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[devoutish]

Yeah?

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[jumpthegun]

Well, it's a bit of a moot point now.

[Just pointing that out.]

Even if it weren't, I was helping him do something important. It wasn't about the money, and he helped cover for me on the basics when I came up short. [Humiliating as it was when he had to ask.] I sure as hell wouldn't leave him. He's my best friend as well as my partner, y'know?

[devoutish]

Mm.

[Just make sure he treats you like one too, Sherlock.]

Loyal man.

[jumpthegun]

He's saved my life so many times in so many ways. He's earned it. Reckon you've got your own men like that, hmm?

[devoutish]

Well - I haven't got a partner. I've got underlings. But I picked my right-hand man for a reason.

[jumpthegun]

Is he your friend? Or is that the sort of thing that's hard to come by in your position?

[devoutish]

More of a protégé. But we're friends, in a way. Yeah.

Here, there's Royce. He's more of a partner than any I've had since the war.

[jumpthegun]

He's a difficult man. I'm glad you've got each other, though. I can tell he cares about you a lot.

[devoutish]

He drives me up the fucking wall.

[But there is absolutely fondness in Alfie's voice.]

He means well, with me.

[Not necessarily with everybody else, but...]

[jumpthegun]

[That certainly sounds familiar. John's own lips quirk up in a soft smile, even if Alfie can't see it.]

I'm sure he does. At least they make it worth it.

Is Duster doing any better with the mania at all?

[devoutish]

If anything, he's getting worse. He's not sleeping. He's insisting he doesn't need it - but his body's gonna crash, even if his mind doesn't.

[jumpthegun]

Would he take sleeping pills if I prescribed them for him?

[devoutish]

I've got some myself that I'm trying to coax into him, but he doesn't trust medicine much.

[jumpthegun]

Ask him what the average life expectancy is in his world. Mine's into the 80s for your average human with access to healthcare and modern medicine.

[devoutish]

You remember that we aren't on your world, and we don't have access to to healthcare and modern medicine.

[jumpthegun]

What I'm saying is that you do have access here. And my time and place are proof that they work. There are potential side-effects for everything, but we can manage those if they happen. Unless he is abnormally and severely allergic to sleeping medication, the worst he's going to be is maybe a bit drowsy in the morning. Maybe have a dry mouth. He will not die or be incapacitated.

[devoutish]

We don't have the access that you have on your own world, and in the unlikely event that something did go wrong there would be very little that we could do about it. Yeah? That is a fucking fact. You cannot tell me you can't see his side here.

[jumpthegun]

There's a difference between legitimate concerns about medication side-effects and paranoia, Alfie. What I see is someone who's refusing treatment that might have some mild negative side-effects when not accepting that treatment means very serious and very dangerous symptoms that might lead him to his death.

You said you're an odds man. His odds are far better taking the meds and risking the potential side-effects than not.

[devoutish]

Medicine does very little against MN poisoning's symptoms. We've seen this.

[jumpthegun]

But it does work intermittently. The sleeping pills aren't designed to address his mania, anyway. I'd be putting him on lithium if we wanted to do that. They're just going to knock him out.

[devoutish]

He needs a bit of knocking out these days.

Could you get lithium?

[jumpthegun]

I could, yeah. Prescribed it for someone else a few months ago when their mania peaked. My contact said it helps them sometimes. It's intermittent, but it's something to take the worst of the edge off.

[devoutish]

That was before the Admin stated telling people that supplies were low.

He's going to ask about side effects and complications, you realize, and he'll be right to.

[jumpthegun]

I think we're still okay for the specialized medications like lithium. She's been giving me a notice that low-grade painkillers are running low, though. I'm very concerned there gonna run-out in the very near term. And he's welcome to ask about side-effects and complications. I'll tell him what they are. Lithium's one to the most studied and well-documented medication for mental illness in modern medicine. It can be purchased over-the-counter like low-grade pain medications because it's considered safe for the vast majority of people. It's been used for the past 70 years for treating mental illness, including mania.

[devoutish]

Are you gonna get snippy with him if he asks?

[jumpthegun]

Depends if he gets snippy with me. You might be a better go-between.