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[redhourglass]

[ you know who has two thumbs and is over this? this girl. it hadn't been the first time she'd woken up in a hospital bed with a dim memory of the last twenty-four hours, but natasha had to admit it was a little unique to be told that she was previously fictional and now she'd somehow become real. right. let's talk to the nice people and see how this goes. ]

I was looking forward to a long island vacation, but this wasn't quite what I meant.

[ a long sigh. mostly a put-on, but hey, some of it is actual exasperation. she wanted to be on a beach somewhere far away from space aliens. ]

Is there anyone around here who actually knows what is going on? Who hasn't just arrived, but who's been here and has some solid information?

[ she'll address the whole 'fictional' thing later. when she's not managing her temper underneath the surface of collected calm. ]

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[trainwrecked]

So that is how you do it? Telling yourself things such as that?

It has always been my home.

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[redhourglass]

you don't understand.

you've been brainwashed, james.

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[trainwrecked]

I don't need to understand. Only to do what needs to be done.

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[redhourglass]

there is no one here giving you orders

what now?

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[trainwrecked]

There are always standing orders.

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[redhourglass]

and yours are...?

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[trainwrecked]

Standard.

[Survive. Recon. Eliminate anybody who would be a danger. Return to handler.]

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[redhourglass]

you won't consider doing anything else?

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[trainwrecked]

Not until objectives have been completed, or there is a necessary delay.

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[redhourglass]

james.

there has to be something else.

text. he's not done yet, clearly.

[trainwrecked]

I thought there was, for a while.

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[redhourglass]

and now?

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[trainwrecked]

Betrayal. Don't think that should have surprised me.

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[redhourglass]

james...

i would have brought you with me, if i had the chance.

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[trainwrecked]

Why do you think that'd have been less of a betrayal?

[Other than, you know. The things she might know that he doesn't...]

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[redhourglass]

[ and she has to do it, she has to put all cards on the table, because there isn't another way to reach him without it. ]

i loved you.

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[trainwrecked]

[It takes just the slightest delay for that answer to come.]

Love is for children.

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[redhourglass]

we were children then.

they took that away from us.

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[trainwrecked]

You were a child.

[Implied: I should have known better.]

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[redhourglass]

I was old enough.

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[trainwrecked]

And, yet, there we were.

The next rooftop has rotted spots.

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[redhourglass]

Are you watching me?

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[trainwrecked]

Why is that even a question?

[Ever the teacher.]

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[redhourglass]

I'm not here to play games with you. Show yourself.

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[trainwrecked]

Nothing is a game. I'm not hiding.