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[text, two hours before the Jump]

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

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?

i don't want to live if he dies.

[ not rising to your bait, edgeworth. ]

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

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

Who's to say?

i'm not leaving.

[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.

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. ]

Edited 2014-02-08 13:07 (UTC)

[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.

[ your tactics may work on people who still give a damn, edgeworth, but marty's the only thing dana's got to care about anymore, so no dice. ]

i'm sitting, actually. and i'm not even in the way. i tried to help with all the other werewolves, remember? if you think more force will do the trick, maybe we can work together. you do your mind thing and i pull. but i don't think you really believe it'll work, you just don't want to leave knowing people you care about are stuck. neither do i.

[Close, Dana: it's just less "people he cares about" and more "anyone ever." Which is why he doesn't even consider her offer; in his way, he loves Marty too, but Dana's life is just as important as his friend's.]

You can either have me take time away from this issue to place you in your pod or you can go willingly. So: are you truly going to compel me to expend resources on you?

you can try.

[ maybe he's so powerful she couldn't fight him. but she's strong now, and fast, and has no problem breaking a bone or two to make her point. nothing he would need to make it to the pods, or anything, dana doesn't want him to die. she admires his tenacity, if nothing else. but enough to get him to leave her alone. ]

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text; derek is knocking her out in the rescue log so edgeworth doesn't have to, jsyk!