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[wayfarers]

Whoever wrote the messages on these things is pretty funny but the choice of candy is totally lame. All candy is pretty lame, but these are really scraping the bottom of the barrel.

Valentine's Day is pretty much the worst holiday as it is. Even worse than Christmas. Look at me, I feel entitled to shit because I tied myself down to a committed relationship, let's put up a bunch of tacky hearts and glitter to shove in everyone's faces. As soon as I get back home I'm gonna make it fucking illegal to celebrate Valentine's Day.

By the way, whoever out there is thinking of getting some sweet-ass brutality on some dude named Charlie, man up and do it because it's a great idea. You don't want people to think you're a wimp, right?

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[Private, thank you Valentine and your *Reminding*]

[socoolbrewster]

Trust me, if I could I fucking would.

[Private]

[wayfarers]

Why can't you?

[Private]

[socoolbrewster]

Um, maybe because he's not here?

[Private]

[wayfarers]

Alright, no need to be a smartass, that's my job.

What'd this guy do anyways?

[Private]

[socoolbrewster]

Turn into a douchebag, mostly. Showed up to the right place at the wrong time...Believe me, he deserves everything he's getting when I get out of here.

Nice take on the holiday, by the way. I approve. Why everybody's so hopped up over something created to give fat cats a few extra bucks is beyond me.

[Private]

[wayfarers]

Lots of people deserve it. Or maybe not. But I don't care either way, it's fucking fun.

Most holidays are a sorry fucking waste designed by people with lots of money to make people with pathetic lives believe they have something worth celebrating. Hey, I got something like that, it's called cocaine.

[Private]

[socoolbrewster]

Well I'll definitely second that.

Just look at society, everybody's gotta come up with something to pat themselves on the back about all the time. Whether or not they actually earned it. While they all just scamper around like they aren't just meals on wheels. But hey, I'm not complaining; if they weren't one desperate belly rub away from a dirt nap they wouldn't taste half as good going down.

[Private]

[wayfarers]

[He's still not too eager to go along with the 'vampire' thing lots of people have going on here but he's met enough of them now that he doesn't feel too stupid considering it legitimate.]

Society's all full of pathetic people with pathetic lives. It's all sheep and wolves and a lot of the sheep think they're one of the wolves. Can't blame 'em, no one wants to be a fucking sheep. Putting them outta their misery is probably a favor.

[Private]

[socoolbrewster]

No shit.

But nooo, we can't do that, because they're people too.

[Eyeroll.]

[Private]

[wayfarers]

Who gives a fuck if they're people?

People are pretty much universally bullshit. I find bullshit expendable.

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[dignity_misery]

Hey, asshole.

[Despite the words she uses, Carla is very happy to see him, and maybe her voice gives that away. She smiles at the camera lazily, a little beat up from fight night, but a smile is a smile.]

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[wayfarers]

Yeah, what's up?

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[dignity_misery]

If you're not too busy running Valentine's Day through, I think you should come meet me.

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[wayfarers]

I've got a bit more of a smackdown to lay on that poor excuse of a day, but it can wait.

I know I'm in high fucking demand with pretty much anyone, but what's the meeting for?

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[dignity_misery]

I have an idea I think you'll like.

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[wayfarers]

Alright, good enough. But now you've gotten my expectations up so I hope you can meet 'em.

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[dignity_misery]

I'll come pick you up at the fountain.

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[wayfarers]

Alright.

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[He's waiting by the fountain, hands in his pockets, shuffling around as if his time were just that precious that these few moments of waiting cause him great stress.]

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[dignity_misery]

[In the hazy state she had fallen into during her death, Carla had lost a good deal of her perception for the passage of time. It wasn't something that was returned to her upon resurrection, but as she's been allowed her own life here, she has made some improvements. Staggered and uneven with unpleasant setbacks, but she thinks she knows roughly how long he's been waiting and his impatience is more amusing than anything. She did like to antagonize. She tucks her hands loosely into her pockets as she approaches across the sand towards the overtaken fountain.]

You know, you haven't given me anything to call you yet.

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[wayfarers]

[Slick finds waits of only a few minutes to be pretty unbearable. He's used to getting what he wants whenever he wants it. He's had quite the learning experience on how normal, everyday people go about their normal, everyday lives here. And he hates it.

He's relieved when she arrives, but one wouldn't notice by his usual stoic expression hidden behind those sunglasses.]

Slick. And you?

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[dignity_misery]

Slick.

[She repeats that, and really, she seems to like it. It sounded like something she would have picked out for him as a nickname anyway, the slimy fucker.]

My name is Carla, Slick. Carla Morir. And I think I ate a few things of yours today.

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[wayfarers]

Oh?

[He clenches his fists in his pockets, ready to be on the defensive if she considered whatever she saw to be too offensive.]

And is that a good thing?

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[dignity_misery]

[She was never very good about personal space, even as a child. She had relished just how easy it was to make others uncomfortable, and she saw no reason to pander to their fearfulness by curbing herself. Certainly not when she liked them. She reaches up to pluck off his sunglasses.]

A very good thing.

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[wayfarers]

[Taking his sunglasses is normally a stab-worthy offense because he likes to save taking them off for dramatic moments. But she might be complimenting his fine murder skills right now, and people that were into the same stuff he was got more passes than normal citizens. They're more fun to have alive.]

So I assume you didn't see a first grade math test, then.

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[dignity_misery]

Not at all.

[She's all smiles, different from her usual exhausted state, but it's been improving in the City. She has some of her life back, the spark she'd lost back home poisoning herself on bad memories and tainted love. She folds the sunglasses up in her hands before tucking one of the ear pieces into his pant's pocket.]

The school bus was cute though. I guess you're not too fond of kids.

[Personally, she hates them. Stupid, greedy little animals.]

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[wayfarers]

['Cute' is not a word he comprehends being related to himself. He's going to pretend she said 'sexy and badass'. He takes his sunglasses from his pocket and puts them back on.]

Yeah, that one was one of my best so far. Fuck kids, they're even more useless than regular people. Fucking freeloaders.

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[dignity_misery]

It's better to burn people up around here, otherwise I hear they come back.

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[wayfarers]

Come back? Like, to life? [Damn he's glad he burned those corpses of the ladies from the underground now.]

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[dignity_misery]

[She grimaces slightly. She doesn't actually enjoy thinking about the City's habit of returning the dead, but the information is valuable to people like them.]

Not entirely. They'll reanimate without a pulse.

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[wayfarers]

Awesome, I'm sure snitches love it here.

But I'm not opposed to starting a few fires after I'm done.

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[dignity_misery]

[She smiles, lacing an arm with his.]

Good.

[Because that's what they'll be needing.]

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[wayfarers]

So, did you just wanna congratulate me on my skills or...?

[He's confused about the arm thing, girls don't usually do that unprovoked. Probably because they're afraid he'll stab them.]

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[dignity_misery]

No, you and I are going to go have a party.

[A real ball, princess.]

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[wayfarers]

What kind of party?

[He's a PRINCE okay :(]

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[dignity_misery]

The really messy kind.

[She grew up a rich girl too. Maybe that's what got her to this point, realizing too early on how little anything really cost, how easy it was to bypass the system.]

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[valentineluke]

*Wondering what the hell she's up to*

[whitetwoguns]

Where are you from? Soviet Russia?

[wayfarers]

No, Canada. Why?