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[devoutish]

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[jumpthegun]

Women are nice. And you're a gentleman, right?

[devoutish]

Dr. Watson, I'm ashamed you would think I was anything else.

[jumpthegun]

Well, you do call yourself a scoundrel, Mr. Solomons.

[devoutish]

Only to men like him. No, I've got respect for women.

[Granted, it's... a 1920s variety of respect, but it could be worse.]

[jumpthegun]

So, when did I stop being a man like him, then? I do recall you telling me something like that, too. [Probably not long after they decided to be allies.]

[devoutish]

Oh, come now, John. You're only a third as insufferable as him.

[jumpthegun]

A third? Well, now I'm just wondering how you rank insufferability. What qualities go into that metric?

[devoutish]

Gut feeling. I've got a knack for it.

[jumpthegun]

Right. Most and least insufferable people in Norfinbury according to the preeminent scholar on human behavior, Mr. Alfie Solomons. Go on, then.

[devoutish]

Most - The Joker, House, Royce, Brian, Romanov, Stark. Least - Fiona, Kesara, Tifa, Wilson, Quark.

Those aren't in order.

[jumpthegun]

You put your best mate up as one of the most insuf-

[A pause.]

Yeah, okay. Fair do's.

Haven't talked to Wilson much. Quark's a good boy, though. I'm worried about him, though. Luna's being dodgy about meeting back up with him. She feels responsible for him getting locked out. Dunno how to convince her she's not.

[devoutish]

You trust her with him?

[jumpthegun]

I do. She cares about him. I know there's that business in the Nonary Game that they talked about when we were underground, but if that's true, everything I've seen says she's trying to atone for what happened.

[devoutish]

And you think that makes it all right.

[jumpthegun]

I think it makes it safe for him to be with her. If you're hellbent on making up for something you screwed up... you avoid screwing up that way again come hell or high water. I dunno what the circumstances were. I dunno what things she hasn't told House. I'm willing to bet there's more to the story.

[devoutish]

He's not my kid. But if he was, she wouldn't be allowed anywhere near him.

[jumpthegun]

You think she's just going to go mad and attack him one day?

[devoutish]

That's not the only danger in the world, Watson.

[jumpthegun]

Then what do you think is going to happen? She's going to get careless? She wasn't being careless. She's not the only person who's had one of the kids run off of them. Look at Frisk with Toriel.

[devoutish]

You really think my problem is with that, and not the murder game she participated in?

[jumpthegun]

I think there's more to that story, Alfie. I don't know what it is. I'm not going to forgive her for it. I don't know why she did what she did or even all of what she did, but what I know right now is that she cares desperately about keeping Quark safe and alive.

[devoutish]

She does say that, doesn't she.

I don't know her. I don't know she's lying. But I do not trust her.

[jumpthegun]

[There's a longer pause on John's end because Alfie does have a very valid point. But...]

Alfie, she saw my dreams, like you did. But they were... it wasn't like what you saw. It was Sherlock dying over and over, Moriarty torturing me with it. She's never breathed a word about what she saw to anyone but me. She's kept Estinien threatening her life quiet until I pried it out of her with everything short of a crowbar. She's... she's so hurt and scared...

[And that makes him want to help her. That vulnerability makes his heart all but bleed for her. He wants to trust her so that she'll trust him to save her.]

[devoutish]

You want to save her. Yeah? Fucking hell.

[jumpthegun]

Someone's got to. She won't stand up for herself. She's pushing everything away. She's going to kill herself inside before this place gets to her.