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[fingeronthebutton]

She never asked to have you excuse her actions, Jon.
Everyone turns out differently but treating her with cruelty caused you to lose her.
If you want any hope of winning sometimes you have to remember that it isn't always about telling the truth and being right.

[compellingstatement]

She was threatening to murder everyone in the city if her boyfriend died!
She's either a psychopath or an incredibly convincing dramaqueen.
I'm not going to coddle her when she's doing something like that.
Basira wouldn't let me get away with threatening to go on a rampage if Martin died.
Again.

[He'd gone on a mini-rampage then... and locked people in the archives against their will to keep them 'safe.' It's fine. It's completely fine. He'd at least targeted the people who hurt Martin instead of everyone indiscriminately. And even then, Cullen had put him in his place with his smiting ability. And Ava had convinced him to let people out.

Still, Basira would have yelled at him and probably threatened to break something or shoot him. It would have been deserved.]

And life isn't a game.
I'm not in this to win.
I just want you to go the hell away.
You have your 'immortality' now, you have plenty of money, you have a whole city filled with whatever twisted pleasures you want to indulge.
Why do you want a contract with me?
Why do you need that?

[fingeronthebutton]

Jon, Jon, Jon.
Not everything is about you.

[compellingstatement]

[What does that even mean?]

That doesn't change the fact that what she was saying wasn't something that deserved kindness.
I'll spend my time where it's warranted.
And that still doesn't answer my question about our contract.

[fingeronthebutton]

It doesn't.
You're very observant when you want to be.

[compellingstatement]

[Why did he have to start working for a sadist? Why?]

Well, you know your praise means everything to me.

[fingeronthebutton]

People do wonder that with how you continually come back for more.

[compellingstatement]

I keep coming back to try to fire you.
And yell at you.
I'm not looking for your praise.

[fingeronthebutton]

Jon, you are so like her it's adorable.

[compellingstatement]

I am nothing like that woman.
I would never treat Martin how she treats her boyfriend for one.

[fingeronthebutton]

Not intentionally.

[compellingstatement]

[What the actual hell? Jon starts thinking back frantically, trying to remember if he's ever hurt Martin. Maybe there have been some... emotional slaps. And he'd certainly been a much worse person a few years ago, but he would never abuse the other man. He couldn't. He hasn't. Has he...?

No. No, this is just Elias messing with him. But Martin's never been especially happy with him. And now with the whole thing with Peter... he's said he's okay with it, but is he really?]

You have no idea what you're talking about.
What's been your closest relationship the last five years?
Peter Lukas? Simon Fairchild?
Another avatar?

[fingeronthebutton]

Did I strike true, Jon?
Oh how awful.

I wish you two luck in your relationship.
It seems he'll need it.
Goodbye, Jon.