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[devoutish]

Yeah?

[That's it, that's all you get.]

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[jumpthegun]

Said he's worried about the Joker getting hold of it and making use of it somehow.

[devoutish]

Make it more public than it is at the moment, at least.

[jumpthegun]

[John doesn't disagree. He'd wanted Zell to make it entirely public before.]

You'll get no argument from me, mate. Maybe a message just filtered from the Joker. I told him to at least give the map to England, America, and Ginger, since they were downtown. Might be one of them's got it, too.

[devoutish]

I don't much like treating the Joker as a Bogeyman, myself.

[jumpthegun]

Ms. Romanov's told me to stop antagonizing him...

[It's very difficult not to want to do, though. Even now. Especially now, seeing what he did to Fiona. What John imagines he did to Fiona.]

[devoutish]

Have you been?

[jumpthegun]

He talks to me. I don't make it a secret I'm not afraid of him and don't find him funny. I'm not going to play nice for that man.

whoops I thought I got to this, sorry!

[devoutish]

Do you think I'm asking you to?

No worries!

[jumpthegun]

No, but she is.

[devoutish]

[Okay, Alfie doesn't actually want to defend Natasha, but...]

Find your middle ground between making things worse and playing nice.

Antagonizing him is not going to hurt him.

[jumpthegun]

[John clucks his tongue softly. Alfie, at least, he's more willing to listen to.]

I'm not going to pretend I'm afraid of him, but I'll leave off insulting his humor.

[That's a very reasonable compromise as far as John's concerned.]

[devoutish]

You should ignore him entirely, as often as you can.

[jumpthegun]

I don't go looking to talk to him.

[He's been good. Mostly.]

[devoutish]

Ignore him when he comes looking, then. Attention is what he wants. Don't give it to him.

[jumpthegun]

You talk to him.

[You went looking for him, Alfie. How is that not giving him the attention he wants?]

[devoutish]

Not often. I don't get drawn into it.

[jumpthegun]

I don't have to handle everything like you do, Alfie.

[Rebellion! Tempered. If he were using proper voice, Alfie might hear how resigned the delivery for that line is.]

[devoutish]

I don't want to see him being handed what he wants on a silver fucking platter, and I don't want to see you making things worse for yourself with no fucking purpose to it.

[jumpthegun]

[Appealing to his worry about other people and how they feel isn't fair.]

Fine. Fine, I'll try.

[devoutish]

[There's a long pause, and then:]

This isn't easy.

[Not for him either, he means.]

[jumpthegun]

Nothing here is easy. Sorry, Alfie. It's... it's just been a week. For the both of us.

[devoutish]

Yeah.

[Another, even longer pause, maybe enough to make Watson think that he's hung up.]

She did love us, in a way. Keep that in your head.

[jumpthegun]

Mm... We need to meet up after you've had your time off. Think it's about time you had her hat for a bit.

[devoutish]

That's a sweet thought.

[jumpthegun]

We said we'd trade it back and forth. Just following through on an agreement, Alfie.

[No sweetness here, clearly.]