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What the fuck? No! She's a fucking kid, you sicko. Are you trying to fucking get me arrested?!

I mean on the hand, or something!!! The hand is fine, like how you did with me!! ...I'm a kid????

[ He's 17 but he still feels 4 inside, therefore he's a kid ]

[oh okay on the hand. that's a little better. though the reminder of what he did for Kano just raises a different kind of question.]

What's wrong with her? Did something happen?

Mm... I dunno?

[ HE REALLY DOESN'T KNOW. He just has (wrong) suspicions (that are wrong) ]

It's a "just in case" thing!! Why do you think she left?

[Uh...]

I mean, I don't have a fucking clue. Didn't strike me as something that needs healing magic to figure out, though. [Couldn't be visiting family, if the two had met at an orphanage.] How long have you been worrying about her? Couldn't you just...text and ask? Or does she hide shit, the same as you?

[ ??? ]

Haha, don't be silly, I can't just text and ask? Who does that??

[ Nobody ever just asks anything directly, especially not in their little orphanage gang. There's too much nitty-gritty, and Ellie's too much like him, trying to pretend that everything's fine, but at the same time not hesitating to punch him in the arm when she finds out he's doing the same. ]

She's over in Canada for medical testing or something, that's all I know! Daybreak's great and all, but it's not the best for medicine and stuff like that~

[ Clearly, as Toki has been here for half a year and they still haven't diagnosed anything. Toki should go to Canada. ]

[kano why. please just get better about communication. please.]

Yeah...

[They probably wouldn't be here, if Daybreak was any good at that. Not only because Ellie wouldn't have been shipped off to Canada, but because Toki wouldn't have gotten so off the rails that Kano's influence tipped him right over the edge, or Toki would have hit Maverick for pointing out that his logic is actually crazy after he stabbed his own ear to put out a brain fire.]

I don't really know what all I can fix, but I can try, I guess. Did you really think I'd say no, if I had the details?

[ Too difficult, not worth the effort. As if all the effort he puts into being impossible isn't too much effort. ]

I dunno, you might say no? It's Ellie we're talking about, so getting my hopes up just to have to back out would be too sad? I might cry, you know??

Edited (icons.... it's too early in the morning) 2019-06-11 16:08 (UTC)

Ha. Yeah, I don't think so. Not in front of me, at least...

[Some walls feel like they'll never come down.]

Even if she wasn't your family, I like Fireball. She's funny. The hard part's getting to Canada, but that's already taken care of. Dunno why I wouldn't try to help.

[ Joke's on Maverick; Kano's cried in front of him before. Physically in front of him, not sans-illusion. It still counts. ]

'cause she's going to sock you in the stomach and you're not allowed to tell her anything about your powers or my involvement in them 'cause I haven't told her yet [ surprise surprise ] and she aaaaaaaaabbsolutley cannot know anything about that!!!

[It really doesn't????]

What? Why the hell not?

[He's thinking more about the powers themselves and not all that bullshit leading up to it that would make her furious, or the ban would make a little more sense. But why can't he explain that he's only kissing her hand because magic...]

Because then she'll sock me in the stomach and my stomach's going to rupture.

[ It will literally happen, he is 100000% confident Ellie has the strength and ability. ]

Pretty sure that's going to happen anyway...

[But. Ah. Right. If they have to explain it...]

We don't have to tell her why I fucking did it. If I was mad about the fucking deal, maybe, but it's... It wasn't what I asked for or wanted, but it hasn't been...terrible. I dunno. I fucking hate that I had to, but I'm not...mad. I guess. That doesn't fucking make sense. Point is, I'm fucking making it work.

That's how it works, huh? You get dealt a bad hand in life, but you just gotta make it work, no other way around it.

[ He huffs and sinks back into his seat. ]

...I don't want her to go out and get a contract either. That sorta stuff's just going to put ideas in her head, you know!! I gotta make it so she knows to rely on me first, not any daemon or fey.

[Mm... That he understands, as he turns his head to study Kano. Tsubomi. Whoever. His friend.]

It'd be hard to fucking do that if you stayed disappeared. You know?

[please don't do it ever again lmao...if not for him, then for Ellie...]

[ ...Tsubomi closes her eyes, so she doesn't have to meet his, and grins. ]

But not impossible~ I have everything in place already for when I disappear. So you don't have to worry about that~

[Ouch. He turns his gaze downward, because even if the other's eyes are closed, it feels too dangerous to have his hurt so easily on display.]

Don't fucking do that. Don't say that shit with a smile, or like it's still a plan, or... Just fucking don't.

...You worry too much. It's like a will, Mav! A "just in case," not "when it happens."

[ Except it's sort of when it happens, because that's been Kano's plan from the start. From the bunker to the food caches to the motorbike. He's going to make sure Ellie's taken care of and never wants for anything, and then, he's going to disappear. That was the plan. ]

[She'll want for her brother, dumbass.]

Like that's any fucking better? You shouldn't have a fucking will already. You shouldn't be thinking about that shit.

[ She'll be fine. She'll have Maverick, after all. ]

It's being responsible~ I'm like, the head of the household? Or something!! So I gotta make sure everything that's mine is going to Ellie, 'cause otherwise the government will say we're not really related, and steal it all away!

[Mav doesn't like this conversation and refuses to participate in it any longer. He's gonna scroll through his phone instead.]

[ Why did Maverick think any of these conversations were going to be good? In these circumstances, with this person.

Tsubomi shrugs and starts pulling the magazines out of the back pocket in front of her seat so she can roll them up and stick into her pocket. These are supposedly free. Or they get rid of them every month because there's new issues. It doesn't matter; hers now. ]

[He glances over and gives a tired sigh, but stealing airplane magazines is pretty tame, as far as Kano shenanigans go. He lets it slide. About a minute later, though -- ]

Wanna listen to something? Other than this dickhead's snoring. I've got earbuds we can split.

Eh...

[ Not sure if he'd like Maverick's taste in music. But Kano's more or less tone deaf, so it shouldn't matter anyways. ]

Sure, okay.

[Perfect. Mav rustles in his pocket until he finds his headphones, handing one pod over for Kano to use, then hits shuffle on an old playlist.

Fate smiles down on him, playing Simple Plan's 'Welcome To My Life' and causing him to lose his shit laughing. 'I'm Just a Kid', 'I'm Not Okay', 'Leave Out All The Rest', 'Ocean Avenue', 'Rooftops', 'Calling All Cars'... His angsty preteen shit is a fucking goldmine when he's got Kano and his bad life choices in mind, truly a gift that keeps on giving.]

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