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[glorifiedrevolution]

You've gotta be kidding me.
Are you seriously thinking about it again?

You don't have the kick for it anymore, and last time it happened, you walked away. Both times.
You only want it because you can't have it right now.

Sit down and stick to what you know, kid.
You're not shoving me out there again.

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[singit]

... You too, huh?

[glorifiedrevolution]

Looks like it. But it's not gonna happen.

[singit]

At this rate nothing surprises me anymore.

[glorifiedrevolution]

Yeah.

...how's it looking on your side?

[singit]

Like I said, at this rate I'm not even surprised.

[ ... ]

She's convinced she can do it. "Three more weeks" and she can get her stuff back together and hold it down. She "misses" it.

Think they just need the scapegoat, huh? All that stress ain't no good.

[glorifiedrevolution]

Probably.

She's tired of having me sit around with everyone else. But she knows she'll probably get bored with it again, or something else's gonna pop up. Not worth it.

They can handle the stress. There's not that much left, they should be used to it by now.

[singit]

She wants t'hope there's better stuff to look forward to. Make it less of a chore 'n' all.

Do you miss it?

[glorifiedrevolution]

I don't miss dying.

[...]

I don't miss being monster food trapped in an invisible cage and I don't miss being surrounded by even more people that want me dead.
[ Slight exaggeration there. Just slight.]

1/2

[singit]

Val.

2/2

[singit]

The only reason anyone wanted you dead is 'cause you continuously gave them reason to and didn't redeem yourself when you had the chance.

1/2

[glorifiedrevolution]

Tsh.

[ Whatever. It doesn't matter. ]

2/2

[glorifiedrevolution]

...you know, if she did throw me back there again, it wouldn't be like this.
[ Like it is right now, in this vaguespace place. ]

It'd just be the same thing all over again.

[singit]

Yeah. I know.

But if she threw me back in there, it'd be the same on my end, too.

[glorifiedrevolution]

You wanna go through all that again?

[singit]

I don't know. I just know some things would be different and that's pointing in my favour right now. Maybe yours, too.

[glorifiedrevolution]

Don't get your hopes up, kid.

[singit]

You're the one voicin' it to start with.
That only encourages them.

[glorifiedrevolution]

[ That's an annoyed sigh for sure. ]

Don't need this again.

[singit]

[ shrug ]

For someone who doesn't need it, it sure sounds like ya do.

[glorifiedrevolution]

Yeah, sure. Sign me up to be dinner again.

[singit]

Y'know that would be less of a problem if you actually worked against it with other people.

[glorifiedrevolution]

You mean with the other people who were also dying? Or the ones that liked to talk with their fists? Gotta be more specific, sweetheart.

[ Val. Don't go back to that. Come on. ]

[lookpastthem]

They don't listen when we tell them 'no'. I thought you'd know that by now.

[glorifiedrevolution]

Ugh.

[ Oh, he knows. ]

There's no point in going back, it'll turn out just the same. She can't handle it anymore.

[lookpastthem]

Doesn't stop them, though. There's always the 'what if'. That's how I ended up there and look how well that's going.

[Oh, he's not bitter about his situation, not at all.]

[glorifiedrevolution]

Some sharp shooting revolutionary you turned out to be.

[ He's just being testy. He'll...real it back, he guesses. ]

She might have the time, eventually, but she doesn't have the kick and it's a waste of energy. Better off keeping out of it.

[lookpastthem]

Test me, Val, and we'll see how sharp my shooting is.

[He found his spine somewhere in the past six months. Check it out it's fully functioning and everything.]

Hm. Maybe we'll see, if the kick is all she's missing. That kind of thing has a habit of rolling around again.

[glorifiedrevolution]

[ Well, that's a whole new dose of attitude he doesn't remember. ]

It's rolling back, that's the problem. But not bad enough to actually go through it.

[lookpastthem]

[Funny what the resolving of most of your burdening guilt issues can do for a guy, huh.]

So it's a waiting game.

[glorifiedrevolution]

[ Maybe one day it'll be his turn. ]

It's no game. I know what I'm talking about.

[lookpastthem]

Makes a change...

[Arching a brow.]

Why don't you enlighten me. You sound worried.

[glorifiedrevolution]

I'm not. I just don't want to end up back there. And she knows better than this.

[lookpastthem]

Uh huh.

And I'm surprised you didn't spontaneously develop whiplash at that sudden contradiction.

[glorifiedrevolution]

[ Excuse you, sir, tone down that wild sass k? Before he tells you to go suck on a cactus. ]

Wow. Looks who's all lean and mean now.

[lookpastthem]

[Colour him amused. It's a bright shade of magenta pink, for reference.]

The upper limit on the amount of bullshit I'm prepared to take without kicking back at it has reduced dramatically, I'm afraid. I hope you're not disappointed.

[glorifiedrevolution]

Isn't that a surprise? Finally got a backbone to go with your gun. Congrats.

[ Val, for fuck's sake, you're steering way off the point. ]

[lookpastthem]

Funny how necessary something like that becomes when you have something to give a damn about protecting.

[Val seriously.]

And I wasn't about to make the same mistake twice.

[glorifiedrevolution]

Spare the bed time stories, old man.
Heard them all before.

[lookpastthem]

I'm sure you have. [Dryly.] Know them back to front, don't you.

[glorifiedrevolution]

Still got my memory.

[lookpastthem]

Yeah... [A pregnant pause.] And what else.

[glorifiedrevolution]

[ Hm. ]

And enough to keep going.
Trying to corner me, sharpshooter? That place wasn't everything I had.

[lookpastthem]

But that's where your mind goes, hm? No interest in cornering you, crash queen.

Not really much point in a place like this.

[glorifiedrevolution]

Only because she brought it up. Can't blame me for trying to cover my ass and keep her from doing something stupid.

Take your half baked philosophies somewhere else.