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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.

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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?

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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.

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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.]

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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.

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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.

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nobasisinfact

Not everything is about Coralee. It's about you

[Way to kick a man Alex.]

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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.

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nobasisinfact

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

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11calls

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

Richard.

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nobasisinfact

What?

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

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.]

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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.

Edited Date: 2018-07-09 02:25 pm (UTC)

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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.

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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.

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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.]

From:

11calls

But it's been...

[Sorry, Richard Alex just got a different message and she's going to freak out a little.]

Oh my god.

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nobasisinfact

What?

[He's expecting her to try and change the topic because she's making excuses because she doesn't want to take it down or private it or listen to anything he has to say.

After all, she's already said he's not involved in this.]

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11calls

[Alex's voice is soft, and it's definitely her I am trying to hold it together so I am not freaking out voice. He's heard it enough.]

Richard...

[And then she sends him the lightened screencaps that Skye sent her, showing the demon in all the Cheryl described glory and horror.]

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nobasisinfact

[There's a very<\i> long pause.]<\small>

It's not real.

[His voice is very calm.]<\small>

From:

11calls

[Alex is just going to stare at her device for a very long time, and then stare at the pictures of the demon and then stare at her device again before she just says:]

What?

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nobasisinfact

It's too much like those from the tapes. Clearly Warren was trying to scare you.

[That is totally what it is and he's not internally freaking out right now.]