[Alex's voice was soft, and she didn't just mean here, she meant Geneva, because just given answers and everything else where else could they go. What else could they be other than themselves. She knew him, after all, even if she didn't think about the things that she knew all that often. No where near as often as she should. But then again if she did, then she wouldn't be her, and they wouldn't be them.
Taking a deep breath, Alex just pulled her hand away from his and wrapped her arms around herself. She was counting as she walked, but it wasn't away. No, she was counting and walking away to take the chair in the desk across from him like she had so many times before. Like she had at the beginning.]
So. [Alex's voice was soft.] What do we do now? Not about the post or what it showed, Richard? What do we do about us?
[Because the two of them had fights as a couple of course (the one about him sleeping in the chair when she was injured came to mind) but it was nothing like this. Nothing with this level of hurt and anger and pain that the two of them would just not talk for months or weeks over. That wasn't who they were now, and if they wanted a relationship, it wasn't who they could be.]
[Richard's breath held as she crossed to the chair. It wasn't the same, not the same office or the same situations, but he could tell easily what she was doing. She was starting over from the beginning, and that wasn't something either of them could do. Not since that first moment that she came into his office looking for a story.
When she sat, he let out a heavy breath, crossing to rest against the desk, across from her with no boundary between them. To Richard, this was just a fight. No different than any other fight they had. Of course, it was full of pain and anger. She'd done something stupid and dangerous, again. And she'd probably continue to do stupid and dangerous things. Probably continue to do them without telling him, all while cutting him from the situation without realizing what she was doing. The only difference was how similar it had been to what Coralee would and had done. The difference though, was that Alex hadn't left. Alex had come and at least was willing to present her evidence before him. That meant more than Coralee's contacting him once the podcast was running.
Alex, of course, was running rings around her own brain. Running to extremes before she'd even thought about it being anything less. It was a fact that their fights were extreme. That, it was possible, that one or both of them might disappear, but Richard also knew that no matter what happened or how far they separated, somehow, they'd end up right back here, in front of one another and continuing to move forward.]
What do you want to do?
[He kept his tone even, questioning slightly what he already knew, what she ought to know as well. This didn't change them. No matter how much she might hurt him, he would always offer himself to her now. But that didn't mean he had to be sweet about it or treat her with any softer gloves than he had before. He was Richard after all, and she was Alex, and that was how their relationship would always be.]
[It was well known when it came to Alex that she didn't take steps of logic, she took giant, olympic sized leaps into the worst possible scenario. Like she was now, like she always did. Maybe that's why she was trying to go back to when fights between them were easier to control, and when they didn't hurt so badly. Oh, Alex would deny that they had hurt back in the earlier parts of their relationship, like when he told her that she was basically being a tabloid journalist, but his words had stung. They always did.
Richard Strand found a personal way under her skin in many cases, normally now it was in good ones, but back then his barbs were sharper than her armor. This was one of those barbs, and Alex was having a difficult time taking it out without retreating to lick her wounds in private. But leaving would be acting further like Coralee, and Alex wasn't going to do that. She couldn't. Alex had fucked up, and she was here to deal with it, even if this was annoyingly new with the two of them.
So she just looked up at him as he was next to her and sighed softly.]
I don't want to fight with you anymore. I hate fighting with you. [Her voice sounded small and tired, but there was no bite in it.] I do love you, Richard, and I am sorry. And I'd say I wouldn't do it again, and I'll try not to but... [A beat.] I'm me. And I'm going to keep trying to protect you from this whole thing if I can.
I've told you before; you're doing more than you know.
[More than she would ever admit to in fact. Alex's presence in his life was crucial now. She'd made it so with smooth strokes and strides into every inch of it. And yet, she refused to acknowledge how important she was, something he would never tell her directly.
But this was the center of her part of the argument. He needed to be protected and rescued. He didn't, and especially not here. He didn't need her exposing either of them for the world to see just to try and 'save him'. He was neither lost nor in a state of distrss. And he needed her to understand that if she was going to proceed forward.]
There's no reason to keep pushing for some magical evidence that'll tie Warren's hands, and even if something like that existed, it wouldn't be here. I need you to trust me on that.
It doesn't feel like I am though. I mean back home...
[Back home Alex was useful and Alex was fearless, going to straight up ask Thomas Warren things. Meeting with the woman who had been Howard's Watcher before he'd been taken. Diving into every bit of mythology and history and everything else that she could in order to untangle the gorgon knot that they were in. But here, she couldn't do that. There was nothing new to uncover other than the actual evidence of her black tape when it showed up. Maybe that was one of the reasons that she dove into it with such vigor.
Letting out a soft sigh, she just nodded for a minute. Granted, she had advantages and skills that Richard didn't, especially back home, but maybe he was right in that something like that didn't exist. Alex wanted it to exist so badly she could taste it. She wanted a fucking giant dues ex machina to be able to save them from wandering into certain doom. But maybe in the end he was right and there wasn't one.
Maybe the two of them being together, something that Warren couldn't have planned on? Maybe that was it. So Alex just said what she had before, only this time more firmly, and without the anger that had been present.]
I am with you in this, Richard. You and me at the center together. I mean it. I mean. I'm here, right?
[He leans down, letting his hands run down her forearms until they reach her hands. Once there, his fingers curl around hers. It had become an intimate gesture since they'd started being them, and it was the best way to explain to her that he wasn't angry anymore. Especially since he knew she was assuming that they weren't going to be them anymore.]
[Alex just watched him for a second, because yes, she definitely was thinking that there wasn't going to be a them. Or at least wasn't going to be a them without a three month break where one of them lived in their office or whatever. But she did let out a sigh of relief, and most of the tension slipped out of her sloped shoulders when she squeezed his fingers in return.
But then she just laughed softly, because if this was his idea of a vacation, then clearly his priorities were more skewed than hers. Honestly, however, Alex knew what he was doing. He was trying to reassure her and she appreciated it.]
So, if it's a vacation, does that mean we're going to the Hot Springs for your birthday?
[She's Alex. She has to try, and she's the more optimistic of the two of them.]
[He rolls his eyes at her. Why does she always need to go to the most annoying things? At least she didn't try scuba diving or something else. All the same, he was curious as to why she would think up something like that. Why would he want to go to a hot spring when there were perfectly good hotels with restaurants to go to?]
Well, I was going to say the beach, but you're you know. You.
[Alex was still slightly off kilter, but she was making an effort to put herself right now that they were. So, bad jokes and grins it was for the moment.]
Also, I was thinking that if we were alone then no one else would ever know it was your birthday. I mean, I haven't missed it yet, my Richard. I'm not going to start now. Even if I expect Ruby ended up with the Edible Arrangements rather than you.
[Or at least maybe it'd been something other than a protein bar for food before she'd showed up to drag him for real food and to be a person again.]
[He's joking, or being sarcastic or something like that. After all, going to a hot spring or beach was very not him. He'd rather be actually alone with her if that was what she wanted to do with him.]
[Wrapping his arms around her waist he raises an eyebrow. The fact that his birthday wasn't until December didn't seem to bother her, and he was only slightly curious about what she was planning on getting him. That would change as he forgot about it entirely though.]
Is it a promise to consult me before telling anyone in Riverview about our or my past?
[Just because they weren't fighting didn't mean everything had been pushed under the bridge or that he wasn't still mad. He was still mad about Turkey after all, but that didn't stop them from being what they were.]
[Alex knew of course, because of everything, but it also didn't mean that she hadn't found something entirely perfect to give to him anyway. And probably would because Alex was excitable and well... everything Alex.
But she nodded slowly.]
Yes. But there are a few conversations from this that I want to finish about demons from other worlds, and one I should finish because I sort of...
[Alex sighs a bit.]
Told a kid to fuck off. Well, a teeanger. He's... had some terrible experiences back home and I didn't respond well at all.
[For a minute, Alex just sighed again before she pulls out her device, but she doesn't actually open the message. Instead, she's just holding onto it.]
In my defense, I didn't know he did until after I'd already told him to fuck off. But he asked me if I'd brought it back with me, and then he said it could go inside of me and like hide I guess? [Alex looks a bit sick at that, because well, you know the whole possession not sleeping thing.]
He seemed to miss the fact that someone else was recording me sleeping, and was angry that I didn't do it. I didn't mention the whole sleepnotes or anything like that. He told me I was fucked unless I figured it out, which is when I got the pictures from Skye and I kind of lost it.
[Alex frowned and she knows how pissed he's going to be about her admitting it.]
I told him that I knew it was a demon because I'd been investigating them for three years, but I didn't tell him anything about the investigation itself. But I did tell him that the man who was recording me slept sent it as a threat to show how close they can get to me.
[A beat, and she just says:]
I know you don't believe, Richard. Not really, but even if it's an extremely elaborate hoax, that's why Warren would have sent it to me and to Nic.
[A beat.]
I told him I was trying to stop it, and that it was bigger than just this video, but I didn't say how, and then he told me that his friend sacrificed himself to save the kid from a demon, and to kill it. He told me I had to kill it, and that's where I left it.
But I told you, no mentions of you or Simon or specifics. I'm not going to do that to you.
[Or tell him she told Jeff that she thought he hated her, that's not this.]
[With that he started to scroll through the conversations. ALL of the conversations. So Skye, a girl he'd never met, Victor, and Jeff know. Jeff, of course, knew the most, practically all of it from the look of things. He and Alex would have to discuss that, later.
The fact that she had been previously medicated for her insomnia wasn't surprising really. It had been bad enough that he'd been forced to notice it back home after all.
Then came the boy that she had been talking about. The biggest surprise was how quickly Alex had taken to snapping at him. The conversation wasn't that long at all before she started, although, given what he knew it made some sense. And he was sure that their argument hadn't been helping.
Before answering though he hit edit and changed the parameters to private.] It's not a demon, and we're not going to be sacrificing anyone.
[It was simple but factual. Even if it was a demon the only person who was allowed to die in this idiotic delusion was Thomas Warren.]
[Alex would argue that Skye really didn't know all that much, and she'd already told him about Jeff immediately when they'd gotten her home. And Victor didn't even know specifics other than the demons and the not sleeping thing. Which was because well, Alex hadn't been sleeping for longer than she should have, and there was actually something wrong with how little she slept for.
But she doesn't explain it. Instead she just waits, unable to not fidget a bit when it's clear that he's actually... reading all of her messages. Richard reads fast, so there's nothing else he could be doing. Her mouth opens to protest about Jeff if nothing else, but he knows her, and he knew she was freaking out. It was pretty obvious she was freaking out.
However, she does protest when he says it's not a demon.]
Richard. You see for yourself it's not CGI or a prop. Skye is like... better than MK with the computer stuff. She's not wrong and there's no way that thing is human in a mask.
[Richard chose to skip over the traditional argument over if something was or was not a demon. Instead, he ignored the argument starter altogether and focused on the significant bit. The part where the tape even existed in the first place. The conversation he was almost certain they'd already had when she got the thing. But some things bared repeating again.]
Warren's trying to scare you. If he wanted to do otherwise, he would have.
[Which was still odd. If Warren wanted her out of the picture then why hadn't he done anything? It only bled into his theory that Warren needed Alex to leave Richard of her own accord. Something to break him even further than Coralee's disappearance so he would be pliable to Warren's demands.
No, he didn't think Warren would do anything to attack her now. The rest of what had been done to her, what she never seemed to think about but Richard kept in the back of his mind, that was the real mystery here.]
But is he trying to scare me into going? Or is he trying to scare me into staying?
[Alex thought about it a lot, actually, especially in context with what Simon had said to her when he'd arrived. She understood his not wanting to be in the center of the supernatural demonic stuff before, but she understood it a lot more now.]
Listen, I know you don't believe, Richard, but Warren definitely does. But I have been thinking. I mean you know me, I think about this stuff a lot. But what if whatever Warren thinks is happening means that you have to chose to go to Geneva of your own accord. It's the thing that makes the most sense for why he didn't just kidnap you instead of other people, especially since he's been following your and broke into your office and your house.
[A beat.]
And following that logic, maybe I need to chose to go too. Obviously I'm going wherever you go, but if Warren was trying to scare me into not going... It's probably a good thing that I am. Something Simon said when he first showed up has been sticking with me: that I'd follow you and follow the story. Warren's been trying to get me away from you since forever. So I guess it does make sense that he'd try to use the thing I'm most scared of to try and stop me.
[This was something he'd been actively trying not to think about, but now with the arrival of Alex's tape it seemed like it would never go away again. The fact that so many people had been running his life behind the scenes wasn't something he felt anyone would want to have brought up repeatedly, especially by the person they were with.
Richard looked away, frowning as he tried to force the conversation through. Maybe if he got this over with they could put it behind them. At least for the remainder of their time here.]
I don't think Warren wants to interfere with me directly. Whatever he's planning, he needs me to give whatever it is he thinks I have willingly. You take away the likelihood of that happening.
[Or more erases it. Not that Richard's particularly fond of the idea of giving up his blood or DNA or whatever for Warren's Apocalyptic demonic delusions.]
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Date: 2018-07-17 12:37 am (UTC)[Alex's voice was soft, and she didn't just mean here, she meant Geneva, because just given answers and everything else where else could they go. What else could they be other than themselves. She knew him, after all, even if she didn't think about the things that she knew all that often. No where near as often as she should. But then again if she did, then she wouldn't be her, and they wouldn't be them.
Taking a deep breath, Alex just pulled her hand away from his and wrapped her arms around herself. She was counting as she walked, but it wasn't away. No, she was counting and walking away to take the chair in the desk across from him like she had so many times before. Like she had at the beginning.]
So. [Alex's voice was soft.] What do we do now? Not about the post or what it showed, Richard? What do we do about us?
[Because the two of them had fights as a couple of course (the one about him sleeping in the chair when she was injured came to mind) but it was nothing like this. Nothing with this level of hurt and anger and pain that the two of them would just not talk for months or weeks over. That wasn't who they were now, and if they wanted a relationship, it wasn't who they could be.]
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Date: 2018-07-17 04:37 am (UTC)When she sat, he let out a heavy breath, crossing to rest against the desk, across from her with no boundary between them. To Richard, this was just a fight. No different than any other fight they had. Of course, it was full of pain and anger. She'd done something stupid and dangerous, again. And she'd probably continue to do stupid and dangerous things. Probably continue to do them without telling him, all while cutting him from the situation without realizing what she was doing. The only difference was how similar it had been to what Coralee would and had done. The difference though, was that Alex hadn't left. Alex had come and at least was willing to present her evidence before him. That meant more than Coralee's contacting him once the podcast was running.
Alex, of course, was running rings around her own brain. Running to extremes before she'd even thought about it being anything less. It was a fact that their fights were extreme. That, it was possible, that one or both of them might disappear, but Richard also knew that no matter what happened or how far they separated, somehow, they'd end up right back here, in front of one another and continuing to move forward.]
What do you want to do?
[He kept his tone even, questioning slightly what he already knew, what she ought to know as well. This didn't change them. No matter how much she might hurt him, he would always offer himself to her now. But that didn't mean he had to be sweet about it or treat her with any softer gloves than he had before. He was Richard after all, and she was Alex, and that was how their relationship would always be.]
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Date: 2018-07-17 05:08 am (UTC)Richard Strand found a personal way under her skin in many cases, normally now it was in good ones, but back then his barbs were sharper than her armor. This was one of those barbs, and Alex was having a difficult time taking it out without retreating to lick her wounds in private. But leaving would be acting further like Coralee, and Alex wasn't going to do that. She couldn't. Alex had fucked up, and she was here to deal with it, even if this was annoyingly new with the two of them.
So she just looked up at him as he was next to her and sighed softly.]
I don't want to fight with you anymore. I hate fighting with you. [Her voice sounded small and tired, but there was no bite in it.] I do love you, Richard, and I am sorry. And I'd say I wouldn't do it again, and I'll try not to but... [A beat.] I'm me. And I'm going to keep trying to protect you from this whole thing if I can.
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Date: 2018-07-18 04:59 am (UTC)[More than she would ever admit to in fact. Alex's presence in his life was crucial now. She'd made it so with smooth strokes and strides into every inch of it. And yet, she refused to acknowledge how important she was, something he would never tell her directly.
But this was the center of her part of the argument. He needed to be protected and rescued. He didn't, and especially not here. He didn't need her exposing either of them for the world to see just to try and 'save him'. He was neither lost nor in a state of distrss. And he needed her to understand that if she was going to proceed forward.]
There's no reason to keep pushing for some magical evidence that'll tie Warren's hands, and even if something like that existed, it wouldn't be here. I need you to trust me on that.
[There was a pause.]
And be in this with me. Together.
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Date: 2018-07-18 05:16 am (UTC)[Back home Alex was useful and Alex was fearless, going to straight up ask Thomas Warren things. Meeting with the woman who had been Howard's Watcher before he'd been taken. Diving into every bit of mythology and history and everything else that she could in order to untangle the gorgon knot that they were in. But here, she couldn't do that. There was nothing new to uncover other than the actual evidence of her black tape when it showed up. Maybe that was one of the reasons that she dove into it with such vigor.
Letting out a soft sigh, she just nodded for a minute. Granted, she had advantages and skills that Richard didn't, especially back home, but maybe he was right in that something like that didn't exist. Alex wanted it to exist so badly she could taste it. She wanted a fucking giant dues ex machina to be able to save them from wandering into certain doom. But maybe in the end he was right and there wasn't one.
Maybe the two of them being together, something that Warren couldn't have planned on? Maybe that was it. So Alex just said what she had before, only this time more firmly, and without the anger that had been present.]
I am with you in this, Richard. You and me at the center together. I mean it. I mean. I'm here, right?
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Date: 2018-07-18 10:59 pm (UTC)Think of it as a vacation. One we both need.
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Date: 2018-07-19 12:23 am (UTC)But then she just laughed softly, because if this was his idea of a vacation, then clearly his priorities were more skewed than hers. Honestly, however, Alex knew what he was doing. He was trying to reassure her and she appreciated it.]
So, if it's a vacation, does that mean we're going to the Hot Springs for your birthday?
[She's Alex. She has to try, and she's the more optimistic of the two of them.]
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Date: 2018-07-19 01:08 am (UTC)No. Why?
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Date: 2018-07-19 01:16 am (UTC)[Alex was still slightly off kilter, but she was making an effort to put herself right now that they were. So, bad jokes and grins it was for the moment.]
Also, I was thinking that if we were alone then no one else would ever know it was your birthday. I mean, I haven't missed it yet, my Richard. I'm not going to start now. Even if I expect Ruby ended up with the Edible Arrangements rather than you.
[Or at least maybe it'd been something other than a protein bar for food before she'd showed up to drag him for real food and to be a person again.]
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Date: 2018-07-19 01:24 am (UTC)I was looking forward to your traditional gift.
[He's joking, or being sarcastic or something like that. After all, going to a hot spring or beach was very not him. He'd rather be actually alone with her if that was what she wanted to do with him.]
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Date: 2018-07-19 01:30 am (UTC)[Does she look smug? Well, maybe a little bit. Either way, she's standing up to wrap her arms around his neck.]
It's going to surprise you, I think.
[And it's locked up at her office.]
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Date: 2018-07-20 12:59 am (UTC)Is it a promise to consult me before telling anyone in Riverview about our or my past?
[Just because they weren't fighting didn't mean everything had been pushed under the bridge or that he wasn't still mad. He was still mad about Turkey after all, but that didn't stop them from being what they were.]
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Date: 2018-07-20 01:25 am (UTC)But she nodded slowly.]
Yes. But there are a few conversations from this that I want to finish about demons from other worlds, and one I should finish because I sort of...
[Alex sighs a bit.]
Told a kid to fuck off. Well, a teeanger. He's... had some terrible experiences back home and I didn't respond well at all.
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Date: 2018-07-20 01:45 am (UTC)Tell me about it.
[After all, that's something that she should have done in the first place.]
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Date: 2018-07-20 02:03 am (UTC)In my defense, I didn't know he did until after I'd already told him to fuck off. But he asked me if I'd brought it back with me, and then he said it could go inside of me and like hide I guess? [Alex looks a bit sick at that, because well, you know the whole possession not sleeping thing.]
He seemed to miss the fact that someone else was recording me sleeping, and was angry that I didn't do it. I didn't mention the whole sleepnotes or anything like that. He told me I was fucked unless I figured it out, which is when I got the pictures from Skye and I kind of lost it.
[Alex frowned and she knows how pissed he's going to be about her admitting it.]
I told him that I knew it was a demon because I'd been investigating them for three years, but I didn't tell him anything about the investigation itself. But I did tell him that the man who was recording me slept sent it as a threat to show how close they can get to me.
[A beat, and she just says:]
I know you don't believe, Richard. Not really, but even if it's an extremely elaborate hoax, that's why Warren would have sent it to me and to Nic.
[A beat.]
I told him I was trying to stop it, and that it was bigger than just this video, but I didn't say how, and then he told me that his friend sacrificed himself to save the kid from a demon, and to kill it. He told me I had to kill it, and that's where I left it.
But I told you, no mentions of you or Simon or specifics. I'm not going to do that to you.
[Or tell him she told Jeff that she thought he hated her, that's not this.]
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Date: 2018-07-20 03:37 am (UTC)I'll keep that in mind.
[With that he started to scroll through the conversations. ALL of the conversations. So Skye, a girl he'd never met, Victor, and Jeff know. Jeff, of course, knew the most, practically all of it from the look of things. He and Alex would have to discuss that, later.
The fact that she had been previously medicated for her insomnia wasn't surprising really. It had been bad enough that he'd been forced to notice it back home after all.
Then came the boy that she had been talking about. The biggest surprise was how quickly Alex had taken to snapping at him. The conversation wasn't that long at all before she started, although, given what he knew it made some sense. And he was sure that their argument hadn't been helping.
Before answering though he hit edit and changed the parameters to private.]
It's not a demon, and we're not going to be sacrificing anyone.
[It was simple but factual. Even if it was a demon the only person who was allowed to die in this idiotic delusion was Thomas Warren.]
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Date: 2018-07-20 03:57 am (UTC)But she doesn't explain it. Instead she just waits, unable to not fidget a bit when it's clear that he's actually... reading all of her messages. Richard reads fast, so there's nothing else he could be doing. Her mouth opens to protest about Jeff if nothing else, but he knows her, and he knew she was freaking out. It was pretty obvious she was freaking out.
However, she does protest when he says it's not a demon.]
Richard. You see for yourself it's not CGI or a prop. Skye is like... better than MK with the computer stuff. She's not wrong and there's no way that thing is human in a mask.
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Date: 2018-07-20 04:21 am (UTC)Warren's trying to scare you. If he wanted to do otherwise, he would have.
[Which was still odd. If Warren wanted her out of the picture then why hadn't he done anything? It only bled into his theory that Warren needed Alex to leave Richard of her own accord. Something to break him even further than Coralee's disappearance so he would be pliable to Warren's demands.
No, he didn't think Warren would do anything to attack her now. The rest of what had been done to her, what she never seemed to think about but Richard kept in the back of his mind, that was the real mystery here.]
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Date: 2018-07-20 04:44 am (UTC)[Alex thought about it a lot, actually, especially in context with what Simon had said to her when he'd arrived. She understood his not wanting to be in the center of the supernatural demonic stuff before, but she understood it a lot more now.]
Listen, I know you don't believe, Richard, but Warren definitely does. But I have been thinking. I mean you know me, I think about this stuff a lot. But what if whatever Warren thinks is happening means that you have to chose to go to Geneva of your own accord. It's the thing that makes the most sense for why he didn't just kidnap you instead of other people, especially since he's been following your and broke into your office and your house.
[A beat.]
And following that logic, maybe I need to chose to go too. Obviously I'm going wherever you go, but if Warren was trying to scare me into not going... It's probably a good thing that I am. Something Simon said when he first showed up has been sticking with me: that I'd follow you and follow the story. Warren's been trying to get me away from you since forever. So I guess it does make sense that he'd try to use the thing I'm most scared of to try and stop me.
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Date: 2018-07-20 05:04 am (UTC)[This was something he'd been actively trying not to think about, but now with the arrival of Alex's tape it seemed like it would never go away again. The fact that so many people had been running his life behind the scenes wasn't something he felt anyone would want to have brought up repeatedly, especially by the person they were with.
Richard looked away, frowning as he tried to force the conversation through. Maybe if he got this over with they could put it behind them. At least for the remainder of their time here.]
I don't think Warren wants to interfere with me directly. Whatever he's planning, he needs me to give whatever it is he thinks I have willingly. You take away the likelihood of that happening.
[Or more erases it. Not that Richard's particularly fond of the idea of giving up his blood or DNA or whatever for Warren's Apocalyptic demonic delusions.]
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Date: 2018-07-20 05:12 am (UTC)[Alex just grinned up at him, and she kissed him softly for just a minute, before she added, in the way that only Alex could:]
I'm too damn stubborn to let you do anything like that to yourself. It's where my being insufferable works in your favor.
[A beat.]
Speaking of things that are annoying. Did you get a cat?
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Date: 2018-07-23 12:05 am (UTC)I thought it was yours.
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Date: 2018-07-23 12:24 am (UTC)I'm not really a cat person.
[The insinuation here is: but you are.]
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Date: 2018-07-23 01:05 am (UTC)Simon?
[Doubtful, but it would either be Simon or Stan.]
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Date: 2018-07-23 01:23 am (UTC)[A beat.]
Should we pick up cat food now? And like litter and all the stuff that goes with cats?
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