[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.

Comments

[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.

[makedo]

[ the universe doesn't hand out freebies to anyone ever. you just have to make shit happen yourself. ]

willing to take that chance?

[catatonics]

you were in the army or whatever, right? you've seen shit. only you were trained for it.

we weren't. we lost all of our friends in the course of one night, almost died more times than i can count... he saved my life.

[ and she almost killed him in return. ]

isn't there someone you can't really imagine trying to navigate the world without? someone who's seen what you've seen and knows how much it's fucked you up, who cares about you anyway? that's marty. and i don't want to live in a world that would take him away from me.

[makedo]

marines.
and no.

[ he's always been more of the lone warrior type. and really — his fiancée left him for his best friend, so that only exacerbated things. ]

[catatonics]

well, that sucks for you. but i'm not leaving, brad. he's the only thing that can make this stupid place make sense and if he dies and i live i'll just end up killing everyone anyway.

[makedo]

you won't kill everyone.

[ but — ]

werewolf?

[catatonics]

werewolf. so yes, i will.

[makedo]

There's plenty of creepy critters around, and we're all still here.

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[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.

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[makedo]

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

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[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.

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[makedo]

[ that's good thinking right there, edgeworth. except — ]

We're not friends.

[ you kind of are, brad, even if she kicked you in the balls......... ]

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[jurisimpudent]

She said you were.

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[makedo]

we're friendly.

[ as in, she doesn't seem to mind when brad is an asshole, which is always. ]

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[jurisimpudent]

I could not possibly give less of a damn than I do over what you label yourself, so please stop wasting my time with it. She considers you a friend. You need to not make yourself into her enemy. Understood?

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[makedo]

You're a bossy fuck.

[ but sure, whatever. look, he hasn't threatened to knock her out in at least five replies, are you happy now? ]

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[jurisimpudent]

I shall take that as a "yes."

Be there for her after the jump. Keep her from doing anything foolish. She has already expressed suicidal tendencies. You must stay her hand and coax her through her difficulties. The worst outcome after this is to lose more lives. It will fall to you to help save hers.