deadly_ned: (helpless)
[personal profile] deadly_ned
I'm, um.

I'm leaving.

Thomas - my inmate - he's...graduated, he's left the Barge, so I think that's...probably my cue to leave too.

I'm...terrible at goodbyes, and let's be completely honest, I'm quiet enough that most of the Barge doesn't know I'm actually here, so I doubt I need to stay very long.

That sounds terrible.

I'm sorry. Something's come up. I have to go.

[The Piemaker - nervous, clearly hiding something, and agitated - leans over to shut off his communicator. Unbeknownst to him, he'll be back in a matter of days for reasons not clearly stated in this post]

[Private to the Marquis de Carabas]

And now it doesn't matter what you know.

Good luck graduating, you....bad, bad person.

[ Private ]

Date: 2013-07-04 07:24 am (UTC)
surfaceshine: (Hunters Gonna Hunt)
From: [personal profile] surfaceshine
I'm a hunter, squeaky. I told you that.

I hunt. And sometimes on the side I wrangle marquis. es. Marquises. Marquisii?

Assholes.

[ Private ]

Date: 2013-07-04 02:59 pm (UTC)
surfaceshine: (Skeptical)
From: [personal profile] surfaceshine
There is, but you're not gonna like it.

[ Private ]

Date: 2013-07-04 03:02 pm (UTC)
surfaceshine: (Shmrug!)
From: [personal profile] surfaceshine
Stop reacting.

[ Private ]

Date: 2013-07-04 03:09 pm (UTC)
surfaceshine: (DNW)
From: [personal profile] surfaceshine
The Marquis, like all good smartasses, only does it for the feedback. Take that away, we lose interest pretty damn quick.

Not saying ignore him. I'm saying don't react.

[ Private ]

Date: 2013-07-04 03:12 pm (UTC)
surfaceshine: (That's just... no)
From: [personal profile] surfaceshine
It won't matter, because you're leaving.

[Having to remind Ned consistently is actually beginning to kind of depress Dean.]

[ Private ]

Date: 2013-07-05 01:35 pm (UTC)
surfaceshine: (Family)
From: [personal profile] surfaceshine
It's not the only good part. You got your deal. You got your girl. You get to go home.

These are good things, squeaky.

[ Private ]

Date: 2013-07-06 03:11 am (UTC)
surfaceshine: (This is my convinced face)
From: [personal profile] surfaceshine
How? Ned, your inmate graduated. You're not skipping out on another.

You're done. It's good.

[ Private ]

Date: 2013-07-06 03:20 am (UTC)
surfaceshine: (I Doubt That)
From: [personal profile] surfaceshine
So when do you stop, then?

[ Private ]

Date: 2013-07-06 03:41 am (UTC)
surfaceshine: (Protector)
From: [personal profile] surfaceshine
[Abruptly, Dean frowns.]

I was saving lives back home.

This... I don't know. Not like I thought I did.

[ Private ]

Date: 2013-07-06 03:43 am (UTC)
surfaceshine: (To Everything a Reason)
From: [personal profile] surfaceshine
No. No it's not.

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Date: 2013-07-06 03:48 am (UTC)
surfaceshine: (Dean's Ghost)
From: [personal profile] surfaceshine
Because love is something you do because it's good, it's uncompromisingly, undoubtedly, unquestionably good, when you're doing it right. When you're not being selfish, when you're...

This place? Not so much. Not always.

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Date: 2013-07-06 04:08 am (UTC)
surfaceshine: (Please Stop)
From: [personal profile] surfaceshine
[Dean stops himself, smiles a tight smile. He hadn't intended that for Ned, necessarily, but it serves to draw him back to the point anyway.]

Why'd you come here in the first place, Ned?

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