I promise I am not a comforting sight right now. The last thing Gonou wants to see when he wakes up is my dripping, mutilated body as proof of exactly how bad he managed to fuck me up. You can at least just keep a shirt on.
I'm healed enough to be useful, so I'm going to do that, and I'll come when I'm not a walking reminder of what happened.
[His voice drops from crisp, factual, a little bit stoic, to - something softer.]
In the meantime - Eiffel, you're not a random screw-up, you're his friend. And this is a gesture of trust, mister communicator. One I would never extend just to make you feel better, if I thought there was any real risk you'd hurt him.
[Right now, he doesn't clarify, but it's all true enough for government work.]
No pressure, though, right, o mighty and powerful wizard of AUX? Just guilt me into something I was gonna do anyway 'cos you're that worried I'm gonna screw it up! Can't go one whole conversation without Douglas the Almighty finding new and exciting ways to bite himself off at the ankle before he hops on that tightrope, better make sure he feels really bad when he does it 'cos now the spotlight's on him and the audience is just waiting to see how incredibly he falls!
[Because a communications officer means, hey! Knowing how to read between the lines! Like he hasn't gotten enough passive aggression from people in his life, because apparently people think he's too dumb to notice double-speak!]
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I'm healed enough to be useful, so I'm going to do that, and I'll come when I'm not a walking reminder of what happened.
[His voice drops from crisp, factual, a little bit stoic, to - something softer.]
In the meantime - Eiffel, you're not a random screw-up, you're his friend. And this is a gesture of trust, mister communicator. One I would never extend just to make you feel better, if I thought there was any real risk you'd hurt him.
[Right now, he doesn't clarify, but it's all true enough for government work.]
Okay?
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[Because a communications officer means, hey! Knowing how to read between the lines! Like he hasn't gotten enough passive aggression from people in his life, because apparently people think he's too dumb to notice double-speak!]
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Go have fun catching your bad guy, Sherlock. I can hold the fort whether or not you think I'm good enough.
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[He's just gonna hang up now.]