SEVENTH SHOT

[dog_eat_dog]

[Pasted neatly into the journal:]

Comments

[dog_eat_dog]

Do you have a shitty poker face?

[indirectcause]

No. My loss is that I can't lie.

[dog_eat_dog]

[Tess feels like she just got handed the winning lottery ticket. That's the best. He can't lie to her. Awesome.]

Really? Wow.

[indirectcause]

[Tess it's for things like this that people don't like you]

Yeah, it really fucking sucks.

[dog_eat_dog]

[DELIGHTED... secretly...]

I can only imagine.

I still haven't figured out mine.

[indirectcause]

It took me a while to figure mine out. It should come in your journal when you arrive, y'know? The least it could do is tell us what it took from us when we get here.

[dog_eat_dog]

You'd fucking wish. I'm almost glad to not know –– I can't miss what I don't remember.

[indirectcause]

But what if the thing is a person, and they show up one day and you don't remember them, but they remember you?

[dog_eat_dog]

Then I'll deal with it if it ever comes to that.

[indirectcause]

You don't worry about it?

[dog_eat_dog]

I have other shit to worry about. More important shit.

[indirectcause]

Even here? Where things are a heck of a lot quieter?

[dog_eat_dog]

Yes, even here. Just because I'm on "vacation" doesn't mean I don't have responsibilities to myself and my partner.

[indirectcause]

...I guess it doesn't hurt to be prepared.

[dog_eat_dog]

It's mandatory, in my book. If you don't have an emergency bag packed right now, you're not even close to being prepared.

[indirectcause]

I've got that at least. Still need to work on the gun thing, though.

[dog_eat_dog]

You know where the shooting range is?

[indirectcause]

Yeah, I found it on that map on castlenet.

[dog_eat_dog]

So meet me down there.

[indirectcause]

I-really? [Hey, he'll take that offer up right away even if she scares the crap out of him] Sure, I'll be right there. Thanks.

[dog_eat_dog]

No problem.

[She'll beat him there, naturally, so when he gets there, she's just inside, messing around with her phone.]

[indirectcause]

[Of course, and he'll just give her an awkward wave, looking as out of place as he always does]

Hey.

[dog_eat_dog]

[There's Tess, looking utterly at home in the place. She pockets her phone and stands up to greet him.]

Hey. Took you long enough.

[indirectcause]

Sorry, I didn't know it was a race.

[dog_eat_dog]

[Tess smirks and then makes her way over to the gun locker.]

I'm only teasing.