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]

All right, so you have minimal experience in courtship, is what you're saying?

[Aha.]

[heartlessglitch]

I courted Madison Jeffries for some time.

[ so... yes. minimal experience. ]

[slightlyoffchilt]

That turned out excellently, I see.

[heartlessglitch]

He loved me.
So I do not consider the endeavor to be entirely fruitless.

[slightlyoffchilt]

Loved. Past tense. Would he love you now?

[heartlessglitch]

That calls for speculation.
Is there a point to all this, Doctor?

[slightlyoffchilt]

Was there a point to sparing some girl talk with Kate?

[heartlessglitch]

She requested my insight in regards to her investigation.
I offered it.
Minimally.
In fact, she primarily expressed concern for me.

[slightlyoffchilt]

Ah, she does that. Assumes people can't take care of themselves.

[heartlessglitch]

Perhaps when one is often the victim of mutilation by murderers, such an assumption is appropriate.

[slightlyoffchilt]

I was victim only to one person. And he was victim to someone else.

[heartlessglitch]

He was your victim first.

[slightlyoffchilt]

Did I mutilate him?

[heartlessglitch]

In a manner of speaking.

[slightlyoffchilt]

A mistake is hardly intentional.

[A mistake, he claims.]

[heartlessglitch]

Yet the damage is done.

[slightlyoffchilt]

There's a reason why intention is measured in our punitive legal system, Danger. Damage or not.

[heartlessglitch]

Regardless, even if I did believe you to be the type of man to be so careless as to make such a mistake, your intentions would not change the objective outcome.

[slightlyoffchilt]

You don't believe that I could make such a mistake.

[THAT somewhat flatters him.]

If I'm so dangerous, Danger, why keep coming back?

[heartlessglitch]

I often keep dangerous company.
It is not something that generally deters me.

[slightlyoffchilt]

Do you know if anyone else believes my treatment of Abel Gideon was not unintentional?

[heartlessglitch]

I have not gone to particular lengths to share that thought with anyone personally.
Perhaps you should investigate it yourself, if it concerns you.

[slightlyoffchilt]

It would looks suspicious, coming from me.

[heartlessglitch]

Then I suppose you will simply have to endure your uncertainty.

[slightlyoffchilt]

Are you trying to punish me? In little, non-lethal ways. Because of -- because of Gideon?