PIRATE TEAM, ASSEMBLE /conch

[redmarksthespot]

[This is the five of you all getting the same terse phone call:] Come to the house. We have to talk.

[... after which the nice captain hangs up before you can object and sits and waits. :|]

Comments

[yellowhasthechest]

Even if I did, I wouldn't run and hide in a place like that.

[I would literally rather chew my own arm off.]

[redmarksthespot]

Where?

[yellowhasthechest]

[Are you deliberately trying to talk me in circles?]

With a traitor and a sellout who would probably use it against me the first opportunity he got.

[redmarksthespot]

[I am trying not to put my fist through anything]

Not him, you.

[yellowhasthechest]

I wouldn't run from it.

[It's not like someone I actually liked hasn't ever died because I was a moron before, or anything.]

[redmarksthespot]

[And you totally didn't take the first spaceplane out of that joint]

Ah?

[yellowhasthechest]

[It was the fifth, and I did it because I was on a fiscal mission!]

Anything else?

[redmarksthespot]

I want my crew back.

[yellowhasthechest]

Most of us haven't gone anywhere.

[redmarksthespot]

And I still trust him with my life.

[yellowhasthechest]

I trust him not to kill me, it's not that I'm concerned about.

[redmarksthespot]

[not a good answer]

[yellowhasthechest]

[It was an honest one.]

[redmarksthespot]

Then you learn to trust him again.

[yellowhasthechest]

That all depends on him.

[redmarksthespot]

[... nope see now I need to punch something! whatever, Don or Gai can fix a hole in a wall]

He's here, isn't he?

[yellowhasthechest]

For now. That's not a guarantee that he's not going to just abandon --

[You are frustrating as shit, you know that? Let's try this again.] That isn't a guarantee he won't do it again. I can't trust that he won't. I'm not stopping him from coming back but I'm not going to go chasing after someone who doesn't want to be here, either. I'm not setting myself up like that.

[redmarksthespot]

And that's why I have to deal with him being gone.

[yellowhasthechest]

You don't get to pin his decisions on me.

[Standing up.]

[redmarksthespot]

You gonna walk away?

[yellowhasthechest]

Are you done yet?

[redmarksthespot]

I'm not losing anyone else.

[yellowhasthechest]

You're not losing me. I actually plan to come back for the night.

[redmarksthespot]

So does he.

[yellowhasthechest]

Then what are you bitching about?

If he's back, what does it matter to you that I'm upset with him if everyone's back in the house again?