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[headjacked]

Heyyyyyyyy, kiddo, you've reached me. Me who is Rhys. Anyway, not sure why you're trying to get in contact with the king of the dweebs, but I'm sure you've got your reasons. Reasons you should probably re-examine. I'm just sayin'.

Last chance to back out.

No?

Don't say I didn't warn ya.

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[headjacked]

Fuck you harder, buddy.

Or. Insert something less suggestive here.

[ Rhys has burned through fear, elation, and has settled on exhaustion. Bone-tired. The exchange of Fucks feels equally empty. ]

Call it a combination of being tired of you, tired of this, tired of everything. Pretty sure I've told you you're a tiny itch in the full body eczema that is Norfinbury life.
I meant it.

Also I stand firm that nobody deserves what happened back there, except maybe the Joker. That's not being soft, that's being human.

[24karat]

well hey, get a load of that
you're being awful forward tonight
there's better ways to word an invitation, for the record. but alas, there's so many hundreds of feet of white bullshit and some locked doors keeping that from happening.
[ Low-hanging fruit, but that's the best he can reach for right now. Woo. ]

yeah, yeah. i remember.
[ As much as he'd like to disagree and claim that he's a bigger problem, it...really isn't true. Vasquez has even kind of been avoiding Rhys, although mostly unintentionally-- he just hadn't shown up in the crosshairs in a while, and that was fine by him. There were more important things to focus on, and in the meantime, he'd gotten distracted enough to care a little bit less. ]
but it's weird. kinda figured we'd have gone for each other way more times than this once i knew you were here. just seems like the way we do things, usually? it's routine. not a lot of that these days.



y'know what? i'm just gonna go ahead and call an actual truce while we're here. mutual fucking off, and not in the 'harder' way you suggested. that sound good to you?
[ Or at least until Rhys recuperates. As much fun as it would be to kick him while he's down, it's just...cheap, and he can't say it doesn't feel a little wrong after what had gone down in that building. Vasquez will just have to tell himself that this's all part of a bigger scheme to screw Rhys over later, a gambit that'll pay off eventually. ]
[ Feelings are dumb, and he doesn't like having the nicer ones. ]

[headjacked]

That works.

For now.

We can go back to trying to best/outdo/humiliate/kill each other if and when we escape the current shituation. Actually I'd say the first three things are still on the table, but. Maybe avoid actual murder for now.

[ Rhys is too drained to pretend this is part of some kind of elaborate scheme. The effects of being in Norfinbury for so long.

Doesn't mean he won't punch Vasquez, no sir, but. The pure animosity has fizzled. ]

Leg's fine bee tee dubs.