[021] barge, I love you, but you're bringing me down

[notafuckingnut]

Hey, Admiral Fucktard. Your system sucks. It's broken.

But thanks, I guess. Makes my life easier.


[PRIVATE to Lua]

...Hey, you still around alright over there around?


[A/N: his Warden's gone, and Lua's MIA as far as he can tell (he's out of the loop -- big surprise); SOMEONE is having a bad week.]

Comments

[private]

[notafuckingnut]

Well you could've said something. Or gotten somebody to give me a message; you shouldn't just...disappear like that.

[...Yes, he's mostly only being clingy about it because of Will. Don't mind him, he'll get over it eventually; HE DOESN'T LIKE LOSING HIS PEOPLE.]

[private]

[surrenders]

... wasn't even thinking, Richie. Friend had to break in my room, it was that bad.

[private]

[notafuckingnut]

What, you get the flu or something?

[private]

[surrenders]

Don't even understand what they were telling me it was. You know how it gets. [ He's probably been confused by doctors enough it's a safe lie. ]

You all right?

[private]

[notafuckingnut]

Yeah, I'm pretty sure they just like to fuck with people.

[He'll accept it. He doesn't like not having a straight answer, but he'll accept it.]

Graham took off.

[Which...isn't really an answer.]

[private]

[surrenders]

[ yeah Richie you should know Lua doesn't do straight answers by now, but you're not giving her any either ]

He's gone? They didn't give you anyone else?

[private]

[notafuckingnut]

Nope. Not yet, anyway. So I'm not really complaining; guy was a pain in the ass anyway.

[private]

[surrenders]

...gonna have to be careful, Richie.

[private]

[notafuckingnut]

What? It's not like I'm gonna do anything.

[...See, that's always how it starts out. Which would be the problem.]

[private]

[surrenders]

Trouble finds you a lot, though. And Will was the only guy who'd know when it did. I can't.

[ First Toshiko, then Will. What is this place. ]

[private]

[notafuckingnut]

Uh-uh. He didn't know about the bullshit in the infirmary until afterwards. That Pinkman asshole too. He didn't know shit.

[Which is apparently all Will's fault, never mind that it was just a shortcoming of his Item. Not even remotely the point.]

[private]

[surrenders]

But you lived through both those, remember?

[private]

[notafuckingnut]

Yeah, so?

Re: [private]

[surrenders]

So if you hadn't? He was the only guy who could bring you back.

[private]

[notafuckingnut]

[Pause pause.]

...Oh.

[private]

[surrenders]

[ She's not going to tell him that any warden can now, not unless he asks. He needs to stay out of trouble. ]

Yeah.

[private]

[notafuckingnut]

But...c'mon, they can't let me stay dead forever, that's bullshit.

[private]

[surrenders]

If someone hides you well enough, maybe nobody finds you for a long time.

[private]

[notafuckingnut]

But...somebody would. You can't hide a body that long, it stinks eventually.

[...Trust him. He's tried.]

[private]

[surrenders]

Friend of mine found one after a couple days.

... it doesn't.

[private]

[notafuckingnut]

If you kept it in a freezer, maybe...

Why so morbid all of a sudden?

[private]

[surrenders]

Just want to make sure you're okay.

[private]

[notafuckingnut]

Oookay. Well...I am?

[Seriously, Lua, why the extra concern? It's making him uneasy.]

Re: [private]

[surrenders]

Though you might need to know it, since you don't have your warden around anymore. That's it.

[ Because she is the only one looking out for you since Seth and Will are gone and she can't deal with you getting into extra trouble, Richie. This is what she does. ]

[private]

[notafuckingnut]

Well I'm not gonna die, so you really don't have to worry.

[...There's a "thank you" in there somewhere. Really. He's just...really bad at them.]

[private]

[surrenders]

Doesn't hurt, though.

... what you been doing since Will left?

[private]

[notafuckingnut]

[A shrug]

Stuff. Meandering.

[Staying out of trouble! Surprisingly. ...Also probably stalking. But that is *irrelevant*.]

[private]

[surrenders]

Must be pretty boring.

[private]

[notafuckingnut]

Yeah, I guess. I mean, we're on a boat, it's not like there's a whole lot to do between...all the bullshit.

Re: [private]

[surrenders]

Not if you don't know the right people.

[private]

[notafuckingnut]

...Like who?

Re: [private]

[surrenders]

...you make friends, right? [ She really doesn't have any names to drop; not that she trusts him with, anyway. ]

[private]

[notafuckingnut]

...Yeah... [...No. You're...pretty much it, Lua.] Why? We don't exactly hang.

[private]

[surrenders]

It's how you get anything here worth getting.

[private]

[notafuckingnut]

Bullshit. That's...No. Contacts are different than friends; you don't make friends with your contacts, that's just bad business.

Re: [private]

[surrenders]

You know how there was a whole world around us before? So few people here they're the same thing.

[private]

[notafuckingnut]

Except...they aren't though.

Contacts are disposable. [...And friends aren't as far as you're concerned, Richie? Be serious.]

Re: [private]

[surrenders]

Can't really dispose of anyone here, though, Richie.

[private]

[notafuckingnut]

...Maybe if you dumped 'em overboard?

Re: [private]

[surrenders]

...not what I'm saying.

[private]

[notafuckingnut]

...Yeah, I know. You can't afford to lose anybody you got here 'cause you don't know when you'll need 'em. I'm just saying.

Re: [private]

[surrenders]

Got what you're saying.

[private]

[notafuckingnut]

...Okay.

Good.

[Except it doesn't really feel like he made his point.]