Then I might not feel like I'm a bumbling teen again though. *He misses being the second best on the team, well best because Wesker's a double crossing snake but shhhhhhhhhhh*
Yeah, but also makes things a little creepy. I mean I like Jill, but now there's a bigger gap in the reverse... [Aw he's worried she doesn't care about him now.]
[To be honest, he's not sure. Chris knew her better than he did. But Kevin will always have a soft spot for any fellow ex-RPD.]
Maybe you just need time to get to know each other again. If it makes you feel any better, I still think I'm missing things when the rest of them talk.
Oh I know I'm missing things. Hell you probably know more about what went on than I do. I was pulled from Arklay, which from what Jill, Claire and Kennedy say was just the start of everything.
If it makes you feel any better, they know way more about it than I do. Outside of Raccoon, I don't really understand too much. What happened in town, uh... guess they already filled you in.
Claire and Leon did. Seriously I though what Jill and I survived was bad. You three... If there was a contest you would have me beat. If I knew what was up I would have warned you guys.
The same day I would have decked Irons just for the sake of decking the smug bastard. [No love for him or chicken shi... We mean Vickers.]
Pretty sure we all had a rough time. Although I do get the feeling the others had it rougher than I did. Or maybe they're just grumpy.
[And by "they" he really means Leon.]
I'm just glad some of us managed to get out. Trust me, if I knew it was all gonna be like that, I'd have been right there with you. Maybe hold Irons still for you.
I don't doubt it. Hell I showed up from when I got separated from the other Alphas... And from the moment Chicken shit left us to that point it wasn't a cake walk.
[Aw don't be so hard on Leon, he did fine for the first day on the clock as a cop under the circumstances]
Yeah what there's a handful of us there, I'm sure whoever else made it out probably is somewhere out there, I should ask Jill if there's like a group watching us... The ones that made it out. Probably is. [And Chris goes silent just actually scaring himself. He'd going to need more guns...]
[He isn't judging Leon for Raccoon. He just thought the introduction to the game was grouchy.]
Watching us? You mean officially? ...Yeah, here I was hoping to just drive south and forget about it all. Start over.
[He gives Chris a half-grin that is a little wry. Kevin didn't really want to jump on board after all that devastation, but maybe it'd be better if he did.]
Then again, it's nice to see old friends are still out there and not just have to guess about it.
I think Barry probably would have, his wife's family's in Florida I think. The civilian life's not me though. And knowing what happened if we're being watched it's to make sure we don't show proof we aren't carriers of that damn virus.
Know what you mean. Even if the ones there are from our future... Which is weird to think about.
A guy about my age, name's Tim Drake. He's alright, he can just be kind of an ass sometimes. One of those rich kids who sees everything in black and white, you know?
[They'll never see eye to eye, but he's still a huge improvement over the last guy.]
There's talk about me getting a new one soon, though. He'd be my last one, hopefully. He's a lot more like me than Tim is, I guess that's a good thing. Actually, he's kinda like you.
[It takes a certain type of guy not to take it personally after he's been attacked by a lion.]
Careful. Almost sounds like you made a friend when you say it that way.
[He's joking, but it is good to see David not threatening the life of his assigned warden. Not that it was all his fault, either--but he sounds a lot better than he did. Improvement is right on the money.]
Sounds like a great guy, then. Wish I could meet him.
[Yes, that is arrogant. No, he doesn't care. It's all in fun, and Kevin isn't above flattering himself for the sake of good humor. PLus, this is probably the most positive he's seen David acting.]
Nah, he's.. we're on good terms, he treats me alright, but he's not my friend. He sees it as more... like a duty, I guess. Like he's my parole officer or guidance counselor or something.
[And for a little while, especially after getting shut of Bourne, that's exactly what he needed. But now he's looking for something to belong to, and that's something Tim can't give him. He can joke around and be more casual with Kevin than he can with Tim, even though he's had so much more time around the latter.]
He can be kind of an ass sometimes - but hell, that's nothing new to me, right? [He laughs; he's alright enough now that he can laugh at himself.] I think you'd like him.
[True, they're on opposite sides of the law, basically, but Kevin's never really acted much like a cop and Dean doesn't act like any outlaw he's ever met. He's pretty sure it wouldn't end with a fistfight, not unless they went out and got drunk.]
You know... that's the only thing I don't know yet. I might get to stick with this guy. Learn to do what he does. Or just go on my own somewhere and... you know.. try to get it right this time. But I don't know where I'd go. Apparently the mun's been having trouble finding somewhere 'open enough'. Doesn't want another 'jamjar game', whatever that means.
[Nothing wrong with guidance, David. Kevin grins a little, but he does keep that thought to himself. Sometimes everyone loses their way, but he's always gotten the impression that David wasn't a bad guy. And he sticks to that belief.]
Eh, guys in charge can be assholes sometimes. [He winks.] But so can everyone else. Doesn't mean they're always that bad, right?
[Kevin never did take to the cliche police attitude, and he probably never will. He's deliberately out of synch with the rest of society; doing what he wants to do and following his own guidelines. Maybe that works in his favor.]
Well, it's a big decision. Lots of places out there to choose from, and you want to get the right one. After all, you got a lot of experience. It'd be fun to see where that road takes you. Your mun got any places in mind?
Yeah, I guess not. [He makes a face.] Just don't tell him that, he'd never let me hear the end of it.
[Yes, because he's really one to talk about people that run their mouths too much for their own good. Pot calling the kettle black, much? Still, there's no rancor there - for either of them, really - and that's a big step up for him.]
Not yet. Frankly, the mun's open to suggestions. See, it's tough 'cuz wherever I go, the plan is to app me with my history from the Barge. That ain't gonna fly at a lot of places. If it's interesting enough the setting could be negotiated, but what we're really wantin' is a place that's an open world, not some island or city in a bottle or anything like that. There ain't a lot of places that fit both those requirements. What about you, what's the place you're at like?
Secret's safe with me. [He grins. Easiest secret to keep ever.]
Some games let you bring in old history, but most of the ones that aren't jamjars my mun saw were AU types of things. I guess it's harder to find than you'd guess.
I'm on some island, but apparently it's a video game or something. [He shrugs.] Never did really figure it out myself, but that's what I've been told, anyway. The monsters seem real enough, so I don't really worry about the details. Mun likes it well enough. Just keeps griping about wanting to find a good place for obscure something-or-others that probably ain't right to say in polite company.
Yeah, I kinda figured you weren't gonna run off and tell anyone. [He laughs. Being laid-back isn't so bad.]
Yeah, you're not kidding. AUs wouldn't be a dealbreaker on their own, but apparently most of 'em come with other baggage that scares the mun off. Which puts us back at jamjars.
Hey, a video game. I could be good at that, I kick ass in Doom. But yeah, the mun over here wouldn't mind seeing a place like that either. Seems to think of it as the 'holy grail' or something. Apparently there's even some marbles rattling around about trying to make a place like that, but it's all just possibilities and ideas at this point. Who knows if it'll ever go anywhere.
I'm just that trustworthy, huh? I'll take it as a compliment. [He runs with the joke. It's nice to get David to actually laugh a little.]
Mine's been wrestling with that too. Apparently decided that some of the jamjars were okay enough, if they allowed carrying on from other games or something like that. The place I'm in isn't so bad, but then, I guess I never really had the same troubles as her other aspiring candidates.
[He says that with a grin.]
T'be honest, she's got some kind of thing for these older games that faded out already. Been thinking about trying to put together something too. I guess everyone is after some kind of holy grail.
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*Yes Chris is glaring at his mun for his canon point*
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[He's always the positive one.]
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Yeah, but also makes things a little creepy. I mean I like Jill, but now there's a bigger gap in the reverse... [Aw he's worried she doesn't care about him now.]
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[To be honest, he's not sure. Chris knew her better than he did. But Kevin will always have a soft spot for any fellow ex-RPD.]
Maybe you just need time to get to know each other again. If it makes you feel any better, I still think I'm missing things when the rest of them talk.
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Oh I know I'm missing things. Hell you probably know more about what went on than I do. I was pulled from Arklay, which from what Jill, Claire and Kennedy say was just the start of everything.
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The same day I would have decked Irons just for the sake of decking the smug bastard. [No love for him or chicken shi... We mean Vickers.]
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[And by "they" he really means Leon.]
I'm just glad some of us managed to get out. Trust me, if I knew it was all gonna be like that, I'd have been right there with you. Maybe hold Irons still for you.
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[Aw don't be so hard on Leon, he did fine for the first day on the clock as a cop under the circumstances]
Yeah what there's a handful of us there, I'm sure whoever else made it out probably is somewhere out there, I should ask Jill if there's like a group watching us... The ones that made it out. Probably is. [And Chris goes silent just actually scaring himself. He'd going to need more guns...]
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Watching us? You mean officially? ...Yeah, here I was hoping to just drive south and forget about it all. Start over.
[He gives Chris a half-grin that is a little wry. Kevin didn't really want to jump on board after all that devastation, but maybe it'd be better if he did.]
Then again, it's nice to see old friends are still out there and not just have to guess about it.
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Know what you mean. Even if the ones there are from our future... Which is weird to think about.
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Long time no see, dude.
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Not getting into too much trouble, are you?
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[Lies, all lies.]
I managed to get rid of that asshole I was stuck with the last time you saw me.
... Uh, and by 'get rid of' I mean I got resorted, I didn't, you know, kill him.
[Almost. But not quite.]
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[David, you are nowhere near innocent. Sadly, Kevin's moral ambiguity makes him pretty tolerant of that. At least David didn't kill anyone this time.]
You ever try talking it out? I hear it's a big fad in some places.
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[They'll never see eye to eye, but he's still a huge improvement over the last guy.]
There's talk about me getting a new one soon, though. He'd be my last one, hopefully. He's a lot more like me than Tim is, I guess that's a good thing. Actually, he's kinda like you.
[It takes a certain type of guy not to take it personally after he's been attacked by a lion.]
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[He's joking, but it is good to see David not threatening the life of his assigned warden. Not that it was all his fault, either--but he sounds a lot better than he did. Improvement is right on the money.]
Sounds like a great guy, then. Wish I could meet him.
[Yes, that is arrogant. No, he doesn't care. It's all in fun, and Kevin isn't above flattering himself for the sake of good humor. PLus, this is probably the most positive he's seen David acting.]
Last one and then what? What happens after that?
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[And for a little while, especially after getting shut of Bourne, that's exactly what he needed. But now he's looking for something to belong to, and that's something Tim can't give him. He can joke around and be more casual with Kevin than he can with Tim, even though he's had so much more time around the latter.]
He can be kind of an ass sometimes - but hell, that's nothing new to me, right? [He laughs; he's alright enough now that he can laugh at himself.] I think you'd like him.
[True, they're on opposite sides of the law, basically, but Kevin's never really acted much like a cop and Dean doesn't act like any outlaw he's ever met. He's pretty sure it wouldn't end with a fistfight, not unless they went out and got drunk.]
You know... that's the only thing I don't know yet. I might get to stick with this guy. Learn to do what he does. Or just go on my own somewhere and... you know.. try to get it right this time. But I don't know where I'd go. Apparently the mun's been having trouble finding somewhere 'open enough'. Doesn't want another 'jamjar game', whatever that means.
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Eh, guys in charge can be assholes sometimes. [He winks.] But so can everyone else. Doesn't mean they're always that bad, right?
[Kevin never did take to the cliche police attitude, and he probably never will. He's deliberately out of synch with the rest of society; doing what he wants to do and following his own guidelines. Maybe that works in his favor.]
Well, it's a big decision. Lots of places out there to choose from, and you want to get the right one. After all, you got a lot of experience. It'd be fun to see where that road takes you. Your mun got any places in mind?
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[Yes, because he's really one to talk about people that run their mouths too much for their own good. Pot calling the kettle black, much? Still, there's no rancor there - for either of them, really - and that's a big step up for him.]
Not yet. Frankly, the mun's open to suggestions. See, it's tough 'cuz wherever I go, the plan is to app me with my history from the Barge. That ain't gonna fly at a lot of places. If it's interesting enough the setting could be negotiated, but what we're really wantin' is a place that's an open world, not some island or city in a bottle or anything like that. There ain't a lot of places that fit both those requirements. What about you, what's the place you're at like?
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Some games let you bring in old history, but most of the ones that aren't jamjars my mun saw were AU types of things. I guess it's harder to find than you'd guess.
I'm on some island, but apparently it's a video game or something. [He shrugs.] Never did really figure it out myself, but that's what I've been told, anyway. The monsters seem real enough, so I don't really worry about the details. Mun likes it well enough. Just keeps griping about wanting to find a good place for obscure something-or-others that probably ain't right to say in polite company.
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Yeah, you're not kidding. AUs wouldn't be a dealbreaker on their own, but apparently most of 'em come with other baggage that scares the mun off. Which puts us back at jamjars.
Hey, a video game. I could be good at that, I kick ass in Doom. But yeah, the mun over here wouldn't mind seeing a place like that either. Seems to think of it as the 'holy grail' or something. Apparently there's even some marbles rattling around about trying to make a place like that, but it's all just possibilities and ideas at this point. Who knows if it'll ever go anywhere.
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Mine's been wrestling with that too. Apparently decided that some of the jamjars were okay enough, if they allowed carrying on from other games or something like that. The place I'm in isn't so bad, but then, I guess I never really had the same troubles as her other aspiring candidates.
[He says that with a grin.]
T'be honest, she's got some kind of thing for these older games that faded out already. Been thinking about trying to put together something too. I guess everyone is after some kind of holy grail.