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[private to jesse pinkman and miles edgesworth | not encrypted | video]

[The Libby--and it's just Libby, even if her face is clean and her hair is gently washed and flowing smooth and purely blonde--who appears in the video is relieved. Not drunk, not jittery with tension, not panicked or cornered or twisted by anger. Just relieved, smiling with an old, recently missing quirk to it, wrapped up in an oversized black jacket and smoking with a hand that shakes but only slightly.]

Hey, guys. Guess who I can't find? Um--do you want to like. Watch a stupid future movie or whatev, some time? I've got--I've got a lot of free time. So. You know. Or anything.

And, um--maybe we should all check in. Every morning and tonight. Your girls too, Jesse. I just ydon't want--well. A lot of people have been going missing. [She ruffles her hair with her free hand, but still. For the first time since she got here she can breathe.] But yeah. Anything you want.

[private to james rogers | not encrypted | voice]

Um. Hey.

[Nervous, but that's fine, right? Everything is fine today.]

[public | voice]

Loki's gone. I don't know who of you care, but unless he shows up and calls me an idiot on this thing--he's gone. So. Tally that up, I figure.

[A quiet, disbelieving laugh, her voice mellow and soft, and Libby falls back on her bed.]

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Yeah.

[She's done scarier things, right?

None really come to mind.]

How do I like...how do I apologize?

You say...

[He's not exactly particularly good at this himself. Von Karma, after all, had told him never to apologize. Anything he did to wipe out criminal scum was right and righteous. Dad, however, back then...]

Sorry. It's as simple as that: you look him in the eye, and say that you're not glad of what happened.

What if he's still pissed?

[Has she ever apologized to someone who wasn't a friend or while she wasn't under duress? She can't think of a time, and squirms unhappily.]

Maybe this is still a bad idea.

I'll sound him out, as it were. But like I said - his priority is helping people, not punishing them for not liking him. It's part of his code.

It's not that I don't like him. I just--I didn't want anybody to die. That's why you can't tell anyone, 'kay? You can't.

[A slight hesitation - ]

No. Of course not.

Because I can and will put a monitoring bug on your stuff.

[He frowns.]

Please do not do that.

I won't. I'm just saying you made friends with a crazy person with no moral scruples whatsoever.

No, I did not.

Well, 'kay. You were latched onto by a creepy mutant with no moral scruples whatsoever.

[Even more firmly:]

No, I wasn't.

...which part is the problem?

Creepy. Mutant. No moral scruples.

[A beat.]

You are serious one of the nicest people I've ever met.

I'm...

[He clears his throat and hunches his shoulders.]

No I'm not.

Uh, I'm the one who's met the people I know? My call.

Well, then -

[Sorry you've met such unkind people is far too close to the truth; it doesn't pass his lips. Gentler:]

Then I hope you'll meet kinder people yet.

You'll always be in like, my top three. You know, for knowing me when I was all--

[She makes a face unseen and a noise that cannot be transcribed, only describable as 'teenage girl flaily sounds'.]

--and not drowning me.

Er - why would I drown you?

You know. Like an extra kitten. Too much hassle to keep alive.

Who would drown an extra kitten?

I--not me. It's just--sometimes some people had too many and they weren't big enough to eat.

That's - horrible.

...yeah.

[And it always struck a little close to home.]

I never did it, though. Never.

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