On future plans. Your life, James. Your life.

[lastrat]

Not only are you planning - giddily, I might add - to kill me, but to add insult to insanity, you want to put me under the charge of a teenager.

And I haven't forgiven Vesper, no matter what this-- [Hmph no he refuses to call it a flood] --event has me saying.

The least you could do is let me into the pub.

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[lastrat]

Uncomfortably tight. [A part of him still wants to wrap his hands around Yusef's throat and squeeze, but. Well.] It seems we're mirrored.

[vesper_lynd]

It's strange right? I'm hardly you even though we've had similar careers. [Is that comforting? Is she allowed that kind of feeling?]

[lastrat]

[No, they aren't allowed feelings at all. B(] It's unsettling, really. Don't tell me he was an accountant.

[vesper_lynd]

[They must just have them out of spite. :D]Well obviously I don't need to tell you. [such a wit, this one]

[lastrat]

[GROAN. At least he isn't callous enough to say, no wonder he killed himself. It still hurts.]

That must have been miserable.

[vesper_lynd]

He didn't seem to mind. Well except when I was losing. He minded then. [Losing. What an embarrassing thing to have to admit to]

He was definitely...softer.

[lastrat]

[That gets a grunt. Losing. Can't they just put that out of the picture for a while?]

Not sure I like the sound of that.

[vesper_lynd]

[Never. They never ever get to live that down xD]

Oh no not in a bad way! I mean, he wasn't completely unathletic. He just never spent hours running across rooftops and jumping off staircases. He didn't kill either.

[lastrat]

Sounds like a bore, if you ask me.

:o!

[vesper_lynd]

Well it's all about perspective isn't it? I mean, you didn't think she was boring did you. [I detect a note of challenge in her tone.]

[lastrat]

Mm. [Which means of course not, and he doesn't want to talk about it. He isn't past it, not yet.] And I suppose you found him challenging.

[vesper_lynd]

Well...mabye. [evasion what?] In certain respects.

[lastrat]

[Yeah he sees that] Which respects?

[vesper_lynd]

[run girl run from your shame! xD] Well keeping separate rooms was rather daunting. You know who wasn't a challenge? Fields.

[lastrat]

[Fields was another one he failed, who deserved better than being a stand in. His mouth twitches at that before pressing into a thin line.]

No, she wasn't.

[vesper_lynd]

[There are lots of those. Could count the successes on one hand] mm. That one...saying it could have gone better is an understatement.

[lastrat]

To put it mildly.

Was she - he? - a desk worker?

[vesper_lynd]

Yes. And interestingly enough [or not, depending on who you are] she was a Woman in my world too. That was one of my more unusual encounters. [it's the first time she's talked about it with anyone. She's turned just a little red now]

[lastrat]

[Well that's. Curious. He arches an eyebrow, briefly, and might take a second or two to imagine that.

It's not a bad second or two.]

I can imagine.

[vesper_lynd]

[she gives an exaggerated eye roll] Oh well do take your time then. Get it all out of your system why don't you. [she doesn't seem all that angry about it however]

[lastrat]

If you insist. [He doesn't, though; James has always been more the sort to do than to fantasize. And in any case, they are both gone; it doesn't do to dwell.]

Enjoyed yourself, I'm sure.

[vesper_lynd]

Wasn't too bad. Just...I wasn't even trying you know? Not even a little bit. At least he made me work for it a bit. Got under my skin. And that's why I can't honestly say he was boring.

[lastrat]

I know. [But she was beautiful, and had let him take her to the party despite being a desk agent. It leaves him a little more jaded than he'd like to admit.]

I'm sure he wasn't. I'd only be bored as him.

[vesper_lynd]

[She was that. And the way she tripped up that person on the stairs was well appreciated]

mm. Good thing you're you then isn't it? [with the unspoken implication that she's glad he's not dead]

[lastrat]

Mm. [That gets an appraising look, and the tiniest of nods.] And good thing you're you.

[Likewise.]