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piper902021-04-15 12:02 pm
hallelujahjunction) wrote in piper902021-04-15 12:02 pm
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[Locked to New Hires]
[Dan shows up on video, clearly on the muggy roof trying to get one of his contraband cigarettes in without ending up butterfly chow. It's put him in a good mood, adding the spice of daring-do to the morning smoke. He's got a sneaky grin on his face.
Better to actually get to work on doing something instead of wallowing in raw memories.]
Hypothetical question. [He glances over his shoulder and sees that none of the wildlife is about to attack him, then takes a drag.] If you could pick Planker's brain, what would you want to know?
Better to actually get to work on doing something instead of wallowing in raw memories.]
Hypothetical question. [He glances over his shoulder and sees that none of the wildlife is about to attack him, then takes a drag.] If you could pick Planker's brain, what would you want to know?
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If I have my way, she won't be there to need her back watched and I'll be doing it myself with her key, but I think she wants to do it herself. So I ain't figured that out yet, and honestly thought I'd have her make more of the decision on that. Since it'd have to be someone she trusts.
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What about you, who do you trust to watch her back? Assuming you're occupied?
[this is devolving into just an excuse to make conversation, but there is a list outside of the two of them that Bunny is running through in his mind. Saturday and Sam are at the top. Kenzie is on it too, but with her rage so hair trigger and Stacia's importance to her, Bunny doesn't want to put her at the top of the list any more than he wants to take her off it.]
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[Dan bites his knuckle as he thinks, leaning into Bunny's hair even though it sticks to his sweaty cheek.]
Everyone here's so willing to turn it into a chance to get payback on the guy. I want him out of commission, but I don't want him or no one else getting hurt unless it's necessary.
[And that's left Dan feeling alienated - even from Bunny, right now, whom he knows would hesitate far less to attack Planker than Dan would. Dan isn't, he reminds himself, opposed to violence. He's opposed to unnecessary violence, and this is a reminder that what he considers 'necessary' remains far more conservative than anyone else's here.
This isn't his wheelhouse. Rebellion, coordination, tactics - Dan's used to a much more narrow focus in his work, where the only moving pieces are him and a small, small team that he usually resents for having to cooperate with at all, and usually only a single foe that half the time isn't even capable of complex thought, depending on what he's hunting. His skills are made for small-scale, uncomplicated danger; his emotional framework is too.
He sighs deep.]
Honestly, Bunny, I ain't never been so uncertain about whether I'm doing the rights things as I am on the Rig. I just know I can't sit here waiting for the Jorg to hurt one of the kids here again or force us into slaughtering a town or ripping our pasts open again.
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[at least they're on the same page about that. Revenge doesn't actually settle anything. It doesn't undo past damage, even if it prevents future. It's a distraction.]
Look, I'm at a bit of a loss too. [He would never voice this if it wasn't to Dan, in the safe space of the complete emotional intimacy they've built for each other.] This has gone on a lot longer than I thought it would and we aren't closer now to getting free than we were a year ago. I'm not happy about it either.
[which means balancing not being happy about this plan.]
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[He's grateful whenever Bunny levels with him like this, is willing to lean on him a little, lets the support shift to something mutual. He knows he's one of the few people Bunny's willing to be vulnerable with like this, that laying Bunny's burdens down on a mortal is difficult for him. But he wants to see Dan as an equal, and so he lets Dan carry some of the weight.]
It's lasted long enough to get us on a mission for six weeks together, and that's exactly as long as it needs to have lasted, not a second more. Now it's...this ain't how I'm used to working or how I'd choose to, not by a long shot. All my instincts, all my experience, I can't rely on none of it here. Are you in the same boat?
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Bunny jumps up, yelling, fur on end, flailing the club just enough to make it clear to the butterfly that he and Dan aren't worth the effort. It swirls off, and Bunny crouches beside Dan again, pulling him in for another half-hug.]
I'd say most of my instincts are at a loss. [it's a little joking, as he pulls Dan to his side. His attachment to Dan is the only good thing that this situation produced, and it certainly didn't do it on purpose.]
If this doesn't work - if we need a next step - maybe it's time to see if we can start stealing some of these things from folks other than Planker. We still have some tools for breaking in to places, and I've got a face only a handful of cogs recognize.
[breaking into places is risky, and will only get more so when Planker is stolen from, but they really have been here exactly long enough.]
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That sounds like a plan. [And more like a caper with his favorite partner than whatever this thing with Planker has become.] I got some leads from chatting up the Staff, and I got some magical items that might could come in handy, too. I'd like to take a look at them, if you don't mind swinging past my room none.
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As they walk through the stuffing of the Rig, Bunny has a little thought.] Hey, uh. Does your room's shower have a door?