[text, two hours before the Jump]

[jurisimpudent]

All non-essential personnel are ordered away from the doors outside the bridge. Security will be using force to subdue and remove anyone who does not comply with this order. Please use this time to gather your things and proceed to the stasis pods for the Jump.

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text; hey edgeworth remember this number aren't you glad she's talking to you again

[catatonics]

like hell.

text; hey pretty lady

[jurisimpudent]

You haven't a choice.

text;

[catatonics]

my life, my choice. i don't want to live if he doesn't.

text;

[jurisimpudent]

Sorry; that was ambiguous. Doesn't what, precisely? Doesn't want to live? Because it seems to me he very much wants to live. And yet here you are, proposing that -- like a spoiled child throwing food into the trash right in front of a starving man -- you'll throw your life away. Do I misunderstand?

text;

[catatonics]

i don't want to live if he dies.

[ not rising to your bait, edgeworth. ]

text;

[jurisimpudent]

Then commit suicide afterwards. You're going into the pod.

text;

[catatonics]

because that makes so much sense. before, after, what does it matter to you?

text;

[jurisimpudent]

Who's to say?

text;

[catatonics]

i'm not leaving.

text;

[jurisimpudent]

[fuck it]

Ma'am, I could pick up and carry three of you, whether human or werewolf, using nothing more than the power of my mind. You will go into the pod.

text;

[catatonics]

fine. i'll go if you will.

[ don't even try to pretend that you'd be willing to leave until the very last second, edgeworth. dana will not believe you for a second.

also she's getting very tired of all these supernatural types, she doesn't even care if she's one of them. none of them can be trusted. if the facility taught her anything, it's that. ]

text;

[jurisimpudent]

[A moment; that's a very bad ultimatum. So, he does the natural thing: he tries to offend her enough that she would want him dead.]

There are still things up here I can do. I will not go, because I can do more than just standing about ineffectually waiting to die, unlike yourself.

[makedo]

Dana. Get into the pod.

[catatonics]

brad. no.

[makedo]

Yes. Killing yourself over this isn't going to achieve anything.

[catatonics]

staying alive isn't going to achieve anything either.

[makedo]

It'll mean being alive.
You wanted a guard, you got one. Either go yourself or I'll knock you out and drag you there myself.

[catatonics]

i didn't want a guard, edgeworth insisted i get one. i chose you because you're the person i trust not to try to make me do anything i don't want to do -- mostly because i know i can take you out if i try hard enough. and i don't want to be alive if marty's not.

[makedo]

You're not going to get the drop on me again.
Do you really want to explain to Marty that you're killing yourself?

[catatonics]

don't need to, apparently i'm a werewolf.
i won't have to explain. he'll be dead too.

[makedo]

What if he won't be

[ he's just going to ignore the bit about the werewolf. that's — well, there's a vampire with brad's face around here, the girl who kicked him in the nuts being a werewolf isn't the strangest thing. ]

[catatonics]

we already escaped death once, i don't think the universe is nice enough to be handing out freebies again.

text, private, 50%

[jurisimpudent]

I'll be the one to put her in the pod if it comes to it. Please stop speaking to her in that way.

text, private, 50%

[makedo]

You told her she needed a guard, she picked me.

text, private, 50%

[jurisimpudent]

Yes. But after this, she will dearly need a friend. If you are the one to take her down there, she will despise you. Let me be the one to do it, so that the relationship between you is not poisoned.