against the glass; her smile lifts, falters, drops again as she lilts behind her. )
Are you properly cuffed, or are you still back here?
( the silence--or lack of it--will give her an answer; she's not sure which one will be the more disappointing. after all, true to her word, she's back with supplies: including, in fact, a package of those stupid little drink umbrellas, something hard-earned from one of the shattered convenience stores down the road.
whether he answers or not, she's opening the door anyway. hopefully, it's without monsters, too. )