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[A belail bell is either a mispronunciation of a Belial bell, an ancient musical token to summon a horrific, demonic ruler, or Mav trying to say belated gift. The second one sounds a lot easier to accomplish, at any rate.

And no!!! He has to know if Kano's talking. Gosh.]

Mmmkay. [Some odd noises, since he has to wipe down his phone now that it's out of his mouth, and all... There! All better! ...Hm, he really is getting a headache. Thankfully he's not too far out, now.] Man. Talking is...exhausting.

[ The first one sounds like something Kano would rather have, though. He can't tell what's going on on the other side of the phone, maybe Maverick's fallen asleep on his feet or something, but he speaks again and he really does hope Maverick's almost home. ]

Hang in there and keep talking for me~ Can you do that for me, Mav? Maybe you'll tire yourself out by the end of the night and finally have a good night's sleep? That's a nice thought, isn't it? Hang onto that.

[siiiiigh]

Man... Fuck's sake, cricket, you're talking to me like m' a child, cut that shit out. [There's still more of that petulant whine than he'd like, but...come on!]

Hmm, nope! Not until you can prove to me that you're a big boy who can get all the way home without getting kidnapped by a stranger. Are you almost home? Where are you now?

[Theres a grumble, then nothing. Mav finally hung up.]

[ ...ring ring ring ]

[Surprisingly, it doesn't ring for long! Mav answers.]

No.

[...and then hangs right on up again.]

[ At least he answered. Which makes Kano hopeful, so he just tries again two seconds later.

ring ring ring ]

[It rings a little bit longer, this time...but he still answers, in the end.]

Fucking christ, asshole, you're giving me a fucking headache.

[ That's called a hangover-- ]

I know, I know! But don't hang up!!

[It is the beginnings of a hangover because Mav's relationship with alcohol is a strange one, but Kano isn't helping matters!!!]

Gimme three good reasons why the fuck not.

Isn't one good reason good enough??

[ Don't make him come up with three when he can barely come up with one? ]

[hmmmm]

Depends how good it is.

Don't hang up... because...

[ he's stalling ]

We're... friends...?

[ Can he use the friends card here........ ]

[...]

That's so fucking pathetic, that's really all you got? Really scraping the bottom of the fucking barrel here...

Hey, hey, hey! Don't dunk on friendship! Friendship's a real important reason to do things!

Sure, but it's kinda a "because I said so" fucking deal, isn't it?

It's not! "Because I said so" is 'cause I said so, but friendship's a two way street, right?

[ Maverick not hanging up because he also doesn't want to, that's how friendship's supposed to work. ]

[more hmmmmms]

This isn't helping my fucking headache... [And anyway, he's not the friendship expert. How should he know if it's valid or not?] I was just hoping for, like...deeper. Of fucking course we're friends, but we were friends when I fucking hung up the first time, so what's fucking stopping me?

[ He thinks it might be pity, but as long as he can keep people talking, they don't walk away from him, no matter how pissed or annoyed, that's how it's always been. ]

You gotta look into your heart, Mav. Only you can answer that.

[ If you want something deep, it has to come from within... ]

What I'm hearing is that I should hang up on you.

[Try harder, Kano...!]

Can't you try a little harder to look?? -—wait, wait, don't hang up, okay?

[ Ughhh. Ughghghhghghghh... ]

It's 'cause you're walking home alone in the middle of the night, right? If it's daytime, it'd be alright 'cause there's other people around to spot you, but at night, you could disappear and I wouldn't know, and I don't want that. ...Something like that?

[...Ugh, he can feel himself smiling. Disgusting. At least this is over the phone and Kano doesn't have to know.]

As much as I should be insulted you think any ol' dickweed could get the drop on me, yeah. That works. Congratulations, you provided a good fucking reason, cricket.

Ha. Of course I—-

[ And then something heavy drops on Maverick's shoulder— it's an old dickweed, aka it's Kano sneaking up behind him and did Maverick really think he was going to just lie around and do nothing while his stupid drunk friend wandered the city streets alone at dead o'clock in the morning ]

[instincts say Punch so that's what he do]

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