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003 (Video) ; I'm a word that no one ever wants to say...

[Hello, Tranquility. Here's Topher, recently exorcised and looking... Well, let's be real here. Topher looks like he got hit by a truck. His hair's messier than usual, he's ashen-faced, and there's a bandage around his left hand, which you can only just barely see because his hands are tucked tightly under his arms, like he's trying to pull himself into the smallest possible space.]

Is it over yet?

[He swallows.] ...Are they gone?

[For a moment, he looks like he might say something else, but there's just a long silence where nothing happens and he flips the communicator off with an aggravated and exhausted sigh. This has not been the best few weeks of his life and he's had a lot of terrible few weeks.]

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[Here, Topher. Have a deep, smooth and placating sort of Irish voice talking to you, because you look like you've been hit by a truck.]

I'm not sure. [Topher he wants to help you.] You look like you could use some tea. Would you like some tea?

[Guess who...DOES NOT NOTICE A DIFFERENCE AT ALL but might also possibly look like he's been hit by a truck for entirely different reasons NOT THAT YOU CAN SEE HIM so there.]

I dunno. Go ask management, they're futzing about on the Holodeck, pretending nothing is wrong.

you okay?

[ yep, she doesn't know what else to say aside from that. because, YOU ARE AN ASSHOLE didn't seem like the best thing. :/ ]

Hey boy genius.

They aren't yet, I don't think.

[There is a time for everything. A time to string people alone, and a time to pity them, and it just so happens that this is pathetic enough to fall into the second category, which is in fact rather rare.]

Nearly dead or just mostly?

I could use a lot of things right now. [Sob. He misses Adelle... Not that Adelle would probably offer him tea. She'd tell him to stop panicking and get his head in the game. In a vaguely understanding way. ...Oh right, he drifted off there. Funny what you think about in the middle of a trauma.] But in absence of any of those things and so long as I don't have to leave my room... Tea sounds great.

[Not sure if want.

You can't really see... Topher staring at the communicator like he's suffering a major crisis, but the awkward pause that might as well have its own Jeopardy music says a lot.]

Did you know your ex-girlfriend's possessed?

[...Look, this is his attempt to be both a dick and helpful, all while being too tired to properly do either. Fight him.]

no.

[And then two minutes minutes later.]

i am so sorry. that wasn't me. i wouldn't have

[Another minute]

if you don't wanna talk to me... after that. i get it.

[He laughs in a way that is not entirely happy.] Where are the priests and religious nutjobs when you need them?

[OF COURSE WANT Wheatley is exactly what everyone needs all the time.]

I don't have an ex-girlfriend, I'm a robot, remember?

[Not programmed to love, or something. But wait, hang on, he has to think about that for a moment.]

But if you're talking about Chell [and he says her name--he knows it now--with no small amount of contempt], I suppose that...would explain the talking, and the excessive amount of lying she's been doing, lately.

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Kinda hard to tell with you two. [Considering you keep rubbing yourself against her and crying outside her door and... All that. Possibly Topher's just making radical assumptions.

But they are not inaccurate.]

So all of that was just some demon spouting crap and you're not a functional megalomaniac?

[...To be honest, it is kinda hard to believe.

Not the part about him being a moron. Obviously, that's true.

But, you know, actually being a psycho. That's weird.]

[ugh eewwww but she's all gross and smelly

but yeah kind of a little accurate]

What she so graciously shared with the network was not only a gross exaggeration of my actions as Central AI of the Aperture Science Enrichment Center, but also an unbelievable lie about my programming. Downright slander.

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They're working on it. [ the smile she goes to is meant to be reassuring. even if it doesn't quite make it. ]

Are you hurt?

[You're so kind, Sirius.

So kind.]

You should see the other guy.

[Oh right wait he's a skeleton won't that make things awkward?

...Eh nah, people are used to weirder right???]

Right. I'm going to go out on a limb here and say that I have no idea where your room is, but if you tell me, I'll bring you some. Maybe some chocolate, too, if I can find some. That's always good for trauma. [So's whiskey but Skulduggery is kind of not the guy to think of that so.]

You mean, the part where someone actually programmed you to be a moron? [See, he always assumed that was just a glitch. Or possibly an AI becoming TOO SELF AWARE. If only Skynet had that problem...

...Oh wait, no. It would have ended the same way. Only British.]

[ Chase herself is looking a little worse for wear--or maybe just really, really sleepy. She licks her lips, hesitantly, before deciding to actually speak: ]

I'm glad I didn't find you, Topher.

[ Hey, at least it's not 'sir' anymore. ]

[He texts 002 » 195 privately, because he is... Really paranoid.]

Thanks. [He hisses a bit.] How many others? Do you know?

Not physically, aside from the creepy violated feeling. Not... Too much anyway. I kinda got stabbed in the hand with a fork.

[Aww Chase. ;_;]

Were you...?

[ oh topher, she honestly can't be mad at you too long. it is just...

a sigh and she is flipping on the device, looking into the screen with a slightly wary look. ]

I'm not going to stop talking to you. It's just...how do I know it's really you?

[ hey, she was cautious with arthur after all of this. she needs to be cautious with you. ]

You can't. I mean... That angel guy said there were ways to tell, but does that really mean anything? [He swallows nervously.] You're not always gonna have salt or holy water on hand to throw at me.

I'm NOT--

[Can he do it

can he calm his tits

yes I think this time he can.]

That part. Awful lie, all of it. Not what I'm programmed to do at all. Can you believe the nerve of her? Going off like that, thinking she's such an expert on someone else's formal designation. Rude, is what it is.

A fork?
Jeeze, who'd you piss off? Are you still bleeding?

[GOOD JOB.

Look, Topher is leveling with you here. Your tits can be calm, while he's too full of trauma to be little more than a functioning ball of ambivalence.]

She was possessed by a demon. What did you think she'd do... send you flowers?

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