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[snikthatch]

[ ✓✓ Read. ]

[skulked]

fine. i'll do it myself.

( #bait or a legitimate threat? who can say. )

[snikthatch]

[ He's so easy. ]

no, you won't

he's worse than Kimura
if he's anything like the guy I know about he'll do anything to get inside your head and control you

[skulked]

ok.
and what stops him from doing that to you?

[snikthatch]

nothing

but I've fought worse
I know how to deal with it

[skulked]

or you end up a puppet that's almost impossible to take out.

i can help.

[snikthatch]

if that happens, you'll be one of the only people who can take me out

that means you can't get involved

[skulked]

i'm not sitting back just in case you need a kill switch.

[snikthatch]

if we both go in and he gets us both, how is that better?

[ A small pause. He hasn't told anyone else about what Dick's helped him with. ]

I have more than one kill switch
you don't

[skulked]

( that's....a better point than she's expecting, but laura's no less irritated by it because it's logical. )

if your plan has this many holes in it then it is not a good plan.

[snikthatch]

no shit

but I can't let what happened to Jess happen to anyone else here

[skulked]

so let me help and make a better plan.
one that will actually work.

[snikthatch]

plans don't guarantee something's gonna work

[skulked]

i am not going to sit back and do nothing while you take on someone like that.

[snikthatch]

then you know how I feel

[skulked]

i didn't ask you to let me handle it solo.
i won't ( lose you again ) act like i can't be useful here just because you don't like it.

[snikthatch]

then you're gonna have to live with me not liking it

you can help me out by keeping an eye on Jess
she could use some friends here. people she can trust

[skulked]

i'm not a babysitter.



where is she

[snikthatch]

[ Attagirl. ]

good, she doesn't need one

she's staying at the gym
she's not the Jess we know but she deserves more than the shit she's been handed here

[skulked]

i'll keep an eye on her.

if anything looks like it is going even the tiniest bit wrong when you go for this guy, call me. i'll find you. i'm serious.

[snikthatch]

sure, I promise

you do likewise

[skulked]

yes.

( ... )

not with guards. that's different.

[snikthatch]

I can find a way to ground you here you know

[skulked]

i doubt that.

[snikthatch]

Kurt's here now so he'll help me do it