on reserve at ataraxion, whaaaaaaaat

[savethebullshit]

Okay, hold on just one goddamn minute. What the hell do you think you're doing? I turn my back for one second and... jesus christ. This is just irresponsible. You have six of us in games already. You're struggling with AC with that Harry guy. And now you're telling me that against all better judgment you're going to ignore everything and send me to run around in space with Pendleton? I don't believe this.

[a moment of silence for some facepalming]

Look, I'm finished with all of your stupid ideas. Just leave me alone and let me have some damn peace for maybe five minutes. I don't want this. I don't need this. This is ridiculous. Just drop it and back the hell up. Now.

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[yardbird]

It's hard to hold out much faith in a situation when it usually does keep getting worse.

[Nag all you want, Anne. He does what he wants!

[Or, rather... what he doesn't what. Sometimes, it's a wonder how he's become such a glutton for punishment. Other than the obvious reasons, that is.]

Yeah, we... [God, it's so weird to say that out loud. He's perhaps gotten too used to riding this trainwreck monstrosity solo.] Well... Can't imagine how things can get any worse, can they?

[Awkward slight smile thing. Murphy, you know well what happened the last time you said something like that out loud. You're a stupid betch.

[He can't help but wonder about what she's said a little, how much is truth and how much might be a tough front. After all, for as much as he believed that Napier got what he deserved, even Murphy couldn't ever bring himself to revel in pride over torturing the bastard, once all was said and done. But then, he can't imagine that Anne would spend enough time with Sewell to hear him scream and beg for his life like Napier did. That's a nightmare that will always stick with him.]

No... it's not. But I'm sure you'll pull through it. Got no other choice.

[savethebullshit]

Well with an attitude like that it's bound to. Jesus, Pendleton.

[she knows his pessimism isn't really his fault, but she can't help being irritated because she wishes the world hadn't dealt him the sort of hand that made him want to be so negative. Even though she can admit that some of it is his own fault. Anne isn't exactly happy sunshine either, but she's more realistic than pessimistic]

Careful, you'll jinx it.

[she doesn't really believe that; she's not a superstitious woman at all. But she says it anyway]

But between the two of us, I'm sure we can survive whatever happens. We'be been through worse. Whatever it is.

[there's that "we" word again, Murphy. Get used to it]

[she nods slowly at that, because he's right. She does have no other choice but to just keep pushing forward, to keep putting one foot in front of the other in a less literal sense]

Yeah. I always do. No matter what it is, I always seem to pull through it.

[she gives him a look]

You're the same way, aren't you?

[yardbird]

Sorry.

[It's hard to say whether if he's saying it out of sarcasm, or something else. The state of his outlook on life is rarely anything but bleak and pessimistic, though it isn't fair to push that onto other people. Most of the time, he just brings it on himself.]

I don't think it matters, either way.

[Murphy isn't superstitious, either. He's just pretty sure that he naturally attracts bad luck like a moth to a flame.]

That's as good a goal as any. It'd be kinda anticlimactic, dying after everything that's happened.

[Oh dear. The more he hears it, the stranger it gets.

[He isn't sure how to answer that question at first, or if he even should answer at all. What a nasty slippery slope he's on.]

I... guess.

[Such brimming confidence in this one.]

[savethebullshit]

[she doesn't feel like he's sorry, but she won't push it because she's tired of wanting to smack him]

Pretty much. I guess we'll have to just rely on each other to survive now and then. Which... honestly is probably what we should have been doing in the first place.

[she gives him another look]

You guess? Are you planning on not getting through this?

[your lack of confidence is killing her, Murphy]

((ooc; ffffffffffff sorry I've taken so long to tag. Things just got unexpectedly insane for a week))