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Forward dated to after Iris-Roderick shenanigans

[Private to Barbara Gordon]

We oughta do a check in, you and me.

[he's seething but managing to hide it. Kind of.]

[Private to Iris]

[This is the first time she's ever death tolled that he hasn't waited at her side for her to wake up. But he knows himself, and he knows that right now the safest thing for everyone is if he is nowhere near her.

So instead there's a message waiting for her.]

You've got a lot of fuckin' nerve doing what you did, darlin'.

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[And between all that he'll be wandering, mostly hanging out at the pool, which so far has only pretty happy memories. Nothing that he has the urge to scream at or shoot; progress!

Feel free to come poke the bear.]

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You mean to say if I'm angry back home I'll be angry here too?

Usually that's how it works, yeah. I mean no matter where you go, you are who you are, right? But if you were pissed off at life back home, it seems like you've got it managed now, so keep doing what you're doing. Just my advice.

Is this the part where you expect I admit you're right, see the error of my ways, and learn how to take the bad with the good into the sunset?

I wasn't pissed off at life.

[Not always, anyway.]

i think i need to work out how to stop doing that.

[HALP]

[He laughs] What, do I look like your yoga instructor? Do I look like a guy who thinks taking the bad is a good idea?

Or at your parents, at a boyfriend?

[She's rough around the edges, it's highly likely that she had a tough go of it at some point.]

Then why the fuck do you care if I know how to calm my chi or not?

[That...that is not what he expected.]

...Well at least you're not the only one in the conversation who's had to figure out how to ditch the piss-poor coping skills.

I don't give a fuck about your inner peace, Dean. I just hate the smell of lung cancer brewing.

I don't know. I ain't that close with my parents, and my boyfriend and I broke up.

-- Amicably; we broke up amicably.

[Dean, too. Define irony.]

Good thing it ain't lit then, isn't it?

dying does, i'm afraid, clear the mind terribly.

i don't entirely know how to stop wanting it, but i'll work that out as i go. just - please remind me of this. the next disaster, the next fall.

you'll see it.

[She types this quickly and sloppily, and hits send before she has time for second thoughts. It's easier not seeing him, not being seen, just this once.]

Edited 2015-02-07 07:09 (UTC)

Didn't know there was such a thing. But until I got here I never had an amicable kind of relationship anyway. What happened with you and your guy?

[He smiles in a way that's agreeing with him at first, but flickers a bit to something like a warning. It wouldn't stay lit, if Cain was in the room with it.]

I take it you're feeling pensive, then.

I went to prison. You don't really, uh... stay dating someone when you're in prison.

Yeah. You're damn right I will.

You should talk to Barbara. She's more likely to hit you than I am. [Which really means Barbara is deeply hurt and Cain doesn't think it should be set aside for very long.]

ouch. yes.

thank you <3 <3

[He grins] Well, Ted Bundy got married in prison, but come to think of it he's not a guy you want to follow the example of.

'Course in this prison, people get around plenty. And it's mostly a good idea I think.

Yeah, they get around in my old one, too-- even though it's girls only.

Why's it a good idea?

[He nods; it's no real surprise, not at his age. Had she told him that thirty years ago he'd have been flabbergasted.] It was like that in the war, a bit. Secretly, y'know.

Anyway out and out dating seems to make people happier. Keeps 'em out of trouble.

Mm. Ain't really anyone I wanna date here.

[Give it two weeks, Tucky.]

You know, most of the guys are gay, I think.

Hah! I can't say you're wrong. Most of 'em seem to swing that way if they're here long enough. We don't get a lot of women, though, so maybe they're just being opportunists.

Yeah-- yeah, I noticed that. Fucking figures, right? First I'm in a girls' prison and then I'm in a gay guys' prison.

How many gay guys have you bumped into already here?

[Cain notices relationships, but most people around here don't talk about their personal lives with him. Which is probably wise, he figures, so he doesn't mind much.]

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