@daisy.johnson

[evite]

[ 31 july. 23:00. ]

i need someone to reinvent aol instant messenger so i can put angsty song lyrics as my away message.

[ were you expecting something serious? ]

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[quipper]

try me.
i mean, would you fixing something up really be bad for them?

[evite]

[ uuuuuuuuuuuuuugh. ]

his soulmate is still back home
the one whose absence overrides anything i am capable of doing

doesn't matter what i think or what i feel in the face of that
plus, she's my friend
i can't do that to her

[quipper]

[ ah, the feeling of being second best. a replacement. now that's the stephanie brown brand. ]

that sucks. majorly.

[ soulmates are a little above her love guru paygrade, but. ]

most people have room in their hearts for more than one person, y'know.
maybe he cares about you more than you realize.
and if he doesn't? fuck that guy.

[evite]

[ there's a pause. she wonders if they're still talking about fixing a friendship. ]

i know he cares about me
i just don't think i'm doing him any favors hanging around

you can't really come back from attempted murder

[quipper]

[ ah, something clicks. ]

weirdly enough, you can.
this might sound crazy, but i know people who have.
and i'm guessing your motive for attempted murder was influenced by whatever rage toxin was going around, so. that's not you.
or maybe it is you, but it's the parts that you choose not to be normally, y'know? that's more impressive, in a way.

[evite]

with or without the lingering distrust, though?

[ she thinks of ward. there are some things you just can't get off your ledger. ]

i worked with a guy once like that
he did terrible things, but he claimed it was brainwashing
he'd been taken in by a cult, told what to do, how to do it
turns out, he was just a closet nazi all along

i don't know how you're supposed to forgive someone for trying to kill you

[quipper]

it sounds like a different (but equally terrible) sitch
a nazi cult isn't the equivalent of "this is you" versus "this is your brain on drugs"

[ the outbreak was different, or they'd be prosecuting everyone affected. ]

you care more about the person than the fact that they tried to hurt you, i guess

[evite]

maybe

[ sounds fake but okay. and if they were prosecuting? daisy would probably have to be talked out of turning herself in. she's at that stage of self-flagellation right now. ]

part of me wonders if they're not just used to being hurt by now

[ since APPARENTLY it's not the first time!!! ]