scythegun | week 6; thursday

week 6; thursday

[Watching movies with Top Dollar is always an enjoyable experience (especially when they're Die Hard and the villain is basically Yeager) but there's actually a damn good reason behind movie night tonight, mostly in the form of a note Yeager passed Top Dollar about ten minutes before the end of the movie.

Our gunners are Yukino and Yuri. I've spoken with both of them and confirmed it. Yukino believes there may be a third one.

He's certainly not going to draw any attention to that note or what was written there, but once the movie's over he doesn't seem interested in leaving immediately.]

You certainly do have amazing taste in entertainment! I'm a bit disappointed we don't have anything so wonderful back home!

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[jesus christ

i swear i can pass as a normal person most of the time

kinda blunt but more or less normal

i've got a legitimate job, i work in real estate investment for fuck's sake]

[Only kind of blunt?

Well, for what it's worth, I don't think you've been doing too badly here! But of course that's not saying much, coming from me!]

[you said it, not me

as for only kind of blunt, yeah? this is just how i talk to people, everyone back home is used to it. we're all really blunt people there though

there are some places where people aren't like that actually, i think people in the south aren't all that direct, they prefer to act polite

i'm from north central, though, north central and northeast tend to be really direct, i'm moreso than most though i'll admit that]

[We don't really have regional differences like that, at least not in terms of how blunt we are. But that's a bit of a silly conversation to have on paper, isn't it?

Is there anything else we need to keep quiet or would you like me to leave now?]

[...Actually -

What makes Yukino think there's a third? You mentioned that earlier.]

[I don't know. We were trying to avoid making what we were talking about very obvious. All I know is that she was very convinced that there's a third.]

[when did you have this conversation with her]

[This past Sunday.]

[all right

i'm doing what i can to make sure things don't go to shit for them, if the others catch me for what i did to kevin i'm all right with letting them think they've caught their guy for at least a little while, maybe it'll get them to back off

crow is the guy i'm concerned about right now (and the fucking irony is killing me because of goddamn course it's a guy called crow)

but he's the one who's down everybody's throats whenever anybody gets shot, him and the shithead prosecutor

if he outs himself as control he's another one we need out of the way, i can handle it if it comes to that]

[My, you really are determined to do things your way, aren't you? I don't like putting you in the line of fire, but as long as you're careful - VERY careful - I believe we can make this work.

Yukino mentioned that she believes the experiment may end once a certain number of people have died. I don't know what the number is, but I don't mind sacrificing the dangerous ones to get us close to this experiment's end. I won't put myself in a dangerous position, but I will do everything I can from the sidelines.]

[even if they catch me, then - if it adds to the death toll then we win either way, don't we? i know you're probably not gonna like that logic either, but the strategy works out.

... ... ...

you know i was actually not sure what sandra meant when she put down that i've "got more moxie than i actually know what to do with" until i realized i just fucking proposed that in front of someone telling me to actually be careful with it

seriously "don't fucking die jason" "well how about i do that anyway because strategy"

jesus christ okay right

we can take this a bit more slowly than that, i see your point in telling me to be careful about it]

[this fucking face forever, jesus christ top dollar

Well, I'm very glad you realized! I am not willing to sacrifice the people I care about to a plan like this, especially not when you're very useful! Taking out threats is fine as long as you're careful, but at this rate I think it would be best if you talk to me before you try to do anything on your own. Just to be safe, of course!

PLEASE DON'T DIE ON HIM OH MY GOD]

Edited 2017-01-08 03:08 (UTC)

[look i'm used to making executive decisions like that and a lot of those decisions involve moving people into the line of fire and sometimes one of those people is me

i'm not going to ask my guys to do anything with themselves that i wouldn't do personally, because i'm just not like that

anyway i wasn't trying to say that i'm going to deliberately get myself killed, just that if i do it's not a total loss but i get what you're saying

[It would be a total loss. I can only handle so much and if you die you're essentially leaving me to try to plan everything and move everyone on my own. I simply can't do it. This isn't a job one man can handle, no matter how amazing and wonderful they might be.

From a tactical standpoint, yes more deaths would be good. But losing you wouldn't get us very far. I see what you were saying, but I don't want you to place that much faith in me when I know I can't live up to it.

So let's be careful about this. We don't want to lose anyone we actually like or find useful, but that leaves plenty of people we can still use to get us closer to the end of this. If we can determine Crow's position, that would be ideal.]

[just...give him a second, all right, this is sitting kind of weirdly with him for a lot of reasons.

i wouldn't place that much faith in you if i didn't know for a goddamn fact you deserve it

i do get what you're saying and i'm going to do what i can to keep myself in the experiment, i won't be reckless but i absolutely can't guarantee that i won't die, i can't promise you that

if something does happen to me you need to swear to me that you're going to be able to handle this until the experiment is over

i'm not asking for as much as you think i am, if you can't handle sabotaging it or trying to pull any sort of stunt then don't try, i know you're not going to like it and losing people you care about is going to fuck you up, i get that

so you don't have to bring it down if you can't do that, you just have to outlast it by any means possible

that's all i'm telling you to do, and that's all i want you to do]

[He hesitates for a moment, though he doesn't really need to. He already knows exactly what his answer is going to be.

I have two lovely daughters at home waiting for me. (Or assuming I'm dead, either way.) I won't allow anything to stop me from getting home to them. Either we'll bring this experiment down together or I'll survive to the bitter end myself. It doesn't matter what it takes. I won't do anything reckless and I won't die.

Unfortunately, that isn't something I can promise you either. I can promise you that I'll do everything in my power to stay alive.

For a long moment he doesn't add anything else, then he shakes his head and puts the pen back to paper.

Thank you. For your faith in me, for your reassurance, and for your concern. Losing any of the people I care about will mess me up, but I won't allow that to endanger me. I've learned a lot since coming here and while I certainly don't like being here, in some ways I'm grateful for the opportunity to step back and look at my life and my incredibly stupid choices.

I sincerely hope we can put an end to this experiment together. I don't want to lose you.]

[He doesn't write anything for a while; his gaze is shifting a bit, though, like he doesn't quite know what to do with himself, and he finds himself fidgeting with his gloves for a while before he writes anything else.

you should go

otherwise i'm going to do something stupid like touching you again and you fucking hate that so just get out before this gets more awkward than it needs to be]

[Well, he definitely appreciates the warning, because that was awkward and weird and he kind of doesn't want to do that again. But he also ended up holding hands with Duke for half of a conversation so maybe someday he'll get used to physical affection.

(probably not)

Yeager gets up and takes a brief moment to pat Top Dollar on the shoulder. It's sort of hesitant with the unasked question of "this is how normal people do physical affection, right??" behind it, but he pulls back quickly enough.]

Try to get some sleep before the investigation tomorrow, ja? I promise I won't wake you up early for once - unless you're a suspect and you didn't tell me! Then I absolutely will wake you up early.

[...Yeager, you're fucking awkward.]

If I did that to you at this point, I'd deserve it.

[shut up oh my god]

Ja, you would!

I'll see you tomorrow, hopefully no one we care about dies~!

[nice people saying wonderful things...

And with that he'll take his leave!]

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