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Tweak says, "Now sing!!!"

Matt Cavanaugh (palehorses) wrote in we_float,
@ 2010-05-14 07:20:00

Current mood:	curious
Current music:	"This Ain't The Way I Came Up" :: Jake La Botz
Entry tags:	gabriel wilder, matt cavanaugh

You can't tell the devil it's a frameup when he calls your name up
Who: Matt Cavanaugh and Gabe Wilder
What: Curiousity and conversation
When: May 10, 2096
Where: Leaving the Anhalt
Status: Closed, Incomplete

He'd found himself walking out next to the man with the blue hair; Matt did what he did whenever he met someone with blue hair, or feet, or a pulse: he said hello.

Sort of.

"So you think this is going to wind up like the unions and all that? Man, we're the freaks here, the union members could at least pretend they weren't. Or are you an idealist, using that to make an analogy to where we are?" He considered that, and added "In my head, the difference makes sense."

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palehorses
2010-05-16 01:03 am UTC (link)

"And she could've set us up to be killed," Matt said slowly, the same realisation occurring to him. "Might mean ... we could trust her. Maybe. Some, at least."

He automatically lit a cigarette as he thought that over. "If she's got a card of her own," he added, still in the same slow, thoughtful tone, "it's not one that she could use to force us to do anything. Or else she would've. And she doesn't have the force of arms to do it either. You think?" As a question, it invited the other man's comment.

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	afterwedie 2010-05-16 01:06 am UTC (link)
	"You think she's got a card?" He looked interested. "Um.. I dunno. But uh, if she works for the fucking government, can't we just, like, look her up?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	palehorses 2010-05-16 01:17 am UTC (link)
	"We could do that too," Matt said, with a smile. "I was sort of wondering why she ... well, pretty much asked us. Didn't force us. You know?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

afterwedie
2010-05-16 01:22 am UTC (link)

Gabe bit his lip. "Well. Yeah. I dunno... maybe she thought we'd want to do it. Threats don't, like, do much for some people."

He thought about it quietly. What had Matt's letter said? He didn't know that he'd seen it. He fingered his own, thinking about what it had said. What was Julie going to say about all of this? Gabe thought to himself that he didn't know that he wanted to tell her.

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palehorses
2010-05-16 01:31 am UTC (link)

"Oh, I didn't say I didn't want to do it," Matt pointed out. "I just said that, far as I can tell, the balance of her actions've been that we can most likely sort of trust her. For now, and not without reservation, but ... she didn't make us. And there are people who could've. You know that as well as I do."

His eyes were attracted by the movement. "What was your letter? Not a threat. Well ... probably secret, never mind."

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	afterwedie 2010-05-16 05:26 am UTC (link)
	"It was about my mom," Gabe said quietly. "Um, at least I think it was." He scratched the back of his neck. "I dunno, man. I just dunno." And he didn't. He sighed as he looked at his feet. "It's just... dude. I've got a girlfriend... um, fiancee, you know? And it's fucking hard for her to be with an ace. This... um, fuck. I just dunno what she's gonna do." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

palehorses
2010-05-16 05:31 am UTC (link)

"Hard for her to be with an ace?" He looked at Gabe curiously. "You mean, before today? I can see where what's happened today - here and there" - he gestured expansively - "would make it hard, yeah."

Before that, though, he didn't understand. It wasn't as though Gabe were a joker.

"So ... we should look Katherine Athena up, see if she's what she says she is, maybe talk to her about it, make a decision from that. Or just make a decision." The light in his eyes suggested what his decision was.

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	afterwedie 2010-05-16 05:36 am UTC (link)
	"Yeah. My ace is..." He shrugged. "Julie just wants a normal life. Two kids and a house, yeah? Except nobody has that anymore." Gabe looked a little embarrassed as he glanced away. "Um. Anyhow." He shifted his weight a little before saying, "What're you gonna do?" (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

palehorses
2010-05-16 05:52 am UTC (link)

"I was promised robots," he said, the light in his eyes becoming something almost unholy. "I'm staying."

Then he shrugged, and the glee disappeared. "Honestly? Probably I'm gonna agree to do it. I mean, I'm already in their files, they know who I am, they know where I am and what I can do - I need some time to breathe, to figure out how else I'm gonna live. Maybe ultimately I'll emigrate, but for right now, I'd really like to stay out of the government's hands long enough to plan something else. And I'd kind of like to do more with that time than just ... hide out in a priest-hole or something. Maybe it could be good."

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	afterwedie 2010-05-16 05:54 am UTC (link)
	"That Indian guy makes robots," Gabe pointed out, grinning. "Dude, if this was all a blind date, I'm gonna be pissed." "Yeah. Maybe." He looked a little doubtful. "I gotta discuss it with a couple people first." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	palehorses 2010-05-16 05:58 am UTC (link)
	"Wow, where are you from that you get blind dates to orgies? Or was that, like, blind-speed-dating and we never got around to the dating part?" His grin this time was impish. (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	afterwedie 2010-05-16 06:02 am UTC (link)
	"Um." Gabe paused, then said, "Utah." (Reply to this) (Parent) (Thread)

	palehorses 2010-05-16 06:05 am UTC (link)
	"So, no blind dates to orgies." He stubbed out the cigarette and lit another, his hands seeming to flail awkwardly through the task. "What part of Utah? I lived in SLC for a lot of years." (Reply to this) (Parent)

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