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[nobasisinfact]

[Is that a growl? That's a growl.]

Do you have any idea what you're going to do with that? What kind of questions it's going to bring up from random strangers?

[The next words are almost calm with a darker tone. With the low cadence of his voice it's almost scary (not that it's what he's going for, he's just that angry at what Alex will probably unleash on them]

Take it down.

[11calls]

I know exactly what kind of questions it's going to bring up from random strangers, Richard.

[Alex's anger is going to rise to meet his own, because that's what it does when they're like this.]

I will not! This is the best chance we've got to get some answers here, Richard.

[nobasisinfact]

The best chance to get answers is to control the situation and the information output. I thought you'd know that by now and not be ridiculous enough to post something like this over a public network so anyone can see it.

I thought we were in this together.

[If there's a tinge of hurt in his tone he won't admit to it.]

[11calls]

We are in this together! Jesus Christ, Richard. I'm not doing this to be a spiteful bitch or something like that.

I can control the information, and I'm not going to bring up you or Coralee or any of this mess. But if you don't trust me then you don't trust me.

[Alex's hurt is way more obvious than his is, even if she's trying to ignore it.]

[nobasisinfact]

If we were in this together you would have talked to me about it before posting rather than simply informing me of what you were going to do.

[11calls]

I was trying to talk to you when you jumped down my throat!

[nobasisinfact]

You said you were putting it on the network and your past history tells that when you tell something you've already done it.

[11calls]

Well, I didn't because I wanted to talk to you about it first so you just didn't get on the network and see it there. Jesus, Richard, is this really what you think of me? That I'd just go out of my way to ruin our lives here?

[nobasisinfact]

I know for a fact that you don't think about repercussions.

I also know that it's still on the network and still can easily ruin your life here. Especially now that people like that man at your office have easy access to it.

[11calls]

Oh my god. I admit it, I haven't thought things through in the past, but wow Richard. Just. Wow.

It's me sleeping with a demon in my room. It's not like I'm uploading the whole damned show to the network or anything like that!

[She could, she's got the master files. But she wouldn't do that to him.]

[nobasisinfact]

I'm well aware of what can happen when people believe you are connected with the occult. I'm also sure that there is someone in your extensive list of friends that could help with this rather than offering it up to an entire community.

[11calls]

But new people arrive all of the time Richard, it could be someone who I don't know yet. But if you don't trust me not to bring up everything with Coralee and everything else then you don't trust me. It's that simple.

[nobasisinfact]

Not everything is about Coralee. It's about you

[Way to kick a man Alex.]

[11calls]

I know what I'm doing, Richard. I can handle myself with this! You're the one who's acting like I can't.

[nobasisinfact]

Fine. Then 'handle it yourself'. It's clear you weren't going to listen to anything I said anyway.

[11calls]

[Okay. That... hurts. That hurts a lot, and her voice just gets smaller until it's just a sigh when she says:]

Richard.

[nobasisinfact]

What?

[He sounds tired. He's actually rubbing his temples.]

[11calls]

[Alex's voice is just soft and vulnerable sounding:]

We are in this together. And I do love you. Really. I'm honestly not trying to hurt you, and I hope you know that.

[nobasisinfact]

That doesn't change the fact that you didn't actually care about my advice.

[His voice grows quieter.]

Or that you didn't trust me to look into it before you blindly sent it out to an entire network of strangers.

[11calls]

I do care about your advice! And you're forgetting, Richard. I spent months at our house watching Black Tapes all night and going through them how you taught me. I know that this would have just ended up as another one that we can't explain.

But maybe someone else could. Someone who has abilities that we don't. I want this to be something that can easily be explained, Richard. I want it not to be actual demons. I thought that you would want that to and it wouldn't bother you if I did it. Because of getting those answers.

[nobasisinfact]

You don't know because you assumed before acting. The likelihood that a random stranger would know something and share that knowledge in unlikely, and it's insulting to those you do know that you would trust random strangers to them.

You could have made it private, but you didn't. You could have trusted me to at least try to find answers, but you didn't, and any attempts at explaining this fact are met with dismissal. How is that caring about my advice?

[His voice is low and hurt now.]

[11calls]

[For a minute, Alex is speechless. She doesn't know what to say, which is a complete oddity for Alex Reagan. So in the end she just takes a breath and says two words and it's clear that she means them:]

I'm sorry.

[And then a few seconds later she adds:]

I swear, I didn't do it to hurt you, Richard.

[nobasisinfact]

[There's silence on his end for a very long time, almost as if he's hung up, but he hasn't. When he finally speaks, he's sounding calmer, but it's very low as if he's sure she won't even acknowledge his request.]

Will you at least make it private.

[11calls]

[Alex has definitely thought that he hung up, and it's only all the emotion going on that she doesn't do the thing of saying his name in an effort to try and fill dead air like she would on the show.]

Richard, there's no point to it now. It's been up for so long that everyone has seen it.

[nobasisinfact]

It's been up for less than a day.

[The response is instant this time, like a breath out when someone punches you in the gut.]