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[misfittoy]

[So completely stunned it's not even funny.]

I'm sorry you want me to go where?

With a giant what?

Because putting me and a meth kingpin together would be funny?

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[warrented]

I guess that depends on how your sense of humor is doing these days.

[misfittoy]

[There's just one very, very slow smile. It's not funny. Not funny at all but.] Let's call it ironic.

How are you doing?

[warrented]

Well, I'm not dead

[Yet.]

But I'm going to end up in the same 'boat' as you, if things go down this road.

[misfittoy]

[...Mike may have been a rat. But he was his rat.] ... Christ.

It's like dealing with the bureau. If they were twice as sadistic. [He runs a hand over his head]

How do you feel about that?

[warrented]

Like I'm hoping I find a gun before something else finds me.

[This is going to be such a nightmare.]

I don't know. I think I could pull this off. It can't be as bad as they're making it out to be, right?

I heard there's even a beach. You could pick up a surfboard somewhere.

[misfittoy]

[Briggs smiles at that. He actually smiles.] School you and everybody else right? Maybe I could open up a surf school. We could dodge Jaws.

[His gaze turns dark for a moment] ...If it's as bad as they say and you're there I'm not pulling any punches.

[You were in graceland. Like it or not you're his people.]

[warrented]

I never do.

[Okay maybe that is a little lie. He has pulled a few punches when the occasion seemed to call for it. But, given where they're likely headed and what they're headed into?

He'll be watching Briggs' back, too.]

I've been practicing, you know. I've gotten pretty good at staying on that board.

[When it's lying flat in the sand, on the beach.]

[misfittoy]

...That right? Well that'll be the first thing we'll be doing then. You can show me the moves you learned. Are you teaching the deputy director yet?

[warrented]

[Whoops, money where his mouth is. Too bad he hasn't actually gotten any better. Maybe a shark will eat his board and save him.]

Not yet. Working on it. [Honestly, he misses Graceland. Even with all the insanity. Or maybe it's the insanity, the rush, that he misses. He doesn't miss being a rat, though. He was never particularly proud of that bit.]

The waves just aren't the same in Washington.

[misfittoy]

Politics.

[Small smile] At least if this place works there won't be a lot of that. But there does seem to be a distinct lack of a federal presence.

[warrented]

We could always fix that. Place like this? Sounds like it is inviting trouble of the worst kinds.

[misfittoy]

..Admit it. You miss the house man.

[warrented]

[Hit the nail on the head, there, Briggs.]

What? No. I mean sure, we had some ... interesting times, but I'm exactly where I wanted to be.

[Oops. Prepositions. Tenses. Mike is slipping up.]

[misfittoy]

...Yeah?

[Cue gentle chiding] Good. Because you're a terrible liar Warren.

[He can tell.]

[warrented]

Sorry. River?

I'm not keeping this analogy up.