( 03 ) video ✵ i got six friends and they all know your name

[stacked]

So, look, I get everybody's all jazzed about that list or whatever, and people wanna do the mourning thing. All good, have at it.

What I'm wondering though, is what we got working to find out who helped the dead dude get that way. Still pretty new around here so I don't know what you got rigged up already, but where I'm from something like this happens we mount up before there's a dead guy number two.

[ so that was... kind of a job application. if you tilt your head and squint. and to seal the deal. ]

Wouldn't mind helping out.

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[chromosomes]

[ Yeah but they don't know that... ]

Guess that's true. Something like that, they might actually do something about it.

[ Reaper is just kind of super bitter about how easily the government gets away with shit. ] 2046.

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[stacked]

[ same with her-- there's a whole demon angle nobody knows yet. timelines, man. ]

Or they'd just die faster.

[ fuck tha police, faith always says. ]

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[chromosomes]

[ There's a sigh. ]

Yeah, or that.

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[stacked]

Sorry, not really a sunshine and rainbows kinda chick.

[ kanyeshrug. ]

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[chromosomes]

Can't say I blame you.

[ He's just still sort of recovering from a mission where almost everyone died. ]

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[stacked]

Life's a bitch and then you kick off.

[ ...now why does that sound so familiar. ]

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[chromosomes]

Quickly, if you're lucky.

[ There's a rub at the back of his neck. What he ought to do is go see that counselor, but he really, really doesn't want to. ]

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[stacked]

Only luck I run into usually goes the other way.

[ there's a cheerful grimness to her tone, because Issues. ]

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[chromosomes]

Yeah, same.

[ He just sounds grim. Fitting. :v ]

Seems to stay that way on this ship.

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[stacked]

Aw, how sweet of them. Just like home for people like you and me.

[ not 'people like us'. again: issues. ]

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[chromosomes]

Well, least I get my own room now.

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[stacked]

Same.

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[chromosomes]

[ There's a bit of a nod, one hand moving to scratch at the dogtags around his neck. ]

I'd say the pool's a nice change too, but... [ dead bodies, and all. ]

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[stacked]

[ she lifts one shoulder in a graceless shrug. ]

Nobody ever swam in water people kicked off in, ocean's'd be all the hell off limits.

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[chromosomes]

[ His lips twitch. ] They're cold anyway.

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[stacked]

Grew up in Southie, you don't have to tell me. We don't do beaches where I'm from.

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[chromosomes]

I've been on base out in California, right in the middle of the Mojave. The ocean still only feels good for about a second.

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[stacked]

[ w e l p. guess where somebody went to prison. ]

...Spent some time out near there myself. Guest of the state and all.

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[chromosomes]

[ whoops ]

Mind if I ask?

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[stacked]

Had some anger issues. [ she shrugs. ] Made some bad calls.

[ murdered people, sometimes for hire nbd right? ]

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[chromosomes]

Mm. Know about those, too.

[ Both the anger issues and the bad calls. ]

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[stacked]

The words 'group therapy' leave your lips and I'm gonna forget I got all reformed.

[ faith uses HUMOR

it's only half a joke. ]

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[chromosomes]

Don't worry. I don't like therapy.

[ He had it ordered on him, after that mission in the jungle. Memory therapy. Relive the event -- like that was supposed to fucking help PTSD. It had just made him want to kill everyone in the room. ]

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[stacked]

See, me neither. [ her grin isn't sharp edged for once, just... halfway pleasant. she doesn't really vibe well off most people, okay. it's a thing. ] Prison shrinks didn't really give a shit.

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[chromosomes]

Neither did military shrinks. [ The intern hadn't been too bad, but he'd still wanted to kill all of them for making him relive that fucked up mess. ] Weren't too good at their jobs, either.