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[reargunner]

ᴛᴇxᴛ | ᴀᴜᴅɪᴏ | ᴠɪᴅᴇᴏ | ᴀᴄᴛɪᴏɴ



Leave a message if you want. I'll get back to you when I pick my comm up.

Or I won't.

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[callmefives]

[He doesn't roll his eyes on camera, or reply at all until he isn't going to sound exasperated.]

Ok, fine, you don't need a warden. Temps are just temps, it's not like it changes anything, but if you'd rather put sparring on pause until next month that's your call, man. [It's a shame, he's been improving fast, but it's not like it's urgent.]

[And he'll have to contact the Admiral to make sure Cain won't need him specifically to get him off the ship in port. He doesn't want the kid to have to come to him for that when he clearly doesn't want to.]

[reargunner]

It changes enough.

[There's a reason Cain did not go on camera for this.]

Made it clear enough to the last two that I'm not interested in the temp pairing crap. Only not telling you to fuck off out if the gate because I know you already.

[callmefives]

I mean, fair. Temp pairing's are mostly just to make sure that there's someone on your side if shit goes down, and that you don't get lost in the fallout if things go to hell and you don't get revived--it's bullshit that a warden needs to ask for that, by the way, because at least one person did get forgotten because he was unpaired when I was here before. For a kriffing month.

And, hell, my husbands had some really spider-fucking awful temps, and some pretty damn useless ones, and a couple decent ones between them... and I was probably at least a couple people's crap temp the first time around.

... I'll stop talking now and see you in a month or so.

[reargunner]

I know what temp wardens think they're useful for, Fives. You don't need to fucking explain it.

[God, always with the talking too much. At least when he's sparring he knows to shut up.]

Don't need you to be anything for me. I don't respect whatever authority you all believe you've got, and as far as I know, I can't be forced to. Better to just ignore this until it's over with and I have to deal with whoever I end up with next.

[callmefives]

That's fine. Just... if you ever do need anything, warden shit or not, you know where I am. Now and after.

But I'm pretty sure you have plenty of other warden friends who can hook you up with whatever you might need too, without the Admiral slapping a label on it. [And yes, he said other warden friends, because no matter what Cain thinks of him, he considers him a friend. He's got plenty of brothers who are at least as surly and abrasive, after all.]

[reargunner]

I have friends who happen to also be wardens.

[He doesn't think of them as 'warden friends'. That's just uncomfortable. There's a lot of careful compartmentalising going on there.]

And I don't expect or ask anything from them either. Not gonna reject the system then use it at the same time.

[callmefives]

Man, you're stuck here without a choice, no shame in using what you can to make it more bearable if it's not hurting anyone else, or just asking friends for things they'd be happy to give, wardens or not.

It would be hypocritical as hell for me to do that, but- [He stops. Shrugs. It's not his life and it's not his choice, and he's not here to force anyone to do anything if he can ethically avoid it.] But if that's your line I respect it.

Take care and I'll see you on the other side.

[reargunner]

Tch, save those kinds of lectures for people who wanna hear them. I'm not gonna act like you don't exist for the next month, but you don't know me nearly well enough to be trying to give me any life advice.

[He gets a small step up from previous wardens on account of Cain already being familiar with him, but it's clear Cain's not happy about any of it.]

But yeah, see you. Maybe.