【 Ⅰ 】audio.

[expect]

Hello.

( and then there's a pause; unsure of what to say, or perhaps automatically waiting for a reply. ) Uh, well, I'm Rory. I've noticed people introducing themselves through this over the past few days, so I… am too. ( he loses the thread slightly. ) Hello.

Sorry. I really don't know what to say about all of this. On this. ( leaving answerphone messages into the void? ) It's nice to meet you; I'll be helping out in medical as long as we're here.

Also, I had a sort of question. We've more or less found our way around the living parts of the ship, my wife and I, but I was looking for a few things specifically. ( short beat. ) For example, trousers?

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[loveordeath]

I'm not a serial killer!

[Offensive, tbh. She's a cleaner in training, there's a marked difference.

Because she only kills bad guys.]

[expect]

It's not like I know that. ( of course, if he really thought she was, he wouldn't still be talking to her.

although he has no idea of her age, he has gotten a dim feeling that he's speaking to someone either young or immature - the questions, the lack of subtlety - so he's not taking it too seriously. )

[loveordeath]

Well, now you do.

I kill serial killers.

[expect]

( pause. )

You're not serious.

[loveordeath]

Yes, I am.

Serial killers. Drug dealers. Wife beaters. Child abusers.

[expect]

( is she having a go? uncomfortably: )

That makes you a serial killer.

[loveordeath]

No, it makes me a cleaner.

[expect]

It's not the sort of thing you get to redefine to suit yourself.
You're saying you're a serial killer.

[loveordeath]

And when you save the life of a serial killer who goes on to kill other people?

Doesn't that make you an accomplice?

[expect]

This isn't funny.
If you're having a go because I said you might be a serial killer, it's not funny.

[loveordeath]

I'm not laughing. Are you?

[expect]

Don't joke about these things.
It's creepy.

[loveordeath]

I'm not.

[Whatever gave him that idea.]

[expect]

So you're honestly saying that that's what you do.
Murder people.

[loveordeath]

People who deserve it.

[Well. Leon did the killing for her. She was just practicing.]

[expect]

( he's not so good of a person that he's never wanted others to be hurt, or even been willing to let one person die to save others. but this is different. colder. he's pretty uncomfortable. )

Why?

[loveordeath]

I already told you.

[expect]

( he has no idea what to say. he really wants to believe that 'b' is just telling some sick joke, but that is upsetting in itself. finally, all he can think of is: )

Cheers.

[loveordeath]

[And after a lengthy pause, her number reads as offline.]