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[pillz]

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I get that a lot.

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i guess i'm better at hand-to-hand than he is

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Admittedly, I can think of at least a handful of moments where that could have come in handy.

Is that from your four years in Henrietta, or your time here?

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here stuff.


how did you > widen ur scope

[he does remember victor being 'narrow,' though joey had hardly thought of it that way.]

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Perhaps you can tell me about that sometime.

I killed my obsession and it didn't follow me to the City. I became a doctor, like I'd planned to back home, and then the threat of registration forced the rest open. Plus, I wasn't keen to beat my own record for being locked up and if you stage a mass break out then you'd better make it count.

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when u say it that way it sounds like it was the dude in the city who widened his scope, & not you
you still have your obsession?
is your obsession a person or a thing
/was

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[Now it's Victor's turn to pause in his reply. It takes a few minutes before an answer arrives.]

I'm more the man from the City than I am the man who came here. I wasn't interested in going backwards to an earlier point of inexperience.

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if i was more the man from the city than i was who cam here, would you want to fuck

[it could sound forlorn. maybe it does. but somewhere in de chima, kavinsky rolls over and smiles at the screen.]

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[ And over in Nonah, Kavinsky's question makes Victor smile too, maybe he even makes a small noise of amusement. There's a particular brand of irony in the question being phrased in that way.

Victor would have killed for Joey in the same way way someone who was so inclined may break a theif's fingers for stealing a keepsake or family heirloom.

But Joseph Kavinsky feels like a firework in Victor's hand that could threaten to light it's own fuse at any moment. And Victor would look him in the eye and with a wolfish smile, all teeth, say "Go ahead, Joseph. Strike the match."]

Fucking is generally a low priority on my to-do list.

But for the sake of argument, would I, if were you more like him?

Unlikely.

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why

[joey wouldn't be offended. somehow, kavinsky isn't either.]

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Why do you assume he's the one with the better odds now?

[pillz]

aw babes
it's just sex. goin off raw statistics, joey got in your pants.

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'Babes' has immediately decreased your chances.

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negative numbers oh nno

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Hitting double digits now.

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that's beginning 2 sound like a medical condition, vick

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It's fine, I'm a doctor.

I would say try not to make that weird but it already feels futile.

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good to know youre still bein tactical about your odds

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Some things remain consistent. Is that thought a comfort?

[pillz]

you aint trying 2 comfort me are you

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Do I strike you as the comforting sort?

[pillz]

[c'mon, victor.]

yes

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[There's a brief false-start, the signs of typing, then a pause, and a second attempt at typing, then another pause. Victor Vale, digitally speechless for a moment until he finally settles on:]

Are you high?

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no
im better at readin people than you give me credit for, old man

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Or you have an strange sense of what is comforting.