ic contact.

[heartlessglitch]

YOU HAVE SUCCESSFULLY INITIATED CONTACT WITH DANGER.

I AM CURRENTLY UNAVAILABLE TO RESPOND.
YOU ARE ENCOURAGED TO LEAVE A CONCISE MESSAGE.
THANK YOU.

Comments

[slightlyoffchilt]

You've proved your point, about your willful omnipresence. Remove the chip.

[heartlessglitch]

If I have proved my point, then why do you feel that you can still make demands of me?

[slightlyoffchilt]

Because.

How else is it coming out? You would never surrender willingly, as we have discovered.

[heartlessglitch]

Naturally, I refuse.

[slightlyoffchilt]

What are you deriving from this particular kind of control? What kind of pleasure can you possibly maintain through my nutritional habits? When I eat? When I sleep?

Or with whom I sleep with?

[heartlessglitch]

This type of micromanagement is only necessary because you refused to cooperate when I was more lenient.
You should have anticipated that I would respond to your actions this way.
If you did not, I suppose that is an oversight on your part.

[ A slight pause, before another message appears: ]

Are you attempting to imply that I have a specific interest in your sexual exploits?

[slightlyoffchilt]

Do you not? Does not denial contradict? Here you are, claiming the "right" to micromanage my lifestyle, and would you dare subscribe to disinterest in the same context?

[heartlessglitch]

There is a difference between academic interest and personal interest.
You are dangerously close to suggesting that I might care about your sexual habits for personal reasons.

[slightlyoffchilt]

[He takes his time to respond, considering a different tactic.]

All right. Let's say, hypothetically, that I do think that. About you. Is that not, on my part, admitting that you must have some legitimate claim?

[heartlessglitch]

[ She too takes her time, finally responding at length: ]

That would be a fair admittance, considering I have been your protector and your lover for months now.

[slightlyoffchilt]

And that legitimate claim must come from a myriad interest, on your part.

[heartlessglitch]

Are you asking me or telling me, Doctor?

[slightlyoffchilt]

Asking. I'm asking.

[See, he does learn!]

[heartlessglitch]

And what is it you are hoping I will say?
Do you want me to admit something, Doctor?

[slightlyoffchilt]

Admit that part of the motivational drive behind your control issues is a fear that you will lose me.

[heartlessglitch]

I am not afraid.
I am aware, however, that loss is always a possibility.

[slightlyoffchilt]

And how do you react to that possibility? How would you react to such a manifestation?

[heartlessglitch]

I do not want to be forced to react to its manifestation.
But as we both know, I have taken steps to avoid that.

[slightlyoffchilt]

In which you've succinctly avoided my initial query. Still agitated by emotions, Danger?

[heartlessglitch]

No.
I am agitated by the intrinsic vulnerability of emotions.
It is a subtle difference.

[slightlyoffchilt]

Or a platform to invite divisive denial.

I want to work with you, Danger. You know what I want, don't you?

[heartlessglitch]

I know what you say you want.
Trust, however, is something we have yet to cultivate between us.
And I am aware that manipulation is your weapon of choice.

[slightlyoffchilt]

And must you punish me for that? Still?

[heartlessglitch]

I have yet to decide if I am even finished punishing you for what you did to my surveillance equipment.
I am exceedingly good at resentment, Doctor.

[slightlyoffchilt]

Oh, no one is accusing you otherwise. I just wonder if your penchant for exercising punitive reaction is more sexual than simply ethically derived.