he puts his arm around her shoulder and gives a little squeeze with his bandaged hand. not really thinking about it; it's just kind of an instinctual reaction. ]
Yeah, me too. Sorry they got stuck with someone who'd turn out to do such a garbage job of takin' care of 'em.
Yeah, I know. It's just— she was out there in the park 'cause I brought her there.
[ just like she ended up with them in jail because he brought her there too. ]
Maybe she would've been safe if we'd just stayed in the dorm. Even if she still woke up... maybe it would've been too much of a hassle for them to try to hunt her down there.
That's stupid, because she would've been awake either way. Whether she was at the park with us or in the dorm, whoever it was would've found her eventually. It wouldn't have just been like oops, this is too hard, I give up!
Quit it. I mean it. It's not your fault. [but like - as mean as this sounds, she is genuinely trying to comfort him, for what it's worth.]
We don't even know when or how that stuff's decided though, do we? Maybe whoever it was already had their plan before they went to sleep, and only picked her to wake up 'cause they saw her there and thought it'd be easy.
[ ...exhales slowly and rubs his temple. ]
I know dwelling on it now isn't gonna change anything that happened. And maybe I really couldn't have done anything.
Just wish we actually knew how any of this worked.
[he will probably feel her relax a little at that.]
Whatever is fastest. [she says, glancing up at him.] I can just be a rhino whenever, so I can do that.
[a beat.] It's not that I don't want to kill whoever did it, you know? Because I do. I just don't want us to get the heat for it. Gotta have a way to get us out, every time.
No, I agree. We already lost two of us; don't need any more gettin' sent to the chopping block 'cause we couldn't wait for the execution. ...And I dunno, maybe it'll turn out that this one isn't what it seems either.
[ though he sounds skeptical about that, because there were two this time. even if this place is manipulating things, would they really do it twice in one night?
he closes his eyes. they had a hard enough time figuring things out last week when they had all those locations linked to one death; it's going to be a real mess trying to figure out two. ]
...Her power was turning herself into smoke. Soon as we smelled that in the arcade without seein' an actual fire I got worried.
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but. very carefully, she like... leans against him? she just donks the side of her head against his shoulder and leans.]
I'm sorry about your team, Datz.
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he puts his arm around her shoulder and gives a little squeeze with his bandaged hand. not really thinking about it; it's just kind of an instinctual reaction. ]
Yeah, me too. Sorry they got stuck with someone who'd turn out to do such a garbage job of takin' care of 'em.
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she will, however, elbow him in the side.]
Hey, shut it. It's not like you could've done anything, we passed out. I already had to bite Ace earlier.
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[ just like she ended up with them in jail because he brought her there too. ]
Maybe she would've been safe if we'd just stayed in the dorm. Even if she still woke up... maybe it would've been too much of a hassle for them to try to hunt her down there.
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Quit it. I mean it. It's not your fault. [but like - as mean as this sounds, she is genuinely trying to comfort him, for what it's worth.]
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We don't even know when or how that stuff's decided though, do we? Maybe whoever it was already had their plan before they went to sleep, and only picked her to wake up 'cause they saw her there and thought it'd be easy.
[ ...exhales slowly and rubs his temple. ]
I know dwelling on it now isn't gonna change anything that happened. And maybe I really couldn't have done anything.
Just wish we actually knew how any of this worked.
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[she pauses, and then she wraps her arms around his arm. like the world's shittiest hug.]
Whatever happens, all of us are looking. But - I wanna ask you a favor.
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[ nah, it's still a nice gesture. he manages a little bit of a smile. ]
What's that?
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[...] I know it's a lot to ask, but - will you help me stop him until the votes are done? I don't want people to vote for him.
[she doesn't care if he does a murder she just doesn't want him to get in trouble]
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[ if they find chiemi's killer he'd be tempted to do it himself, to be honest... but he doesn't want to screw over ryuki and hanako either. ]
If it looks like that's gonna happen... you distract him while I punch his lights out, or you wanna do it the other way around?
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Whatever is fastest. [she says, glancing up at him.] I can just be a rhino whenever, so I can do that.
[a beat.] It's not that I don't want to kill whoever did it, you know? Because I do. I just don't want us to get the heat for it. Gotta have a way to get us out, every time.
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No, I agree. We already lost two of us; don't need any more gettin' sent to the chopping block 'cause we couldn't wait for the execution. ...And I dunno, maybe it'll turn out that this one isn't what it seems either.
[ though he sounds skeptical about that, because there were two this time. even if this place is manipulating things, would they really do it twice in one night?
he closes his eyes. they had a hard enough time figuring things out last week when they had all those locations linked to one death; it's going to be a real mess trying to figure out two. ]
...Her power was turning herself into smoke. Soon as we smelled that in the arcade without seein' an actual fire I got worried.
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she exhales slowly, and then:]
Okay. [that's good to know, though.] Then - maybe she was at the arcade. We can check it out again if we need to.
[a pause.]
I got your back.