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[criminaljustice]

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[criminaljustice]

Boss: that one building?

[rollplayinghouse]

Maki: Sure. See you there in ten minutes?

[criminaljustice]

Boss: sure. see you there.

[and he is indeed there, as promised. still bruised from the fight and looking... infinitely tired. poking around on his phone when he looks up at her entering.]

Hey.

[rollplayinghouse]

[For her part, Maki looks pale and washed out, though it is possibly hard to tell quite how much in the lighting of this empty building.]

Hey. It's probably obvious, but I wanted to talk about the thing with Intensity.

[criminaljustice]

Okay, but... are you okay?

[c-concern? Maki???]

[rollplayinghouse]

Hm? I'm fine...

[criminaljustice]

[... is this a "I'm fine because I'm an assassin" or "I'm fine because I'm fine"...]

You're just looking... a little pale.

[rollplayinghouse]

I feel fine. I think the effects from that game finally wore off, even.

[criminaljustice]

That's a relief. After effects are officially the worst.

[still gonna be a little concerned but.]

So about Intensity.

[rollplayinghouse]

Yeah.

...I'm sorry I snapped at you. It just felt like... you didn't understand him, or what he's been to me lately.

[criminaljustice]

[bzuh?

feels like he just got sideswiped by a golf cart again.]

I mean... I admittedly... kind of don't? In some ways.

Like, I didn't think Intensity let anyone know emotional vulnerabilities... mostly because he definitely doesn't let me. And yet...

[kind of gestures to her before dropping his hands.]

... I'm sorry I didn't think to stop the fight. I even tried to remind him about your meet-up but that's probably when I should have thought about it.

[rollplayinghouse]

I don't care about the fight. I mean, it was stupid, but he was stupid too, and you're not his babysitter.

[criminaljustice]

I don't mean the fight in itself, I mean... I should have put more into it than "hey, don't forget your thing with Maki". That's the really stupid part.

... but I guess it wasn't really clear to me until I got your texts about it.

[rollplayinghouse]

Yeah, that was obvious.

So... I wanted to tell you. What our relationship is like now.

[criminaljustice]

I'm listening. And I'll understand if there's some things you can't talk about.

[she did mention something like that once.]

[rollplayinghouse]

Mm, right.

Well...

...he's...

[she turns red as she trails off, unsure how to start now that she's gotten this far]

[criminaljustice]

... so I'm pretty sure you definitely took his V-card now.

[you left this wide open with that pause. teasing cannot help but happen]

[rollplayinghouse]

[!!! /////]

I-I mean... It's... I don't know that he didn't... before...

[criminaljustice]

I mean... can you think of anyone else he would have with?

[he'll wait.]

[rollplayinghouse]

Man Eater.

[it doesn't actually take her long to come up with this]

[criminaljustice]

I guess you can always ask him.

[his face would be fucking priceless, Boss is sad he'll never see it.

time to pull Maki over so they can sit and be comfortable, looking very much humored.]

Anyway, sexcapades aside, it sounds like you managed to get passed all his corporate speak and into the real heart of things.

[rollplayinghouse]

[huffs out the last of her embarrassment and then settles in next to him]

Yeah... more or less. I mean, it still takes some interpretation, but he definitely cares about me. He's... been there for me, more than once. And let me be there for him.

...And, he... makes me really happy?

[criminaljustice]

I'm glad.

I know it's been kind of back and forth with... coping and trauma and stuff between us--and mostly on my end. So I'm really glad there's someone you can turn to during all of that.

[rollplayinghouse]

It's not—that I need him to fill in because you've been neglectful, or anything.

[criminaljustice]

[huffs a laugh.]

That's not what I'm saying.

You have your own relationship with him and he makes you happy and can be there for you if and when I can't. That's all I mean.