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[That gives Zach pause. He kinda thought that was the same thing.

But then, he's the guy that spells laser with a Z. Vocabulary is not really his strong suit.]

I'm sorry for assuming.

[Even though he didn't mean it. Even though he said he didn't mean it. He's apologizing for assuming, but Alfie's never going to give him the same courtesy. It's just easier this way.

Zach is starting to regret thinking he had to do this.]

[Alfie is, unfortunately, pretty sure that this is Zach going through the motions of apologizing for something he doesn't fully understand, simply because he wants to be liked and forgiven. It annoys him less from Zach than it would from someone older, or someone like Charles or Natasha. But it still annoys him.]

Mm. And tell me this. What do you think you assumed?

[Zach resists the urge to roll his eyes. He's not completely inept or unable to understand.]

What your plans were. What you're going to do.

[He just wanted to know, honestly. He thought maybe he'd be able to help.]

I am not acting rashly, out of fucking rage and grief. I do not need to be talked to like a child and reminded that revenge isn't gonna bring her back.

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[In all honesty, Zach didn't think he was talking down to Alfie. He wouldn't dare.

But if Alfie took it that way, well, that's what it is, even if it wasn't what Zach meant to convey.]

I know you're not a child. [You spent a while reminding him of that before, Alfie.]

I'm just worried. When you - last time, Kesara, she was. She was a mess. But I know you know what you're doing.

Mm. And if you do want to be a help, you can convince your girlfriend not to stick her nose where it doesn't belong.

I've actually already done that.

[Their morning talk had almost gone into a fight, but he'd managed to bring himself back from it, and to bring her back from wanting to fix everything she couldn't.]

I mean, I can't say what she will do in a couple of days or whatever, but she's staying put for now. [Hopefully.]

Have you.

[He sound surprised - pleasantly so.]

Good lad.

[He shrugs.]

I just hope whatever you want from this, you get, without getting hurt. [Or Al. The other two, he cares much less for. But he cares for Al, and Steph definitely cares for Al, and Kesara cares for Alfie, and all of this is way too close for comfort.]

Good luck, I guess. Let me know if there's something I can do, although I don't expect there is.

I want to get her things back from him, or find out where he scattered them.

[There Zach, he's finally telling you.]

Killing him would be too large a risk to take.

[Shit, he stole from her, too? That's fucked up.]

And isn't that unfortunate. Some people just...deserve not to get to come back.

[Like Handsome Jack.]

I don't do business with men like him. They're unpredictable; they're un-fucking-controllable. But he looted her body, he stole and scattered her things, and he stole something of mine.

What an asshole.

[Seriously. What a dickbag. All that, for what? Shits and giggles. Zach has, once again, a thought back to Kyle.]

If you don't get everything back, let me know. I'll keep an eye out.

Mm, yeah. She'll need it all if she comes back.

Yeah, she will.

[Zach doesn't want to ask what the Joker's taken from him. He imagines her hat is one, and that's...it's just fucked up, is that it is.]

It might be we'll be able to bring them back at the end. It'll be something to send her home with, then.

[Either he means they can come back from the dead and go hoe, or he means their bodies. Either or, it's a bittersweet thought.]

Hm. That'd be considerate.

[Which means Zach doesn't believe it will happens, any which way it could be.]

Not likely, yeah? But we might be able to take control of the revival system; figure out how it works. It's a thought.

It's a good thought. We need to get access to this server room.

We need to do a great many things.

[And going on a hunt for the Joker is probably not something they should be focusing on, but Zach's not about to say that out loud.]

We need a bullet point list. Make sure all our bases are covered.

Do you think there's anything being neglected?

Probably? But I'm not the right person to ask. My memory's not the best. We've got people that are into making sure everything's being covered, don't we? Like Natasha.

I think we're covering as much as we can, right now.

If you say so.

[His tone is completely neutral - he doesn't mean anything by it, since he genuinely has no idea if something is being left to the side that they should be looking at. There are so many ideas being thrown around but so very little they can do at the best of times.

Of course, he's still very uncertain that Alfie's own little crusade really does anything to help anyone, but it's also not really disrupting anything else. The only reason Zach really cared about it was because he doesn't Alfie to get hurt.]

I just know that we're doing the best we can, here. Helping out Kes and her eye quest however we can.

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